Today, on the Morning Update, it’s been 25 years since September 11th, 2001. A day that changed America, the world, and me. It is an anniversary and a reminder.
Note: Ed and John passed at the end of 2021 and in early 2022, thanks (IMO) to the COVID protocol.
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- https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/04/my-memoriam-for-ed-naile-and-john-irish-for-the-okeefe-luncheon
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Edited Transcript:
Welcome to your Friday, September 11th, 2026, morning update. Twenty-five years ago today, to borrow from a pain-in-the-ass Congresswoman, some people did something.
Thousands died, and Americans rose up in support of a march on a new path. Ugly with war, conflict, and more death.
It is a path we are still on, hopefully not for much longer. But what concerns me is the path parallel to it that we are on here at home.
Allah is a god of war and conquest by any means necessary. The faith is designed for this purpose and no other.
In the name of diversity, Western progressives have allowed Islam to invade most of Europe and increasingly in spots across America.
But there is no diversity in Islam. Allah forbids it.
And like in all faiths, there are people who will find something in it to help them, but would never consider the more radical elements. They may even ignore them or make excuses for them.
We too know that they will bow before the militant minority when the time comes.
Twenty-five years ago, some people did something. They woke my ass up. Within a couple of years of trying to understand the who, what, why, where, and how. I began writing about politics, and I’m still doing it today.
We can’t speak for the dead, but we can’t speak to the living. So that they might not suffer a similar fate.
In April of 2022, I wrote a memoriam for Ed Naile and John Irish.
Quote: In the battle for liberty, those soldiers who toiled regardless of merit or reward are often the ones most sorely missed. Their presence, the drive to expose even the pettiest of tyrannies, and a commitment to the pursuit of liberty and true justice inspire others to keep up the fight even in the face of defeat, happy warriors undeterred by the direction of the troubled waters in which we find ourselves.
So what happens when the world has taken them from us, and with it their energy and dedication? The answer to the question is not what will we do without them, but what would they do if we were gone?
They’d pick up our banner and look for the next opportunity to inspire others.
Ed Naile and John Irish had different roles but worked the same way towards the same goal, a sentiment best expressed by Thomas Paine in The American Crisis No. One.
The summer soldier and the Sunshine Patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country. But he that stands by it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Ed and John were in it for the long haul, come what may, and they woke up, maybe not every morning, but most, with an idea about how they could help, what it would require of them, and then they did that. We cannot replace them, we can only succeed them, and not like them but in their spirit, because the battle against tyranny is eternal.
As is the desire for liberty, but tyranny never rests. So like them, neither shall we.
We honor the dead of9/11, and we honor the lives of those who are here fighting for freedom.
That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you on Monday.
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