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9/11 Twenty Years Later
I remember where I was that day.
Remembrance
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ~Golda Meir
It was one of those pivotal moments like Pearl Harbor or the Kennedy Assassination.
People remember where they were and what they were doing when the planes struck the North Tower.
I was on the way to work. About halfway there, I heard that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers.
I thought it was strange. The sky was clear here. I supposed it was cloudy in NYC for such an accident to occur but then the next one hit.
Then I knew something bad was happening.
I got to work and Andy was passing by. I asked him if we had an office in the WTC. I told him something bad was happening.
His ever-present smile vanished from his face and he hurried away to check.
Fortunately, our colleagues were away from the city for a business conference of some sort. Luckily, they weren’t the only ones.
In the following days, stories came out of people who happened to be ill that day. Others who had premonitions not to go to work that day and other coincidences that kept them from being among the victims shared their miraculous turns of fortune.
What I remember is that on that day, 2977 people were killed by 19 hijackers and more than 6000 were injured at the site of the World Trade Center attack. Typical occupancy was up to 50000 people but only 17000 were on site that Tuesday.
The terrorists wanted maximum carnage but the towers were less than half occupied to start with. In all, the whole operation was an astonishing failure.
Sure, they scared us. We were waiting for more attacks, more calamities, more infamy. All they proved was their cowardice was exceeded only by their ineptitude.
19 Wahabist hypocrites who had spent a stint of debauchery pulled off an act of horrendous cowardice because they believed their death would get them on the fast track to Paradise.
Fuck them and fuck the belief system that led them to conclude their martyrdom would be rewarded.
We’re 20 years on and other sick bastards just like them are still committing abominable acts based on the same fucked up belief system.
Ceremony
9/11 20th Anniversary: Procession And Moment Of Silence Held At Moment North Tower Was Struck
We’ve seen the rise and fall of Al Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL and other murderous barbarians in the last two decades.
It’s nice that the NYPD got to participate in a ceremony to commemorate their fallen colleagues and the citizens they tried to protect and serve. It’s a shame that they’re limited to ceremonial duties instead of actually enforcing laws.
The current mayor of New York should not be the mayor of a bagel shop on FourSquare. This self-serving, commie piece of 💩 allowed BLM to run wild last year while normal people were confined to their homes or forced to mask themselves to go anywhere. The city is worse off than when a gaggle of terrorists kamikazed the Trade Center.
I don’t know how many times I need to say it before anyone listens. Stop voting for Democrats. They’re worse than the fucking terrorists.
People thought the imposition on daily life wrought by the Patriot Act would be the end of civilization. The TSA was feeling up little old ladies and kids and basically everyone except people who might reasonably be suspected of being international terrorists.
Eventually, things settled back to “normal” and we moved on with our lives. The barbarians would make a ruckus somewhere abroad and we’d send forces to fight them. It was ultimately just ceremonial. The government had its own agenda. Keep throwing young men in a meat grinder year after year and say it’s for freedom.
Are we any more free than we were on
September 10th, 2001?
All you have to do is look around. Mask mandates and other idiocy being perpetrated by Democrats and RINOs at every level of society would suggest otherwise.
There was a lot of talk back in 2001 whether or not the 9/11 terrorists were facilitated by elements of the Deep State in order to maintain a state of perpetual war, fear and uncertainty.
Watching all the 💩 that’s gone down since that horrible day, it’s hard to disagree.
Brave Men
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
I’m not talking about my writing today.
Today is a day to remember all of the brave men and women who did what they could that horrible morning.
They’re the real heroes.
All the guys who went off to war to keep those barbarians from ever doing such a thing again are the real heroes.
All the people who tell the truth whether it’s popular or not are the heroes.
I can write about imaginary heroes all I want but there are people out there serving and protecting every single day.
We should honor them. We should support them. We should back them.
As for the BLM mobs and the AntiFa punks, go back to your mommies’ basements. You’re not wanted. You’re not needed. Go home and get a real life you despicable wastrels.
When you can do something for someone other than yourselves, you might actually pass for grownups. You’re not heroes and you probably never will be.
That’s all today. I hope you can remember what it was like to have a veneer of freedom. Hopefully, we’ll have that again someday.