With the anniversary of 9-11 just around the corner and the devastation of Katrina mounting, I decided to take some time on this labor day morning to remember. I played a CD that I made shortly after 9-11 with music and news reports from that day to help regain those feelings. After 4 years we as a nation have fallen back to the complacency of pre 9-11 America. That became evident to me with the aftermath of Katrina. We wasted at least 3 days playing the blame game instead of doing what I thought we do best... coming together as a nation. We have to go back to being a unified America. We have young men and women overseas fighting for us and now we have an unparalleled natural disaster that will test us once again. Every minute we waste complaining about woulda, shoulda, coulda is just that...wasted. I'm afraid we don't have the luxury of time to waste. I know the people in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama don't have time to waste. Time to stop second guessing, time to stop blaming, time to stop complaining. It's time to come together as one nation, under God, and back the people who are protecting us. Time to join in the effort to rebuild what has been torn down in the south. Time to start being the scrappy, arrogant, tough, sensitive, caring people that we are. Remember, united we stand, but divided, well divided we are in real trouble. God bless America!