Some of you hadn’t been born yet. Many others who were there died. Still others were maimed or contracted cancer and other illnesses after the towers fell after each one was hit by a plane. Some heroes brought down the plane bound for the Capitol. (Thank God they didn’t have to see a fascist American president encourage his rabid followers to do the same nearly twenty years later!). That was after a plane hit the Pentagon.
I’m writing about September 11, 2001, otherwise known as 9/11, of course. Some lost dear friends and relatives in that Saudi terrorist attack (I calls’em as I sees’em, although I bet the Biden administration won’t release those particular classified documents that show Saudi Arabia is not our friend, to say the least). We felt that loss on a personal level too. For that reason, we remember 9/11 every day of every year, not just on September 11 and not just on the 20th anniversary.
That day in infamy changed America forever. Terrorism, whether domestic (the latest being January 6, 2021) or international (NYC and many other places in the US and abroad), has become an existential threat to everyone everywhere. We must continue the good fight against murdering and fanatical terrorists, no matter their politics, creeds, or causes.
Please, do not forget 9/11…or any other terrible attack where innocents have died. We must continue to fight terrorism until this scourge is completely eradicated to turn it into merely a painful footnote in the history of our world.