In seven short months it will have been ten years. I don’t feel burning anger anymore — it’s been replaced by pride in my fellow citizens. Who would have thought that morning that we would have fought a war against the terrorists for ten solid years, and fought with serious resolve all across the globe? Who would have thought that we would have fought that war with the average American unafraid through most of it? Who would have thought that such a horrific event would result in our citizens aware of terror, but largely unafraid of it? Who could have predicted that the political will existed to continue our battle with the terrorists so long?

Not I, so I am proud of us all.