We often view the use of the word, creed, in a religious context, and rightfully so; but at its essence, a creed is a belief that is fundamental, a guiding principle. This Podcast is dedicated to the principle of freedom and liberty. The antithesis of freedom and liberty is oppression. The right to be free is a fundamental belief in American culture, and must never be taken for granted or abused. Therefore, the creed of freedom is more important than any other principle or belief...indeed, perhaps the most important.
We must never forget what happened on September 11, 2001. We owe it to those who perished, as well as to their families, to remember their sacrifices.
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Hello again, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of Freedom's Creed. Today is September the 11th, 2023. 22 years since terrorists attacked our country. If you have listened to the podcast for any length of time, you know that I talk about a myriad of topics. But the foundation for the podcast centers around the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These are documents that, as I said, if you've listened to me for any length of time, you know that I love these documents with all my heart. They are the basis of freedom and liberty in this country in 2023. You've heard me talk about this before. Yes, when the documents were first pinned, they didn't necessarily apply to everyone. The freedoms, that is, and the liberty. But today they do. It is the foundation for all laws in this country. The Bill of Rights are historical, have been since they were pinned, and will be forever. Because as I said, they are the foundation. Without the right of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and all of the other amendments that are found in the Bill of Rights, where would we be as a country? Now, unfortunately, I'm not naive. Well, fortunately I'm not naive, but unfortunately there are people in this country who believe in their heart of hearts that injustices were meted out against a group of people that somehow nullifies the Constitution. That's pure nonsense, as far as I'm concerned. As a matter of fact, this coming Sunday, the seventeenth of September, will be 236 years since the Constitution was adopted and ratified by the states in the United States. That's pretty significant. Yeah, we're not like European countries where they talk about hundreds and hundreds of years. No, we're not quite that old. But I'll take this country over just about any other. Well, I'll take it over any other. Doesn't mean that I think other countries are horrible. I don't think that. I just think that America is a great country. If it weren't great, there wouldn't be people trying to get into this country and even get in illegally. So it must be a pretty good place to be if that many people still are trying to get into the country legally and illegally. So what the terrorists did on nine eleven oh one was to attack the very foundation of our country. They and many like them could not have anticipated the way that Americans in general responded after these attacks. We came together like no other time in my lifetime, and I'm north of sixty. So it was a time that brought people together. Politics didn't matter, it didn't matter, nothing else mattered. What mattered was is that we were going to make sure that we did our very best to go after the people who carried out this attack. And I think for the most part we did. Now, are there things that have happened over the years that could have been done much better? Absolutely. But in the months and a couple of years after the attacks, things were done that needed to be done. And of course, the way our modern era is, politicians did what politicians do. They tend to mess things up. They want credit for themselves, as opposed to giving credit to those who serve in the military and in other positions in our country who actually do the hard work of defending liberty and freedom throughout the world. And that was no more manifest the way it was right after 9-11. Unfortunately, as I said, politicians from both parties got their hands into things and they want the credit for this or for that. And it's just ridiculous. It's unfortunate. But it's it's too bad we couldn't have maintained the unity that I felt like we had in the time right after the terrorist attacks. I don't know how long it lasted. It wasn't very long, unfortunately, not long enough. It could have been and should have been longer. People should unite when things like that happen, irrespective of left, right, center, whatever your politics are. It doesn't matter. Here's what does matter. 2,977 people, plus the 19 hijackers, were killed on that day, savagely murdered on that day. I will never forget that day. I realize that we have almost a generation really of people who are born either in the year 2000 or 2001 or even going back to 1999 or 98, who have no perspective of 9-11. They've only known about it by the things that people have told them. And it's up to us, the people who witnessed it, the people who lived through it and experienced the emotion and the anger and all of the things that went along with it. It's up to us to continue to teach people what happened that day. I don't I'm not going to get bogged down into conspiracy theories and all of this nonsense. What I know is that we were attacked, that four commercial aircraft were used to murder innocent lives. And thank goodness for Flight 93 and all of the people on that flight who fought back, who, like Todd Beamer, said, let's roll. And they took care of business in the sky, knowing they had to know, they did know, that their lives were over, that that was going to be it. But they had rather sacrifice their lives than potentially lose hundreds or even thousands more based upon where that aircraft was going to go. So wow. One of the things that really sickens me is the way politicians made all of the aftermath of 9-11 political. Really? It's I'm at a loss for words. It's ridiculous. The way, and I saw this, and many of you did too. Those of you in the younger generation who didn't, who didn't pay attention or whatever, understand that there was the most partisan bickering and posturing about who was going to get credit for this or for that, or these guys are being too mean, and these guys aren't being uh harsh enough. Just ridiculous. And you throw into the mix the Patriot Act and the things that happened that were designed to keep us safe, but what ended up happening was they just curtailed our freedoms. And then it just snowballed from there. Well, I wanted to get on here and create an episode today, a tribute of sorts to the victims of 9-11. And I want to have a few seconds of pause so that you can think of those who sacrificed their lives for the cause of freedom and liberty, even if they didn't know that that's what they were doing. I can only imagine the sheer terror that the people in the World Trade Center must have felt. I mean, for those who saw no other way out but to leap to their death because the smoke was so intense. I can't even imagine what that must have been like. And then when the buildings actually fell, just unbelievable. The Pentagon, different circumstance, but no less deadly the way that this aircraft violently crashed into that building and took the lives of many other people. And then, of course, as I mentioned and alluded to, Flight 93. Just amazing. This can never be allowed to be forgotten in our country. Never. As long as I'm breathing, as long as I'm doing this podcast, I will talk about it, if not at least once a year at other times during the year, but certainly on this day, which is why I wanted to get on here today after a day of work and do this podcast as a tribute to those victims and their families. The loss of life was horrific, but in many ways the loss of those lives made it extremely difficult for those who are left behind to put together the pieces. That's something that you cannot get over. You just you just don't. How can you? It's with you all the time. It has to be. The loss of any loved one at any time is difficult to deal with. And really we never get over it. We always remember them. They're a part of us. The people who died on 9-11, they were a part of us. They were a part of the American family. And that is something that we all share. We share in this ideal, this wonderful prospect of freedom and liberty. And it's something that we support each other in, we share with one another, and it's something that we hold in common no matter what our differences are. We hold together this ideal of freedom. And it's something that we cannot lose. We cannot afford to take it for granted. That is why we need to continue to help the younger generation have some sort of appreciation for what happened on 9-11, 2001. I will pray for the family members of those who were left behind, of the many who were killed on that day, that they can have peace in their lives and have a limited amount of suffering, especially on this day, which in every case I'm certain was the worst day of their life twenty-two years ago. I will conclude this brief tribute to nine eleven, two thousand one with these words from the signers of the Declaration of Independence, quote, and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor closed, quote, that we may be willing to mutually pledge to each other our lives and support each other as if we would support a family member because we share this great country. We share the freedoms and the liberties that have been granted to us and fought for, and people have died to preserve. I pray that we might have the same dedication to preserving liberty and freedom as all of those who have fought and died to do so. If you can think it, you can plan it. If you can plan it, you can do it.
