Do you remember?

I awoke to chaos and horror on the radio as the second plane crashed into the second tower. I rushed to turn on the tv, and watched incredulously as the events played out. I called my brother, and we watched the towers collapse.
I remember that day. I was in school at the time, and classes were cancelled that day. Vigils were held at the chapel and the church on campus.
My heart felt like it collapsed as well.
President Obama and the Democrats intend to "reframe" the country's solemn remembrance of September 11, 2001, rather than a testament to the brave people who died and memorial for the victims who perished, to a national day of service, and an homage to Mr. Obama's radical, statist ideology. Of the 364 other days from which he might have chosen, why 9/11?
Today is also a stark reminder of the realities of a much more complex, much smaller world, in which oppressive authoritarian theocrats intend to harm us.
In their attempt to scrub the horrors of 9/11 from the American memory, the president and Democrats are promoting a sort of forced community service as a distraction from the Bush administration's successful war on terrorism efforts of the past eight years to protect our country and our people from another devastating attack.
The memory of such an unprecedented attack on our homeland is minimized, much as acts of terrorism are now "man-made disasters" and the war on terror has become an "overseas contingency operation."
It is unfortunate that such disregard for the American people has become the norm from the leaders on the left. Americans do not need their elected officials telling them what to think. Americans do not need an ever more intrusive government admonishing them to help their neighbor. And Americans certainly do not need a solemn day trampled to serve their ever present president's narcissistic political agenda.
Today is not a day to distract. It is a day to remember. Do you remember?