25 years ago this morning, I was packing for my first trip as a pilot for American Airlines when Suzi came in and told me an airplane had hit the World Trade Center.
I assumed a small airplane, bad weather. Then I turned on the television.
Crystal clear morning in New York. I stood there holding my young son Matthew, going through my mental aviation checklist on how this could've happned... and the second airplane hit.
I knew we were under attack.
Flight suit. Boots. Raced out to Naval Air Station Fort Worth. Through the gate before the base went to Threat Condition Delta.
I was supposed to spend that day flying Americans to Miami.
I spent it strapped into an armed and running F/A-18 Hornet at the end of a runway, prepared to shoot one down.
Gruff and I waited while the Spads of the 457th FS got airborne, scheduled to launch when they ran out of gas. By the time the did, all air traffic was on the ground.
2,977 innocent people were murdered by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists.
Souls jumped from the towers, because falling through a clear September sky was better than burning alive.
First responders climbed up while thousands ran down.
Father Judge, a Catholic priest and FDNY chaplain, walked into hell to pray over the dying and became one of its victims. They carried him out and laid him on an altar.
25 years later, Americans are still dying from what they breathed at Ground Zero. Veterans still carry the wounds you can see and the ones you can't.
This country has forgotten why.
NYC elected an avowed anti-American immigrant Muslim socialist as mayor. Michigan's nominee for senate closed his campaign beside a man who said America 'deserved 9/11' and that we brought it on ourselves.
People running for office in a country they hate.
We raised a generation to be ashamed of this great country. They will not defend it. And a generation that will not defend a country will eventually accept whatever replaces it.
I am for religious freedom. I spent 15 years defending the document that guarantees it, I started my own church.
But the moment your religion leaves its lane and comes into mine - the moment it claims the right to kill me for not believing what you believe - it is not a faith anymore. It is a political system with a body count. Its own law. Its own courts. Its own mandates on what women can and can't do.
Ask a girl in Kabul about her schooling, ask a Christian in Saudi Arabia where his church is. There isn't one in the whole country. 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
We let them build here. They do not let us build there. That is not tolerance, it's an invasion.
Europe has fallen.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Contrary to what the pope thinks, there is such a thing as a 'just war'. This is it.
25 years ago this morning I sat at the end of a runway in a loaded fighter, waiting for an order I prayed would never come.
Many said we would never forget. They did.
I never will.
Fight's On.
@NoFallenHeroes@SuziNFH
Spot on!! 🎯😎😆
I can’t wait for the comments!!
Nicklas Nilsson explains the difference between right-wing and left-wing people in spot-on text on Facebook:
"If a right-wing person is gay, then he is, and he doesn't care what others think.
If a left-winger is gay, then he demands legal changes, protests against everything and everyone, and turns it into a political struggle.
If a right-winger is vegan, then he simply doesn't eat meat.
If a left-winger is vegan, then he wants to ban meat, halt food production, and protest outside farms and chicken farms.
If a right-winger doesn't like guns, then he just doesn't buy any.
If a left-winger doesn't like guns, then he tries to ban them, prevent everyone else from owning one, and hates those who do.
If a right-winger is worried about the climate, then he flies less, drives an electric car if it suits him, and sorts his waste.
If a left-winger is worried about the climate, then he wants to ban fossil fuel cars, air travel, and meat for everyone else, protest outside factories, and demand that the state forces the change.
If a right-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he moves to an area with good schools, or chooses a private school, or gets involved himself.
If a left-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he demands more tax money from everyone, equal results for all, a ban on charter schools, and protests against every inequality.
If a right-winger complains about his job or workplace.. he doesn't. He changes jobs or starts his own business.
If a left-winger complains about his job – then it's the boss, the company, or the colleagues who are at fault. He demands collective agreements, strikes, changes for the whole community, and protests against the company so that it suits him.
If a right-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he moves, renovates, or buys something else.
If a left-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he demands rent freezes, more subsidies, regulations for everyone, and protests against landlords and politicians.
If a right-winger fails with a business or an investment that goes wrong, then he gets up, dusts himself off, and tries again tomorrow.
If a left-winger runs out of money on the 24th, then he blames the rich for having too much and needing to contribute more, blames the lottery win that didn't come home last week, and mutters that he has such damn bad luck.
If a right-winger sees this – then he sends it to a few friends for a good laugh.
If a left-winger sees this – then he tries to argue against it, get it removed, and delete me from Facebook."
CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud.
The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted
CNN said there was "little evidence."
Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud
Today: $90M busted and 15 charged.
IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.
Let me get this straight:
Biden opened the border from 2021 to 2025.
The Venezuelan illegal alien who killed Sheridan Gorman came across that border in May of 2023, was apprehended and released into the country by CBP under Biden.
He was arrested AGAIN in June of 2023 in Chicago for shoplifting but was released thanks to Democrats' pro-crime/sanctuary city policies...
But somehow, according to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Sheridan Gorman's death is TRUMP'S FAULT?
How is that even remotely possible?
Senate Republicans,
If you stay in DC — while democrats flee for a paid vacation —
you can pass the SAVE America Act with a simple 51 quorum
& unanimous consent.
Please join me in a short prayer.
Dear Lord,
Shield our military with Your protection and guide them safely home.
Spare the innocent people of Iran.
Grant mercy and peace amid this conflict.
Amen.
MAHA
Spent the day on Capitol Hill meeting with Members of Congress
to earn support for bringing the SAVE America Act to the Senate floor.
Making promises & keeping promises.
You want to know why Billie Eilish won’t talk about the fact that ICE is hunting predators, pedos and human traffickers?
Because she's surrounded by those same people in Hollywood in their own little Sodom and Gomorrah.
When Little Miss Eyelash was in diapers, I was fighting terrorists to protect this country that she now calls “stolen land.”
You're a clown who dances and sings for money, Billie.
You know nothing about courage.