[WarrenC]

If there is anything to mark or commemorate, it is the day when that realm of illusion was dispelled—the date that will one day be acknowledged as the one on which our enemies made their most truly "suicidal" mistake.

[Starrgaizr]

"Remember September 11th" is like "Remember Pearl Harbor:"

The point is not tears and yellow ribbons, it is to recall the events to renew the fury before it fades and resolve weakens, as it tends to do in our free and generous country.

Remembrance archive of 9-11 FR posts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/620413/posts

[Coop]

Sorry, Chris. I'll be flying my flag at half staff, wearing a flag lapel pin, and observing a moment of silence at 8:46 EDT. It's not much, but I will never forget.

"We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail."
President George W. Bush, 20 Sep 01

[dead]

The time to commemorate the fallen is, or always has been, after the war is over. This war has barely begun…Dry your eyes, sister. You, too, brother. Stiffen up.

Well put, Hitchens.

We’ve got more killing to do.

[Hank Rearden]

Anyone here remember all the FReepers who tried to stimulate fake weepiness on Oct. 11th, Nov. 11th, Dec. 11th ad nauseum?

"Oh, it's been 7 months to the day - sob! I just don't know how I'm going to cope."

Me? I cope by watching terrorists die.

[Billthedrill]

I'm with him. My idea of commemoration is a smiley-face drawn on the nose of a Daisy Cutter about to be deposited somewhere in Pakistan.

Leave aside the glaring and germane fact that Saddam was and is in partnership with the forces of jihad; not even the sorriest illusion is in the same category as a book published by The Nation, written by Gore Vidal and flaunted at "anti-war" rallies, which argues that it was essentially George Bush who helped organize and anticipate the atrocity. That's a level of degeneration unplumbed by any other faction.

Sure wish I could write like that...

[91B]

Instead of which, the posturing loons all concentrated on a masturbatory introspection about American guilt, granted the aura of revolutionary authenticity to Bin Laden and his fellow gangsters...

WHACK-a homer, WHACK-another homer.

[teletech]

THIS American will STAND at 8:46AM EDT on 9/11 and I will renew my resolve to bring to justice EVERY murderer responsible for this horror! I WILL NEVER forget!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

My second-strongest memory of that week is still the moaning and bleating and jeering of the "left." Reflect upon it: Civil society is assaulted in the most criminal way by the most pitilessly reactionary force in the modern world. The drama immediately puts the working class in the saddle as the necessary actor and rescuer of the said society. Investigation shows the complicity of a chain of conservative client states, from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, in the face of which our vaunted "national security" czars had capitulated. Here was the time for radicals to have demanded a war to the utmost against the forces of reaction, as well a full house cleaning of the state apparatus and a league of solidarity with the women of Afghanistan and with the whole nexus of dissent and opposition in the Muslim world. Instead of which, the posturing loons all concentrated on a masturbatory introspection about American guilt, granted the aura of revolutionary authenticity to Bin Laden and his fellow gangsters, and let the flag be duly seized by those who did look at least as if they meant business.

Wow, that's the greatest paragraph on the subject I've ever seen.

[Old Sarge]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same Chris Hitchens who, as a reporter for the NYT, got himself booed off the stage for an anti-Bush/anti-war/anti-US "commencement" agenda speech?

If so, then it's no dice. You're not forgiven. Once a Clintonista, always a Clintonista.

[mikeb704]

Two years doesn’t ease the horror

[Cboldt]

What is required is a steady, unostentatious stoicism, made up out of absolute, cold hatred and contempt for the aggressors, and complete determination that their defeat will be utter and shameful.

> bump <

[Kozak]

I'm going to watch the Flash file I have on 9/11. Then watch 911 inside where you can hear the sound of our countrymen hitting the ground. Then I'm going to watch DC 9/11 on Showtime. And I'm going to get quietly angry and determined to see our enemies, and the enemies of civilization crushed.

[Roscoe Karns]

bump

[Deb]

This is the mind of a self-described "extreme Marxist" at work, as it tries to think logically.

You can see the wheels grinding, but they don't quite make sausage.

Chris, in order to do what must be done, it's necessary to remind ourselves and the World why we are doing it. Americans have the shortest memories of any and need lots of reminding or else they go back to work and try to heal by denial.

[LibKill]

More dead jihadis would be a good remembrance on 09/11.

[Mr. Mojo]

But it is vaguely felt in many quarters that something ought to be done by way of an observance

It's an excellent day to go down to the local range and blast away at some photos of Jihadists. Arafat's face works very well, with all the moles, boils, and pocks to aim at.