I am so sorry about your cousin. So hard.

I had been retired eight years and realized that the FAA and airlines’ strategy and tactics for dealing with hi-jackers had not worked with these fanatics. Now, it’s armored doors and guns for pilots who are willing to carry. And TSA screening that, at least so far, seems to have done the job pretty well. Knock wood.

I agree with Rufus T.
“For me it has always felt like 9/11 was a singular, tragic event that, for a brief moment, reinstated Conservatism as the dominant mode in the U.S.”

It reminded me, for a brief period, of the way things were during WWII. But it didn’t last.

And yes, we still have enemies in the jihadist world, but they are distant and biding their time for now. The enemies within are the more immediately dangerous all these years later.

Our history since 9/11 is not encouraging.

Rufus T. Firefly:

I recall talking to a real New Yawker a year or two after 9-11. He assured me that there was no way that New York City would ever forget.

One would think so … and be wrong.

A trick for spelling “Mississippi” is to say the following in a sing-song manner, emphasizing the letters (I’s) I have capitalized. It has a rhythm.

“m-I-s-s I-s-s-I-p-p-I”

(Which also provides THE answer to anyone wondering why the young scion of the Soros Empire of Doom and Destruction—whose grand organizations are concealed by all kinds of Orwellian monikers—is so avidly welcome in the “Biden” WH.)