Editor’s Note: The following comments were written by guest writer David Evans who blogs at http://daevans34.blogspot.com. He sends much of his material out via email and after receiving a forwarded email copy of this particular article we contacted him and got his permission to repost it here. It dovetails with our belief that many people who are now Tea Party members got their wakeup call on September 11th, 2001.
It is said that most of us can vividly remember past events of disaster and calamity. Being somewhat older than most of you, I can recall listening to radio reports of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Contrary to some reports, I cannot remember the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor). I can recall all of the events relative to the assassination of President Kennedy including where I was and what I was doing. My wife and I were in the Brussels, Belgium airport when the first survivors of the Belgian Congo Massacre arrived there in Nov. 1964 with the Queen of Belgium in attendance. We have witnessed history in the making.
All those of school age and older can (or should) recall the same things about that awful day on Sep. 11, 2001 . . . where they were and what they were doing, etc. Most Americans never will forget what happened that terrible day.
But not all.
Those old enough will recall the attack on Pearl Harbor, whom they were with and what was said. It should be the same for the terror attack nine years ago on Sept. 11.
A recent survey has shown that many of our young people erroneously think that we began armed conflict in Iraq before we did in Afghanistan. And most are not even aware of the many events where Islamic terrorists have attacked and killed many Americans since 1979. There were eighteen (18) separate occasions where Islam terrorists attacked US interests that resulted in 4,090 deaths and 6,727 injured. Our families and schools have let us sadly forget these important details of history that should be shaping our thinking of today and into the future.
‘Political Correctness’ and misguided tolerance clouds our vision.
Islamic incited violence and social injustices still beleaguer us today.
Hopefully those who think we have forgotten 9/11 are wrong. And on Nov. 2, just 52 days after this year’s anniversary of that awful event, they will see just how well many of us remember.
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