United 93. Passengers voted. They rushed the cockpit. The jet went into a field near Shanksville instead of the Capitol. That is the only part of that morning that still looks like a country.
Every year the soft kids try to turn 9/11 into a PSA about hate. Hate did not fly the planes. A specific pile of Arab Muslim men did. Fifteen Saudi. Two Emirati. One Egyptian. One Lebanese. If your commemorative post needs a paragraph about Islamophobia before you can mention the hijackers, delete your account.
The people on 93 did not write a sensitivity statement. They said let's roll and died in dirt so a bunch of politicians could keep their building. Let's roll was more American than every don't-profile lecture since.
The ceremony today will do the silences. Fine. Then the copy gets sanded again. Write the roster. Write the field. Write that the only reason the dome is still there is a cabin full of civilians who decided they were done being cargo.
The cowards are the ones still protecting the brand.
