9/11: Eight Years Ago Today
Posted on September 11, 2009
As the flags fly at half mast today and we all remember the innocent lives taken by Islamic murderers in the name of their evil death god Allah, let’s also remember the wake up call and the unity we too, briefly shared in the aftermath. Let us remember the heroism of extraordinary citizens that responded to the call of duty. Let us never forget how Muslims danced in the streets celebrating in reaction. Let us thank the American soldiers that are fighting for our freedoms, and to all those keeping us safe.
Here is a small sample from a few blogs remembering today.
Bare Naked Islam has devoted the entire blog to remembering 9/11 today.
Bob McCarty has a photo essay remembering.
Gribbit: Where Were You?
Maggie’s Farm: For Those There For Us Then and Now!
Black Five: honors a hero.
Mudville Gazette: Remembers a hero as well.
Hot Air tells you how you can honor one of the many victims. Project 2996.
Bookworm Room: Never Forget! A great roundup of other bloggers.
Michelle Malkin remembers a hero and makes a tribute.
The Anchoress: Rememberance and Prayers
Brutally Honest: My Story
Sarah Palin: We Are All Americans
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As some of you may be aware, The Won is seeking to desecrate 9/11 as a “Day of National Service” instead, with the excuse that “We need to move on”.
I recall, years ago when we were toppling the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar whining to some journalist that we should “Get over it!”.
To which my response must be not only “No!”, but “Hell No!!!”.
Like many, I was at work on that day, learning of it when co-workers told me to check out CNN on the internet, and watched it play out, watching with horror when the buildings collapsed with so many still inside.
The next day, Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, normally a fairly angry liberal, wrote a column ( reproduced at WTC Trbute – We’ll Go Forward From this Moment ) in which he observed…
Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We’re frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae — a singer’s revealing dress, a ball team’s misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We’re wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though — peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.
Some people — you, perhaps — think that any or all of this makes us weak. You’re mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.
And concluded with…
So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that’s the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange:
You don’t know my people.
You don’t know what we’re capable of.
You don’t know what you just started.
But you’re about to learn.
THIS is how I’ll remember 9/11, for a VERY long time to come.