Monday, September 14th, 2026
My Dear America:
We just recently celebrated September 11th, 2026. Twenty Five Years have gone by since that Awful Day when You and I, America, woke up to find that we had been invaded by Terrorists and following that day we would never be the same again.
My Memories of that day are mainly quick flashes of things that occurred throughout the day on 9/11/01.
I have one strong memory and that is that the day was an incredibly beautiful day. The weather was gorgeous. The sun was shining. It wasn't too hot or too cold. It was just right, the kind of day that you hope to wake up to every day of your life.
I was sleeping soundly and was not planning to get up too soon because I didn't start work until after lunch. Sandy was suddenly shaking me and seemed to be upset.
"What's Wrong," I asked her as I woke up.
"Get Up." she said. "You have to see this," she continued. "My mother called me and told me to turn on the television and I did. It's horrible. Somebody just crashed their plane into the World Trade Center.
I don't recall if I had ever even heard the words World Trade Center before but I certainly didn't know much about it or even where it was until I came out to our living room and watched what we thought had to be an accident as a quick flash on TV showed what appeared to be a plane hitting a large building which announcers told us was in New York. We were not the only ones watching the World Trade Center and thinking that it was an accident. Probably a small plane hitting the World Trade center. The talking heads on TV were convinced it was an accident too. It had to be an accident, we thought.
And then The Second Plane hit the second building in the World Trade Center Complex and nobody continued to think that either of these plane crashes were accidents anymore.
Over the past few days and into the weekend much has been said about the events of September 11th, 2001 and will continue to be said abut this important Historical Event that shook You to your core, America.
We know a lot about 9/11 now but that was not the case in 2001 When the Twin Towers were destroyed, The Pentagon was also hit and a little later in the morning the passengers and crew of Flight United 93 apparently fought back against the terrorists who commandeered their plane that was reportedly heading for the Capitol Building in Washington to crash into it. Fortunately for Congress but not the United 93 Passengers that plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
We didn't know it at the time that this highly organized bit of madness was a once and done effort to destroy more than a little bit of American Democracy. It looked at the time like a well coordinated First Strike at our country that could just be the beginning attack that might be followed by continued tong term orchestrated violence on American soil.
Clearly none of us knew what in the hell was happening at the time.
What September 11th of 2001 turned out to be was the first day of the first battle of the "War On Terror" that the George W. Bush Administration initiated following the 9/11 terror attacks. Although looking back on it these days we can clearly see that mistakes were made following September 11th and that Wars were initiated that caused more problems than they solved.
These days when we see a straight up Fascist in the White House we tend to forgive George Bush for some of his sins because we recognize that although he made some serious mistakes his intentions at the time appeared to be good.
We certainly could have done without the Forever War in Afghanistan and the damn near forever War in Iraq. But on the other hand Bush was handed a situation that he clearly had to respond in some way to and he did the best he could.
While it is easy to find fault with much of what the Bush Administration did in hindsight in response to September 11th, back in 2001 it was not clear to anyone back then what the right path was.
At the time that George W. Bush established the Department of Homeland Security it appeared to be the right thing to do in response to 9/11. These days, however, as we watch the Trump Administration continue to turn ICE and the FBI and other Law Enforcement Agencies into Gestapo like tools of cruelty and chaos it is difficult to observe these agencies as they spin out of control on the streets of America.
Today in our Country We are no longer quite as worried about our destruction from ISIS or Al Quida or some other foreign Terrorist Organization destroying us from the skies as we were in 9/11.
Today in our Country we have more to worry about from those Americans who don't crash our planes into our buildings but appear to be intent on crashing our Democracy from within.
We certainly had been warned by many American Writers over the years from Sinclair Lewis to Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson that one day we might be faced with a Fascist in the White House with very bad intentions.
The worst has happened. Donald Trump has somehow weaseled his way back into the White House and as long as he is in there we are all up Shits Creek. We are no longer so concerned about Death Planes In the sky. Our concerns now are more focused on Death Squads in our Cities.
The Vermin are no longer only "Over There". They are also running loose in the White House, In the Republican Halls of Congress and even in the Supreme Court.
And we are running out of time to stop them from turning the United States from a Two Hundred and Fifty Year Old Democracy into a Russian Patsy State.
Please Everyone Consider this, Every time you hear Donald Trump running his mouth about Communists Please consider the fact that every time he talks about Putin and Xi he praises them. If Trump was Anti Communist How come he loves all these Communist Leaders.
Wake the hell up America and Smell the Treason before its too late.
We are running out of chances to save our Democracy.
We do have one more chance in November to vote out those Republicans who have been willing to allow Donald Trump to run Roughshod over Democracy for the past year and a half in America.
Let's Vote and Let's hope we are not too late to save Democracy in America.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
