War for a better tomorrow
LAGUNA LIFE
Where do I begin? I ponder that question and I have no idea. My
emotions are dead and my thoughts are split. Life as I knew it seems
so very distant. A dream? A nightmare? I wish I knew? I claw for
answers in the middle of the night. I am outmatched -- under gunned.
In truth only time will tell. I continue to hold onto my faith, my
hope, my love and my prayers. I hold onto the hope of a better
tomorrow, a peaceful tomorrow, one of beauty and sunshine. If it were
only that easy.
Life as we knew it as Americans, changed forever on Sept. 11,
2001.
Who ever dreamed that something so tragic, so cowardly, so bloody
red could happen here in the United States or anywhere else for that
matter. (Only the cowards.) If it were a movie it would seem
fictional at best. But that day wasn’t. Just ask the families of all
those that were taken on that beautiful sunny day in New York.
Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, policemen and firemen.
Thousands of people who were never given a chance, and for what?
Killed in vain because of where they lived, for what they symbolized
and for what they supposedly believed in? By a group of people who
they had never even met but greeted with such hatred, that they were
willing to die themselves? For their what? Holy crusade? Cowards,
nothing but cowards, taking unsuspecting, innocent lives of people
they had never even seen before.
No one wants to see blood shed, especially me. But I will not play
the fool and denounce this war or play the hero and say that I am for
it. I will however stand by my country and our President with pride
-- all red, white and blue of it. Because in the end I want what is
best for our country and our people.
To never relive another day like Sept. 11, 2001 but instead have
the hope for a peaceful tomorrow -- one without threat in our own
country or abroad and safe for our children. It isn’t today that our
country is fighting for. It is going to war for a better tomorrow.
-Peace-
* JAMES PRIBRAM is a Laguna Beach resident, professional surfer
and co-founder of “They Will Surf Again,” a nonprofit foundation
assisting people with spinal cord injuries. He was also a member of
the Water Quality Advisory Committee. He can be reached at
Jamo@AlohaSchoolofSurfing.com. His Web site is
AlohaSchoolofSurfing.com.
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