Never Forget!

Never Forget. Never Surrender.

On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists struck the heart of America. Nineteen al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four commercial airliners and turned them into weapons. Two planes destroyed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. One struck the Pentagon. The fourth, United Flight 93, was brought down in a Pennsylvania field by passengers who fought back rather than let the enemy reach its target in Washington, D.C.

Nearly 3,000 people were murdered that day. Fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, first responders, and civilians from more than 90 nations. The attacks were not random. They were a deliberate act of jihad, planned and celebrated by those who hate the West, hate freedom, and hate Christianity itself.

Why We Must Keep 9/11 Alive in Our Memory

Memory is not nostalgia. Memory is defense.

When a nation forgets the cost of its freedom, it becomes vulnerable to those who never forget their hatred. The ideology that produced 9/11 did not die with Osama bin Laden. It lives in the sermons, the recruitment videos, the “peaceful” protests that still glorify martyrdom, and the quiet demographic and political advances that seek to transform Western societies from within.

To forget 9/11 is to disarm ourselves. It is to tell the next generation that the blood of 2,977 innocents was an unfortunate event rather than a declaration of war against our way of life. The Red Templar Cross reminds us: the Word is our Sword, Faith is our Armor. We do not lay down either.

Why the Young Generations Must Be Educated

Most young people today were not alive on September 11, 2001. Many have been taught a sanitized version of history—if they have been taught anything at all. Some curricula soft-pedal the religious motivation of the attackers. Others treat the event as a tragedy without an enemy, or worse, as something America somehow “brought upon itself.”

This is not education. It is erasure.

Young people must learn:

•  Who planned the attacks and why.

•  That the ideology of radical Islam explicitly targets Christians, Jews, and free societies.

•  That courage looked like the passengers of Flight 93, the firefighters who ran into the towers, and the ordinary Americans who enlisted in the years that followed.

•  That silence and “tolerance” without truth only embolden those who seek our destruction.

If we fail to teach this, we raise a generation that cannot recognize the same threat when it appears in new forms—whether through mass migration without assimilation, political candidates who downplay jihad, or cultural pressure to treat criticism of Islam as bigotry.

The Importance of Memorial Participation

Memorials are not mere ceremonies. They are public acts of defiance against forgetting.

Standing in silence at Ground Zero, or at local City Halls across America at the same hour, is a declaration: We still remember. We still stand. We still refuse to surrender the truth.

As the 25th anniversary approaches in 2026, Knights Templar 2.0 and Crusade X call Christians and patriots to more than private remembrance. We call for visible, coordinated presence—local City Hall vigils timed to the moments of silence at Ground Zero, and a march in New York from City Hall to the sacred ground where the towers once stood. These are not partisan spectacles. They are acts of Christian witness and national resolve.

When believers gather under the Red Templar Cross, holding signs that proclaim the truth of what happened and the faith that sustains us, we do more than honor the dead. We train the living. We show our children that some things are worth standing for in public, even when the culture prefers silence.

Word is our Sword.

Faith is our Armor.

We are Defenders of Christianity.

On September 11, and every day after, we refuse to forget. We refuse to look away. We refuse to let the next generation inherit amnesia.

Never forget.

Never surrender.

This is the way.