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Eight years later, we HAVE forgotten 9/11
Eight years later, it pains me that so many of my fellow countrymen seem to have forgotten the way they felt on September 11, 2001.
Eight years later, al Qaeda terrorists sit in comfortable prison cells, with taxpayer-funded Qur’ans, prayer mats, and halal cuisine.
Eight years later, we still haven’t caught Osama bin Laden.
Eight years later, the Towers remain unbuilt.
Eight years later, the memorial in Stony Creek is still planned to be a “Crescent of Embrace DISGRACE” equally honoring the terrorists with their victims.
Eight years later, we’re now giving Miranda rights to terrorists captured on the battlefield.
Eight years later, idiot politicians are talking about pulling out of Iraq & Afghanistan with no mention of victory.
Eight years later, a solemn day of remembrance & resolve has been desecrated as an “Interfaith Day of Service.”
I’m sorry, but that’s all bullshit.
If I sound angry, that’s because I am.
America was attacked. My fellow citizens lost their lives because we took our eyes off of hate-filled religious totalitarians.
2,996 civilians were killed. 411 police officers, firefighters, and first responders gave their lives to rescue their fellow Americans.
Islamic terrorists declared war on America. And that war is NOT over. Given the chance, jihadists wouldn’t hesitate to repeat the cowardly attacks of 9/11.
That’s why this war is NOT over. And it will never be over until either every jihadist lies dead, or we kill so many terrorists that the survivors realize their jihad against America is an impossible and undesirable course of action.
If we let our guard down, we WILL be attacked again.
Remembering 9/11 isn’t just being sentimental. It’s essential to our survival. Luckily, President Bush kept America safe for the past eight years. As we move forward with a new president and a Democrat-led Congress that seems bent on undoing the precautions which have protected American lives, let us endeavor to walk our talk: never forget 9/11.
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UPDATE: My previous 9/11 posts…
- Never Forget: seven years later
- 9/11: Six Years On
- Have You Forgotten?
- Never Forget: five years later
- Never Forget (my 9/11 tattoo)
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UPDATE: Back in 2006, James Lileks made note of why we haven’t rebuilt the Towers… (h/t: Unrepentant Kulak)
If 9/11 had really changed us, there’d be a 150-story building on the site of the World Trade Center today. It would have a classical memorial in the plaza with allegorical figures representing Sorrow and Resolve, and a fountain watched over by stern stone eagles. Instead there’s a pit, and arguments over the usual muted dolorous abstraction approved by the National Association of Grief Counselors. The Empire State Building took 18 months to build. During the Depression. We could do that again, but we don’t. And we don’t seem interested in asking why.
and again this year…
On the Hewitt show tonight I started talking about 9/11, and my mouth overran my head, because somewhere down there is a core of anger that hasn’t diminished a joule. This doesn’t mean anything, by itself — anger is an emotion that believes its justification is self-evident by its very existence. Passion is not an argument; rage is not a plan. But as the years go by I find myself as furious now as I was furious then — and no less unmanned by the sight of the planes and the plumes. Once a year I watch the thing I cobbled together from the footage I Tivo’d, and the day is bright and real and true again.
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Right after the towers fell, people who’d never liked them as architecture wanted them back just as they were. Get back up in the sky! But it hasn’t happened. Even if they build the replacement towers, there’s still a space in the sky where no one will ever stand again. We could stand there once. That we couldn’t stand there eight years ago was their fault. That we cannot stand there today is ours.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
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