I have some Mixed Feelings on how Well, -or Not Well, -that this Country is Remembering, -or Forgetting, -our 9 - 11 Lessons and Experience.
I know that "Getting Back to Normalcy" is a Big Part of the Picture and "Cure", -But we're now Long and Far Below that same level of Intensity and Dedication, -as we had about ourselves in those Immeadiate Post 9 - 11 Days, Weeks, and Months.
And after proclaiming so Loud and Long, -how we'll "Never Forget!". Well *Now* of course remains a part of that Never.
Where are we with it?! Where is our Sea of Flags?! That level of immeadiate Follow On Resolve, -was frankly over within 6 months. The Christmas Decorations went up, the Flags came Down, -Most Never to Return!
Those behind 9 - 11 Look and Laugh! On and at U.S.! Saying things like, -"I told you so!, -You Couldn't Last!",.....
I know that there's only so much Bad News that one can typically take, -but Come On, -Let's Fully Remember and Act like we *DO* Remember! In the way that we said we "Oh Sure Would"!
Some 3,000 of our Fellow Americans and Others, -Real People now, -which could easily have been either us or our Loved Ones, -died that day in the ways they did. And we're just gonna say, -"Oh!, -that was so Four Years Ago!"?
The 3rd and 4th Anniversary Commemorations were quite Tame and Tepid! That is *Not* how we're suspossed to Remember! That is *Not* the Picture of ourself that we should be putting forth to our Watching and Waiting Enemies.
Great where we *Do* Take Care of the Brass Tacks Business involved, -and otherwise Remember and Keep Up a Vigilance! We *Do* continue to do a Good Bit of that.
Concernable, Disturbing, and *Not* Great, -where we Don't! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]fordwillman[/email]
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"No Substitute for Victory!"and"You Can't be a Beacon if your Light Don't Shine!"-Gen. Douglass MacArthur and Donna Fargo.