There's nowhere you can go today without seeing some sort of retrospective, memorial, or story about the carnage of September 11, 2001.  I can't watch that gut wrenching video footage of the planes hitting the building any more.  Even after all this time, it's still too heartbreaking.  I'm glad that time is passing and the the world hasn't stopped, which was what it felt like on that horrible day ten years ago.  But there's really no way to regain all we lost.  The feeling of openness and casual ease with which we moved around this country, the belief that we were invincible, and the luxury of thinking it would always be that way -- those are things we lost irrevocably along with the lives of thousands of victims.  Every time you do something as trivial as taking your shoes off at the airport, you think about it all over again.  But, time has passed and we're still here.  We don't have all the freedoms we had before that day, but democracy has survived and thrived.  Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Bahrain are all starting to feel the groundswell of democracy.  It's a long hard road, but it's a force that won't be denied and can't be destroyed by attacks on innocent people.  Never forget, never give up, never stop working.  It's worth the cost.