I first wrote many of these words in 2010 and as I started to clean them up to publish them again, I realized that I needed to read them today, more than ever before. Our country doesn’t need another 9/11, but it does need another 9/12; the day when we all put up our flags as a nation and remembered how much we all had in common. Not at all like today, where we’re more divided than ever before in my lifetime.