9.11.2012

Where Were You?


I was meeting with the WMU President Elson Floyd that morning, I heard the news of one plane just as I parked on campus. During our meeting he was interrupted, and then minutes later today me he was closing campus... 
 
First thing I did was buzz home and call Megan Baker... we immediately both said, we have to do something tonight. Our small band of IFC and Panhel Officers started quickly planning a vigil for that evening in Fraternity Village. People like David Lancaster and others helped bring hundreds of Greeks and non-Greeks to the village and somehow we found enough candles for everyone. No one doubted decisions, we all got together, no one hogged the microphone, everyone held hands and we all rowed in the same direction.
 
When I think of our divisive politics, and how much we have learned to hate other Americans who believe differently than we do... it shames us for what we went through over how much someone hated us... now we do it to each other, daily, publicly, and proudly. 
 
I hope today we take the time to remember that freedom didn't come free, that keeping it isn't easy, and working together is the only way to succeed. God Bless America on 9/11.

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