9/11 ATTACKS: WE SHALL FOREVER REMEMBER.

ICHEOKU says as yet another year rolled by, like birthdays, we remember the horrors that was visited on America by evil Islamist terrorists from Saudi Arabia on the orders of  Osama Bin Laden. It was on the eleventh day, of the ninth month, at the hour of eight forty five in the morning, in 2001, that Americans woke up to a nightmare which played out on their television, as they watched planes flying into buildings and destroying them. A shocked nation  and the world at large, saw up close, how evil, some religious fanatics could be and that image is forever permanently ingrained in our memory. 

Instead of the customary firing off of missiles from fighter planes, commercial planes themselves were used in lieu of missiles, to attack America's important institutions. Targeted and struck were the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and one other intended target, which did not come to fruition because Americans on board Flight 93, with a battle cry of "Let's roll", decided to preempt the attack by wrestling the hijackers for the control of the plane and successfully crashed it in Shanksville Pennsylvania. What a group of heroes and heroines those passengers were that saved more American from losing their lives, as well as another national landmark from going into ruins.

It was traumatic for everyone and with it, America lost its innocence and the confidence that the two oceans were enough to protect it from foreign aggression. But 18 years later, Americans are still fighting in defense of their freedom from this lunatic fringed Islamists terrorism and recording great successes as they go. As a result, Osama Bin Laden is today sleeping with the fishes somewhere in the Indian ocean, thousands of terrorists have been dispatched to go meet their 70 virgins; and for America's three thousand murdered, many of their own have also since been dispatched to eternity. America is on top of the game, dictating how things goes, moving forward and winning bigly. 

Those terrorists however, achieved some level of successes as they permanently defaced the Manhattan skyline as there is no more a towering Twin Towers standing imposingly therein the horizon. They also caused to be instituted the "stripe and search" that travelers go through in our airports till today; in addition to the hyper vigilance pervading the nation. And for those who actually lived the experience, the trauma is permanently etched in their brain and will stay with them until the end of their time. So, to Congresswoman Ilha Omar, 'some people did not just do something', Islamists terrorists brought war to America and America is answering the challenge. We shall never forget; we shall never falter or flounder, and yes, America shall never turn tail or shy away from the defense of their freedom. America strong, will forever endure.