Tel-Chai Nation

There is a good sign of responsibility and importance to learn history at some colleges, as students born after 9-11 prepared some flag memorials for the occasion:

Their way of remembering is a memorial of nearly 3,000 flags — 2,977, to be exact, one for each victim and zero for the terrorists, Swegle noted — complimented by a ceremony put together by the local American Legion and the Hillsdale Fire Department. Swegle’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter, a campus conservative group, is in charge of the flags.

Called the “9/11 Never Forget Project,” students at more than 200 schools will participate in the initiative sponsored since 2003 by Young America’s Foundation’s (YAF), the parent organization of Young Americans for Freedom, with chapters stretching coast to coast.

“Our country was forever changed after the events of 9/11,” said former Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who now serves as president of the foundation. “Every student younger than 20 years old in this country was born after 9/11. As schools and public officials across the country attempt to sanitize the tragic attacks, we need to remind the next generation of what happened, who did it, and why they did it.”

Not only have 20 years passed since the September attacks, but those 20 years have also spanned a war declared lost this summer.

“This year’s anniversary carries extra significance, and students are eager to participate in this project,” said YAF spokeswoman Kara Zupkus. “While the Biden administration seems to forget the real threat of radical Islamic terrorism, students are prepared to educate their peers and ensure we never forget the lives lost.”

The organizers did the right thing to remind everybody of this past month's Afghanistan fiasco, which was part of the war against terrorism, yet did past administrations do anything to put an end to the Religion of Peace in that region? Nope, and that's part of why they fell so easily. If the war against jihadism is ever to be won, it'll only be if we can declare the Religion of Peace invalid and dangerous to allow anybody to practice. What Biden and his staff allowed to happen in Afghanistan tragically set back opposition to jihadism by more than 20 years. Remembering 9-11 is just one part of how to combat jihadism, also in Europe. For now, the students participating in the YAF project are setting a very good example, and will be important for the war to come in the forseeable future to prevent jihadism from spreading.

Labels: Afghanistan, anti-americanism, communications, islam, Israel, jihad, New York, political corruption, racism, terrorism, United States, war on terror