I used to work at 2 WTC up until late 1998 and knew many people who would have been there early that morning.
I have this in my living room as a constant reminder.
Semper Fi
Posted on 03/11/2003 11:39:50 AM PST by Master Zinja
DISPATCHES FROM THE AMERICAN FRONT
March 11, 2003
Have You Forgotten?
By James Benton
It's eighteen months today, eighteen months since 9/11, and as the next battle in the War on Terrorism seems imminent, an important question needs to be asked of everyone, particularly of those who oppose any action against Iraq:
Have you forgotten? Do you remember what happened that day? Do you remember not just where you were but how you felt when you heard what was happening?
Have you forgotten watching the second plane plow into the World Trade Center? Did you think of the lives lost at that moment?
Have you forgotten the look on the President's face when he was told of the second attack? Did you see his face change in the next few seconds from shock to determination, the first indication to all of us that, no matter what, we would win this war?
Have you forgotten the people who made the terrible choice no one should have to make and flung themselves out of the World Trade Center?
Have you forgotten the heroes who perished in Pennsylvania, Washington and New York, many of whom could've chosen to live yet didn't hesitate to fight to the death against impossible odds?
Have you forgotten the sorrow and pride we all share whenever we remember the names and faces of that day? Todd Beamer. Rudy. FDNY. NYPD. Ground Zero. The Pentagon. United Flight 93. Names - heroes - forever hallowed in our minds and in our hearts.
Have you forgotten the sweetest-sounding Star Spangled Banner played that day not in the United States but in London, where the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace played our national anthem for the first time ever before hundreds of American and British citizens, where grown men wept at its conclusion, where the bond between America and Britain became as real again as it was decades before when together we faced and defeated evil?
Have you forgotten the flag shortages, the lines to donate blood, the flood of supplies for those in Manhattan at Ground Zero, our generation's Most Hallowed Ground?
Have you forgotten Afghanistan? Tora Bora? The Daisy Cutter? Have you forgotten past victories in this war in your rush to be afraid of future terror which we're fighting?
Have you forgotten? If you're reading this, chances are you haven't - but it seems so many others have.
Therefore, there is a mission for today, for those of us who haven't forgotten.
Find someone who has forgotten, and remind them.
Remind them that the war isn't about to start - it began 548 days ago, eighteen months ago today, and will continue against whoever opposes us and would strive to do us harm, with or without help from our allies, until WE say the war is over.
Remind them why our troops are elsewhere, why they are in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan and numerous other places we can only guess about, fighting in the shadows our enemies know so well and in the open where we are unmatched in the world.
Remind them that freedom is never free, even if they have the freedom to ignore you.
Remember 9/11.
It is the least we can do to honor those lost on that terrible day and since.
God Bless America.
Now=No
Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941. Doolittle and his raiders were dropping bombs on Tokyo and other Japanese cities in April '42. The following month saw a bitter engagement at Coral Sea, and within a month or two after that, We had gained the momentum at Midway!
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