What has America learned since then?
Here we are in the midst of the second term of a guy who hates America and all she stands for. Our own government is lawless from the NSA to the IRS from one border to the next.
We’ve learned nothing.
I lost a very close friend that day, on flight 11 so yes, it’s all burned into my memory banks.
As I watched the tribute Bush said that the attack was on freedom, itself. It sure was, it gave us the patriot act and lost freedoms. Our freedoms weren’t, and aren’t defended.
He promised a jihad that was ineffective against our enemies. We have suffered many attacks since that fateful day.
I disagree that ‘’we’ve learned nothing’’. We’ve learned quite a lot, but the most important of all is that government can’t and shouldn’t be trusted. EVER.
Our founders knew that, but somewhere along the lines of our history, we the People, forgot it.
The question is, what can we, and should we do about it? And how?
We see the price of our lack of vigilance, and we are all counting the cost of freedom. None of us likes the cost.