Never forget

The San Francisco Examiner put it best after terrorists attacked freedom Sept. 11, 2001: Bastards! And that’s the word that raced through my mind when I saw the AP news headline that footage had been released showing the hijackers pass through security checkpoints as they boarded the jetliners that became their weapons of mass destruction.

It’s been almost three years since that morning, and I am still sobered by the framed poster that hangs on my office wall. It’s called “Darkest Page in American History” — a matrix of 25 newspaper front pages depicting the terrorist strikes. I look at those front pages every day and remember the war we face, the threat of terror.

In those moments, I am more certain than ever that this is a war we must win.