Petrified Truth

Sept. 11, 2006

Always remember.

The memories of September 11th will never leave us. We will not forget the burning towers, and the last phone calls, and the smoke over Arlington. We will not forget the rescuers who ran toward danger, and the passengers who rushed the hijackers. We will not forget the men and women who went to work on a typical day and never came home. We will not forget the death of schoolchildren who were on a school trip.

And we will never forget the servants of evil who plotted the attacks. And we will never forget those who rejoiced at our grief and our mourning.

- President George W. Bush, address to the FBI, September 10, 2003

What I keep with me are these: tears for those lost and those who loved them; profound gratitude to those who have sacrificed so much to help us respond; immense frustration with those who will not understand the nature of the threat to our nation and our civilization; and an abiding and, God help me, pitiless anger at those who struck so savagely without cause and without mercy.

I will not forget; I cannot forget.

Posted by Alan at September 11, 2006 06:00 AM