Rant #2,090: Another Day

After a relatively quiet weekend, I, personally, enter into another turbulent workweek, and it starts with today, a pretty nondescript day on the calendar.

Today is February 26, the 57th day of the year, and really, when you look at what has happened today throughout history, well, it really is just another day.

But is it?

Today is the 25th anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing, a tragedy that signaled the true beginning of terror having reached our shores, some years before 9-11.

If you remember, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the then-iconic dual business buildings exploded, killing six and injuring thousands.

I can still remember the video of people being carted out of the area, some under their own power and others being wheeled out, many with very visible injuries.

It was truly horrible, but unfortunately, it served only as a precursor to what was to come.

This World Trade Center bombing was sort of the "practice session" for 9-11, when the entire center was wiped out by terrorist activity the likes of which this country had never seen before, and hopefully, will never see again.

With this bombing, the terrorists wanted the North Tower of the complex to not only explode, but to take the South Tower with it.

That did not happen, but what happened was bad enough.

A few years later, terrorists got what they wanted, but during this "dry run," all they got was chaos and carnage.

I am sure there will be ceremonies to remember the memory of this horrid incident, and memorials to those who died as a result of it.

But in almost a bizarre way, the memory of this incident has been pushed back in the news, if even mentioned at all, and that, in itself, shows how almost commonplace such attacks have become--a 25-year anniversary of such an important incident in our history gets pushed back in the news versus other items ranging from the Florida school shooting to the end of the Olympics.

Have we become so hardened during the past 25 years to acts of terror that such past events don't really mean that much anymore?

I don't think it is that, I simply think that it is the resolve of all of us to get back to our normalcy as quickly as possible, the vow that no terrorist activity will take us out of our norm for very long.

We can't let those who want to destroy our country get the best of us, so we vow to move on from such horrific events.

And on February 26, we can find antidotes for such horror.

Even on such an infamous day, we see that so many people that brought us pleasure during their lives--the likes of Jackie Gleason, Johnny Cash, Mitch Ryder, Tony Randall, and Fats Domino, among others--just happened to be born on this day.

So the day isn't a total waste, and there is always hope.

Sure, each of those personalities was born way before the World Trade Center bombing, but there are silver linings even in the cloudiest days.

Let's all just get out of this month--the shortest on the calendar but seemingly the longest and hardest to move past--and we will all be fine.