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MAF Blogger Danny
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The Lafayette Flag Brigade is currently organizing a HUGE rally to remember and remind us of the terrible attacks of September 11th, 2001 at the hands of bloodthirsty terrorists.

The rally will honor the lives of those lost in the towers as well as all those soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen or guardsmen who have fallen in the line of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The rally will take place as a demonstration of American flags on the freeway overpass of El Curtola Blvd in Lafayette, CA over Highway 24. Click here to see their website for more information, maps and directions:
http://www.nevereverforget911.com/

The Lafayette Flag Brigade has helped MAF by supporting many of our events, especially in Berkeley. LFB provided sound equipment for MAF during our rally on February 12th against Berkeley’s City Council. And the LFB also helped to organize the Eagles UP! rally on March 22nd.

Here is a picture from that rally

I encourage all MAF supporters in the northern California area to make the trip and be there.

I think it is extremely important that we attend these memorials. As time goes on and we reach now the 7th year since these heinous attacks, we must remind ourselves that the threat from islamofascists is very real.

Thinking back to my recollection of what happened that morning, I am faced with the reality that try as hard as I might, I cannot, and I don’t think anyone can, accurately remember the fear and the pain and the anguish that we as Americans, all of us collectively, felt when those towers went down.

They were symbols of our own high-minded sense of superiority, a sense that was shattered when we realized we no longer lived in a world where conflict between nations was tempered by diplomacy and discussion, or security agreements and treaties.

We then realized that we lived in a world where rogue states or small groups of criminals, unmitigated by their allegiances to any nation or group of people, could wreak havoc upon the free world if we leave them to do so.

But our troops fought back bravely and victoriously, following the terrorists and fighting them on their turf, in the mountains and caves of Afghanistan or in the urban streets of Baghdad in Iraq where al-Qaeda declared they would rally their forces against the United States.

Now seven years later, the War on Terror continues. But we must never allow ourselves to forget that no matter how well our troops perform on the battlefield, no matter how consistently our military routes those terrorists and defeats them every time, that we must always remain resolute and watchful that they will try again.

9/11 served as a huge wake up call. Our nation SLEPT through Beirut, the Khobar Towers, the USS Cole and other attacks. 9/11 woke us up. We cannot afford to forget, lest we give those terrorists the opportunity to wake us up again.

Most of us Americans go about our daily lives not thinking about the War or the threat posed by these terrorists. Either because we don’t concern ourselves with it, or because we have never lost a loved one, or sent a son or daughter to fight for our country.

That is a grave danger, because the longer we go without reminding ourselves, the more complacent we grow, and that can ONLY lead to another disaster.

So please take the time this September 11th to say a solemn prayer for those who have been lost or have fallen in the line of duty. Remember what they did to us. Resolve yourself again to stand defiantly in the name of freedom and tolerance. Redouble your support for our troops, and show it by attending this rally and telling everyone you see “I Remember”