Back in the early days of WW II, Britain formed a volunteer organization called the Home Guard.
Bush should have done something similiar after 9/11, if for no other reason than to remind folks that there is an active, ongoing threat to this country.
From Wikipedia:
The Home Guard (initially "Local Defence Volunteers" or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.
Operational from 1940 until 1944, the Home Guard – comprising 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, usually owing to age, hence the nickname "Dad's Army" – acted as a secondary defence force, in case of invasion by the forces of Nazi Germany and their allies.
The Home Guard guarded the coastal areas of Britain and other important places such as airfields, factories and explosives stores.
They also made appeals to US citizens to "send us your arms, we have none of our own". A direct quote from my Uncle who was a Marine Captain during WWII.