Remembering the Sacrifices of 9/11… and Never Forgetting the Fight Is Not Over
Stunned… silenced… scared.
I remember those were my first three reactions after hearing the tragic news and watching the horrifying video from September 11, 2001.
Could this actually have happened? Could our enemies really have pulled off something so blatant and destructive? Right under our noses?
Watching the Twin Towers burning.
Watching people jumping from offices high above ground level to their deaths.
Watching frightened crowds running through billowing smoke on the streets… trying to escape the carnage.
Watching first responders risking their lives to help those who were injured and trapped.
It seemed more like a movie than reality. An awful, hideous, gut-wrenching movie.
But it wasn’t. It was very, very real.
From Shocked to Outraged
Slowly but surely, my first three reactions gave way to three others.
Anger… revenge… resolve.
I became furious at the 19 terrorists who hijacked the four airplanes and sent so many people to their deaths.
I wanted revenge against whoever was responsible for plotting these evil attacks against innocent citizens, as well as whichever government might have sponsored it.
I resolved in my heart to do whatever was necessary to support my country’s efforts to help make sure something like this never happened again.
Time Does NOT Heal All Wounds
You’d think that my anger would have subsided over the past 16 years. It hasn’t.
I will never stop being enraged with America’s enemies who make it their life goal to destroy us and the ideals we hold dear.
They’re jealous of our nation’s military strength. They’re jealous of our nation’s financial stability. They’re jealous of our nation’s physical infrastructure.
Most of all – although they would never admit it – they are jealous of our freedom.
As slaves to their backward ways and outdated traditions, the sworn enemies of the United States are envious of a liberty-loving people who do what we want, who achieve success and who reach out to care for those in need.
Their hatred for us knows no bounds. We must always remain diligent and be on guard for their attacks… whatever form they may take.
Never Forget
None of us will ever forget 9/11. And we shouldn’t.
This date should always bring to mind the sacrifices that our service men and women and our first responders make every day to keep us free and keep us safe.
And this date should always remind us to be vigilant. To be strong. To resolve in our hearts to never take our freedom for granted.
God bless you and God bless America!
Muslims had nothing to do with 9/11.
It was a False Flag event.
But what happened to all of the People on the 4 planes, did our government take them out and shoot them?
Now I understand your comment better. When I first read it, the comments of Cinque and Pyle/Haig didn’t show on my screen.
The emergency defense jets are a system for “national security” whereby two jets are always flying at such high altitude over the U.S. that they cannot be seen by naked eye, and they can reach anywhere in the U.S. in two minutes or less. Generally, their existence is one of those “need-to-know” programs, like the Air Force’s space program. I just happen to have known certain people who revealed some things before they died. Suffice it to say that 9/11/01 would never have happened without inside help.
Thanks for your response. The content of the writing contributed by Cinque, Pyle and Haig are indicative of anti-Israel ideas, not your writing. There was mention of the Bin Laden op as if to dismiss it’s significance, and something about “the Bush crime family”, with other various and sundry, specious comments about the CIA and Mossad.
I was curious about your mention of emergency defense jets, having not been familiar with that terminology. Do you think one of those was responsible for the downing of Flight 93 in PA? The passengers in that plane are said to have fought back, and thus saved our capital buildings.
Regarding fighter jets overhead, official accounts imply an inability to scramble nearby fighter assets in time, implying a lack of top-cover (or emergency defense) fighters on station.
I agree that the situation still needs to be examined, including the proper deployment of defense (Sea, Air, Land) assets. Perhaps the inside help you cite could be related to infiltration of our government by organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
Thank you again for sharing your writing and thoughts on this Patriot’s Day.
I appreciated and enjoyed your Remembering the Sacrifices piece/ blog. Your words were moving and brought back memories.
However, much of the response commentary is dismaying. It seems to have attracted a great number who want to rant and contradict known findings and promote unsupportable conspiracy theories, as well as bad-mouth the actions of previous presidential administrations.
What’s going on in the Patriot support network? I’m an aerospace and mechanical engineer of more than 35 years, with an MS from MIT, and am amazed that they are attempting to debunk the comprehensive structural analysis that explained the physics of the building collapses. Their motivation seems to be promoting an anti-Israel, anti-US position, and a war on terror denial. I’m a bit disillusioned about all of this.
Thank you for your excellent writing, despite the non-sequitur content of many of the comments that it somehow attracted.
I agree with almost all of your comment. Unfortunately, some of the “conspiracy theories” are supportable. And, from the comments listed to this time, how did you get the idea that anyone was promoting anti-Israel ideas?
Did you read my comment? I don’t “bad-mouth” any presidential administration. I, simply, state that the 9/11/01 attackers had to have had inside help. Who were the helpers? “Old-fashioned common sense” provides the answer. Too bad that it takes a “General Maximus” of the movie “The Gladiator” to have any common sense today.
I, also, grieve the loss of lives of the civilians and emergency responders.
911 was another false flag designed to push us into a war and take away more of our freedoms. Just Google Building 7 wtc and watch some of the videos if you don’t believe this was controlled demolition.
Our enemies did do this cowardly act; but are we so sure those enemies were not home grown? New evidence seems to tell a different thing. The truth may surface yet. Sometimes our worst enemies are as American as we are!
your reactions were engineered and designed to produce outrage at the so called enemy. The Mossad and CIA, along with the Bush crime family dressed up as 19 knuckleheads and deceived the whole world. See http://www.bollyn.com
As a public high school teacher, I kept expecting to hear something about 9/11 all day yesterday, but not a whisper came across the speakers throughout the building. Some Running Start seniors asked me if we’d had a moment to remember, and I had to admit that we HAD NOT. Is it time to go underground?
Here’s where liberal ideas and conservative beliefs clash (even within myself). I’m all for protecting our freedoms. I’m also all for getting people to recognize the Earth as the astronauts see it: one world, full of people who can learn to get along together, or else we’ll blow all ourselves to hell. Common sense? That is now entirely uncommon. After decades (some would say centuries) of “fake news” who really knows the truth of history anymore? One thing we can all be sure of is that humans are the most expert killers on Earth. We even kill our own kind for no good reason. Greed!! The root of all evil! I don’t believe for one second that the 9/11/01 attack was committed without inside help. Why were there abnormally huge stock plays on 9/10/01 on the two airlines involved? What happened to the missing gold which was stored under one of the Trade Center buildings? Why would some of my Pennsylvania relatives tell me that they saw Flight 93 shot down by U.S. fighter jets? Why didn’t the emergency defense jets, which are always flying high over the U.S. in case of just such an event, take out the airliners before they struck towers 1 and 2? Our academic system of getting people to specialize their studies and careers produces too many people who are incapable of “seeing” the Big Picture. May God bless us all!!!
You got that right Bill.
FRANK
I agree with you on 99% of your comment . The 1% I don’t is Christians. As I am a Christian, Christians wouldn’t do a deed like that to kill or injure innocent people.
Frank, anyone who has studied 9-11 in depth and has a bit of science training will tell that there is no way any plane could down the towers. It was an inside job from the start and prepared two years prior. That is my conclusion, sorry !
Alright all you technical guys. In order for the 1000 feet of free fall of the buildings, the massive 54 columns of hardened steel beams would have to become instantly molten and the reinforced concrete would have to instantly become powder in order for the free fall to take place. So do some of you have an answer.? Remember the burning of kerosene took place only on the 72nd floor.
Frank, get a clue! I did. Actually I got a bunch of `em since 9/11. Ever hear of the enemy within the gates? The first thing I would suggest is educating yourself on the “false flags history” of Israel (our so called ally) that has American soldiers fighting in unending wars to further Israel`s never ending foreign policy on global expansion. 9/11 was a pretext to sway American support to fight Israel`s enemies. Neo-cons/dual Israeli nationals within our government who dictate to/ own our elected officials had already decided for war in the middle east before 9/11. 9/11 was the “new pearl harbor”..(as stated in “building up Americas Defense systems” full spectrum dominance”.(pnac articles). You want REAL truth you have to SEEK IT OUT. Check out Ken O`Keefe, Christopher Bollyn, Victor Thorn, Brother Nathanael, Dr. David Duke, Dr. Alan Sabroski, Professor James Fetzer just to name a few “INEPENDENDENT” journalists and THEY ALL KNOW THE TRUTH about 9/11…..and now…..so will you
Frank, get a clue! I did. Actually I got a bunch of `em since 9/11. Ever hear of the enemy within the gates? The first thing I would suggest is educating yourself on the “false flags history” of Israel (our so called ally) that has American soldiers fighting in unending wars to further Israel`s never ending foreign policy on global expansion. 9/11 was a pretext to sway American support to fight Israel`s enemies. Neo-cons/dual Israeli nationals within our government who dictate to/ own our elected officials had already decided for war in the middle east before 9/11. 9/11 was the “new pearl harbor”..(as stated in “building up Americas Defense systems” full spectrum dominance”.(pnac articles). You want REAL truth you have to SEEK IT OUT. Check out Ken O`Keefe, Christopher Bollyn, Victor Thorn, Brother Nathanael, Dr. David Duke, Dr. Alan Sabroski, Professor James Fetzer just to name a few “INEPENDENDENT” journalists and THEY ALL KNOW THE TRUTH about 9/11…..and now…..so will you
Patriot? You are retelling the big lie. . You’re a cretin for believing you can tell this story to me.
I looked at the video, the towers were set to collapse when our domestic enemies pushed the button. Take me off this mailing list.
Go to Architects and Engineers for 911 truth. Bin Laden was in a hospital in Pakistan on the day of 911; he denied doing it ( NEVER heard a terrorist LIE about committing terror) Many of the alleged hijackers SURVIVED… The 5 dancing Israelis (Mossad) seemed happy as they watched the towers fall. Tower 7 barely mentioned in the 911 report was not hit by a plane and had some small fires and it fell at “FREE FALL’ 8 hours later. The Pentagon had a 30 foot diameter hole through 3 rings and NO PLANE debris even though the tail would have been 45 feet high the windows above the hole were intact. Wake Up.
I too know a little about explosives from the military. I told my wife the second the first building fell that this whole deal was an inside job. The implosion was definitely well planned properly positioned and timed charges. Jim N.
That doesn’t even make sense, Christopher. Don’t politicize today. It is a day for remembering brave people.
Though it was only 5 AM here on the West Coast, my cousin and I were already up watching the news while he was getting ready for work at his job at the Sacramento Airport. We saw it live, in real time. Our first reaction–really a hope–was that this was some preview of yet another disaster movie. When the local news achor asked , “Who would do such a thing?” we both blurted out “Osama bun Laden!” Then I selfishly burst into tears, knowing that my son, who had enlisted in the Army’s famed 10th Mountain Division barely a year previous, would likely be deployed to excise this cancer from the world. How sad that on this 16th anniversary of that horror, my son is facing his 5th deployment back to the hellhole that once was the cradle of civilization.
Obummer didn’t take out bin laden. It was our courageous fighting men who took him out. O and H sat shocked that we acted to punish that dirt bag. And we’ll do it to the rest of the dirt bags, too.
First of all Bin Laden didnt have anything to do with 911 and the US government has never even accused him of doing so. Bin Laden died from kidney failure in late 2001, our ‘courageous fighting men’ had nothing to do with his faked death 10 years later
I was an ironworker and an army combat engineer and Special Forces engineer sgt. I have studied and practiced demolitions. When those 3 buildings came down, I knew it was controlled demolition. No steel frame bldg. in history has even fallen down from fire. There are only 2 organizations in the whole world that could prep 3 OCCUPIED buildings for demo. Our own Christians In Action (CIA) or the Mossad.
Absolutely they were brought down
Thank you Frank for being wide awake
Frank, I agree with you about the buildings a fire will not cause what happened and I also agree with the implosion of the buildings. This was planned. There is so much more to the story, Unfortunately I think it was our own government that was behind it. Watch loose change and 911 in plane site. It was no plane that hit the pentagon and flight 93 never happened no plane crash has ever left a hole in the ground and no luggage or debris people need to wake up!
RIGHT ON! We need to STOP with what we were told and open our brains and think. That very day, watching those towers fall, I said no way caused by the fire. And I’m not an expert, just someone that THINKS! Controlled demolition.
Dear Frank. I’m sorry to disagree with you, but to the extent of watching the “9-11 Movie” It was just a 99% fiction.
the 1% was at the expense of 3000 innocent lives that were sacrificed for “effect” They’ve done it in the past.. this time it was no different.. just a much grander scale and larger audience.
So honestly, I think it’s par for the course. The next one will be bigger, they will get away with it and those “narrow minded media brain-washed idiots” will fall for it, Hook-Line-Sinker… and THEN, we’ll all suffer something bigger.. Martial Law? Internment Camps? Red Dawn? Who knows…
You are full of it Christopher Ritter. Sounds like a hateful racial comment to me..
For all those lost on 9/11.
Title: NEVER AGAIN
And what was your reaction when you learned that it was all a big lie?
Frank apparently believes the lie
I full relate with your remembrance of that morning 16 years ago. God Bless the United States of America and those who serve in Her Armed Forces. Hoorah
Ritter: It took Seal Team Six to take Osama out….
Very well said…..
Ya, Bin Laden on Brushes payroll. . It took Obama to take him out. . . !
Opussie didn’t take him out, Seal Team Six did….
That SOB Obama didn’t do squat. Better to thank our Armed Servicemen.
No…it took SEAL Team Six to take Osama out.
But Bin Laden was already dead – of kidney failure in Dec. 2001. This whole scene is an artfully conceived false-flag to get us to do just what we are – stay angry at a non-enemy, while the real enemy infiltrates and takes over our country.
You are right, in my opinion. The US government is so corrupt that it would’t suprise me that they had a hand in bringing down the towers! Lets us hear the whole truth about the towers!
Thank you Bill for not falling for the lies.
Finally someone who doesn’t have his head in his rectum! Bin Laden died of Marfan Syndrome in Bora Bora in 2001.