9-11-01

We promised we wouldn't forget!

I hear people saying, we don't need this war
I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom, and this piece of ground?
We didn't get to keep them by backing down
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start your preaching let me ask you this my friend

Have you forgotten, how it felt that day?
To see your home land under fire, and her people blown away
Have you forgotten, when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside, going through a living hell
And we’d vowed to get the ones behind Bin Laden.
Have you forgotten?

You took all the footage off my TV;
Said it’s too disturbing for you and me
It’ll just breed anger, that’s what the experts say
If it was up to me, I’d show it every day
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight,
Well after 9/11 man I’d have to say that’s right.

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your home land under fire, and her people blown away
Have you forgotten, when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside, going through a living hell
And we’d vowed to get the ones behind Bin Laden.
Have you forgotten?

I’ve been there with soldiers who’ve gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember, just what their fighting for.

Have you forgotten all the people killed
Yeah some went down like heroes, in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost, and those left to carry on
Don’t you tell me not to worry about Bin Laden

Have you forgotten?

"We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities."
President George W. Bush, September 7, 2003

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

President George W. Bush,

September 11, 2002