Biden in Shanksville: 'These were Americans who knew they were doing something bigger' By: CNN Associate Producer Rebecca Stewart
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/11/biden-in-shanksville-these-were-americans-who-knew-they-were-doing-something-bigger/?hpt=hp_t2
What happened this morning ten years ago was tragic. What happened in Shanksville, Pennsylvania this morning ten years ago was heroic. I love the way Vice President Biden put it when he said, "These weren't soldiers, these weren't military people, these were Americans..." Americans are made of heroism. They took on the Central Powers of World War I. They took on the Axis of evil in World War II and now evil has manifested itself again in the form of radical Islam. Those heroes on flight 93 faced this evil firsthand and they stopped it. We are faced with the same evil overseas. There are people who say we need to end our struggle to end this evil. We need to keep up the good fight because of the fallen heroes who gave themselves up ten years ago.
We need to fight for freedom and safety that they died for and our troops continue to die for. If there was such an opposition to defending ourselves during World War II as there is today, there would be a completely different result. On that we would not prefer to the result we received. Americans are not the kind of people that back out of a fight. We are in a fight. A fight to protect our freedom which radical Islam want to take away. They want to take away out lives. They want to erase America from history. We are America! We defeated Militant Austria-Hungary! We defeated Nazi Germany! We defeated fascist Italy! We defeated imperial Japan! And we will defeat radical Islam!
What happened this morning ten years ago was tragic. What happened in Shanksville, Pennsylvania this morning ten years ago was heroic. I love the way Vice President Biden put it when he said, "These weren't soldiers, these weren't military people, these were Americans..." Americans are made of heroism. They took on the Central Powers of World War I. They took on the Axis of evil in World War II and now evil has manifested itself again in the form of radical Islam. Those heroes on flight 93 faced this evil firsthand and they stopped it. We are faced with the same evil overseas. There are people who say we need to end our struggle to end this evil. We need to keep up the good fight because of the fallen heroes who gave themselves up ten years ago.
We need to fight for freedom and safety that they died for and our troops continue to die for. If there was such an opposition to defending ourselves during World War II as there is today, there would be a completely different result. On that we would not prefer to the result we received. Americans are not the kind of people that back out of a fight. We are in a fight. A fight to protect our freedom which radical Islam want to take away. They want to take away out lives. They want to erase America from history. We are America! We defeated Militant Austria-Hungary! We defeated Nazi Germany! We defeated fascist Italy! We defeated imperial Japan! And we will defeat radical Islam!
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