From The Whitehouse:
Proclamation on Patriot Day, 2020
In 2001, our Nation, united under God, made an unbreakable promise never to forget the nearly 3,000 innocent Americans who were senselessly killed on September 11. On this sacred day — Patriot Day — we solemnly honor that commitment. As the bells toll, we call by name those who perished in the terrorist attacks in New York, New York; Arlington, Virginia; and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In cities and towns across our great country, we stand in solidarity to remember the victims and mourn their stolen hopes and dreams.
On a day that began as ordinary as any other, terrorists carrying out a sadistic plan murdered thousands of our fellow compatriots. With shock and disbelief, we watched our first responders, encumbered by heavy equipment and hindered by debris and smoke, rush with conviction and courage into the void to rescue those in despair. With pride and sorrow, we felt the tremendous bravery of those aboard Flight 93, who summoned the courage to charge the terrorists in a counterattack that saved countless American lives. As the day closed, America steadied its resolve to hold accountable those who had attacked us and to ensure it would never happen again.
Some good words remembering a horrible day. I will living in Seattle and was waiting for the bus to take me downtown to work. At work, we stumbled through our day watching the news on the internet. The actions of that day provided the final push to open my eyes and see the world as a conservative instead of a liberal. I had been living in a liberal cocoon for all of my life but these actions proved to me that the ideas and assumptions in my head were fundamentally wrong. Started this blog two years later - in part as a way to articulate my thoughts. It has been an interesting and enlightening journey.
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