Long before 9/11, America had buried herself beneath ashes and twisted steel girders—not physical ones but moral and spiritual ones. She had welcomed being buried alive by Woke and Leftist ideologies that do to the soul and mind what the collapse of the Twin Towers did to human bodies.
But for one shining moment, America believed that this barbaric tragedy brought its citizens back to their senses. Not only would they never forget the tragedy of that day in September 2001, they also would not surrender the never-ending battle that men must wage against evil.
More vital, they would remember that there is evil, that there is falsehood—finally leaving behind us the voices which called these metaphysical verities into question. On that day 25 years ago, we thought we had turned a corner. America had been taught a lesson sketched in the bold lines of carnage, unspeakable suffering, and wrenching loss.
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