The 9/11 Nightmare Never Ends

American Thinker ^ | 11 Sep, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

[MtnClimber]

You will own nothing and become Muslims.

One of the nightmares that periodically jolt me awake is the image of an American jumping from the inferno-ravaged upper stories of New York’s World Trade Center into the dust-plumed streets below. He is tormented and maybe praying and then gone. More than anything else, that horror from 9/11 haunts me.

In the first few years after the Islamic terror attack, news programs would replay some of those desperate moments caught on video, when workers trapped between floors of fire were forced to make a final decision about how they would die. Many of the videos showed pairs (co-workers, friends, strangers?) holding hands as they leaped from billowing smoke into the bright sunlight of that Tuesday morning, their bodies clearly visible against the blue sky before vanishing into the grayness below.

As the years went by, those videos disappeared. Even during the annual memorials for 9/11, the sight of Americans falling from the sky was gradually obscured in the historical record. When I finally noticed those erasures, I realized that the significance of the Islamic attacks on the United States was being rewritten in real time. People who had the means to shape public “narratives” no longer wanted Americans to relive the agony of 9/11. They did not want us to reflect upon the horror of Americans being forced to choose between dying from flames or a thousand foot drop onto city streets. They wanted us to forget.

I was in favor of the post-9/11 wars because I naïvely believed that Western civilization was finally prepared to defend itself from the barbarians at the gate. After 9/11, Americans generally agreed about two things: (1) We were in a civilizational war, and (2) militant Islamists were our enemies.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: islam; leftism; peoplehaveforgotten

[MtnClimber]

We have forgotten and the left has opened the gates to let the barbarians in.

[MtnClimber]

During the Obama and Biden presidencies, the federal government redirected resources from the “war on terrorism” abroad to target political conservatives here at home.

[logi_cal869]

I awoke far too early this morning and didn’t notice the date until your post.

Moment of silence (followed by renewed anger and hope for a quiet day).

[Uncle Miltie]

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.

[equaviator]

I know full well that FR is not the kind of place where you stand up and ask for a moment of silence but I’d like to anyway. Bye for now.

[no-to-illegals]

Is history written by the conqueror ?

[Uncle Miltie]

We keep fighting exactly islam and communism.

[cowboyusa]

Death cults naturally have an affinity for eachother.

[jmaroneps37]

I lost two friends in that attack. Their faces and memories of them don’t go away.

[Alberta's Child]

I was in favor of the post-9/11 wars because I naïvely believed that Western civilization was finally prepared to defend itself from the barbarians at the gate. After 9/11, Americans generally agreed about two things: (1) We were in a civilizational war, and (2) militant Islamists were our enemies.

People like this guy have done tremendous damage to this country. Anyone who thought a retarded baboon like GWB was capable of leading “Western civilization” out of a wet paper bag is a moron:

[FlingWingFlyer]

America’s enemies who gave us 9/11 are now running our colleges and universities and have even infiltrated our government. It’s OUR TURN to wake up.

[logi_cal869]

(2) militant Islamists were our enemies.

I object to the gw lie (peaceful muslims), here again 24 years hence, continually.

That is an insufferable comment by the author to commemorate 9/11.

[PGalt]

There’s a lot of good. There’s too much evil. It’s a long forever war. Do your best for the innocent and civilization. Fight, fight, fight.

[logi_cal869]

Nailed it.

[MarlonRando]

I work with muslims at work, and instead of playing music on the radio they actually play sounds of someone screaming the koran. I kid you not. They speak arabic to one another and I have to pretend that it’s all really cool and I’m so happy that they’re there. what else can I do?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Bush’s “evil doers” were just a small, radicalized subset of Islam, we were told. A bunch of crazies living in the deserts of Afghanistan, no one else. I never bought it for a second.

[iontheball]

As long as the Devil roams free on this earth, this is our fate. Only Christ’s return will bring an end to it. In the meantime, we as Christ’s soldiers need to push back and resist evil with all of our ability, always.

[albie]

Where do you work? Walmart? Sounds like my Walmart.

[Alberta's Child]

Arabic gibberish sounds like an improvement over the infantile nonsense I used to hear in my corporate workplace in my previous life. And that was in the days when prime time TV shows were the most common subject of conversation. It must be a thousand times worse in an era of the digital insane asylums known as social media.