Mine is that 5 years later we haven't caught UBL - His henchmen still run wild plotting to kill American men,women and children. With a 26 million dollar bounty on his head no-one will catch him. I think back to that day, remembering being glued to my set and crying, wanting to run to the school to pick up my children and hold them as tightly as possible. I remember thinking of all the children that lost a parent. I remember all the parents that lost a child. Sisters, brothers, loved friends and heroes. What have we done since then to remember those lost? No memorial is done... sure the plans have been drawn.. I hear in the millions to build it. Why do we NEED something that cost millions? Would someone want to donate the materials and time to build for mere recognition of being a human being. We have countless millionaires that could ban together- don't we?? I am but a simple person with simple dreams and expectations. What can I expect.....
The strength of our nation comes from our freedom, our liberty. Our rights as citizens are what our soldiers over the centuries have died to protect. It is an abomination that we should surrender them without a fight. And doubly so when it is our freedom to live as we choose that makes these terrorists want to attack us in the first place. They fear a nation of citizens free to speak freely, think freely, worship freely. They want a nation of slaves, who live with heads bowed, who want nothing out of life except to remain invisible, who tremble at the sound of a knock at the door. This is what we're at war with. We cannot allow fear to triumph over liberty. We cannot allow cowardice to be an excuse to surrender our rights. Maybe today's anniversary to provide a reminder to us all what courage really is, and what America really stands for.
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