Not Paying Attention
I am writing this on 9/11. As usual I am behind the 8 ball and not paying attention to the conventional thing to write about today. The internet news is awash with solemn ceremonies commemorating the murder of innocent Americans by the barbarian Islamic terrorists. Since I have already covered the ignorance of the select few of our Islamic brothers, I will not regale you with a rant about how they should all be put through a meat slicer using the fine setting, feet first while watching rerun episodes of Will and Grace. That should be a given. I want to talk about not paying attention to all of the ceremonies surrounding that horrid day.
I never watched the coverage of 9/11 on television. I have seen pictures of the planes flying at one of the towers but I have not watched what happens next. I know there were two planes but only because I have been told and read about it. Once the news was broadcast, I decided that the event was horrible enough without the media re-spinning it umpteen ways to Sunday. I don’t need to see the people jumping out of shattered windows to their deaths, because it was that or burning to death, to hear their screams as they fall. I don’t need to see the structures crumble and fall as the damage becomes too great to hear the crash as the glass, concrete and steel succumbs to the will of gravity. I can see by the New York skyline that our country is forever changed by the cowardly act of pirating aircraft and intentionally flying them into buildings. It not only changed the skyline, it altered the way we live and think; and not for the better.
It has been five years since our nation was attacked. We have had five years of perspective on the event to help understand why it happened and ensure it never happens again. Yet there are Americans who have failed to grasp the event once the emotion was gone. There are Americans who have not grasped that this is an ideological fight just like WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. We are trying to bring freedom to an entire planet. Freedom to live your life as you see fit and not how some dictator or theocracy commands. That is what the big wars were about, not about land or resources or wealth. Those were the icing on the cake but the spread of a narrowly defined, self imposed truth were at the heart of those conflicts. When it mattered, America won. We need to continue to spread our beacon of freedom to the world and hope that the 9/11 wake up call does not catch us asleep at the wheel again. “Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it,” so pay attention.
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Cobb
I never watched the coverage of 9/11 on television. I have seen pictures of the planes flying at one of the towers but I have not watched what happens next. I know there were two planes but only because I have been told and read about it. Once the news was broadcast, I decided that the event was horrible enough without the media re-spinning it umpteen ways to Sunday. I don’t need to see the people jumping out of shattered windows to their deaths, because it was that or burning to death, to hear their screams as they fall. I don’t need to see the structures crumble and fall as the damage becomes too great to hear the crash as the glass, concrete and steel succumbs to the will of gravity. I can see by the New York skyline that our country is forever changed by the cowardly act of pirating aircraft and intentionally flying them into buildings. It not only changed the skyline, it altered the way we live and think; and not for the better.
It has been five years since our nation was attacked. We have had five years of perspective on the event to help understand why it happened and ensure it never happens again. Yet there are Americans who have failed to grasp the event once the emotion was gone. There are Americans who have not grasped that this is an ideological fight just like WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. We are trying to bring freedom to an entire planet. Freedom to live your life as you see fit and not how some dictator or theocracy commands. That is what the big wars were about, not about land or resources or wealth. Those were the icing on the cake but the spread of a narrowly defined, self imposed truth were at the heart of those conflicts. When it mattered, America won. We need to continue to spread our beacon of freedom to the world and hope that the 9/11 wake up call does not catch us asleep at the wheel again. “Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it,” so pay attention.
Icool
Cobb
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