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Where were you...

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 ... on that September day? I also include one of the tragic event in Benghazi so we never forget what our government did to these poor men who only wanted help getting out of there when they were being attacked.

Praying Hands progress

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I have been putting some time into "Praying Hands" the past few evenings and have some good progress to share! You can make out the shape of the hands. Keeping this post short as there's not much to say...  

Never Forget...

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Never Forget, Always Remember

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That is something that we have lived with for 9 long years now. Following are some clips from the web: United Flight 93 Memorial rendition For me personally, this event triggered my PTSD to the forefront of my life. I have dealt with this illness for more than 15 years fairly successfully keeping the symptoms at bay. On September 11, 2001 those symptoms came back, however temporarily. Two nights prior to this event, I dreamed of a plane crashing into a tall building. I didn’t think much of it as my dreams can be rather strange at times. I was also a bit under the weather at the time so I thought maybe it was just the cold playing havoc with my subconscious. On the morning of the 11th, my mother was driving me to Ann Arbor (MI) to the VA Hospital ER. As we got closer to the Ann Arbor/Detroit area, I noticed semis pulled over all over the place. Well, being so close to the Canadian border, my first thought was drugs. I had no idea why security was heightened at the VA either. W...