(quote) "Oh for the children born on this day! How can you happily celebrate on a day of national mourning?"

Because each day is never bound to just one event as each continues to grow in each of the meanings it is given.

So too with 9/11/2001 which is followed by the hope of a 9/11/2002...2003....2004 as an endless oppurtunity to make it better. As good a working definfition of the purpose of life as any.

To quote a breath or two of dialogue from a certain Tolkeinesque film: " ...I wish none of this had happened."

" So do all who live in such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

One can *always* celebrate life.