The flag Rolling Thunder displayed when they first dismounted, the 9/11 flag, with that vet yelling "THIS IS WHY WE'RE FIGHTING!!!!! THIS WHY THOSE MEN ARE IN THAT HOSPITAL!!!!" got me thinking.What would DC look like if Flight 93 had not gone down?
I leave Richmond early on Friday so I can take the direct route to Walter Reed.
395 to GW Memorial Pkwy, cross the Memorial Bridge, and work my way over to Virginia Ave, a few jogs here and there, right on M Street, left on 7th Street.
I enjoy the ride, the ambieince of the city, I even enjoy the cab drivers, (to a point),
That route places the Washington Momument in the center of the windshield for several legs of the trip into and through town.
From across the river, in VA, the WM is very visible, being the tallest structure around.
I started thinking last night about how blessed we all were on 9/11 that the idiots who hijacked Flight 93 did not succeed. Chances are, the WM would have been clipped, accidently if not deliberately, or at least been damaged to a point of condemnation.
The cherry trees may have suffered from the fumes, the Mall a smoking crash site, or triage site for the survivors.
Those useful idiots in code pinko, gael murphy, benjamin, all the rest, are either monumentally stupid, or evil beyond belief.
I elect to believe the latter.
Which places them in the same category as anyone else who wages a campaign of intimidation and terror against innocent and helpless citizens.
They are as evil as any extremist who straps on a backpack and walks into a pizza shop or boards a bus.More evil, because they use the guise of sympathy for the wounded, calling for benefits which already exist, exhorting the administration to "Take care of our wounded" while giving money to the very terrorists who inflicted those injuries.
More evil, because they use the freedoms of our democratic republic to espouse an appeasemnet policy which would spell their own doom.
They would negotiate the terms of their own surrender gladly, and bow their heads to the swordsman.
They are vile, despicable, evil people.