I read a lot of negative things over the weekend about the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack. In the blogosphere--and not even confined to the sector commonly recognized as "Left wing"--there seems to be so many people eager to forget it and put it behind them; some were open about the fact that they thought remembering that terrible day might cast President Bush in too favorable a light, and others seemed to loathe the patriotism, the love of country, the national unity fostered by remembrance of this event.
Apparently I am not alone in this observation, as Brent Bozell's column today addresses this attitude.
Over the weekend and yesterday, I experienced a certain grief for my country, that there could be so many people so eager to bury their heads in the sand, so many who cared so little about our country, so many people that, while so eager to commemorate a perceived failure of federal largess after Hurricane Katrina, only want to forget the worst attack on American soil since the War of 1812.
Then I read this story today from Breitbart.com, and gained some hope:
Six years after the September 11 attacks on the United States, most Americans view the plane hijackings that killed around 3,000 people as the most significant historical event of their lives, according to a poll released Monday.
Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they see the attacks as the most significant historical even of their lifetimes, with more people on the east coast -- 90 percent -- choosing this view compared to 75 percent on the west coast.
The Rapid City Journal today was also asking for people to share how 911 affected them; the last time I checked, thankfully the vast majority of comments were ones you would expect from reasonable, patriotic Americans.
The saying goes that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. We lost nearly 3,000 of our fellow Americans that day six years ago. Isn't paying that price one time high enough to wake us up?
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