Civil rights reaching milestone anniversary

This country has been in the grips of a 10-year remembrance of the attacks that rocked our nation on Sept. 11, 2001. We have undergone a heartfelt, gut-wrenching recollection of those events, all fully warranted.

In America, we remember anniversaries of this sort with fervor. Occasions like July 4th, Armistice Day (Nov. 11), Memorial Day (last Monday in May), Pearl Harbor Day (Dec. 7) and D-Day (June 6), among others, remind us of the sacrifices made by millions of Americans toward the freedoms that we enjoy today.

Nine-11, of course, represents an attack by outside forces against the American mainland. Thousands who that day had arisen simply to go to work died along with hundreds of courageous emergency first responders.

It was entirely proper on this particular 10th year anniversary of 9-11-01 to recall the gallantry exhibited by so Americans