I decided not to watch any of 911 10th Anniversary for several reasons that are personal to me.
First, I hate how this event has become awash in political correctness.
This country was attacked by Muslims terrorists and the powers that be are doing everything they can not to mention this fact whenever 911 anniversary comes around.
Instead, of remembering the true how and why of what happened on that Tuesday September 11, 2001 as a day of infamy no different than the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, they’ve morphed the event as a “Day of Service” as if it was our fault we were attacked and we need to cosmically make amends.
This is not the proper way to remember those that died at the hands of radical Islamists. Besides the reading of the names of those that died, we have to say why they died and who killed them. We shouldn’t be afraid to say it like it is and like it was for fear of offending Muslims or anybody else as the violins are playing.
We’re acting like a battered wife who thinks it’s somehow her fault that her husband is beating her to a pulp.
The United States suffered an unprovoked attack, it was an act of war by Islamic terrorists whose ideology hates the freedom we have in this country. President Bush captured the proper sentiment hours after the attack when he said, “Freedom was attacked by a cowardly enemy that hides in the shadows, but freedom will be defended.” That’s the reason we went to Afghanistan and Iraq.
These are the terms that should be repeated every 911 along with remembering the self sacrifice of our fireman and police that died that day trying to save lives.
I was there that day. I had to run like hell away from the dust cloud after the first tower fell. I have a tattoo of the burning Twin Towers on my arm with an inscription that says Never Forget 9/11/01, so in my way I will carry the memory of what happened for the rest of my life.
Remembering the “how” and the “who” of the deaths is fine. But pushing aside the “why” and dressing it up as something totally alien from the truth shatters everything else.
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