I was watching Biden Speak where the plane hit the Pentagon that day and killed so many generals and soldiers on that Fateful day. It is fitting that he speaks there today. It was interesting to watch everyone in the rain getting wet with their umbrellas including the president this day remembering that fateful day.
We have not had a significant terrorist attack on the U.S. since that day because our response was so overwhelming towards these actions around the world. The terrorists awakened a sleeping Giant in the U.S. and everything has changed since then.
I remember my wife waking me up while watching CNN that day and asking me if this was science fiction or something else we were watching. She was concerned. I remember slowly waking up to help her make sense of it. AT first I thought it was a private plane that had hit the Twin Towers. But then, a second plane hit and we all knew it was a terrorist action and not an accident. Then we were all terrified when first the first twin tower fell killing thousands of people and then more terrified by Shanksville and the plane hitting the Pentagon as well.
It seems surrealistic now to think of all this. It's just as unthinkable that what happened then happened all these years later ago. The turning of our passenger jets into missiles of dead people who were just passengers on a jet somewhere that day is still just as horrific as it was then today.
What has changed is that the whole world fears us more and it less likely to repeat that terrorist type of action on into the future.
No. We are more in danger of extreme rightest fascists now, the kind that are gravitating towards Trump who remind us of Hitler Fascists of the 1930s and 1940s more than anything else.
It is interesting that our greatest enemy now is not foreign terrorists but instead home grown terrorists who are fascists like Trump.
It's strange how much the world has changed since then from external threats to internal ones harkening back towards Timothy McVeigh in 1995 and the Oklahoma bombing now and less towards external terrorists.
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