Never Again?

Today we all pause to pray for the victims' of September 11, 2001. My family and I were like all the rest of you, shocked and numb, our emotions swinging from grief to righteous anger on that day.

Our President has declared today "a day of service" and will mark the day "with a moment of silence".

Today is a Sacred Day. It is a day to honor those we lost and the heroes who tried to save lives and lost their lives instead. It is a day to vow that never again will such an event strike our great nation and our people.

The current trend in our country is to dismantle all the provisions for our safety put in place after the tragedy of 9-11. We are to free those responsible. Remove trained personnel from our transit systems, see Michele Malkin's column, and other measures that will create more opportunity for terrorists.

I feel lucky to live in a small rural town. I feel safer here than if I lived in a big population center. However, recent acts of "home-grown terrorism" have shown us all that even in small idyllic communities, we are not immune from the madness.

Despite our president's recent apology tours overseas, we still are threatened from without. The President's cronyism politics, radical friends and advisors, and lack of concern for anything other than power, makes us at danger from within.

Never Again? Let us pray this is true.