I just finished reading this article and am vividly remember the sheer horror and tears watching two broken towers of dreams fall to the ground. Just two years before that fateful day, I stood at that tower and surveyed the lower Manhattan skyline from the top. I remember feeling utterly overwhelmed by the experience. I have flown in small aircraft, large Boeings and such but never stood that high and looked down to the ground except for one other time when I was out west and stood on a plateau plate at Arches National Park looking over the vast rock formation thousands of feet below me. ( another best kept secret like the South) for its beauty.
Back to Senator Reid… I shutter to think that this could happen again.

This senator, just four years-ago after 9/11 voted for the law … a law that has given law enforcement the tools and “permission” they need to track suspected terrorists and break up terrorist cells. Which they have been very, very successful in breaking up cells that have been located in New York ,Ohio, California, and yes, the sweet Virginia… the state for lovers. And, of course another city; the city of brotherly love; Philadelphia, PA

In the years since the law was enacted, there’s not been a successful terrorist attack on American soil. Not one. Simply put, the Patriot Act has saved American lives. And last Friday, it was “indefensibly” filibustered by a minority of Senators on the floor of the U.S. Senate. As it stands, key provisions of the Patriot Act will expire on December, 31st.of this year.

BUT, BUT ….. the terrorist threat is not going to expire on December 31st. How can this be?

Are we all deft? Or endowed with a short term memory; or perhaps a lack of commitment, or evidently maybe we don’t care what happened and/or what can happen… Yes, it can happen again and it might. We need to keep these senators morally responsible to the citizens of the United States and not stand around with their “normal” wishful thinking and hope all goes well by itself; but then again…. Didn’t a few citizens land a plane in PA instead of their senate floor?
Maybe that horrible day those heroes should have forgotten about the senators and just hoped everything would turn out alright. Lets all do something to keep this from happening again; what ever it takes to keep the terrorist from attacking us again and saving our citizens, our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers husbands and wives, and above those serving in the military .