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May We Never Forget Freedom Isn’t Free — Memorial Day Tribute 2024 As our nation commemorates Memorial Day this year, we take a moment to honor the nearly one million service members who made the ultimate sacrifice “for love...

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Repost from oafnation_actual. Very well said.

More than two decades later and I still find myself in a place of introspection about 9/11 and the Global War on Terrorism.

In one hand, I’m proud to have served my country as a US Marine. I’m proud to have conducted myself in an honorable manner with a warrior’s compassion, having not done a single thing I regret to any local national in Iraq or Afghanistan. But in the other, I cannot honestly sit here as I write this and act like I, or any US troop, did anything to truly avenge those who died, or in the macro, make the world a better place.

On that day almost three-thousand innocent people lost their lives and thousands more Americans subsequently died from second and third order effects of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror. Worse yet, hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the middle east and southwest Asia, that had nothing to do with 9/11, became collateral casualties and were killed just by consequence of being born in the “wrong” country. And lest we forget, millions of lives ruined in the near east and Af/Pak. 

We should never forget 9/11 but as Americans we need to come to a point of intellectual honesty with ourselves about the fact that we seem to have learned nothing as we are now at each other throats on a daily basis. The world needs us to be and do better than we have for the past two decades and we are failing. But while we are failing, we have not yet failed. 

If you read this in the sea of platitudinal 9/11 posts, please take a moment to reflect not only on our losses, but the losses we’ve inflicted around the world in the name of a victory that never came.

Let’s take today to reflect on how we can reunite and collectively be better not just for us, but for the world.

More than two decades later and I still find myself in a place of introspection about 9/11 and the Global War on Terrorism.   In one hand, I’m proud to have served my country as a US Marine. I’m proud to have conducted myself in an honorable manner with a warrior’s compassion, having not done a single thing I regret to any local national in Iraq or Afghanistan. But in the other, I cannot honestly sit here as I write this and act like I, or any US troop, did anything to truly avenge those who died, or in the macro, make the world a better place.   On that day almost three-thousand innocent people lost their lives and thousands more Americans subsequently died from second and third order effects of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror. Worse yet, hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the middle east and southwest Asia, that had nothing to do with 9/11, became collateral casualties and were killed just by consequence of being born in the “wrong” country. And lest we forget, 37 million + lives ruined in the near east and Af/Pak. 
 We should never forget 9/11 but as Americans we need to come to a point of intellectual honesty with ourselves about the fact that we seem to have learned nothing as we are now at each others throats on a daily basis. The world needs us to be and do better than we have for the past two decades and we are failing. But while we are failing, we have not yet failed. 

If you read this in the sea of platitudinal 9/11 posts, please take a moment to reflect not only on our losses, but the losses we’ve inflicted around the world in the name of a victory that never came. Let’s take today to reflect on how we can reunite and collectively be better not just for us, but for the world.