Article originally appeared on thefederalist.com.
For those who remember the crisp fall morning of Sept. 11, 2001, how by 10:03 a.m. the day turned to Hell, and how we watched the brutal, televised murders of 2,977 people, the atrocities are seared into our memories.
A well-funded, wickedly trained team of 19 savage Islamic terrorists brought a fight to our soil that Americans did not know we were involved in.
In New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, people of a certain age recall the acrid taste in the air and the strange haze from the thick cloud of fine dust that hung over the city for days after the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers were toppled.
Crossings in and out of New York City were closed. Children wondered when their parents would come home. Some never did.
In New Jersey, a long line of people snaked around the …
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