House Rules

While we were eating dinner tonight, one of our boys was complaining about having to eat pizza.  My wife told him that she knows he likes all of those ingredients and that he was being mean by complaining about it.  As an objective observer, I thought to create this meme.  This is for moms.

Nine Eleven

I was reminded that today was 9/11 by all of the Facebook posts urging remembrance.  We definitely suffered a great loss as a county, and many people individually.  My mind turned to the perception we have of the attacks and what it is we should be remembering.

I am curious about our relationship with Japan and whether that could help us know how heal.  In WWII our nation bombed Japan with two atomic bombs.  Thousands upon thousands of innocent individuals were killed.  How did Japan forgive us for that?  I don't mean the government, because I bet the government just realized they made a bad war decision, but the people.  How did they forgive us?  Have they forgiven us?  What are the Japanese taught in school about America?  Do the Japanese see the citizens of the US as separate from the government?

I don't know how those questions can be answered (well I do, but I don't have time or the money to create a study), but I do see that we seem to be on good terms.

The point of all of this is that however the Japanese learned to forgive us, we should also learn to forgive those who bombed us.  I strongly believe that we should always remember 9/11, and I think the thing we should think about when remembering is "how can I, or how can we create peace, tolerance, brotherhood, etc. among all nations of the world.