10 Years Ago

I don't have anything new to say, I don't have a unique way of saying it, and no matter what's said, what happened 10 years ago today will be forever in my heart and soul and spirit.

I have not forgiven. I will not forget. I don't care what's politically correct. I don't believe the bullshit spouted by our politicians and our media that it's wasn't 'all about us'. The fuck it wasn't.

That somehow the 'arrogance' of America meant that we deserved what happened.
No. Not in a billion years.

Everyone has a 'where were you and what do you remember' story. So do I, but I'm not in the mood to tell it here today.

I remember being glad for the only time that my beloved grandfather, Don, had died earlier in the year. It would have broken his heart and soul to be around for the events of 9/11. He was so kind hearted and sensitive. I was glad he missed it.

So am I sitting and mourning today?

No.

I remember daily what happened, and although it no longer has the deep, shocking emotional impact, those feelings still remain in me. And in millions of other people.

And no. I do not forgive. I will never do so. And I'll always tell the truth of what happened when I am asked, no matter how it's glossed over, no matter that today's educational system whitewashed the events just as they have with so many other things.

I read many blogs and a whole bunch of stuff from the left, the right, and the really large amount that's in between. Of all the things I've read commemorating/remembering this day, this seemed to say it best.

Here's an excerpt. But let me tell you, it was hard to try to cut and just put a little here. Go read the whole post.


Leftists in the media, Hollywood, and academia swiftly absolved al Qaeda and Islam from any seriously responsibility for what happened.  While only the Truthers could deny that Islamist al Qaeda members flew those planes, people on the Left knew what really mattered:  the nineteen al Qaeda hijackers were as much victims as we were, if not more so.  It was our overbearing, racist, arrogant, resource-hogging, Israel-loving, capitalist country that drove them to commit their foul deeds.  God damn the U.S. of KKK!  Those chickens roosted but good!
This template has served the Left for ten years now.  The details may vary, but the tone is unchanging.  Americans are bullies.  We’ve bullied the Muslims so much over the past few decades, it was inevitable that they, prodded beyond bearing, turned on us.  And while it’s sad that 2,996 non-combatants (mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters) had to die, that’s what happens when you give your allegiance to — and, worse, make your money from — a system that is inherently parasitical.
It is this paradigm that led the current occupant of our White House to tell us that 9/11 wasn’t just our tragedy, so that our current efforts to mourn prove that we’re not only bullies, we’re also self-centered bullies.  The White House assures us, though, that we can atone for our sins by approaching 9/11, not as a national day of mourning, but as a “National Day of Service.”  The message is clear:  We Americans don’t deserve to mourn.  Not only was it not about us, it was our fault!  This analysis sees just two narrow categories of victims on that fateful day:  those who died and those who killed.  The rest of us were guilty, and we have to work hard to expiate that stain from our collective conscience."