Six years ago.... I was on a nature walk around small lake on a beautiful sunny day in Massachusetts, as evil was flying above me , heading for the World Trade Towers. I was unaware of the evil. What a beautiful clear blue sky it was that morning. Later to find out we were under attack, and those beautiful clear blue skies in the days that followed would turn into a grayish green eerie silence. Life changed for Americans that day, I will never forget.
The current cadre of Democrats are nothing more than traitors. Plain and simple.
After all they have done to malign our President, our troops, our will to fight this evil (and that's what it is) since 2001, it adds up to treachery and treason.
All the Democrat leadership knows is that 9/11 led to more power for Republicans and for Bush. The firemen and cops who died trying to help people and all the others who died mean nothing to them. As one of my Democrat acquaintances said, “let’s stop these memorials, forget about 9/11, and move on.”
So what’s a little genocide here or there - Rwanda, Cambodia, Vietnamese boat people and re-education camps, 9/11 - survivors made out all right eventually, right? Genocide, schmenocide - happens all the time, man.
JUST HATE BUSH.
Yes, let’s never forget.
But, neither should we naval gaze.....continually. The constant, suffocating sadness needs to stop.
Let’s continue to ACT, if necessary proactively, to rid the world of America’s enemies.
‘There is a disturbing phenomenon creeping into the public debate about all things 9/11. Increasingly, Sept. 11 is compared to hurricanes, bridge collapses and other mechanical disasters or criminal acts that result in loss of life, with “body count” being the primary factor that keeps it in the top spot of “worst in the nation’s history.”’
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Even back then, TOO MUCH this event was being called simply a “tragedy”.
It was not a mere “tragedy” - an accident - it was an OUTRAGE, a deliberate attack perpetrated by thugs.
Katrina was a tragedy. 9/11/01 was an OUTRAGE.
Got cold chills reading this...this sums it up in a concise and brilliant manner.
Should be required reading for all Americans.
A little over thirty-six years ago, I buckled-in to my seat as pilot of a US Army UH-1H helicopter in Dong Ha, South Vietnam. Today’s mission was a routine resupply of a South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) Infantry Company, pinned-down in a fire fight by 3 North Vietnamese Army (NVA) Infantry Brigades, in Laos. The good guys were taking heavy casualties, and running out of ammo. Our mission was to resupply them with ammo, rations (food) and to try to evacuate their wounded. We came in under heavy fire, dropped off the ammo and picked-up 3 or 4 severely wounded. As we took off again. my co-pilot took a round in his chin, which splattered his brains all over the inside of the cockpit. Almost immediately after that, we took another round in the N1 Compressor and one in the fire chamber of the turbine, and we crashed into an open area right in the middle of the fire fight. On impact, the transmission broke loose from it’s mount and crushed my crew chief; the door gunner and I got out safely. I was immediately shot in my right ankle and leg. I was able to drop 4 of the NVA who were charging me with my .38 revolver, but the others continued. As one started plunging his bayonet into my chest, a 2.75 inch rocket from a Cobra gun ship impacted him in the stomach, and blew-off the top half of his body. As a consequence, the bayonet only penetrated about a quarter of an inch. The ARVN then rescued me and several hours later I was evacuated. By nightfall, every one of those brave South Vietnamese soldiers was dead.
A few years later, after Al Gore invented the Internet, and email was gaining in popularity, a group of fellow pilots from that era started up an email list. They adopted the expression “Never Forget” as the list’s tagline. Never has a day gone by since my first tour in Vietnam in 1967 that I have not clearly remembered the faces of those comrades who gave it all. Perhaps I am engaged too deeply in private mourning.
I sincerely regret the tragedy that befell your brother, and thousands of Americans, six years ago. I, along with millions of Americans agree with you that we must “Never Forget” in the context that you described so well.
Unfortunately, we, as a nation have solved my phase of the dilemma you raised - neatly, but expensively - we built a Vietnam Memorial. We are now free to, and have, forgotten what we lived and died through in Vietnam as a nation; I prefer to think that I am engaged in ‘private remembering’ - just as you will be after the Ground Zero memorial is completed and we have no more ‘need’ to “Never Forget”.
Then we can all once again forget by just pointing to it . . . And, as you said “the phrase that was as ubiquitous as the American flag six years ago, “Never Forget,” and invoked with tearful or angry rectitude, is rendered hollow” remains valid. Only change the “is” to “has been”.
Cheers!
Bob H
Southern Maryland
Debra Burlingame is very Articulate on the issues we face with the IslamOfascist.
Mark Levin has had Debra on his program a number of times and always great to hear her.
No matter how feckless and incompetent George W. Bush and his administration are, I would have said, nobody in his administration would let an Osama bin Laden kill 3000 Americans in an act of terrorism and tolerate OBL's survival until now.
Silly me.
Since when must the NY Daily News be sxcerpted, and where do I check on these things?
“We now clearly know that the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was part of the holy war against America. When we previously dismissed this as a random attack by crazy men and declared ourselves lucky that “only six lives were lost,” we effectively disarmed ourselves. “
She’s terrific.
Right War, Right Place, Right Time
By DEBRA BURLINGAME
September 29, 2004
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB109641521155930755.html