Your comments are Churchillian. Defense in an unpopular time is always a test of will.
I watched the towers fall not from Manhattan, but from a tv on a military base. To see the base over the next 3 days with my own countrymen aiming machine guns on terrets at me, in back of cement blockades, and in back of uniformed local LEOs, was chilling.
A hotel nearby filled up with international travelers trying to get out of the country. I was dumbfounded.
Coming home by land in the next days, I never saw so many flags. For the first time in a long time, I thought well of my countrymen.
It was then, when I came back home for a bit, that I read and read and learned to believe that this is a war of civilizations, if not holy war, and decided I would keep silent no longer.
The next day, I joined Free Republic, and began conservative activism.
According to early estimations United 93 will make around 20 million this weekend.
That is excellent because it is only opening in a 1700 theatres.