We Remember 9-11

Nine years on and, for many, the horror of that day is diminished, the pain has receded, the threat seems further away.  The Iraq War has been fought won, and now the withdrawal and the end has commenced.

The fight in Afghanistan rages on, for now, but will be drawing to a close a year's hence. 

And in the shadow of the World Trade Center, a mosque is planned to be constructed.  The President, the media, and others have defended the idea as the right of the builders with no thought to the appropriateness or symbolism of a mosque so close to where Islamic radicals killed almost 3,000 innocent people.







Thousands of people died at the hands of Muslim extremists.  Will it happen again?  It certainly seems as though it could happen again as we let our guard down, as we become less vigilant towards the threats that confront free nations from Islamic extremism.

And still, the towers have not been rebuilt.  Bickering and infighting has allowed the wound in southern Manhattan to remain unhealed. 

I fear that we will have more victims like Leonard Castrianno because we have gradually let our guard down and forgotten the acute danger posed by Muslim extremists and their enablers. The danger is made greater by a President who believes that America is to blame for 9/11, who wants to see America's military power and presence in the world diminished, and who apologizes for the United States rather than defend it's great values and history.

May God bless America and protect her from enemies foreign and domestic.  Never forget.