Ghost of a flea

I think it bears remembering, not for us, but for underscoring to those who would force us to lay down our swords (or never take up their own). In my own way, I do nothing out of the ordinary today. Just as on Dec 7th I don't necessarily do anything else, but, on average, for June 6th, I find myself at an airfield, in Pennsylvania looking at, wearing, discussing and working on reminders of that fateful day in Normandy. Such acts when you take them are good for the mind, memory and soul. There are other days that bear observance for each person in their own way.

Well said.

Nothing to add to what Monteith said. There's a point to remembering these atrocities, and to keeping the meory fresh, so that we understand the necessity of taking up the sword. The US media has deliberately avoided running images of the destruction of the twin towers (much less the Pentagon)to avoid "getting people upset," and they've largely succeeded in shoving 9/11 down the memory hole. Check out this depressing YouTube video.

Pearl Harbor and Normandy are both worth remembering; though my family was being bombed, already fighting on the North Atlantic, fighting and dying in the skies over Holland, years before the United States was attacked and properly entered the War. There are many dates worthy of remembrance.

The difference, it seems to me, is that that war was won. This war is not. And this war did not start on September 11, 2001; that is only the date most people noticed the enemy. Sadly, it seems even the atrocities of that day were insufficient to wake hundreds of millions in what is left of the West.

We cannot afford the annual, censored treacle offered by CNN and the networks. The atrocity should be present with us every day until the enemy is utterly destroyed and his ideology utterly discredited.

I hope we can all get behind the vast pile of skulls.