Everybody Is Important To Somebody - 9/11 Ten Years On.

Ten years on and New York and the world remembers '9/11'.

I can't believe that ten years have passed. Like me I bet you can remember the events of that day as clearly as if it took place yesterday.

As a history teacher I know that the events of '9/11' will be recorded as a world changing historical event of the 21st Century, and will be recorded in the history text books for years to come. Education systems all over the world will mandate the study of this significant hisorical event.

Terms such as AlQueida, terrorism and national security have become part of our everyday global vocabulary. There is no doubt the world has changed forever and the constant threat of a terrorist attack somewhere, anywhere in the world has become part of our collective consciousness.

We know that over 3000 lives were lost that day, but sometimes we forget and the media forgets, that the death toll included victims from a wide variety of nationalities, cultures and religions; Christians, Jews and Muslims just to name a few.

For women: mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, this tragedy transcends nationality, religion and politics. For every victim that day there was a mothers heartbreak, a wife's heartbreak and the loss of a father, husband, sons and daughters. Those that survive the death of their loved ones will carry their grief till the day they die.

As we remember '9/11' ten years on, let us also pause for a few moments and remember the thousands of lives lost since the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers. Many thousands of lives of military personel from countries all over the world fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Not just the 'Coalition' countries, but Iraqi and Afghanistan military personal. The thousands of innocent civilians including women, children and babies.

A mother mourning the loss of her son yesterday at the New York memorial asked people to remember that "everybody is important to somebody".

Whenever a life is lost, whether they be an Austalian, American, British, Iraqi or Afghanistan; Christian, Jew or Muslim, the death of that person is heartbreaking to 'somebody'.