Did You Forget? Then Remember.

Tomorrow is the 4th Anniversary of 9/11 and, like most folks, I’ll be spending a good amount of time tomorrow thinking about that day and pondering where our country is now, compared to where we were then.

Before I say more, I want to direct you to a very excellent article with dozens of links worth reading at Winds of Change. There is a lot there that should be remembered.

Michelle Malkin does us the service of showing the photos that the MSM decided, on our behalfs, that we should no longer see. It strikes me as incredibly callous and cynical that the same MSM outlets who were not afraid of “inflaming” Muslims by showing over 30 straight days of Abu Ghraib photos would boycot these images because they were afraid they would “inflame” Americans. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, it says much about our media outlets that they trust the reactions of Muslims around the world more than they trust you and me.

On the “other side”, James Wolcott seems glad that the 3000 dead on 9/11 will have company.

For Hurricane Katrina has broken the post 9/11 spell that held everyone in thrall to terrorism and terrorism alone as the paramount menace on the horizon…Whatever the final numbers are from Hurricane Katrina, it will be harder for the WOT propagandists to ritualistically invoke the “3000 dead” to the same sonorous effect. Those deaths have reached their expiration date, not for mourning, but for political, cultural, and military exploitation.

I hasten to remind James Wolcott that there is a universe of difference between thousands dead in a natural disaster and thousands murdered by people who tried with all their might to kill five times as many or more in one day. But I fear that such distinctions are beyond him, as are most elementary points of moral clarity.

I wonder, keping Wolcott in mind, when “Never forget” and “Let’s Roll” were replaced by “Why do they hate us” and “It’s all George Bush’s fault”? I think it happened much faster than we’d like to believe.

Finally, I want to direct you to FRW, for a more personal remembrance of that day. Her experience seems typical of what many Americans experienced on a day when hatred and oppression reached out its hand and snuffed out the light of so many of our neighbors, family members, and friends. It is a final reminder that, unlike other attacks on our nation, that 9/11 was different, for it struck not at our military or our government centers exclusively, but at every one of us.

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