remember?

Remember when there was an assignation attempt of President Ronald Reagan, and James Brady remained permanently disabled paralyzed by a shots from John Hinckley Jr. And remember when America was confronted by gun control, mental illness, and after a few weeks of headline news with news specials, themed news programs, we must do something now news. And suddenly the issue of gun control and mental illness could not even be found on the last page of a newspaper.

Remember when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and in particular the city of New Orleans and for a week we were riveted to our television sets worried, angst ridden, and scared. FEMA sucked, ‘Good Job Brownie’ did a bad job, the Federal Government abandoned a part of our population, and we rung our hands, rubbed our brows, and for the next few weeks talked and talked and talked about it. And then suddenly we didn’t.

Remember when finding Osama Bin Laden, the number one face on the top 10 List of most wanted was the enemy we needed to find to bring justice and dignity back to America. We had to ratchet up our security color code at airports because there was a terrorist waiting to blow up another plane. How during the Bush years, the more fearful we were the safer we felt. And suddenly Mr. Bush had better things to do then hunt down Osama.

Remember the horrific shooting at Columbine, and tragic and undefinable deaths of all those young citizens of this nation. Schools, safety, guns, crazy people were subject of conjecture, concern by caring people, wondering how and why could this happen, and swearing never again. And suddenly we did nothing at all and more shootings on high school and college campuses happened, and happened.

Remember the shooting in Tucson ending in 6 deaths and 14 injured. Remember the issues of mental illness, gun control, civility or lack of it in Government all throbbing and twisting all over the news, the Internet, and newspapers. Remember the fuss and fuming, the frazzled and the fear. In a few weeks from now I wonder how much we will remember.

Remember when cause had affect, when evil needed to replaced with good, when something wrong was plain and simply wrong. Remember?