Think Forward

My life had prepared me for the morning of 9-11-2001. This was before I was married. I was living in Silverdale, WA. I used to sleep with the tv news channel on. I woke up that day before the second tower was hit and watched as the second plane flew into it. I knew exactly what was happening, but not by who.

I was angry, immediately.

I listened as the news people suggested how afraid the country would be and I knew they were wrong. I knew the reaction of this country would be a righteous anger just like mine. When I saw people that were smiling and celebrating in the streets (before they realized this might not be a good thing to show the American people) I thought..

In time, we will take those smiles away.

We will not forget. I will not forget. Nor will I be fooled.

One day it will be over. I am waiting for that day.

I still carry that righteous anger. Until the day.
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Warning: “We must not misremember.”
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Atlas mourning, Anchoress gives prayer, Michelle is resolved
Glenn remembers, As does Wizbang(Lorie), Wizbang(Jay), Greyhawk
Laughing Wolf asks, “Have You Forgotten?”
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Michelle:
Remembrance is worthless without resolve.
Resolve is useless without action.
Action requires recognition.
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Victor Hanson
But if we know how we failed to respond in the last three decades, do we yet grasp why we were so afraid to act decisively at these earlier junctures, which might have stopped the chain of events that would lead to the al-Qaeda terrorist acts of September 11? Our failure was never due to a lack of the necessary wealth or military resources, but rather to a deeply ingrained assumption that we should not retaliate—a hesitancy al-Qaeda perceives and plays upon.
Not only al-Qaeda.
Most important, military deterrence and the willingness to use force against evil in its infancy usually end up, in the terrible arithmetic of war, saving more lives than they cost. All this can be a hard lesson to relearn each generation.
But some never forget.
America—alone if need be—will neither appease nor ignore such killers but in fact finish the terrible war that they started.
Resolve is required.
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Lileks
And then you realize that the eulogy is just a preface. All that concern for the dead is nothing more than the knuckle-cracking of an organist who’s going to play an E minor chord until we all agree we had it coming.
Recognition: I will not forget the enemy within either.

Yesterday