How To Be a Heroic Hotshot
Commemorating 9/11 and the Granite Mountain Hotshots
Comrades: The word hero is reserved for precious few mortals.
Yesterday, we remembered the heroes of September 11, 2001. New York’s finest citizens perished that day and in the hazardous cleanup efforts, which the EPA deemed “safe”. Since then, NYC has devolved into another soulless, spineless Karenland FUPAZ full of sociopaths and soy bugmen. It only took 20 years to go from the bravery of running into burning towers to the cowardice of masking, jabbing, and snitching or banning those who do not comply.
Thousands of firefighters, police officers, and first responders were fired for not getting the jab. ~400,000 mostly poor minority children are still banned from extracurriculars for not getting an injected that European countries recommend against for that age group. Just as I will never forget my high school classmate bawling when she found out she lost her father in one of the towers, I will never forget the disgusting mandates and rhetoric from Karenland FUPAZ leaders in the COVID era. Nor will I forget the silence of those who I once thought were intelligent or principled enough to stand against them.
A real New Yorker sums it up:
In sickening symbolic moves, the Freedom Tower has been renamed One World Trade and the 9/11 Memorial Museum has closed permanently because COVID lockdowns destroyed attendance. I visited shortly after it opened and went on a tour with a man who lost his son, as every tour was given by someone who was affected by the tragedy. The museum provided tissues in every room because everyone bawled. Now these artifacts can only be viewed online and will be stored in Albany, far from the public eye.
Bolshevik Bill De Blasio’s wife stole $1 billion for a failed mental health initiative. Current Mayor Eric “Instagram” Adams is picking up the tab for 5,000 hotel rooms to takes selfies with illegal immigrants, which amounts to $1 million per night. Yet there are no public funds available to save the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed…
In 2013, 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots made the ultimate sacrifice battling the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona. It was the largest loss of life of firemen since 9/11. Let us honor their lesser known story.
Only the Brave was a fitting tribute to these heroes. The emotions and special effects were visceral. It is only the fourth movie that made me cry because many of the hotshots left young children behind, which was heart wrenching as a new father. The other 3 tearjerkers were Saving Private Ryan (as a grown man waking up to the WEF Wehrmacht’s silent war), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (as a teenager going through his first heartbreak), and The Fox and the Hound (as a kid moving away from friends). Director Joseph Kosinski and several cast members also collaborated to make Top Gun: Maverick, which is easily the best movie of the past decade and the only movie I’ve seen in theaters in the 2020s. In a world of degeneracy, wokeness, and cowardice, movies about heroism are even more stirring.
Sole survivor Brandon McDonough wrote a memoir called “My Lost Brothers”. He has the redemptive arc of an addict who found a calling and brotherhood as a Granite Mountain hotshot. Many of the hotshots were God fearing family men who put themselves in harm’s way every day for minimum wage. If 4% of the population are sociopaths, 60% follow along with authority, and 36% are free thinkers, then maybe 4% are true heroes like these men. Throughout history, that percentage has come up again and again as the heroes of a populace who led revolutions - including ours in 1776.
To the heroes of Granite Mountain: You fought fires that were hotter than hell itself. May you rest in heaven and serve as an inspiration for all of us. I hope to pay my respects at your memorial one day.
The following organizations deserve our support:
West Valley Republicans: one of my readers works at this grassroots organization near Yarnell that supports the Valley View Food Bank, organizes bi-monthly blood drives, and hosts Constitution, Biblical Citizenship, Voting Rights and Issues, etc. Hopefully they can help Blake Masters and Kari Lake win.
Last minute Sunday night update:
Just when you thought the US Tennis Association could not sink any lower after banning Novak Djokovic and taking Moderna’s blood money, they did. After an incredible final where the Carlos Alcaraz beat Casper Ruud to claim his first Grand Slam and the youngest ever #1 ranking, USTA Chairman of the Board Michael McNulty disgraced the sport all over again. He gave a corny politicized speech that did not mention September 11 at all. Instead, he wore a Ukraine pin and called for a “swift end to an unprovoked war”.
Casper Ruud spared his blushes and began his runner up interview with heartfelt remarks about 9/11. Carlos Alcaraz did as well. Emma Raducanu and Leila Fernandez did the same last year when they played their final on September 11. It took four foreigners, three of whom hadn’t even been born when 9/11 happened, to recognize a solemn day that Americans themselves seem to have forgotten for The Current Thing. A simultaneous white pill and black pill if I’ve ever seen one.
I will have a longer post about the state of tennis as a sport in the coming weeks.
"one world trade" - how very WEF.
Reminds me of Google dropping "don't be evil" as their mantra. I mean, why?
This is a good post.
When those cave divers rescued the Thai schoolboys, my letter in a regional paper was published excoriating the "toxic masculinity" crowd. The goal of public education these days seems to be to neuter boys as early as possible; to make the natural developmental stages of boys into a pathology that must be therapized out of existence.
The full-on war against enjoying any outdoor activities during our Plague lockdowns was a war on all children, of course, but turning active boys into depressed online captives, that was malignant in the extreme.