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Someone looked at a calendar and remarked to me today, "It's Patriot Day," and I just suddenly got so choked up -- no warning; it just hit me hard, all those people we lost on 9/11 and in the war on terror since then, all the suffering, it dims but it never goes away.

I caught the last few minutes of C. Gibson's nightly news in which he asked youth to talk about the impact of 9/11 on them. One teen said that a few days after 9/11, he looked out a window and everywhere he looked, he saw flags. And what came to his mind was, as he said, literally "that line from the song: our flag was still there," and he said it gave him hope.

I don't know if he knew enough about history (you know how the libs have cut the heart out of that subject) to know that Key was saying our troops were still in position, fighting, and that is why the flag was still there.

Either way, what a statement.