(Harbinger's Daily) Twenty-five years ago, nearly 3,000 innocents were murdered in the deadliest single terrorist attack in human history. We mourn those we lost in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and we pray for the loved ones they left behind who continue to feel that loss every day of their lives.
Like every American over a certain age, I remember exactly where I was on 9/11. After my wife called to tell me to turn on the news, I watched the horrors of that day unfold on television, and I knew that the country I loved – and the world – had changed forever.
People talk about the unity we felt after the attack, and it’s true: Americans were united in heartbreak for the victims and their families, and in horror that such evil could be perpetrated against our countrymen. I certainly shared that feeling – but I also felt profound anger. In the years that followed, conventional liberal opinion held that this was somehow not an appropriate reaction – but that anger was righteous, it was true, and it was clarifying.