On this day we mourn?

On this day we mourn?
9/12/2004


The actions of 19 men on September 11th 2001 are said to have changed the United States (if not the world). Politicians and media pundits have repeatedly informed the public that the country is no longer safe. The threat of terrorism is looming around the next corner.

The legislative actions passed and signed into law, and the change in tenor of political rhetoric indicates that on September 11th these 19 men won the first and most important battle in the war on terrorism. These terrorists changed our country and our fundamental way of life. For those that ?hate our freedoms and out way of life? have by their actions successfully limited the thing that we hold dear and the they ?hate.?

9-11 was Pearl Harbor and the Tet Offensive rolled up in one fatal cataclysmic event. Each subsequent battlefield victory that the US claims will fail to alter the changes already in effect. The US lost the first and the most decisive battle when in the dead of the night the congress passed legislation that was never read and never debated that limits the freedoms our enemies hate.

As each terrible anniversary approaches the signs and banners that read, ?We will never forget? are the lasting indication of having lost more than loved ones. We will never forget how the actions of the few were capable of changing the lives of the many in a harmful and irreparable manner. We must remember to mourn the loss of our Constitutional freedoms as we mourn the loss of life.