The Wide Awakes Remember

Posted on September 11, 2005

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For those who don’t know, I’m a proud member of a blogging community called the The Wide Awakes. It is a wonderful group of likeminded bloggers that I feel privaleged to be a part of.

Today marks the 4th anniversary of a day that we should never forget. A day that will go down in history as one of the most horrific days and one of the most beautiful days of America shining at its best. A day when innocents died, and a day when strangers united for a common cause, the preservation of freedom and helping their fellow man! A day of death and chaos, and a time of heroes and pride. One that should never be forgotten.

The Wideawakes remember.

I hope you are ready to get chills, and perhaps a few tears in your eyes. The first place you need to see is Cao’s blog. She’s got music, and video that will give you chills down your spine, and teary eyes to the toughest marine out there. She also makes a good point on how the leftist try to bury the truth under conspiracy theories, and of course as always backs it all up with facts. This is a must see.

The Mad Tech remembers. He has a very personal and touching story about the day. He makes the connection of feelings to how the people must have felt when Pearl Harbor happened. He hopes in time the saddness of this day fades for him. Another excellent must read, as are all of these.

Rightwing Nuthouse has a different type of wake up call. Let’s wake up from the myths that have been created, and remember the truth.

The history of 9/11 is still being written. The farther the event recedes into the past, the more we will mythologize that terrible day. It says something that is perhaps unflattering about America that this will be so. But it also indicates how dynamic our society truly is and how the power of myth continues to shape our politics and culture in ways that are almost unfathomable.

Ogre has words of encouragement.

Despite all their attempts, we will overcome. We will not be destroyed. America will survive, despite the attempts of it’s enemies, both foreign and domestic. We are the land of the free and the brave, and we shall remain so, no matter who tries to stop us.

They want us dead. The sooner you understand that, the better off we all will be. This is a religious war, and Islam wants to displace America, freedom, capitalism, and everything America stands for, especially individualism. That is a statement of fact — not something you can “disagree” with.

Cathouse Chat has a beautiful post up about how we should not forget. She notes that she learns a lot from teaching her child to remember. A lesson we all should not neglect ourselves.

If you are starting to get teary eyed, go pay a visit to Kender, who will wipe them away with rage

CodePink…The New Press….National Council of Arab Americans….the ACLU….and the list goes on…..these are the groups in America that make us weak…..these are the groups who would see this experiment in self government fail.

CAIR, the American Muslim Association, and many other “moderate muslim” groups, are working within our country to destroy us….and Hillary, along with the american left, are aiding our enemies……

This is no time for tears people.

This is a time for anger.

Euphoric Reality remembers wanting to go running to first recruiter and server the country.

I have never been so fiercely proud to be an American as I was that day.

Now, four years later, we find ourselves still there, standing at the doorway guarding everything we believe in and everything we stand for. There are many who wish us to fail, to lie down and let the tide of evil wash over us in the name of “tolerance and understanding”.

Meanwhile, halfway across the world thousands of my brothers and sisters stand boldly, bloody and resolute in the face of evil.

GM’s Corner was in Berlin. Another beautifully written post from the heart.

America! Struck by an enemy that cared not who he killed. Innocent civilians going about their jobs wiped out in a matter of minutes. Finally dropping off to sleep in the wee hours of the morning of the 12th, I slept fitfully, with images of fire and disaster haunting my dreams.

He goes on to note, that we do grow stronger from this experience. This is so true.

Parrot Check also has a wonderful post.

When I got home, I sat down and prayed with my wife. We prayed for those who were killed, or trapped, in the WTC and Pentagon. We prayed for their families, and our country, and our leaders. I prayed that God would use me as a USAF pilot to help bring justice upon the inhuman bastards who were behind this heinous act. And I do believe that my contribution to the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa has surely sent many of our enemies straight to Hell, where I hope that they are bathed in fire and eternal torment.

Good stuff right there. Is that what you meant by rage Kender?

Speaking of the USAF, and praying…perhaps this is a good spot to throw my own post in. Its the one directly below this one.

Middle Ground has a beautiful and touching memory of the day. Its well worth the long read. They also have a list of other posts they have done about it. This day really changed them, and they still cry on this day. Perhaps they should visit Kender to wipe away the tears.

Just a little sample…you need to go read it.

This is about a Saturday after a terrible Tuesday, when two small boys asked me if they were safe and I promised them that they were and would be.

At the end of that terrible day, we were still standing. We unfurled the flags, lit our candles and sang songs of faith and devotion. And, burning hotter than those flames was anger, rage and righteous vengeance. Justice some call it; revenge say others. What ever it is, for some of us, a burning ember was placed in our hearts; an eternal flame that reminds us what we are and why we keep going.

It became personal.

TMH’s Bacon Bits has a super post up too. So many great posts today, you must visit every one of them.

Several weeks later, my wife and I learned that we had conceived a baby the week before September 11. Never would our new daughter’s precious life - nor our 2-year-old’s, nor our own - be quite what we had imagined, in our pre-9/11 normalcy. Our immediate post-9/11 daze grew into a new normalcy: a clear blue sky that could never be trusted again. Instead of bringing joy, such a sky for me would forever trigger memories of the tears - our own, and the nation’s - over lives lost and imperviousness revoked.

Most of all: I will never forget that day and what this Global War on Terrorism is all about: Islamofascists who hate our freedoms so much, and so wish to impose their New Caliphate upon the world, that they target people just like you and me, my family and yours. The terrorist’s wrath aims especially at the new babies growing inside mommies-to-be all over America, babes who are the promise of our future.

Always on Watch has a beautiful poem. It’s a short post, but beautiful so I won’t quote it…just go read it.

Social Sense also has a beautiful poem.
Stick and Stone will never forget. They point out how wrong their first instinct was in thinking that it would change the world. Another must read.

Daisy Cutter didn’t forget. Why do you think the blog is called Daisy Cutter?

Dr. Sanity also remembers. A great photo journal can be found at this link.

Team Swap will never forget. Go read there message to America.

Gribbit will never forget either.

So on this four year anniversary of the worst day in American History let us not forget those innocent people who were murdered by this sick way of thinking. Let us not forget that the war was brought to us. We did not seek this. But we will win it.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said on December 7, 1941 that he thought they had waken a “Sleeping Giant”. Al Queda has also. And like the Imperial Japanese of the 1940s, they are finding out that we aren’t the toughest dog on the block for nothing. Never Forget.

Lot’s of great posts to remember the day. Make sure to read them all. I hope I didn’t forget anyone. So here is to the wideawakes, may they ever be wide awake! Never forget this day. Always remember, and pass it down to your children. This is a day to honor those fighting for freedom. Never, never, never, forget.

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One Response to “The Wide Awakes Remember”

gina on September 11th, 2005 10:20 pm

I will never forget that day , it was morning when I walked my oung son to school , when I got home I thought for a second that my roomate had changed the news channel to a movie like godzilla , I freaked when I realized it wasnt a godzilla movie and we were for real getting attacked , the other neighbourhood moms and I drove back to school that day and signed our children out of school , we didnt know exactly what was happening and we feared for the children …

and those freaks that think just because they have come to america and want to change it for their selfish reasons … guess what go home … we do not need you .. if you do not understand what it is to be an american ..Leave !!!!