Today looks exactly like it did three years ago. The sun is shining warm, the sky is a brilliant blue and autumn is in the air.
I understand they’re now calling today Patriot Day. Well, it isn’t. And not just because Patriot Day is April 19, the anniversary of a little conflict in Lexington and Concord as if anyone remembers that.
Today is Remembrance Day and always should be. I don’t mean remembrance in the soft, weepy way our Oprahfied nation would interpret it with candlelight vigils and that inescapably grating Lee Greenwood song but remembrance of the losses we have suffered, the triumphs we have gained and the reason we were forced to fight and win this war.
In your travels today look up into the beautiful blue sky and remember the terrified cargoes travelling through those skies to their doom three years ago. And remember too that some of those chose to fight back and showed in so doing that Americans don’t go quietly, that we still have the same steel in our backbone as did generations before us who fought for liberty on land, on sea and in the air. Raise a glass to fallen heroes and toast eventual victory and always, always
