We will never forget. Or will we?

This weekend we remember the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. In the wake of that horrible day, there are many who pledged we will never forget.

From a psychological standpoint, it is necessary and important to "forget" grief with the passage of time. Anyone who has ever lost a loved one would not wish to bear the fresh agony day after day, year after year, without the merciful blunting of anguish that comes with distance.

But unlike the pain of losing a loved one, where eventually the agony of loss is replaced with loving memories of their virtues, America is forgetting the pain of 9/11 and replacing it with something far worse. We are inviting a repeat of the trauma.

We say we'll never forget. But we have. We are.

In a Psychology Today article from 2011, Dr. Gary Alan Fine wrote:

By the tenth anniversary … September 11th is barely with us. … [O]n most days we think no more about the World Trade Center than we think about Pearl Harbor. September 11th remembrance has become ritualized – a calendrical custom – rather than firmly situated within our national identity.

And this is how it should be. Trauma has an expiration date: a time after which it is no longer relevant as an insistent reality. As a people we have moved on. While there are terrorists about, they excite no more concern than a low-grade fever. The likelihood of an event on the magnitude and complexity of 9/11 occurring again is remote. Radical Islam is in retreat, if it ever were on the march. Yes, a few failed states exist in which radicals have found a home, but no states where the central authority actively pursues a radical Islamic agenda.

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Days that are said to live in infamy have a way, over time, to live as relics. This is to the good. Times change, crises pass, and villains find their evil trimmed. The deaths of 3000 is no trivial matter, of course, and it deserved the shock and anger that we felt in 2001. But in the past decade many have been targeted and many more have succumbed to disasters natural and manmade.

We shall never forget 9/11, perhaps, but only because we have Wikipedia to remind us of what we need to recall.

These paragraphs are just excerpts; I urge you to go read the entire article. While I understand Dr. Fine's desire to "move on" from the national pain our nation experienced that day, I disagree that Wikipedia should become the final repository of 3,000 dead Americans.

You see, the world changed on that date. The collective blinders were ripped off. We saw evil manifested here on our shores. We could no longer claim it only happens "over there" to "someone else."

But what Dr. Fine seems unable or unwilling to grasp when he says "And this is how it should be" is that 9/11 is not over and that our own government is inviting a repeat of the events of that date.

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The crisis Europe is experiencing at the moment will be unfolding soon enough within our own borders. Our government is inviting in – welcoming with open arms – tens of thousands of people whose designs upon America are nefarious at best and unspeakable at worst. The logic behind these open doors absolutely defies rationality or belief.

Our nation has a proud history of immigration. I am the granddaughter of immigrants and have three foreign-born, legally immigrated sisters-in-law of all skin tones, but as Bobby Jindal so aptly said, "Immigration without assimilation is an invasion." Legal immigrants who assimilate and become Americans are one of our greatest treasures. These are the people who are grateful for America's relative freedom and abundance, and desire nothing more than to work hard, raise families, contribute to the economy, teach their children English and otherwise – well, assimilate.

But that's not the kind of people who are making the news lately. We are being invaded – not stealthily, not brutally, but openly and mockingly and with the full cooperation by our own traitorous, treasonous government. For some bizarre, unfathomable and seemingly insane reason, our elected leaders see fit to invite the most barbaric and openly hostile people from across the world to settle in our peaceful communities, to draw welfare in perpetuity, to never assimilate and to spend their leisure time planning future terrorist acts of unspeakable brutality. Wheee.

This same traitorous, treasonous government (face palm) has "negotiated" an agreement with Iran that almost guarantees it'll develop nuclear weapons within a short time. We're even giving it $150 billion for that purpose. And what will happen then? Do you think Iran will sit on its thumbs and be at peace with the rest of the world? Of course not. Iranian leaders have made their intentions quite clear. The only question is which country they'll nuke first before nuking the second: America or Israel.

When Dr. Fine naïvely claims, "The likelihood of an event on the magnitude and complexity of 9/11 occurring again is remote," he is speaking from the depths of vast ignorance and denial. Sept. 11 will happen again, only next time it will be worse. Horrifically worse.

Amazingly – astoundingly – we even have groups who are sympathizing with our enemies, groups who think 9/11 was justified, groups who call for more disruptions, who routinely make threats, who execute random strangers and declare they're doing it for a cause.

And again – amazingly, astoundingly – "right-wing conservatives" are somehow seen as the greatest threat to America. It defies belief.

Contrary to the "We will never forget" platitude, our government desperately wants us forget. It's working very hard to bury the national pain and agony of that day. Washington actively negates 9/11 by doing everything it can – willfully, treacherously – to make sure it will happen again. Can anyone please explain to me why?

One thing has become clear: It has come to the point where we fear our own government just as much as we fear terrorists. Both are actively planning the overthrow of America as we know it. Both are capable of taking away our freedom and independence. Both, for whatever reason, loathe and despise real Americans.

When I think that, I can't help but remember the last few lines of George Orwell's book "Animal Farm": "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

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