Never forget. Never forgive.
Contributed by Bill Faith
We've been at war since 1979 but it took the events of 6 years ago to wake a lot of people up to the fact. We're still at war, with the same people, just on a different battlefield. The question of the hour is whether we'll fight for all we're worth or tuck our tails between our legs and run home whimpering. There are those in DC who'd gladly sacrifice your freedom and mine for short term political gain. Will we let them? Never forget. Never forgive.
Some links I've used in the past but you might have missed:
And a new must read: The Wind in the Heights (H/T: Michelle)
Lorie Byrd: Six Years Later -- We Will Not Forget.
Don Surber: 9/11 thoughts
The Anchoress: What do YOU remember about 9/11?
Jules Crittenden: Sept. 11
Brutally Honest: 6 years ago
Michelle Malkin: 9/11: Remembrance and resistance
Glib Fortuna: 9/11 Remembered
Big Dog: 9/11 Again
Blackfive: The Poles on 9/11
Ed Morrissey: Remembering 9/11
Norman Podhoretz: Six years after 9/11, it's notable how little the politics of the left have changed.
Jonah Goldberg: From There to Here; The emotional half-life of 9/11
9/11
Bryan Preston
“A Beautiful Day.” That’s what U2 was singing on my car stereo as I pulled into the parking garage. And it was a beautiful day, with a clear blue sky and a crisp feel to the air. As I stepped to the sidewalk across from the beige brick building where I worked, I met up with a co-worker, an attractive woman whom I don’t know well but had always liked to talk to. That day, as we crossed the street, we talked about how stunning the weather was, and I teased her that my office had a window while hers didn’t, and that I’d get to enjoy the day. ...
"The Canyons I Knew Well"
written and performed by James Hooker
Check out the post that came from here, then don't forget to check out he rest of James's site while you're there.
Will we regret not taking Sept. 11 more seriously?
Lorie Byrd
WASHINGTON - When I think back to the moment I saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center live on the “Today Show,” I always see it in slow motion, similar to watching the minivan door sliding toward my daughter’s fingers still clutching the edge. I could see what was going to happen in freeze frames, but it was happening so quickly that there was no way anyone could stop it.
I became much more careful, and slid the car door shut much slower, after my daughter’s fingers were smashed. I learned my lesson, and you’d better believe she became more careful about where she put her fingers even though there was no blood and no broken bones and, five minutes later, her tears had dried.
Smashed fingers are pretty insignificant compared with the attacks of Sept. 11, — whose effects were horrific and far-reaching, changing the course of world events. But on this anniversary of Sept. 11, I wonder how much our behavior has changed since that day. What lessons have we learned? ...
What If The September 11 Attack Was Thwarted?
Tom Elia
(A version of this parody was originally published in the Vallejo (CA) Times-Herald on September 11, 2002)
19 Arrested In 'Terrorist Plot'
New York, September 12 (AP) -- In what it called "an unprecedented operation in the history of the US intelligence community," the FBI today announced that yesterday it had arrested 19 men from the Middle East in New York and Boston in connection with what was called "a terrorist plot to blow up the World Trade Center, the White House, the Capitol, and the Pentagon."
A spokesman for the FBI said that the men, 15 Saudi Arabians and 4 Egyptians, were carrying "box-cutters, flight-manuals, copies of the Koran, and death shrouds" at the time of their arrests and had booked flights bound from New York and Boston to the West Coast intending to hijack the flights and use them to "crash into various federal buildings."
The FBI said that the group comprised part of the al Qaeda terrorist network run by Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Islamic fundamentalist and Saudi dissident.
In an interview broadcast on CNN, a spokesman for the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington said, "These men were arrested because they are of Middle Eastern descent. It’s an outrage." ...
Read the whole thing at Blackfive.
Where’s the War?
The placidity of the domestic front.
By Mark Steyn
Oh, it’s a long, long while from September to September. This year, the anniversary falls, for the first time, on a Tuesday morning, and perhaps some or other cable network will re-present the events in real time — the first vague breaking news in an otherwise routine morning show, the follow-up item on the second plane, and the realization that something bigger was underway. If you make it vivid enough, the JFK/Princess Di factor will kick in: You’ll remember “where you were” when you “heard the news.” But it’s harder to recreate the peculiar mood at the end of the day, when the citizens of the superpower went to bed not knowing what they’d wake up to the following morning. ...
Tuesday Morning
In the excellent book Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001, authors Mitchell Fink and Lois Mathias collected stories from eyewitnesses. Here's an excerpt from what David Kravette, a Cantor Fitzgerald broker, told the authors about his experience at the World Trade Center: ...
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