We Swore We Would Never Forget 9/11. But We Did.

From: Brittany Hughes - mrctv

Sixteen years ago, 2,606 people were killed when two planes slammed into the World Trade Center in New York City.

Another 125 died when a third plane hit the Pentagon. Forty more were killed when hijacked flight United 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

We all sat there glued to our box TVs, watching the whole nightmare, most of us completely helpless to do a thing.

Do you remember our reaction 16 years ago today? In the months after 9/11, there was barely a car on the road that didn't have an American flag bumper sticker.

Today, we can't even fly Old Glory at a baseball game without someone getting offended.

Sixteen years ago we watched proudly as a group of New York City firefighters raised a American flag over the rubble at Ground Zero.

Today, left-wing rioters burn American flags in the streets.

Sixteen years ago, millions of Americans were introduced to Islamic extremism for the very first time.

Today, you can't even say the words Islamic extremism without being accused of bigotry and hate.

Sixteen years ago, our nation was attacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists, all of whom were foreign and at least three of which were here illegally.

Now at the time, we were outraged. But today, if you dare to say that immigrants should be thoroughly vetted, that foreign visitors must obey our visa laws, and that illegal aliens should be removed, you're a hateful xenophobic Nazi.

Sixteen years ago, we as a nation promised that we would never forget 9/11. But we did. We forgot.

Every time some bleeding heart liberal apologizes for Islamic violence, every time a sanctuary city leaves us open to foreign threats by deliberately ignoring our immigration laws, every time some attention-whoring athlete or overpaid celebrity gets famous off insulting a nation that has given them so mush, we forget.

Sixteen years ago , 2,977 innocent people died in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and we forgot.

And it is high time we started remembering.

May God bless those who lost loved ones on 9/11, whose hearts still ache every year on this day.

And may God, in His mercy, bless the United States of America.

God bless,

JohnnyD