Remember our fighting heroes. Never forget our fallen heroes.
Posted on 09/11/2007 6:07:57 AM PDT by shortstop
September 11th must elicit resolve, not sorrow. It must be a prod to national strength, not a milestone of national weakness.
Mourning has passed, memorialization will linger, grit must predominate. Six years have passed and the day of national trauma is long since gone. It is time to wipe away our tears and speak of something other than our pain.
We must avoid turning this date into a maudlin exercise in getting in touch with our feelings. We must insist on not being revictimized every year by politicians and reporters intent on outdoing one another with feigned sincerity.
September 11th should make us mad, not make us weep.
There have been other anniversaries and milestones, throughout our history, and we have not responded the way we are responding now. The phrase “Remember the Alamo” was not meant to elicit sorrow, it was meant to encourage bravery and resolve. Ditto for “Remember the Maine” and “Remember Pearl Harbor.”
When we have been hit before, we have used that event as a motivation to self-defense and national protection. We have marched off to war inspired by the desire to settle the score for an attack upon us. We have believed that the best response to an attack was an overwhelming counterattack.
The real response to Pearl Harbor came at Hiroshima, and even after 50 and 60 years, commemorations above the USS Arizona were meant to honor the dead and reflect on the wickedness of our enemy.
We are not traditionally a nation of criers.
So on this anniversary of militant Islam's dastardly attack upon the innocent people of the United States, we should avoid the temptation of pretended sentimentalism. We should resist the pop-psychology rehash of our “pain.” We should refuse to be traumatized or retraumatized by picking the scab of our new national tendency to sit on Oprah's couch and cry.
We must resist the media-fueled penchant for focusing on how others hurt us and instead remember how we have been strong and persistent.
September 11th shouldn't be about tears streaming down cheeks, it should be about hundreds of firefighters in a matchless act of valor, about some guys on a plane over Pennsylvania, and about men and women in dress uniforms who ran into the burning corridors of the Pentagon. Instead of lionizing the effectiveness of our enemy's attack upon us, we should focus on how Americans responded. We should focus not on fanaticism, but on heroism.
Honoring the terror honors the terrorist.
Honoring the courage honors the American spirit.
September 11th should be a day we hold our heads high, not a day we hang our heads low. This isn't a day we were beaten, this is a day someone tried to beat us and failed. Let September 11th forever be a day to honor the strength and courage that dominated that day. Yes, 19 Muslims sought to inflict horror and slaughter, but hundreds and hundreds of ordinary Americans sought to defend decency and right.
And the Americans won.
September 11th is the day they tried to break us and failed.
As schools and communities ponder whether and how to continue September 11th commemorations, they must be certain that they are commemorating the right thing. They must make certain they are not drowning in affected grief and effectively furthering the cause of the terrorists. We must not be afraid, or feel sorry for ourselves.
Instead, we must show some backbone and stiff upper lip. We must act like Americans. This date must denote strength, not sorrow.
I think showing people crying over and over is bad.
This should be a day to celebrate America and how strong we are, and how the terrorist scum will pay for this.
May it someday be that the vile cult of Islam is practiced only in Hell, whence it sprang.
Remember our fighting heroes. Never forget our fallen heroes.
Amen.
Absolutely. I know a 9/11 widow who has gone on with remarkable strength and resolve, a true example for the rest of us. If only we could time Bin Laden’s demise to the same date - it would be the ultimate lesson of “what goes around comes around”.
“May it someday be that the vile cult of Islam is practiced only in Hell, whence it sprang.”
Bears repeating.
You are doing much better than me. To this day, when I see a woman wearing a Muslim head scarf, the hairs on the back of my neck go up. I see a mindless breeder of future terrorists.
That has not been a problem for me. Weeping was natural - and needed - on this day in 2001.
But since then, my burning anger and hate of the vile cult that brought about all these murders holds sway.
If I'm sad about anything regarding Islam, it's that not nearly enough jihadis have met their fate in a horrifying, bloody way.
Piss on them and their stinking cult. May they occupy the lowest regions of Hell, and may they do so quickly.
As the old saying goes,
Put away the hankies - it's clobbering time!
Achieving anything short of that simply won't do.
The "Jihadi Joe's" of this world haven't yet begun to experience the suffering necessary to beg for that kind of lasting peace.
May it happen soon, however. Or our very survival is in real jeopardy.
This is a good article!
Glenn Beck needs to read this. He is doing his usual over the top tear jerker nonsence.
“Instead, we must show some backbone and stiff upper lip. We must act like Americans. This date must denote strength, not sorrow.”
If only we could get our elected LEADERS on board, all would be well. Grrrrr!
You and me both, RD.
God knows I've been really torqued more than several times in this life,
but never have I been so totally enraged as right about now, six years ago.
Three wishes wouldn't have been necessary that day, only one:
let me be young again and allowed to help hunt down and exterminate the vermin responsible for this.
'islam' is an obscenity.
I think showing people crying over and over is bad.
This should be a day to celebrate America and how strong we are, and how the terrorist scum will pay for this.
I have turned off the memorial service shown on Fox. I just seen an interview on Fox, during their memorial service, with McCain. McCain said " If I am President, I would get Bin Laden". Who wants to watch politicians lining up to get face time during a memorial service? Campaigning on top of that! Not me.
William "Tecumseh" Sherman, A true American Hero What would he say to the "Copperheads" of today????>
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