September 11, 2001 is the second day in United States history that will go down in infamy; the first being the attack on Pearl Harbor. I was five years old then and for the life of me I can't remember that day at all. What I do remember, though, is a middle school teacher preaching about the importance of patriotism during the month of September even years after the attack.
Since then, the word terror has been a big part of the American vocabulary in the 21st century and it's frightening. Yet it has put Americans in the awkward position of profiling and monitoring of those with an Islamic look or background. We became so afraid of another attack that we began to judge our fellow Americans and put them in a prejudiced bubble. I think that's what stems the anti-American rhetoric in the Middle East and other countries.
We've began to put the blame of a hateful group's actions on the whole race and that is how we got here. Now we have Americans joining the terrorist organization Isis and it's gotten the people of America on edge. We are here because I believe we let terrorism keep us in fear for so long that we would do anything to keep our country safe. If that meant racially profiling Muslims, or [if we get a conservative president] monitoring their place of worship we'd do it.
Now, what does that say about our country? We'd become the monster that we vowed to vanquish or a totalitarian regime that does not care about the basic rights of her people. That's no America I'd want to live in. If you would allow me to use a sports reference, we got here because we allowed our government to use preventative defense on an enemy that can't measure up aesthetically or monetarily to the greatest defensive line there is, and that's this country's armed forces.
We give terrorists their power when we live in constant fear. We give terrorism it's power by turning on one-another and forgetting what makes America the greatest country on the planet, the fact that we are a melting pot of everything everyone wants in a free country. We got here because we let fear weaken us, but we can be greater when we all come together as country in the hardest times. When we are undivided we can conquer any foe.
I send this same message to our fellow men in Brussels in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks. Come together as a country, come together as a people and there is nothing that can stop you.
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