So supposedly he's dead

I'll weave my tail of my funny adventures on the way to the movies later, but it seems after 10 years, 2 wars, thousands dead and 2 presidents Osama bin Laden is dead. For the longest time he was a punchline, this person could find him, that person could find him. A few had a joke about him being Hide and Seek champion of the world. For a generation Osama Bin Laden is the name of the Boogey man, he or his subordinates are the ones who are going to come get you in the night. In the political discourse in this country because our presidents last name is so similar to bin laden's first there is a rather "quaint" poster that floats around sometimes that says "Obama Osama the differences is BS".

The pain and devastation that Bin laden introduced into our lives has been so far reaching that "before 9/11" became a catch phrase as to why we would never be innocent again, why certain simple freedoms we had come to enjoy were gone forever. For a while the events on that day united us and later divided us because not everything about the whole incident smelled right. But 1 group claimed responsibility for giving us that scar. And one man was the face of that group, Osama Bin Laden. He had struck at us a few times, but nothing every so big, so bold, or so successful. And the pain wasn't just that he hit us, no people had struck at America before, thing is we always got up and put you in the dirt afterwards. For the longest though he was not on that "we got him list", Saddam got him, Noreaga got him, Capone got him, looking back at that day if you would have asked me I would have said Bin laden would have been a dead man in a year or two. I figured he would run to ground but that we would not rest until the person who hit us so hard was a smudge.

8 years late but a smudge he is, the next question is now what. 2 wars are they over? Can our soldiers come home, those liberties we gave up because "things are different because of 9/11" can we get some of those back? Conspiracy Theories abound about what really happened that fateful September morning. And while the "head" of the snake may be dead this serpent is more hydra than boa constrictor. We have many more cells to break up, copy cats to rub out, and ambitious 2nds and 3rds in command who will hope to take his place. But we can now say this "take his place if you want to, but just like him touch us and justice will be served"