"We soon learned this horrific carnage was perpetrated by 19 radical Islamists dispatched by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. We know that despite extraordinary courage and compassion displayed by first responders, 3,023 innocent men, women and children were killed or died of injuries. Most Americans never will forget what happened that terrible day.
But not all. This week, the flight I took from California was full of young people headed for college in Washington, D.C. I asked several how much they remembered of the events of 9/11. They all recalled seeing the second plane hit the World Trade Center on television. Some recollected Todd Beamer's leading the rebellion on Flight 93. Only one of them knew we went to war in Afghanistan less than a month later. All the rest thought we went to war in Iraq first.
Apparently, a good number of our elected and appointed leaders think we have forgotten what really happened on Sept. 11, 2001 — and the radical Islamists who started this war."
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