I grew up with Air Force One pretty much in my back yard (I also grew up witnessing all variety of strange sonic booms and mysterious lights in the night sky affiliated with living so close to a military air base…but that’s for a different post). So it wasn’t all that strange a thing for me to see Air Force One flying low in the sky when I was little.

What might have seemed commonplace back then and in the particular area where I grew up has completely different overtones in another part of the country. Especially a part of the country that bore the brunt of the worst terrorist attack to ever reach our shores. It hasn’t been all that long since September 11, and even though we no longer have Mr. Bush out there reminding us of this day every chance he can find, you’d think that