On this day, I decided not to watch or even acknowledge our nation’s downfall and the winning of the terrorists who attacked us.
Not that I’m in denial but rather I want to remember the fallen with the lessons we learned for the tragic day and morn those lessons as forgotten.
What am I talking about?
Well I feel the terrorist won, they didn’t break our spirit but they won by making us fearful of things that we should be determined to beat as individuals and as a nation alike.
From the expansion of our government to “protect us” to the ‘freedom towers’ or what ever they are called, we collapsed and became what they set us up to do.
It isn’t that we need the addition effort to be safe, we don’t need the additional overkill to make us feel safe. From the expansion of the TSA to the Gestapo like questioning of US citizens at the border to the restrictions at airports – it all trashes those real lessons from the tragedy.
What are those lessons?
Well that’s easy.
The first one is our job as citizens is not to be complacent. That is the hardest thing not to do.
The second one is to bring our elected officials to task, we had a 9/11 commission formed and a few of those members were the same people who set in motion the problems that caused 9/11 but we didn’t care. We even had one person commit treason (my opinion) and he should have been sent to prison for life, nothing less than that but he is out and about with another security clearance.
The last one is we need to stop acting as victims and act as a nation that has been attacked. This is the one that gave the winning point to the terrorists, because we acted as if this was the worst thing that could ever happen when it isn’t. Sure it is a tragedy, and yes people died which is bad – very bad but we face things that cause as much damage every day and have thousands of people affected by it without acting as if we were a victim.
So let’s pray for those who lost their lives and those who suffer because of that day but let’s not forget others who stepped up in the past when we needed them and gave their all for our country.
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