{"id":929,"date":"2012-09-11T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2012-09-11T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:59:00","slug":"forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Forget?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2012\/09\/11\/forget\/\">Hell, no<\/a>! I&#8217;m not going to forget. I was at work when I heard the news. I thought the first plane hitting was a tragic accident, but when the second plane hit, I knew that it was an act of war, and told my coworkers that. I went home, and brought back a small television, which we kept returning to the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing the footage of Muslims (Palestinians, IIRC) passing out candy to children and dancing in the streets in celebration. I remember not being able to contact my father, who, although retired, still went to the Pentagon daily, until four days later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2012\/09\/11\/eleven-years\/\">Sarah Hoyt remembers<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that the president remembers, but it apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/headline\/obama-releases-message-to-arab-forum-on-9-11-anniversary\/\">doesn&#8217;t have the same meaning<\/a> for him. <a href=\"http:\/\/moelane.com\/2012\/09\/11\/rsrh-as-you-might-have-guessed\/\">Decorum seems to be an area that some Democrats need to work on<\/a>, also.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t directly related to 9\/11, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2012\/09\/navy-russian-warships-displayed-dnc-veterans-tribute-091112\/\">another indication of the respect that the Democrats have for the military<\/a>, and would be the sort of story that the media would beat to death had it been the Republicans who had done it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the events of the day, the fallen and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteransadvantage.com\/cms\/content\/rick-rescorla\">heroes<\/a>. Respect them, and resolve to learn from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell, no! I&#8217;m not going to forget. I was at work when I heard the news. I thought the first plane hitting was a tragic accident, but when the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics","category-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}