Never Forget — The Price of Liberty Is Eternal Vigilance

September 11, 2001 I was finishing up teaching a class at James Madison University when a colleague came up to me and said, "Ray, a plane had hit the Twin Towers in New York." I thought at that moment than some private pilot must have been joy riding and made a mistake never imagining the kind of event that had actually transpired. Soon campus classroom projectors were cut over to video of the coverage and we spent the day listening, horrified, to the events as they occurred. It is good to remember that people who hate you for no very good reason but the propaganda that they have been fed can cause horrific damage. For that reason alone we need to stand up for our values and be on record that freedom isn't free but it's worth fighting for.