“If not forgotten, they are not gone”: A 9/11 reflection
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
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Summary
Twenty-four years ago today, 2,976 Americans were killed in the deadliest terrorist attacks in our nation’s history. In the decades since, more than 7,000 have died and over fifty-three thousand have been wounded in the Global War on Terror, choosing to serve their country at great personal cost. Their sacrifice leaves behind families who live each day with an unfillable emptiness and reminds us that “gone but not forgotten” means they are not gone. To honor them, we must strive to be a nation worthy of such devotion—seeking not material wealth but spiritual strength as God heals our land.
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| 0:00.0 | Note, the manhunt for the killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is continuing this morning. |
| 0:06.6 | For my reflection on his death yesterday, see Mike Daily Article Special Edition, Charlie Kirk fatally shot at Speaking Event in Utah. |
| 0:15.1 | Please join me in praying for his wife and young children and for our nation in this dark hour. |
| 0:22.4 | At Denison Forum, we're pleased that you've joined us for the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome. I'm Chris Elkins' narrator, voicing today's daily article, authored by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:36.9 | I hate this anniversary. |
| 0:39.1 | I wake up knowing that I will see the horrific images in the news all over again, |
| 0:44.2 | the brilliant blue morning sky against which the twin tower stood as the airplanes flew into them. |
| 0:50.0 | The assault on the Pentagon, our national paragon of military might, the plane crash in Pennsylvania, |
| 0:56.8 | and the ensuing stories of passenger courage that thwarted their hijackers. |
| 1:01.8 | I remember where I was on that tragic morning. |
| 1:04.8 | So to you, so will we always. |
| 1:07.4 | On this day, 24 years ago, 2,976 Americans were killed and thousands more were injured in the |
| 1:15.6 | deadliest terrorist attack in our nation's history. But here's another fact to remember. |
| 1:20.8 | 7,085 Americans have died and more than 53,000 have been wounded because of this day. |
| 1:29.2 | President George W. Bush stated a month after 9-11, |
| 1:33.4 | the world has come together to fight a new and different war, |
| 1:37.2 | a war against all those who seek to export terror |
| 1:40.3 | and a war against those governments that support or shelter them. |
| 1:44.4 | Over the next 20 years, nearly three million Americans served in what has come to |
| 1:50.1 | be known as the Global War on Terror, including those I numbered earlier who died or were |
| 1:56.3 | injured in battle. |
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