First – just wanted to say thanks to the many of you who dropped by yesterday looking for new material, commentary, etc…and for posting comments on existing discussions. You obviously noted that I did not post anything yesterday. Well – that is one of two days that is really difficult for me. I purposely chose not to post anything and just took the day to veg and chill out.

This year, 9/11 kind of crept up on me. I wasn’t really prepared for it. I’ve been so busy with everything else that when it arrived – it came about slowly. I woke up yesterday morning like any other day, but, I was in an unusual funk..couldn’t quite put my finger on it. It wasn’t until I was driving in to work and at 8:43am the DJ on the radio announced that this is now the exact time 7 years ago when the first plane struck the WTC – then it all hit me. Now I understood why I was in the mood I was in. Even though I didn’t openly recognize the date, my subconscious knew.

I purposely chose not to post anything yesterday because I knew it would be nothing but an incoherent rant and babble on for pages. Each year when 9/11 comes around, I remember that day vividly and everything that happened on that day for me physically and emotionally. Don’t get me wrong here – I don’t have any personal story of tragedy surrounding that day. For me, growing up in a military family and having served my country myself – that day was an emotionally charged day as we learned that our country was under attack by a sinister enemy. The images of those islamofascist bastards dancing in the streets as our fellow Americans are jumping out of the windows of the burning towers hundreds of stories up has been burned in to my brain.

Yesterday’s post would have just been one hate filled rant after another – and – that is not what I want to put out here on a day like that. That is a day of remembrance. A solemn day. But, it should also be a day that we as Americans SHOULD be able to come together again and remember who the real enemy is and why our soldiers do what they do. Instead, for me, I just get angrier each year. Angrier because that bastard Bin Laden still has not paid for his crime either behind bars or in a pool of blood. I get angrier because we still have not rebuilt the towers – and – it is a testament to the terrorists and each day that pit remains empty is another victorious day for THEM. I get angrier because we are still playing footsies over in Iraq and Afghanistan rather than just send all of our military might in there to take care of those islamofascists once and for all. I get even angrier when I see these 9/11-deniers out there protesting at the empty WTC site – blaming our country and President Bush for the attacks. But, what really pisses me off on that day is that too many people have forgotten. The media refuses to play the video images of that day in fear that it would offend muslims in this country and be a bad reminder. I don’t really give a shit! The reason why so many people have forgotten and so many people continue to insist that it’s an inside job is because we don’t get to see the pictures and footage any more unless we search for them on the Internet.

This is a horrible tragedy and a direct attack on our country and our people. EVERYONE needs to be reminded of this day and remember what it felt like 7 years ago. Those images need to be played over and over again. Perhaps if the people remember how they felt, we might be able to get things accomplished. Perhaps the memorials might actually get built. Perhaps the towers would be replaced if we are motivated to prove to those bastards they didn’t win. Perhaps those deniers wouldn’t be so quick to jump on that idiotic bandwagon if they saw the actual footage rather than some cropped, slowed down, and manipulated images. Perhaps Washington might actually get behind our troops and give them the full support they need and let the generals run the show.

But – we will never know – because that loony left liberal media doesn’t want to offend the muslims. For those of us who actually remember it every day, whether consciously or internally, and continue to seek out the images and video footage to remind yourself and others – Thanks!

Never Forget!

UPDATE: One of my fellow Tampa Bay blogger buddies (The Tampa Pirate) – posts this up – He has a lot of the footage and stills from that day: Today Isn’t A Day For Politics

After you’ve read and seen that one – here’s why we do it – I bet you completely missed this in the mainstream media outlets. From American Infidel: Iraqi President to President Bush: “We in Iraq are looking to you as a hero of liberation of Iraqis”

and great minds think alike – My good buddy, Greg, over at 454monte.com apparently didn’t blog up anything on Thursday either: Never Forget