A September 11 memorial honoring five fallen firefighters defaced and the downed American flagpole in Washingtonville, New York. There is also vandalism at the Decatur memorial site in Illinois, and a 9/11 memorial in Rochester, red, white and blue, NY. coated with red paint.
Beyond radical attacks on the monuments of 9/11, there are attacks on their heroes.
Ny York police suffered their worst days since 9/11, with more than 400 police officers injured in the BLM riots. Police and firefighters range from heroes of a country to being hailed as soulless monsters.
“I didn’t see any difference between the officer he killed and the police who died, or the firefighters who died,” ta-Nehisi Coates, a BLM godfather cult, wrote. “They weren’t human to me. Black, white or anything else, they were the threats of nature: fire, comet, storm, they can, without justification, break my body.
“Between the World and Me,” the hateful pamphlet in which Coates dehumanized police officers and firefighters who had died seeking to save others of all races and beliefs, has become a bestseller, a Pulitzer finalist, and has continually left the impression on racism playlists.
All of this makes the September 11 commemoration a task that Democrats avoid.
The Memorial
While poorly run museum leaders blamed the pandemic for their decision, Democrats have long regarded ceremonies as unliberal and disconnected from their agenda.
Last year, Nicholas Haros Jr. , son of an 9/11 victim, criticized the minimization of the attack on the United States by Representative Ilhan Omar reading the names, while wearing a T-shirt adorned with his comments that minimized Islamic atrocity: “I attacked, his family and friends were attacked, our constitutional freedoms were attacked and our country’s base in the Judeo-Christian principles attacked. That’s what other people have done. “
Meanwhile, the Tribute to Light had been labeled “extreme nationalism”.
There had been a deep unease with the patriotism of 9/11 and his heroes and victims. The former were more commonly working-class white men among the multitude of bridges and tunnels, and the latter were more commonly middle-class white men and women, many of whom came from outside the village and state, who were also not varied enough and representative of “New America. “
From the beginning, efforts have been made to upgrade firefighters who anchor the flag at Ground Zero with a more varied organization at an official memorial. In the long years after the men of the NYPD and FDNY earned the courage of a nation, whether organizations, such as the army, were destroyed by the political correctness and shadows of their former self.
The FDNY has a diversity monitor that charges the organization $23 million and a senior diversity official who was prosecuted by one of the firefighters who raised the flag at Ground Zero in a color maintenance ceremony.
Nicholas Garaufis, Clinton’s judge, and Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed their vision of diversity on FDNY that “the racial, ethnic and gender demographics of the department’s firefighters reflect that of the city’s population as a whole,” as well as the integration of a combined workforce. »
But the heroism of the FDNY and NYPD on September 11 came here because their men did not reflect a random sample of the city’s population, they were ordinary men, heroes who went where no one else would dare, climbing a hundred stories in the hope of saving someone.
If Islamic terrorists were flying planes against the Freedom Tower today, there would be fewer FDNY members, combined and fully diversified, climbing a hundred floors with 60 pounds of gadgets on its back as a skyscraper staggered and burned everyone.
On September 11, firefighters across the country showed their heroism as they climbed 110 stories.
It’s the classic kind of heroism. It is out of tune with the millennial spirit of performative hysteria that is spreading virally on social media, turning victimization into celebrity. The men who lived and died that day were not victims and did not seek to make themselves known. Duty. But for many, the concept of duty has become as strange as Levites and blouses.
Nineteen years after 9/11, men and women born after the attack will be able to vote.
Supply policy is formed through radicals who, like the 11-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were young on September 11. The day is as incomprehensible to them and as far away as Pearl Harbor.
Obama’s leadership had tried to change the meaning of September 11 from heroism to volunteering, his concept of commemorating the attack on the United States to leave the parks blank. Relevant.
If we let that happen.
History is not only made up of dry facts, but emotional connections, the stories they describe to us are the ones that matter because they give life. For millions of Americans, the death of an ex-con who stole a pregnant woman at gunpoint. they gave their lives Array That’s why much of the country is burning and many of its monuments have fallen.
The Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 had ideals they gave their lives. Similarly, SS infantrymen who marched through Poland or their NKVD counterparts.
It is the mere presence of evil that creates a crisis, but the absence of significant opposition to it. And the significant opposition comes from a deep ethical pastime without which life is empty.
The 19 kidnappers lied to passengers that if they did not resist, they would be allowed to live.
Mohammed Atta told the passengers on Flight 11: “No one is moving. It’ll be all right. If you check to make moves, you and the plane will be in danger. Stay calm. “
It worked three times. And then, when the Americans found out what was at stake, it stopped working.
Atta and her organization of jihadist butchers learned that what Americans in general were looking for was comfortable and safe, they sought to lie in their seats, plug in their headphones, and wait for the endless time they would spend in a can in the sky.
“Take prisoners and kill them,” Allah said, “No prophet has prisoners until he has soaked the country in blood,” Atta told his men.
“Stay silent and everything will be fine, ” lied to the false hostages.
Left-wing radicals who have been in cahoots with Islamic terrorists, protecting them in court, propaganda for their “civil rights” in the press and investing in their networks, now say they are “awake. “Another anniversary of September 11 reminds us that we will have to wake up.
In our streets, radicals sing “Death to America,” burn flags, desecrate churches and synagogues, and tear down statues of the nation’s founders. And his media allies and the Democratic apparatchiks tell us to settle for that and everything will be fine. attackers just need to make their claims and make their point. If we remain silent, they’ll leave us alone.
The 19th anniversary is a warning from the bloody echoes of history that they won’t.
When jihadists and BLMers sing “Death to America,” they mean it.
The enemies of our country are also the enemies of our history, not only do they need to overthrow Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and all the ancient figures who were not up to date with fresh opinions awakened, in the words of a D. C. commission that called for the removal of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Monument, “age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity. No, they need to get rid of the courage and heroism of our entire history because they know that The strength of Americans to their brutality and hatred comes from our history.
That September 11th.
On a cold fall day, millions of Americans awoke from a nebulous dream of the end of history and remembered that we were a nation, not a global order without borders, that we needed heroes, not diversity, that history was not over, that we still had enemies, and what mattered was not the color of their skin or their sign of political correctness. Arrange even if you rush into the cockpit or sit in your seat in the hope that, despite everything you knew, you won’t be killed.
In the case of the 19th anniversary of this cool autumn day, we crossed the chimney and devastation, flying over ruined villages and fallen rubble because many of us fell asleep until the guttural voice returned as we read their hateful demands. fellow travelers knelt as the hymn sounded, dishonored their country, and reminisced our fallen dead.
Many others have woken up.
An anniversary only themes to the extent that it brings a goal to our lives.
No desire or will can be resurrected from his ashes to the dead of 9/11. All we can do on this anniversary, and all after it, is to continue to resist terrorists, national and international, stay awake and in a position in the long run. flight of history.
We’ll have to not forget our heroes and honor their worth, because we may have to emulate them.
Daniel Greenfield, Shillman’s journalism member at freedom center, is an investigative journalist and specializes in the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
This article was first published through FrontPage Magazine.
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