The Unimportance Of

Massapequa NY

26 August, 2021

12:01 AM

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I put two red stars next to the word celery on tomorrow's shopping list. That inclusion was important because one of my favorite luncheons is homemade tuna salad. And, as you know, tuna salad is unbelievably bland if lacking crunchy, crisp, bright. green slivers of celery. "Done," I think as I slowly turn my attention back to the news flashes spilling minute by minute from the nearby TV. Quickly, I am then reminded how unimportant my shopping list, with or without celery. is on this hot August afternoon in the year of Our Lord 2021. This memorable summer month will not be forgotten by history. Neither will many of the days, weeks and months yet to come before the January clock rings in another twelve months. I have never been able to forget the parade of funerals that seemed without end twenty years ago.. They moved slowly day by day to the Long Island National Cemetery in Pinelawn, Long Island during the tear stained days after 9/11/01. Nor have I forgotten two young neighbors who after that beautiful autumn morning in New York City.were unable to ever again return to their families in Massapequa Of course twenty years is a long time ago, and everyone doesn't share the memories I hold of that memorable day. Time has dimmed the terror for many especially the younger generation who have none of the searing recollections of the brutal attack on our homefront. However, August 24, 2021 is today, not yesterday.. It is the pivotal moment when the citizens of our beloved country were informed that 85 billion dollars of American equipment, helicopters, vehicles, records as well as military weapons and munitions are now in the possession of an enemy. The horror of 9/11 came as a surprise to most of America on a beautiful morning, but I wonder if what happens next will be. Then I realize how utterly unimportant celery and tunafish are at this fragile moment in history.