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A question asked on the 5th Anniversary of 9-11 is where were you when the news came of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. I was at work. My co/workers and I just sat around the table in the office, speechless and we were all scared. We didn't know what to say or do. We all called our kids. Our VP of our region called our office wanting to know if we were all there, or if some were on the road. He was all concerned about us. He told us to close the office and go home to our families.

5 years later, my thoughts go along with what one of my favorite columists in our newspaper has to say today, on the front page of the paper. Log on to my link (left side of blog) for our Duluth News Tribune and click on Sam Cook’s article. Its a good one for today’s 5th Anniversary of 911. He talks about our “war on terror”, I want to quote some excerpts from his article:

“Tell me this. How do you know when you’ve won the ‘war on terror’? Is it when you’ve built and staffed new Homeland Security buildings in Duluth and Grand Marais and International Falls? Is it when we no longer ban toothpaste in carry-on baggage? Is it when we capture Osama bin Laden? How will we know? The answer is, I’m afraid, we will not know….. As long as there are people who oppose the actions of our government and who are willing to die as martyrs, we will live with terrorism. We have a couple of choices. Either we will have to figure out a way to make a lot fewer people dislike us, or we will have to keep getting better at playing defense against the terrorists. Right now, we’re exercising only one of those options.”

Read Sam’s full article: www.duluthnewstribune.com Click on Sam Cook's column (which is on the front page today).