September 11, 2001

On this day just three short years ago we were attacked. America was attacked by psychopathic Muslim extremists, as the media likes to call them. I just call them cowards. Like the cowards that they are, they chose to hijack civilian aircraft and use them as missiles by flying them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Maybe they are smarter than we think. They new better than to attack the US Military, so they went after innocent civilians, killing people from many different nations. The Afghanis probably had a false sense of manhood after handing the communist USSR its ass for nearly a decade. We showed them what a real military was capable of in Ashcanistan and Iraq.

Clearly the World Trade Center must have been a secret military headquarters? Perhaps it was a cover up for the world’s largest nuclear weapons? Maybe the children in the towers were really secret US agents under cover as innocent children.

NO, none of these are true. The World Trade Center was a civilian commerce center. It was a landmark building that housed thousands of civilians who probably never gave thought one that they may be killed at work. Civilians, non-combatants, Men, Woman and Children, Innocents lost.

In my line of work Muslim extremists are a topic of discussion on a nearly daily basis. That is easy to understand when you look at all of the places that Airman are serving abroad.

September 11th was a tragic day in our history no doubt. For a few minutes Lady Liberty wept. That was likely the effect the terrorists were looking for. What they hadn't counted on was that while Liberty was crying for the loss of more than 3,000 of her children, Uncle Sam was sharpening his bayonet. Moments after the first tower fell the people I serve with were crawling over one another to volunteer to help secure the attack zones. They were volunteering to leave behind their wives, husbands, sons and daughters. They were willing to leave the comfort of home to go fight this evil. Where were they going? No one knew, but damn it we were all ready to take on whomever this was wherever they were hiding.

The terrorists need to remember that Americans are strong because we have to be. When you are the biggest dog in the junkyard all the little dogs want to make a name by getting a piece of you. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

We have an election coming up and my only hope is that people will consider what a Dem in the Whitehouse means for terrorism. Look at how poorly the Democrats have handled our military in the past and it is easy to see how the terrorists of 9/11 were able to spend the better part of a decade planning their attack on the WTC and the Pentagon. The Clinton administration made us look like fools in Somalia, only half dedicated us in Bosnia and Clinton sure didn't openly appreciate us as a Commander in Chief should.

I for one am very grateful that George Bush was the President when terror knocked on our front door. I shudder at the thought of what would have happened had Al Whore been elected President.

Bow your heads for innocents lost this day 3 short years ago.

Never Forgive, Never Forget.

SlagleRock Out!

Surf around the blogosphere for many great reflections on this tragic day in our history. Here are a few great blogs to start with: The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Mamamontezz, American Warmonger, Blogs For Bush, Cox and Forkum, Red Falcon, Bonfire, Castle Aarrgghh, BlackFive, In Bills World

If I left anyone out, I apologize, but I also know that via these links most of your are covered.

Posted by SlagleRock at September 11, 2004 05:53 PM