I can still remember so many details from that day: getting an email from a friend that an airplane had crashed into one of the towers, and picturing a little single-engine plane accident. Driving to where I was working that day and listening to the radio and slowly starting to get the picture but not really comprehending. Stepping out of a room at work and hearing on the radio that the first tower had just fallen, then looking across the room at the woman sitting there at her desk and asking "Did they really just say that the tower fell?"
That was when it really hit me, the magnitude. (I did not see any pictures nor video till that night).
It makes me angry that we are still buying oil from countries which spawn and support this sort of barbarity. As far as I'm concerned, if we import a single drop of oil, we are not drilling enough here.
It bothers me tremendously that we have bent over backwards to accommodate this "religion" that wants nothing more than to subjugate and/or kill the rest of us, to turn the remainder of our nation and its population into the same dust that the WTC was reduced to. It irritates me that to be realistic, to take the Muslims at their word, is to be called narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, an "Islamophobe."
I also find it alarming that, 10 years after 9/11, some on the tolerant, multicultural left seem to think that the Islamic term "infidel" only refers to Christian right-wing Conservatives and practicing Jews. They don't grasp that "infidel" pretty much means "everybody besides me and Achmed here, and I'm not too certain of Achmed at times."
Haven't forgotten, and I do get emotional, on several levels.
Unless you nationalize US oil, we'll still be importing. US oil isn't ours. It belongs to the oil companies, and is sold on the world market.