The Brave. Like my brother who personally oversaw the evacuation of his floor of Building 7… and no, his corner office columns were never wrapped in detonation explosives. No, he walked the entire floor one last time before following his co-workers down the stairway.

The Brave. Like my friend FBI Agent John O’Neill who was last seen going up Tower 2 to rescue the victims, most already dead.

The Brave . Like my friend who took the pictures of the North side of Building 7 with two floors ablaze and a company of firefighters who had been turned away, dejected and disgusted. I was the one who posted the photo on a Truther’s blog… a photo now widely spread and attributed to an “anonymous” source.

The Brave. Our friends and quiet anonymous neighbors who boarded planes for flights to see those they loved, those they laughed with. Those they left with broken hearts and shattered worlds.

The Brave. Like those of us who have a general grasp of the killers, a motivated and meticulous team of religious zealots, murderers all. We’ve learned the names of the guilty, names which do not include “Cheney” or “Rumsfeld.”

The Brave. We who continue to hunt for Bin Laden and all Al Qaeda brethren committed to killing more Americans. We realize that for all of our government’s lies of the past, we remain focused on the realities at hand. For all our shortcomings, we know the value of a “Canary in the Coalmine”… and the perverse Prairie Dog Panic of the delusional “Truthers.”

Yes, it is always wise to know the failings and the propaganda of our nation’s darker moments. Better still to understand the history of the Mideast, the meaning of Jihad, and the extreme underpinnings of the Wahabi followers of Abd al-Wahhab… the Saudi Arabian sect of Islam that took unspeakable terror into the skies on September 11, 2001.

It haunts us still. And it hunts us with a bloodlust.

The Brave. Like my brother who personally oversaw the evacuation of his floor of Building 7… and no, his corner office columns were never wrapped in detonation explosives. No, he walked the entire floor one last time before following his co-workers down the stairway.

The Brave. Like my friend FBI Agent John O’Neill who was last seen going up Tower 2 to rescue the victims, most already dead.

The Brave . Like my friend who took the pictures of the North side of Building 7 with two floors ablaze and a company of firefighters who had been turned away, dejected and disgusted. I was the one who posted the photo on a Truther’s blog… a photo now widely spread and attributed to an “anonymous” source.

The Brave. Our friends and quiet anonymous neighbors who boarded planes for flights to see those they loved, those they laughed with. Those they left with broken hearts and shattered worlds.

The Brave. Like those of us who have a general grasp of the killers, a motivated and meticulous team of religious zealots, murderers all. We’ve learned the names of the guilty, names which do not include “Cheney” of “Rumsfeld.”

The Brave. We who continue to hunt for Bin Laden and all Al Qaeda brethren committed to killing more Americans. We realize that for all of our government’s lies of the past, we remain focused on the realities at hand. For all our shortcomings, we know the value of a “Canary in the Coalmine”… and the perverse Prairie Dog Panic of the delusional “Truthers.”

Yes, it is always wise to know the failings and the propaganda of our nation’s darker moments. Better still to understand the history of the Mideast, the meaning of Jihad, and the extreme underpinnings of the Wahabi followers of Abd al-Wahhab… the Saudi Arabian sect of Islam that took unspeakable terror into the skies on September 11, 2001.

It haunts us still. And it hunts us with a bloodlust.

Truer words were never spoken. The problem is some people will believe them because they are words that fit there beliefs. You can find them under every rock. There the uniformed many of them will believe anything . They are in the Streets of our Nations Capital to day protesting. What they do not no and they do not want to no. They have been Indoctrinated to believe anything that some people want them to.

And the history of governments (and corporations, and individuals) hiding things — often for good reasons — makes reasonable people want to give the fringes some ability to be heard.

The only thing that I can suggest is that journalists keep patiently explaining the truth (as they see it) and address conspiracy theories as they can.