Today is September 11th. It’s a day that shattered me in so many ways. People talk about trauma and being traumatized, but watching 3,000 people die on a television screen was pretty freaking traumatic.

But through it all, I could remember that evil could be defeated. Yes, it took the power of the United States government to turn Al Queda into little more than a Wikipedia entry, but it was the brave men and women who went into harm’s way to make that happen. ...

We need more of that today, not less. We need to know what we, the American people are the brave knights of today and it’s time to stop the cruel enemies who would strip our freedom from us, all in the name of what they seek to bastardize and call liberty instead.

To deny our children these tales isn’t just calculated. It’s cruel.