From Kerri Thoreson's Main Street column in Coeur d'Alene Press today: So many heroes on Sept. 11 ... first responders, everyday citizens and the 33 pilots and flight attendents on American Airlines Flights 11 and 77, and United Airlines Flights 175 and 93 whose final moments were spent protecting their passengers. In these 13 years, in this country, I've gone through airport security lines where armed soldiers stood guard. I've been subjected to searches of my body and my belongings. I've had a sleepless night or two as the mother of a daughter whose airline career takes her in and out of major airports and puts her in the air most days of the week. Never once, not for a single minute have I blamed anyone other than the terrorists who murdered our fellow citizens in New York, Washington, D.C., and in a Pennsylvania field. The horror of Sept. 11 should not be reduced to rhetoric or symbolism. Those images, both print and electronic, should be kept fresh in all of our minds. They were real people, with real families who were murdered. And those are real people wearing the uniform of our armed forces, fighting and dying for freedom on foreign soil this very moment. Let your thoughts and prayers be with them all. More here. (AP File Photo)

Question: Are we as respectful of 9/11 today as our parents and grandparents were of December 7th?