By Todd Starnes
It was eleven years ago today.
Our lives changed on that day. Mighty towers fell. Lives were lost. It was the day Islamic extremists declared war on our nation.
And here we are – eleven years later.
I live just a few miles from where the towers once stood. Every morning I take the subway into work, across the Manhattan bridge – the Statue of Liberty to my left, the new World Trade Center to my right.
I’ve watched over the years as a gleaming tower rose from the place we once called Ground Zero. Today it is home to giant waterfalls and trees – life where death once was.
It was in the shadow of this new symbol that Americans celebrated, rejoiced – when word came that Osama bin Laden had been killed. I was there – recording the sounds of that day.
Yet, here we are – eleven years later.
We remember those who are gone.
We remember that day.
We remember that freedom comes with a price.
It was eleven years ago today.
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Todd you forgot to mention God in your words of remembrance. You are a God hating atheist.
11 years now, and Dick Cheney has still not been investigated nor indicted for his role in 9/11. America's shame remains….
Eleven years does come fast. It seems like yesterday and yet I'm still haunted by the jumpers most of all, and the terrible decision they had to make, being stuck with two choices on how they want to end their lives to spare themselves the agony of burning to death or falling in terror to the ground. THose of us that are alive should be thankful that we don't have to be in that predicament, but I can feel the terror, the agony, the desperation these people went through, opting to jump that to burn in extreme pain and agony. They say when a person jumps from that height, they eventually lose consciousness before they hit the ground. I hope they did, which would have made the end quick and painless even though I know what was going through their minds aside from the extreme fear, and that is the family and friends that they last saw before they came to work, whom they will never see again in this life. I would hope that we will continue to remember and learn from this experience so that it never happens again.