October 13, 2005

Five Year Aniversary of Cole Attack

Eric at Classical Values remembers where he was when the U.S.S. Cole was bombed:

I remember talking about it at the time when I ate dinner with a World War II Navy veteran. He said that the attack on a Navy ship was a clear act of war, and he exploded with rage. I won't repeat what he said about the president (or what he said we should do to Yemen in retaliation, but it didn't matter to him whether the "links to terrorism" could be proven). Above all, he pointed out that Americans seemed to have forgotten the sacrifices that were made by his generation during that war. (The guy is still alive, but 90 years old, and very frail.)

While still significant realize the first attack on the World Trade Center happened in 1993. Before that Islamists took Americans hostage, bombed planes, and killed over 200 Marines in Beruit. The Islamist War has been waging years before Sep. 11, 2001. Most of us didn't realize it.

"Five Years -- and Still a Gaping Hole"