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The year is 2012, 11 years after that awful day. Although I won’t soon forget the tragedy of September 11, I’d sooner forget IT than the years of misery and evil that have been inflicted on the United States and the rest of the world since. I’ll never forget how seemingly simple and easy it has been to create an underclass of people from the Middle East and people who looked like they might be. I won’t soon forget the debt of foreign wars targeted at an idea rather than a defeatable enemy. I won’t soon forget an intentionally cultivated climate of fear and how many lives that’s ruined. I won’t soon forget how Muslim women have been painted as voiceless and weak victims of the terrible evil Muslim man. I won’t soon forget the pissing on the bodies, the drone strikes, civilian deaths, disappearing civil rights,Guantanamo Bay, the mutilation and murder of thousands. And I’ll never forget how easy it was to get caught up in the hate and imperial propaganda and I’ll do my best to never let my guard drop like that again. That is the task of this generation, to never forget the legacy of 911 and never do again what our mothers and fathers have done to this world.

~Robert

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