Fewer places lower their flags to half-mast on this day. And based on the trend I've noticed over the past years, next year will show even fewer flags lowered. I was shocked to realize that today is the 17th anniversary of those September 11th attacks which fundamentally changed our society in so many ways. As I stood with my daughters today, and conversed with the other neighbors at the school bus stop, all of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing at the m