Today marks the six-year anniversary since the slaughter of 9/11/2001. Where should we be as a nation? Except for those brave men and women still fighting on foreign soil, to preserve what freedom we have left, and being maligned by some, we are giving every appearance of being flabby, and ill-prepared to fend off those lean and hungry-looking crazies who still want to kill us. The cadaver in the cave, much like a ghost of "Terror Attacks Past," if I may rip off Charles Dickens, made an appearance, to remind us that he is still not "deaden." First though, he made a pit stop to a drug store to pick up about six bottles of "For Men Only," to blacken his hair, to match his blackened soul. Still ugly. Like a rerun of a bad movie, he warned U.S. citizens about their economy, their government, and coming attacks by his "72 vestal virgins" liquored up goons. He even threw in the hot button (pun very much intended) issue of global warming. I am still not afraid.

I have had enough of ghosts, goblins, and dark-bearded cadavers. Let us leave them for Halloween. Let us talk about real and decent human beings, who before their lives were snuffed out, made more of their shortened lives, than the hypocrites who orchestrated their murders. I remembered Project 2996 Blog, http://www.project2996.com , which last year paid tribute to the victims of 9/11. I went there to find some names. I pulled up http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/writmm/197598/ which paid tribute to firefighter Lt. John A. Crisci. Here was a hero, who could have been safely home after completing his shift. Instead he put back on his gear, after he heard the radio reports of the Towers. Had he been as un-heroic as I am, he would have headed home after his shift, turned on the television, opened a can of soda, and settled in to watch. He never had a chance to have another soda.

I continued scrolling down the list of name of heroes and came across the name of Joseph Agnello. I recalled seeing that name before. I clicked on the link http://www.galenshideaway.blogspot.com. I pulled up a tribute to Lt. Joseph "Joey" Agnello. The name rang a bell, because I had first encountered it in a special edition of the National Enquirer, which paid tribute to the many firefighters lost on that fateful day. I remembered that, in dealing with my grief and anger, almost on a daily basis, I pulled out that issue and tried to honor those heroes, by imagining how their daily lives may have been. As was the case with Lt. Crisci, Lt. Agnello's life revolved around his vocation, and his family.

These were truly representative of the heroes who perished on that day. Their names may not be as famous or as notorious as the losers who robbed them of their lives, but I would have "broken bread" with them any day, instead of feeling revolted at even the thought of being on the same planet as the losers previously mentioned. So my fellow Americans, instead of wallowing in shallow stories of vacuous people doing idiotic things, (no I am not referring to the killers of these men and other - those killers are evil, not vacuous)......pay tribute to real people and real heroes. Lt. Crisci and Lt. Agnello, R.I.P.