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By Shavana Abruzzo
Brooklyn Daily
Terrorists can look to One World Trade Center for an example of how the land of the free and the home of the brave deals with pond scum.
Here’s hoping they trip on their tongues on the way to hell.
The soaring skyscraper is the new titan in Gotham’s superb skyline. It is the tallest building in the western hemisphere. It is the most famous commercial address — like its predecessor — on earth. Yet it is only the initial phase of a spectacular, five-building complex and memorial underway, as an architectural affidavit to the 9-11 victims who came to work one sunny Tuesday, but never returned home.
It is also proof of our mettle and recovery after our worst day.
The city was a noxious cauldron of smoke, rubble, and human remains, 12 years ago on Sept. 11 — the handiwork of hijackers who acted on the odious sins that lurk deep in bad men’s hearts.
They exploded a pair of jets into the former World Trade Center, drove another into the Pentagon, and planned to pilot a fourth into the U.S. Capitol Building, before it crashed in a Pennsylvanian field during a life-and-death struggle between heroic passengers and their cowardly kidnappers, killing everyone aboard.
The coordinated terror attacks annihilated nearly 3,000 people, and injured and traumatized millions more, in the single, most devastating, foreign attack on U.S. soil. It alerted us to deadly, new enemies disguised as holy warriors, who applauded America’s grief and made household words of Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, suicide bombers, jihad, and 9-11.
But even the terrifying horror couldn’t break the American spirit.
Twelve years later, Osama is dead, and American law enforcers have foiled more than 50 terror attacks, hauling off to jail a succession of lowlifes for stooping to every dirty trick in the book to destroy Americans — even resorting to making bombs out of cookware, and hauling explosives in their shoes and undies.
They can rot in jail, smoldering in the knowledge that their diabolical schemes went up in smoke, and that in Lower Manhattan rises a better and stronger phoenix from the ashes of their evil.
Wretched jihadists can take to heart 9-11’s legacy, and shove their frustrations where the sun doesn’t shine, for America has bigger fish to fry. Like getting on with life. Even after its worst day.
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