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\u201cOz! Turn on your radio\u201d\n\u201cSlow it down Bonnie\u201d
\n\u201cJesus H, Oz TURN ON YOUR RADIO!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cOz! Turn on your radio\u201d
\n\u201cSlow it down Bonnie\u201d
\n\u201cJesus H, Oz TURN ON YOUR RADIO!\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Where our story starts
\nWhere we know by heart
\nEvery single flight<\/p>\n
Welcome to the fog
\nWelcome to the trees
\nTo the ocean and the sky
\nAnd whatever\u2019s in between
\nTo the ones who\u2019ve left you\u2019re never truly gone\u2026
\nA candle\u2019s in the window and the kettle\u2019s always on<\/p>\n
18 years ago\u2026<\/p>\n
For the first time in 18 years I nearly forgot what day it was. I\u2019m in the midst of trying to figure out if that\u2019s a good thing, or if it\u2019s really really not. <\/i><\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t feel like 18 years ago. 18 years ago the world shuddered to a gut-wrenching stop; and people who had been just going about their day\u2026were suddenly\u2026gone. 18 years ago, we all know what happened, we know how many planes, we know how many people\u2026we think we know so much.<\/p>\n
Flames licked, buildings tumbled, and a large portion of the world mourned; caught in a state of shock. Watching the same footage over and over again. A movie that didn\u2019t end, that we couldn\u2019t stop.<\/p>\n
In the tiny Canadian town of Gander, Newfoundland\u2026one little community felt the same shock waves as everyone else, and threw their doors open wide to 7000 \u201cCome From Aways\u201d\u2026a tiny fragment of the world at its best, when the world was at its worst.<\/p>\n
All around the globe people joined hands, and wept, and tried our best to stand firm.<\/p>\n
And then time passed. Months became years, years became a decade\u2026became nearly two decades.<\/p>\n
And, despite our promises, we forgot.<\/p>\n
We forgot them. We forgot what it felt like to stand united to try and make the world a better<\/i> place in the wake of tragedy. It feels like these days, we only remember our revenge, and we use their deaths as a platform to stand against those that it would be ever so much better if we learned to stand with.<\/p>\n
We are people after all, we\u2019re all people.<\/p>\n
It shouldn\u2019t take tragedy. It shouldn\u2019t. People should not need calamity to prove they can be good. We should simply be<\/i> good.<\/p>\n
18 years later\u2026I still take a moment to wonder why we haven\u2019t learned that yet\u2026<\/p>\n
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\u201cOz! Turn on your radio\u201d \u201cSlow it down Bonnie\u201d \u201cJesus H, Oz TURN ON YOUR RADIO!\u201d Where our story starts Where we know by heart Every single flight Welcome to the fog Welcome to the trees To the ocean and … Continue reading