Our Flag is flying today.
It was a beautiful September day. The skies were blue and I had watched a plane in the sky on my morning run, thinking it would be a lovely day to fly.
But it wasn't. All too soon the news of Muslim terrorists using hijacked aircraft as bombs flashed across the news. Smoke billowed from the tallest buildings in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville Pennsylvania. We came together and we prayed. We put our lunch money into fire fighters' outstretched boots and understood that the world was a very dangerous place.
Seven years later, we've "moved on" to other issues. Jihadists still have the same designs on our world as they had on that awful day in 2001. We've Got Our Work Cut Out for Us according to the Gates of Vienna. Why is it that we are more interested in 9/11 Conspiracy Theoories than historic facts about Jihad? Popular Mechanics Systematically Debunks Them Here but there are those who persist in promoting the notion that our government plotted the whole thing. Unlike the guys who kept saying the Apollo Program was a hoax [all filmed in a studio], these people are one more diversion from an honest assessment of our place as a people in the times we live in. I leave you with This Piece by John P. Avlon in City Journal. My prayers are with the families who still struggle with the losses of that terrible day.
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