Was it something rather odd that caused the event 14 years ago today in the year that I gradutated from high school?

Hello All,
    Boy when I think of today's date it will and does cause me Raymond Matthew Byrd  to be shaken for not only mine alone but for every American soul that seems to show very tiny respect of what happen in the state of New York from 8:46 am the North tower was hit by American Airlines Boeing 767 that was being controlled by terrorist group members of al-Qaeda to brake our meaning of Hope.An after burning for eighteen minutes a second Boeing 767 turned from it's flight path and slammed into the South Tower at 9:03 Am. At 10:30 Am Eastern standard time those very terrorists had achieved their dying wish to bring the north American continent Fear! Every year since that time that we as Americans should be showing and expressing the feeling of loving one another "I can tell you this I myself just DON'T FEEL WE GOT THE MEANING OF GOD SHOWING US WHY WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF LOVING HOPE." 
   Can I say, "I know what the right WORDS ARE TO SAY"  to someone who lost a friend or family member on that sadden day......I think deep down I would only be able to cry with that person out of hope more than anything than try to ever be finding  the right words are no words surly are not  necessarily justified for I know if I lost a real life friend because of that very event I would still be very broken for sure. I want to ask you all do you think beefing up all of our security measures around the whole world has helped here, the answer is both "YES AND NO" at the same time.  By this what I mean is for the most part we have taken on fighting those regimes of terror at their own front door for the last few years in one form or other. Still I do wonder have the results of the attacks made our way of looking at faith and loving one another simply vanish....... In my own way of looking at it WE ALL HAVE STILL FALLEN SHORT OF THIS! So how do we approach tackling this topic when we come upon this day September 11th, here's what I think we should ALL DO, PRAY FOR UNDERSTANDING OUR OWN STRENGTHS TO KEEP US ALL HUMBLE in HOW WE REMEMBER THE REAL HEROES OF THAT DAY A FIRE FIGHTER or a POLICE OFFICER are our true saviors, and if you know either one in your own community Thank them for helping in thoughts for the lost HEROES in NEW YORK.
     Now just so that all of you know as for the title of this very entry I didn't graduate in 2001 but rather in June of 1991 and at the time like I am now but more so then I was in overload territory with loving everything about Spider-Man and back then before leaving to create his well known character of SPAWN comic book artist Todd McFarlane was doing his very last issue of the adjective less comic of Spider-Man                          
 
,seen right here. In it he joins up with the group that use to go by the name New Mutants but are now calling themselves X-FORCE, The team was going after a pair of Mutants whom any X-Men fans would know as Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut, whom are fighting very near the streets of lower Manhattan and what is rather (not so surprising now)  is that throughout the battle Todd wanted to show how extreme even heroes can be when handling saving the day. Look at this scene of Scattershot attacking Juggernaut's face in draft form.

              Even back then in the 90's at the time this was not safe for any kiddos to view so the editor of the Spider-Books had Todd re draw the page and here is what it looked like in the end 

And yet to make up for what couldn't been viewed as the artist being experimental he had Juggy head butt his way through the North tower and Spidey and The X-Force group stood ready to beat the unstoppable monster down 

 















 
on the very last page. It was continued in X-FORCE # 4 with this as that book's cover

Both books had to be read sideways. One more quick thing in the beginning of Spider-Man # 16 Todd threw out the name of his first born child on what? 

The BEST PARTS of a man known as Lyle (pt. 2 of ??)

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 Look I know that I started a couple of days ago with a list of things of how I Matt Byrd want to remember my step brother Lyle Watson and as for the question marks in the title of these entries is because I know I may miss the truest part of my own meanings at times.  Lyle was super smart that I recall one time when just after we combined our two families we went up to a mountain resort where if you looked out around you all that you could see was the great green grass and highest tress and knew that you were free to doing whatever you could envision. Well one night we had happen to be playing trivia Pursuit, I can't remember if if was just he and I that were or if there were others as well I want to think now that I'm remembering that we had others playing the board game as well. I also recall that when the game got harder Lyle found a lot of the questions really easy, still two answers I remember getting right that stick with me till this day "Who wrote the 1818novel called Frankenstein?" was the question and what came out of my mouth was "Mary Shelley" and a big smile loomed on my face...The second question that I was asked was "Name the candy company that makes the Snickers candy bar?" Of course this one took me a few minutes to think of? how I reach the answer was at the time I loved the candy bar known as a MARS BAR and the more that I thought of it The Mars company was my final answer as they say on the game show known as Jeopardy! and I was right again. Other games that we played as a family weren't so fast thinking on the brain as I or Lyle loved but they were still mighty fun, one those games was something called "SPOONS" where after playing a card game where you had a set of tfour of a kind after you got that you would try and not be the last person to end up without a spoon because you didn't want to be left holding the cards at all for you got stuck with everyone else points on top of your own as well. They way game is played is like like musical chairs game of when your a kid with one less chair/spoon than there are players but all of the spoons are set on the table with the .part you eat with like this seen here 

expect that at our house we played the game on the dinner table when we played. Another game that Lyle was good at was any kind of board game from the earliest one known as Monopoly to Hotel where you tried to get every hotel in the game first by outsmarting your opponent. Lyle without a doubt loved games of all kinds for sure. Speaking of games let's see who won last month chess game between the Sith lord known as Darth Vader and Professor Xvaier of the X-men? I think that Lyle would have this as his answer to this  winner of the outcome Xvaier''s in the match because he don't need to have a glow stick weapon known as a light saber and Vader is trapped in his metal suit so of course it would be this guy 

as the winner! So here are this month's players Desslok of Galimon from Star Blazers

versus Papa Smurf of the 

Smurfs cartoon who would be the ultimate Blue Winner! Now on to other games while we are at it for sure I know that you have been looking at the plate here on the site and saying 

HUH?, well truth it is a Lyle favorite I'm sure with all things sci-fi related of modern images of science fiction spelling out Coexist. Then of course I had this as my desktop wallpaper image that Lyle would highly approve of 

The earth ship from Star Blazers known to Americans as the Argo but better known world wide as the world war II Japanese battleship the Yamato. For today on Facebook by the way I had this as my wall cover in honor of Lyle 

The Original crew on London's Abbey Road, then out of respect for whom I know of science fiction characters that would make the best candidate for leader of the free world that is most logical would be without a doubt 

Mister Spock for President was my profile photo.