9-11, as we were told repeatedly in the days, and months,

as we were told repeatedly in the days, weeks and months after the attack,

was the day that changed everything.

In the span of one devastating morning, America changed forever.

Good morning.

America may never be the same and this is why.

American life will change forever as a result of this attack.

Nothing will ever be the same again. Nothing will ever be the same again.

Nothing will ever be quite the same again.

Life will never be quite the same.

These were no empty words. They were plain statements of fact. The world did change on that day.

9-11 was the carte blanche for a great reset, the institution of a new normal in international relations and domestic affairs.

From the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the militarization of the police

to the multi-trillion-dollar wars of aggression to reshape the Middle East,

our lives today are drastically different than they were before that fateful Tuesday in September 2001.

On September the 11th. On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. September the 11th hadn't happened.

Our assessment of the risk of allowing Saddam,

any possibility of him reconstituting his programs would not have been the same.

For the first time, airport security will become a direct federal responsibility.

I don't understand how a sexual assault be made, a condition of my client.

This is not considered a sexual assault.

It would be if you weren't the government.

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