Prayers for Boston. Prayers for Justice.

Our prayers go out to Boston and all of those affected by Monday’s Patriot Day bombing.  While most Americans held their breaths while the FBI and authorities tracked down those responsible, Michael Moore and Chris Matthews were among the many that accused “right-wing extremist” of carrying out the bombing.  Salon magazine even published an article on Tuesday titled “Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.”  We now know that none of those politically motivated, baseless accusations were wrong—two Muslims from the Chechnya border region of Russia.

A day of remembrance-A call for vigilance.

Ten years ago (September 11, 2001) was the 20th anniversary of my Marine Corps bootcamp graduation. It was a day that I had planned a quiet personal reflection of the past 20 years. Little did I know was that it was the beginning of a new chapter in my life. Now that day has new meaning for me, as it does for every American. I will never forget the evil that that happened that day in the name of Islam. I hope that every American understand the enemies of freedom the way I have come to know them over the past ten years.