Sept. 7, 2012 —
Most Americans apparently have mixed emotions about next Tuesday’s 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on America that killed more of our countrymen than the attack on Pearl Harbor did in 1941.
We still get angry thinking about the innocent men, women and children who died on those airplanes and in those buildings.
And we can never say, write or do enough to honor the hundreds of New York City firefighters and police officers who gave their lives trying to save those people in the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
The uniformed service members and civilians who died at the Pentagon that day were the first U.S. military casualties in what has become an 11-year war on terrorism.
And we are reminded almost daily that the price of freedom is always high as we learn of the killed and wounded in the fighting, now mainly in Afghanistan.
Last year we took heart in the news of Osama bin Laden’s death because what those Navy SEALS did in Pakistan. They demonstrated to the world that “you can run but you can’t hide” means the entire globe is not big enough if you harm our nation or our people.
As this and other newspapers prepared last year for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, we asked our readers to share their personal recollections of that fateful day.
We were not surprised when some readers told us privately they didn’t want to relive the pain and/or fear they felt on that beautiful autumn day in 2001.
Or that they just didn’t feel right about what might be seen as an effort to commercialize or exploit the horror and suffering of that day.
There are those among us who say our debt-ridden country cannot afford to continue fighting the War on Terror.
We would argue that we cannot afford to stop fighting, despite the announced plans to pull out of Afghanistan totally by 2014.
Doesn’t it make more sense to fight our enemies in their backyard rather than in our own?
Yes, billions of our tax dollars have been spent since 9/11 but is obvious that the stalwart men and women of our first response agencies are better trained and equipped today because of what happened.
As we ponder the impact of 9/11, we should be thankful each day to our God and our government that our families are safer today than on that dreadful day 11 years ago.
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