On 9-12 Lets Move Forward from 9-11

The Best Way to Honor the Fallen is with Sound Mind

Move forward from 9-11 in a better way than we have

On September 11, 2001 we lost nearly 3000 people, we respect their memory and the price they paid on that terrible day.

Why do we not also honor the more than 10,000 people killed by gang violence in the last nine years? How about the thousands of soldiers who died since 9-11? Or the more than 30,000 women killed by domestic violence since that fateful day? How about the 850,000 people killed by car accidents and the 1,000,000 killed by drugs and alcohol as well as the 3,000,000 who died of obesity and diet related illness since 9-11?

Are these lives, these women killed in domestic violence, children killed by drunk drivers or innocent bystanders killed by gangs any less valuable than the victims of 9-11? How about the tens of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi civilians who were killed since then? The families of those who have lost since 2001 surely feel the pain equally. Why the inordinate focus on this one event? The focus on 9-11 is not about number of deaths or impact but on the damage to our psyche as Americans. Operationally, 9-11 was a failure - the terrorists who sought to destroy America killed no more people than cigarettes kill every week. New York's Finest rescued over 20,000 people in the most daring and successful rescue operation in history, damage to the Pentagon was far less than terrorists intended and brave passengers gave their lives to stop Flight 93 before it ever reached its target.

Tragically, where the perpetrators failed in operation, they are succeeding in result, even more sadly, this success is one we are giving them. As Commander Tom Rancich, former US Navy SEAL terrorism expert and Afghanistan veteran states: "don't do what you enemy wants you to do". Sadly, on this, we Americans have failed miserably.

The grand horrific spectacle that played out after 9-11 worked exactly as planned to those who perpetrated this insane crime. Today we are more broken and divided than we were a week after the attacks. The unspeakable tragedy of the 3000 lives lost was far compounded by the use of that atrocious event as a justification for us to rush into not one but two ill conceived wars, neither of which has caught the perpetrators.

- An additional tragedy of 9-11 is the loss of thousands of American troops in wars with no apparent mission, objective or Constitutional purpose.
- An additional tragedy of 9-11 is the increasing Islamophobia in America to the point where houses of worship are being burned or asked to move.
- An additional tragedy is the thousands of people out of work in a slumping economy while we spend hundreds of billions on wars that yield no return.
- An additional tragedy is that the land of the free, land of opportunity so long marked by the Statue of Liberty has become one of the most closed, anti-immigrant nations on earth.
- An additional tragedy of 9-11 is increased Government interference with our Bill of Rights, the onerous and unconstitutional PATRIOT Act, Americans imprisoned without due process or rights guaranteed in our Bill of Rights, unlawful search and seizure and increased interference in free speech.
-A tragedy is the paralysis we face as a nation, unable even to rebuild almost 10 years later while economic competitiveness of China, Russia, Brazil, India and the Middle East races by us at light speed.
The greatest tragedy of 9-11 is how our nation has changed, our inability to move and how we have undermined our core values of rights for our own citizens as well as our foreign policy.

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[DKTaif]

Can we maybe have more Americans like this? Please?

[BruceFenton]

@DKTaif thank you

[TheBigT89]

so far Bruce, this is one of your best videos u made here

[BruceFenton]

@TheBigT89 thanks!

[MJForeverKOP]

Thank you so much for saying this! Today I was reading friend's posts on facebook saying about the decade remembrance. I said when is it that we'll stop ripping off the bandaid for those who lost people they knew and loved? They all attacked me by saying I was unamerican, but I'm not. I'm worried about those families who were affected and having to relive this day in public every day! The best way we can win is to move on and to love, not hate.

[TheScottybobear]

What are you talking about? I like your thoughts but you are lost. Move on from 911? Nope! 911 was an inside job. What are you fighting for? We should move on from building 7? You are joke! Take a class in Science! Study Newton's law's. You are compliant and not a worthy Patriot.

[BabyHumper10]

ill move on when those 3,000 people come back into our lives. 1 including my mom!

[Daddyo930]

I will move on when you can explain how a commercial airliner can achieve speeds over 400 knots at sea level. That's the only thing that is holding me back from moving on. Just do that for me so I can have some peace at last.

[DLHenderson420]

Why the focus on 9/11, you ask? How about the fact that not one of those people in those planes or in those buildings were in a situation of their own making? You try to lump those victims with people who smoke, do drugs, drink and drive, stay in abusive relationships or enter into the military? Come on now---even you can see that there is no common thread here. Victims of terrorist attacks are not putting themselves in a dangerous situation by simply giong to work or boarding a plane. 

[krammy11]

If youre planning to enter politics... I will never vote you. Brb Im gonna tell my friends.