Truer Words Were Never Said

I give you all this blogpost by DougM at Sondrakistan.com.

Truer words have never been said and my deepest feelings have never been captured this well by another.

Thank you, Doug.

ten years


September 11, 2011 –

I won’t be commenting in the expected mode, today.
Others have and will say the memorials as we want them said, as some need them said.

However, I just can’t bring myself to think of today as an anniversary.
It’s not over.
The Jihadists are still trying to kill us.
All of us.
Even those who agree with them, who cheer them, who sympathize with them, who “understand” them, who apologize for them, who defend them, or who stand between us and them.
Even those who are are outraged at all things American or who think America deserved it.
Even those who are are too enlightened, too self-important, or too cowardly to oppose them.
Even those who want to compromise with them.
Even those who pull the covers over their heads and wish they would go away.
Even those who have or want nothing to do with any of this.
Even those who just happen to be there.
Even those who are not even old enough to have a thought.
Even those who hold their beliefs.

Some ask, “Why?”
I don’t, not anymore.
It doesn’t really matter.
For longer than we recognized, they have been at war with us.

They want to kill us or to render us into “submission” and to die martyrs.
We want to live … and to live free.


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