Where were you on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001?
I was driving to work. I remember hearing breaking news on the radio that a commercial passenger plane had hit one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Exiting the elevator at work, I ran to our COO’s office because there was a television. He and another staffer were watching in disbelief. Seeing the second plane hit the second tower, I felt confused. What had we just witnessed? It appeared we were under attack.
History tells us that 2,977 died in the terrorist attacks across New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., that day. The youngest victim was two-year-old Christine Lee Hanson, who was on her way to Disneyland. She and her family were traveling on United Flight 175, the second hijacked plane. She would have been 25 this year. Her life was tragically stolen from her by foreign, militant hijackers who – in the name of Jihad – didn’t care whose lives they terminated that day.
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel memorialized a young Jewish boy who was murdered by Nazis, speaking about him in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
And now the boy is turning to me, ‘Tell me,’ he asks, ‘what have you done with my future? What have you done with your life?’
And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty. We are accomplices.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, I believe the politicians who have failed to secure our southern border are accomplices – to terrorism. In my opinion, they have an enormous amount of blood on their hands.
We are a nation in grave distress. Every day we hear of new atrocities – not in the mainstream news, mind you. We learn this information from sources such as 1819 News, Twitter/X, Newsmax, or One America News Network (OAN). If our mainstream media reported all the crimes committed by illegal immigrants, it would be very bad for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
From the murder of Georgia college student Laken Riley to insurgent Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, Colo., our government fiddles as this symbolic Titanic of a nation sinks. And it’s not just our federal government fiddling. We know from a city council meeting in Sylacauga that illegals are being relocated in small towns across Alabama and other states. A man in Springfield, Ohio, recently stepped up at their city council meeting to lament that Haitian illegals are rummaging around a local park, grabbing ducks and cutting their heads off, so they can eat them.
When you import the third world, you become the third world.
This year, average Americans who were alive in 2001 will think back to that tragic time 23 years ago. We will seek to honor those who lost their lives by REFUSING to forget. We will reject the LIE that our current political leaders are doing right by us. And I hope we will honor the almost 3,000 deaths two decades ago by pledging to elect representatives who will look out for American interests more than foreign interests – and more than their own wallets.
Americans owe it to those whose lives were cut short by evil acts of terror to do what we can to honor them. We owe it to them to ensure that American children grow up in a safe country. And we owe it to them to try to undo the reckless policies of the Biden administration. After the last four years of a lawless border, we truly are on the precipice of something worse than 9/11.
As I stated in a previous article, we must ask ourselves, “Are we better off than we were four years ago?” But as we commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this week, I think we would do well to ask ourselves, “Are we safer than we were four years ago?”
Vice President Kamala Harris would have us think she hasn’t been involved in the security debacles of the last four years. Yet she has OVERSEEN border security for the last four years. Look at where we are. We’ve been invaded by Venezuelan gangs, Chinese nationalists and criminal sex traffickers.
Our deceased brethren deserve better. Our future offspring deserve better.
We have 10 weeks to decide.
Kristin Landers is a substitute teacher and freelance writer. Landers’ previous work includes serving as Communications Director for the Alabama Policy Institute and working for Citizens Against a Legalized Lottery (CALL) to defeat legalized gambling in the state of Alabama.
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