God bless the families of the victims, and God bless the men and women of our military who have waged war and continue to wage war against Islamofascists all over the world.

Amen to that, ST.

Here’s another view. Can you guess whose?

We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness… Most often, though, it grows out a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.

We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle-Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe—children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and within our own shores.

That night, the local police sealed off every entrance to the airport with snowplows, the heaviest vehicles they had on hand. Every plow was accompanied by at least one police cruiser, and the police were armed with rifles at the port. NO one was getting in there that night.

It was still dark in Los Angeles, and I was getting ready for work when I heard of the first plane hitting the tower on the radio. I tuned in to CNN just in time to watch the 2nd plane hit, and to hear some idiot talking head wonder if something hadn’t gone wrong with the auto-pilot controls. (!)

On the way to work, I passed the Federal Building and saw it ringed by FBI agents in body armor and carrying assault weapons, and soon after I got to work, the towers fell. Now I know how my mother and father could remember every detail of where they were and what they were doing when they heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: it’s just burned into your memory.

And now, eight years later, we have a president who writes about a “national day of service.” Message to the President and Commander in Chief: Forget the platitudes. We’re at war.

Now, Truthers would have us believe a vast conspiracy of untold detail and magnificence. That is one version. The other is untold incompetence resulting in missing an obvious chance (in hindsight, of course) to delay or stop the tragedy of 9/11.

I know which version I’d chose, based on my experience as a government worker and my experience as a citizen, and it wouldn’t be to give the government credit for being able to accomplish anything resembling competence.

Never Forget!!

Today, I am wearing black. Tomorrow, I go protest.

This video takes us back to the horrors of 9/11 and what happened on that fateful day.
Now, 8 years later, a grassroots movement is standing up for liberty and staring down a President who continues to blink under the unwavering gaze of everyday folks…

It’s pretty hard to believe that eight years have passed since the deadly 9/11 attacks, in which nearly 3,000 people were murdered by 19 al Qaeda terrorists who hijacked four airliners with the intent to crash them into the Twin Towers in New York Ci….