What Sells?

Am I getting jaded, I asked myself today. For the last week and particularly today I noticed, numbering in the thousands: social media, television productions, magazine articles, movies, etc. presented that horrified us or made us cry or debate, or honored the attacks on the twin towers in NYC. I watched the explosions twenty years ago and caught my breath in disbelief then. I still choke when I remember. An attack on my country seemed impossible to me at that time, just as our leaving Afghanistan with Americans and good friends to the clutches of a group of sadistic and religious zealots to be murdered. And the media wallows in politicizing all aspects of these events.
I am left to pray for a return to our roots. I want an army left to do its job without interference with those lacking military skills. I want a coming together, despite our differences, as a nation to truly remember we are being attacked in many ways. I am particularly concerned with the attack from within.
K. B. Pellegrino, Author