Eight Years Ago

What needs to be said that has not been said one thousand times over already? I can recount what I thought and what I felt at the time, but what good does that do?

Lemme try to tell you a smidgen, anyway. I was in the shower when the first plane hit. My wife screamed for me to come see, I immediately did, despite the getting out of the shower wet thingy is a huge pet-peeve of mine. I was sitting on the coffee table, dripping wet, wrapped in a towel when the second plane hit. Until that point, I was holding out that it was an accident of terrible proportions.

My wife did not move from the television and the web for at least two weeks. If I had been more observant, I would have noticed that something happened to her that did not happen to me. I was pissed. I wanted retaliation. She saw the sheer evil the world for the first time. It broke her, I didn't see it, but it made her want to make a difference of some type in the world.

She decided that she wanted to go into law enforcement and began to make all the moves necessary to become an FBI or Secret Service agent. She trained non-stop. I was torn with what she had decided to do, yet I purchased a pistol and shooting lessons to do the very minimum on my part. She was determined to so something to help everyone in the entire world. And she would have if she had not had not suffered a heart attack four days shy of her thirty-seventh birthday.

Two and half years after the initial attack by the Muslim terrorists, they were still claiming victims. Today, The 2996 Project is going on. Make that at least 2997.

People who shall never forget. In no particular order.

Andy.

KerrCarto.

Jack Dunphy.

Carol at No Sheeples Here.

Oddybobo.

Braden.

Darlene Click.

Full Metal Patriot.

Andrew Klavin.

Malkin.

Staci.

Doug Mataconis. (Check his whole site.)

Classicaliberal. (The whole page. This dude has posted like 52 items today. No wonder he has been hiding out this week.)

The Jawa Report.

DPUD, the Flight 93 Memorial Service photos.

William Teach.

Right Girl.

The Mayor.

Herb.

Jackson Jambalaya.

Chris Burgard.

Big Hollywood.

Basil.

Confederate Yankee.

DRJ.

On the Rocks.

Skunkfeathers.

Christina Jade.

Patrick Conlon.

Gateway Pundit.

Blackfive.

Agent Bedhead.

Gribbit.

John Ruberry.

Track-A-'Crat.

Mark Tapson.

Roland Hulme.

Change Barack.

Rocketman.

Sarah Palin.

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