They remember, but do they care?

Where were you on the morning of September 11, 2001?

I was driving to work. I remember hearing the breaking news on the radio that a passenger plane had hit one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City. When I got out of the elevator at work, I ran to our COO’s office because there was a television. He and another employee were watching in disbelief. When I saw the second plane hit the second tower, I was confused. What had we just seen? It looked like we were being attacked.

History tells us that 2,977 people died that day in the terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. The youngest victim was two-year-old Christine Lee Hanson, who was traveling 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 taken by foreign militant hijackers who, in the name of Jihad, cared not whose life they ended that day.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel remembered a young Jewish boy who was murdered by the Nazis. In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he spoke about him:

And now the boy turns 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 tried. That I tried to keep the memory alive, that I tried to fight against those who would forget. Because when we forget, we are guilty. We are accomplices.

Since September 11, 2001, I believe that the politicians who failed to secure our southern border have been complicit in terrorism. In my opinion, they have a tremendous amount of blood on their hands.

We are a country in dire need. Every day we hear about new atrocities—not in the mainstream news, mind you. We get this information from sources like 1819 News, Twitter/X, Newsmax, or One America News Network (OAN). If our mainstream media reported every crime committed by illegal immigrants, it would be very bad for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.

From the murder of Georgia student Laken Riley to rioting Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, Colorado, our government is playing the dragon as this symbolic Titanic of a nation sinks. And it’s not just our federal government playing the dragon. We know from a city council meeting in Sylacauga that illegals are being relocated to small towns in Alabama and other states. A man in Springfield, Ohio recently went to their city council meeting to complain that Haitian illegals were prowling a local park, grabbing ducks and chopping their heads off so they could eat them.

When you import products from the third world, you become the third world yourself.

This year, average Americans who were alive in 2001 will reflect on that tragic time 23 years ago. We will try to honor those who lost their lives by REFUSING to forget. We will reject the LIE that our current political leaders will do us right. And I hope we will honor the nearly 3,000 dead from two decades ago by pledging to elect representatives who will stand up for American interests more than foreign interests – and more than their own pocketbooks.

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 past four years of a lawless border, we are truly on the brink of something worse than 9/11.

As I stated in a previous article, we need to ask ourselves: “Are we better off than we were four years ago?” But as we commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the September 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 wants us to think she has not been involved in the security debacles of the last four years. Yet she has been OVERSEEING border security for the last four years. Look where we are. We have been invaded by Venezuelan gangs, Chinese nationalists, and criminal sex traffickers.

Our dead brothers deserve better. Our future descendants 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 with Citizens Against a Legalized Lottery (CALL) to combat legalized gambling in the state of Alabama.

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