Never Forget

Have been seeing a lot of posts on all the social media sites about remembering 9/11.  Happens every year.  And it's always appropriate.  When I was a kid that the Remember Pearl Harbor remembrences were strong every year.  There are just some things that should live on in the life of the country.  But it will fade.  A lot of the dates that were so important when they happened just fade.  Look at D-Day.  There are still some who remember, but it's fewer and fewer.  So while we can, we should remember the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.  Most of us who were alive at the time remember it like it was yesterday.  Not only is it appropriate to remember the fallen and the heroes, but it's also appropriate to realize that life dramatically changed on that day.  It was really the birth of radical Islamic terrorism and the start of a long, torturous, bloody path to where we are today.  And the bad thing is that most can't see where it ends.  The most important thing though, at least from my perspective, is that we stay the course.  The threat is real and the challenge is continuing our resistence to those who would destroy our way of life.  So remember 9/11.  And at the same time remember that this experiment in Democracy we call America is fragile.  And we all need to work to maintain and protect it.