Pro Rege Papers

Today is September 11, 2006; five years after the terrorist attacks on the United States. We must remember this day always to assure us of what we have resolved to do. We must remember what the terrorists with horrific pride did and do without any type of regret or apology. We must be determined in our fight against these horrible people, and never give up until they are killed. These cold-blooded murderers must come to justice.

Allahpundit has posted a video remembrance of the events of 9/11 as they happened on Hot Air. It’s just stunning when you watch it again. You can see President Bush’s stirring speech to a joint session of Congress here, or hear it.

I remember I had just gotten back from New Jersey a couple weeks before. On the visit I had seen the World Trade Center. I was feeling kind of down that day, though I don’t know why, and didn’t hear about the attacks until after both towers had collapsed. It was horrifying to see the New York skyline with the Twin Towers absent. That’s it. Just absent. Not there. Missing. It looked so empty and devoid of a key part. We prayed and prayed.

My uncle had an appointment in one of the towers later that day. He was still doing other business at the time of the attack. Everyone there in the New York area lost some friend or co-worker. Every school had some parent that was missing. Everyone was just in shock.

Then you saw the images of Muslim people out in the streets of the Middle East waving V on their fingers and shouting, “Victory!” and other such cries. All of America was maddened. It is hard not to hate people like that. A religion of peace would never do anything like that.

Then you have maniacs who deny reality. They deny that it was a plane that crashed into the Pentagon, and say that it was CIA-planted bombs that blew up the World Trade Center. It’s just despicable. I’m not even going to go into it. If you believe such things, you’re beyond hope of any kind of reasonable debate. Yet, that leftist blindness has been there from the very beginning. I remember that my local FOX station was having a live call-in time right after the attacks, and I heard some whacked-out woman calling in saying that it was Bush’s fault. “Everything has gone wrong since Bush got in office, and this is just another thing. It’s Bush’s fault somehow.”

Just insanity.