20 Years and 20/20 Hindsight

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It’s been 20 years since the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. 20 years since we lost nearly 3,000 people to radical Islamic murderers. 20 years of memories, memorials, and healing. 20 years of not forgetting what happened or who was responsible for it.

In the days which followed the September 11th 2001 attacks, Americans came together only to separate again – but for a few days anyway, Americans were united in the knowledge of who perpetrated this attack and the belief that we needed to go and get them no matter where they were hiding, no matter how long it would take.

It was al Qaeda. Radical Islam. An ideology not a religion. They had been at war with us for years but we had not adopted that stance; and instead, passed off their aggression as isolated attacks, a matter for law enforcement rather than for the military. We had been wrong in that tact and on September 11th 2001, we paid for it.

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11 Years Later, Remembrance and Forewarning

11 years ago, we were doing whatever we normally did on a Tuesday morning in September. We were at work or going to work. We were at school or on our way there. At home, maybe in a car, a bus or on a train.

Tens of thousands were on planes or ready to board one.

It was just another Tuesday morning.

Then, it changed.

The World Trade Towers. The Pentagon. A field in rural Pennsylvania.

Everything changed.

Nothing would be quite the same again.

We were saddened, apprehensive, scared and looking for a sign of hope.

In the most abnormal of situations, those were the proper emotions.

We were also shocked, stunned and in disbelief.

We shouldn’t have been. We should have seen it coming. We should have realized we were a target and it wasn’t the first time.

8 years earlier, the World Trade Center had been attacked and that attack, like 9-11, had been at the hands of the same murderous group.

Al Qaeda.

The Kovar Towers? That was al Qaeda too.

The USS Cole?

Al Qaeda.

They had been at war with us for a long time but we were not at war with them. 9-11 was the next step in their escalating reign of terror against the United States and we should have seen it coming. We should have but, we didn’t and we paid a very high price for being asleep.

After 5 years…10…11 years…Are we any more awake than we were on that Tuesday morning in September back in 2001?

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