9/11 Related Thoughts

- Do you remember all the flags that decorated the houses, businesses, and government buildings for the couple of weeks after the attacks? On the block where I was living at the time, there must’ve been 500 of them, easily. It was an awesome and incredible demonstration. We tried to buy a flag, but every single store in our area which would have sold flags was sold out. So, the wife and I cut out an 8 x 12 inch American flag from a newspaper and taped it onto our living room window, which faced the street.

- Never forget: 2,977 Americans were killed by 19 Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorists nine years ago. They were not “lost.” They did not “perish.” They were civilians, and they were murdered. Sometimes I think our politicians have forgotten this, or do not have the courage to speak it. Most likely the latter.

- I fear we may have to experience another successful attack before we take the War on Islamic Fundamentalist Terror seriously. Oh wait – there have been. And dozens of plots broken up midstream. What will it take for our leaders realize what is ultimately at stake?

- The video of the cheering, gun-firing Palestinians rejoicing to the news that the World Trade Center was destroyed still makes my blood boil, even now, just thinking about it. Monsters.

- That mosque shouldn’t be built two blocks from Ground Zero. It’s a sensitivity issue, not one of religious freedom.

- If the backers get all their paperwork in order and proceed to break ground, protests should begin en masse, and God bless the construction companies who will refuse to partake in the project.

- The korans should not be burned by the kookie pastor in Florida.

- Bigot P. Z. Myers regularly desecrates the Eucharist on youtube. Yet there are no fatwas issued by the Vatican on this disgusting man. Nor are there violent protests or effigies burned. Just sayin’.

- Obama noted in his Friday press conference – well, he made sure to emphasize – that September 11 is also a Day of Service. There are two things I plan on doing today that will hopefully lead to this incompetent ideologue and his party from getting re-elected this November and in 2012. That will fulfill my duties for Day of Service.

- Did I hear correctly that the President had a teleprompter at yesterday’s rare press conference?

- Shame on New York, shame on the Presidency, and shame on us if we do not have towers built on that spot by the tenth anniversary of the attacks.


I blogged a bit about September 11, 2001, here.

Here is the Pope’s prayer at Ground Zero from two years ago.