Trust me....9/11/01 pissed me off tremendously ....and it still does today. It also pisses me off that this nation can't seem to get itself together enough to be more proactive in the prevention of another event. At least be more proactive than we are now.....as much as you can prepare to defend against an attack perpetrated by people that use very unconventional methodology to inflict as much pain, death and destruction as they can, against completely non-military based targets.

But....fundamental changes in what Americans are comfortable with as far as loss of personal rights and liberties will determine how much protection we can obtain. Unfortunately, through those losses of rights and liberties.....as strongly as I feel some are needed.....it can be argued that the attackers gained an even more influential moral victory against us. A victory for them and a loss for us, where the price is not mortar or concrete or human life, but a price of freedom and way of life. Things which we hold more dearly than many others, and for which so many millions of Americans have already paid for in blood and tears.

It does make me wonder how the politically correct nature of this country would have dealt with WWII. The internment camps for Japanese Americans....the sacrificing of personal needs for the betterment of our troops.....and yes, the use of the nuclear warheads on Japan. I think, if today's mentality had been in place then, the outcome of WWII could have been vastly different than the one in our textbooks.

Similar sacrifices and support for our country made be needed to be valuable weapons in winning this conflict now.