The 9/11 victim list available here, is still staggering, 5 1/2 years later. To see the ordinary faces, of those victims on American Airlines Flight 11, with 11 crew and 92 passengers, that crashed into the WTC North Tower; on American Airlines 175, with 9 crew and 56 passengers, that crashed into WTC South Tower; on American Airlines 77, with 6 crew and 64 passengers, that crashed into the Pentagon; and United Airlines 93, with 7 crew and 45 passengers, which, though headed for the Capitol buildings, crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, because ordinary Americans had the opportunity to fight back.
It is horrific to see the pictures of ordinary people, doing ordinary jobs, going about their ordinary business, as we do in normal, free, peaceful societies. And then to realize they were murdered, viciously and without the slightest regard for the fact that they were innocent civilians.
And then to realize that the leftist media, leftist academia, leftist Hollywood, are ashamed (how dare they!) and feel that America brought this on herself. That belief is the most monstrous thing of all. It truly makes my blood boil, to know that the dead are being so brazenly dishonored. It makes any thinking person sick.
Stephen J Carter | SF Novelist
