Apologies all. I know I’m late to the table, but the murder of Charlie Kirk put me on my heels, and I’m still processing all of it. Sadly, we can now add Charlie’s life to the many innocents we lost to hate back in 2001, and it’s only gotten worse. On 9/11, our republic was attacked by a twisted ideology which persists in its barbarism to this day. But there’s a difference. That hate dates back thousands of years. Wars have been fought to reconcile it. But what we’re seeing today right here in America, is a home grown variant, taught in our schools and universities by society’s rejects and cowards, and championed by a complicit and so-called free press.

I lived through 9/11, the fear and anxiety. I brought my experiences and skill sets to the challenge of what we all were calling, “a whole new world” after those towers fell in Lower Manhattan. Our country came together as one people, to lift each other up, and to join one another in a fight that was our own, collectively. There was real unity, a sense of singular purpose, and we survived. We came back. But time has a way of overtaking us, catching us asleep at the wheel of liberty. Well if 2025 is proof positive of one thing, it is that we’ve been overtaken. We’ve lost our way as a force for good, that “shining city on a hill”, a place where the free exchange of ideas only augments the discussion and debate, not prevents it. A society of laws and not men. Something is different now. And while I believe I know the answer to the question of why, many won’t like what I have to say on the matter going forward. For the time being however, it is my view that the events and truth of 9/11/2001 must be on the lips of every parent in this country, because it’s certainly not on the lips of the so-called educators in America. In fact, it is often “explained” away, and even excused as a product of our own making by the socialists and communists who’ve infiltrated our society and our schools. 

It’s all I can say for now as I/we begin to mourn the loss a young patriot who understood the lessons of 9/11 all too well, and how it’s being lost to time, and who tried his best to impress those lessons on the young minds of college students around this country.

It’s an old saying I know, but if we ignore the lessons of history, we are condemned to repeat them. Sadly, that same history also tells us, we seem predestined to screw up a good thing by way of our own ignorance once again. Now I’ll be writing much in the coming weeks and months about another “whole new world” we, (and our kids) are now living in. But for the moment I’m going to borrow something from a man I know understood this, and tried to bring us away from the precipice.

“The future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent”. I won’t stay silent, Charlie. I promise…

God bless those lost on 9/11, there families, and the brave patriots who stepped up and stood in the gap between good and evil since that fateful morning. You are all never far from my thoughts.

We will not cower. We will not be defeated. We will always rise up and be free..!