It is hard to believe eight years have past since that dreadful day – September 11, 2001. Have you forgotten?
For one day, let’s disregard our political affiliations and take a quiet moment to remember that bleak day and those who paid the ultimate price – and say a prayer for those who have since lost their lives and continue to fight for our freedom.
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Thomas Jefferson
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stewart Mill
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Never forget and teach our children well.
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And add a prayer for the more than 10,000 children who lost a parent on that day that won’t be forgotten.
Comment by John — September 11, 2009 @ 12:16 pm