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p> TRY TO REMEMBER br> Re: Quin Hillyer's Renewing the Spirit of 9/11 : /p>

America doesn't effectively remember 9/11 because it doesn't want to remember. It is easier to bemoan the costs of taking the war, declared on us as far back as 1979, to the Islamofascist nutburgers rather than continue to engage. After all, it was only a few buildings and a few thousand people in faraway New York City. And it was a long time ago now. Even the New Yorkers are more invested in believing it was America's fault than in thinking about the future with nutcases who remain committed to maximum destruction against the Great Satan and his works.

I knew we were off the tracks when we stopped showing the event on TV. Why wave the bloody flag and inflame the masses? Our media elites, including Fox News in this case, wanted cooler programming about the domestic crisis of the week -- and, of course, cool talking heads that disputed our mission in Iraq and other hellholes of the Middle East where the hatreds of Western civilization grow like cancers. Every newscast on television should lead with video of 9/11. If our media folks were really American patriots (and many would be insulted to be so considered since in their view they are journalists first and foremost!), that is what they would do without even being asked until WW IV is over. But the American spirit of "Remember the Alamo" has been lost in the bloodless sophistications of adult thumbsucking.

p>We can be sure we will eventually pay a great price for our ostrich behavior, more than the cost of the Iraq War and its aftermath, more than ten such conflicts. I wonder how our elites will justify their sophisticated inattentions combined with the bashing of their own country? Be assured, even then they will eventually find a way. br> -- Stephen Zierak br> Kansas City, Missouri /p>

Am I the only one who is frankly getting sick of these memorials? All we have on the news is the 9/11 memorials. Some wacko shoots up the Virginia Tech campus. What happens? We have more memorials.

Enough already. When are the American people going to say that's it. No more memorials. From now on we're going to do something about it.

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