Tomorrow is the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. Young adults today were been born after the events of 9/11. We must not only remember for ourselves, but witness to the next generation.

As I said on the occasion of the 17th anniversary, we have an obligation to pass on our own memories and stories to our children and grandchildren.

We are history. We experience it. And we have lost the tools on how to pass our experiences to the next generation.

And it’s just not a loss of tools, it’s that the culture we live in has worked hard since 9/12/01 to change the narrative on the event.

Just like the undercurrent about how the 1969 moon landing was “fake”, so both conspiracies that all the death and destruction was American government missiles and demolition and the “woke-washed” narrative that America brought this on itself because of our evil Islamophobia, the end game is the same. To induce false memories, to forget victims, and to Blame America.

It is up to us to not just remember, but to challenge these narratives. To expose the schools, colleges, writers, teachers and politicians who deliberately obfuscate it. We have to be willing to confront and challenge the people who want our children to hate us.

The Twin Towers were among the military/political targets of the Pentagon and the Capitol (which the heroes on Flight 93 saved). The WTC was a symbol of American enterprise and capitalism. The woke-mongers would have your children believe it was a legitimate target because of the filthy rich that worked there.

But nowhere else in the world does there exist the kind of American spirit that flows regardless of class. Ordinary citizens responded to the emergency regardless of whether victims in that tower were cooks and wait staff in the Top of the World restaurant or executives at Cantor Fitzgerald.

The stories of that day, of heroism, even in the face of certain death, are far more numerous than I can list here. Listen closely tomorrow. Make notes. Be prepared to firmly challenge the naysayers.

Let me leave you with this … an extraordinary rescue effort performed by very ordinary people. THIS is America in the 9 hours it took to get 500K people off Manhattan.

Bring tissues.

featured image original graphic by Darleen Click