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    What Trump Said to Families of 9/11 Victims
    At a 9/11 anniversary ceremony at the Pentagon, President Donald Trump paid tribute those who died 25 years ago. “We will honor their lives. We will cherish their beautiful memories, and we will protect this country and its freedoms for every future generation,” he said. “We will protect it like never before. For anyone who…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    25 Years Since 9/11
    Today, we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and honor the 2,977 innocent people who were killed that day. For many of us, the details remain ingrained in our memories. We watched the tragedy unfold in real time, struggling to understand the magnitude of what we were witnessing….
    Kevin Roberts
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    Reflections on 9/11 After 25 Years
    Twenty-five years later, the images remain seared into our national memory: A brilliant September sky blackened by smoke; office papers drifting through the canyons of lower Manhattan; strangers running toward danger while thousands fled from it; and, by evening, an America stunned, grieving, and suddenly united. Sept. 11, 2001, was not merely a date on…
    Cully Stimson
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    Saddles and Satellite Radios: The Heroism of 9/11’s Immediate Response
    Only three times in American history has the United States been attacked on its home soil: during the War of 1812, on Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, and on Sept. 11, 2001. In every case, America fought back.  With roughly a third of the American population under 25 years old and living in a…
    Mike Jernigan
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    We’ve Forgotten What the Days After 9/11 Were Like 
    Twenty-five years ago this month, the country we love did something it rarely does: It stopped arguing with itself. For a few weeks after the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, there was no red America or blue America. There was just America, standing in line to give blood, enlisting in numbers recruiters hadn’t seen since Vietnam, hanging flags off overpasses in towns that had…
    Gen. Keith Kellogg | Chad Wolf
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    Remembering the Sept. 11 Attacks
    The largest terror attack in history and the deadliest attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor occurred 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. In 2026, with a whole new generation who were either too young to remember the attacks or were born after they occurred, it is worth pausing to reflect as a…
    Wilson Beaver
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    Georgia Park No Longer Named After Famous ‘Father of American Music’
    The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has officially changed the name of Stephen C. Foster State Park to Okefenokee State Park. Conversations about the change have been occurring for a while, given the park’s connection to Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site this summer. A 2024 report by The…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Mamdani’s Sick, Sly Slap in the Face to 9/11 Families
    On Friday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a proclamation commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. He then quickly ensured the pen used to sign the proclamation was given to a man who represented an al-Qaeda terrorist and a Gitmo detainee described as the “20th hijacker.” Mamdani may as well have…
    Al Perrotta
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Generation That Built America Was the Last of Its Kind
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Our friend, your friend, and I’m a great admirer of David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter and author. He…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    25 Years After 9/11, Have We Finally Realized What We’re Fighting?
    I was born two years before Sept. 11, 2001. I belong to the first generation of Americans for whom the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are not a personal memory. Because I do not remember the morning itself, the television images, or the atmosphere of fear and uncertainty that settled over…
    Kristen Ziccarelli
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    The Jokes of 9/11
    As someone paid to deal with the news each day, it is perhaps not in my best interest to admit that almost everything that comes across your X news feed is disposable. Whatever news has you hot and bothered today, whatever juicy entertainment gossip has you licking your chops, whatever fills the late-night comic’s monologue…
    Al Perrotta
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    When South Carolina Learned to Resist
    On Oct. 19, 1765, a crowd gathered at the corner of Broad and Church streets in Charleston, South Carolina, and built a gallows. An effigy representing South Carolina’s stamp distributor was soon hanging from it beneath a sign that read, “Liberty and no Stamp Act.” The Stamp Act had been passed by Parliament only months…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    Woke on Display: Inside the ‘American Democracy’ Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American History
    The Daily Signal takes you on an eye-opening tour of the Smithsonian Institution‘s National Museum of American History and its “American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith” exhibit, fact-checking claims from the White House and congressional investigations that Smithsonian leadership is on a taxpayer-funded mission to radicalize the once-venerable museum.
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Excise the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
    As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now. Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,”…
    Todd Bensman
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Changed Names. Trump Does It, and Suddenly It’s Tyranny.
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.   We’re in another psychodrama, melodrama controversy, and that is that [President] Donald Trump has just renamed…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Woodrow Wilson’s Vision of ‘Progress’ Was at Odds With Human Nature
    Welcome to the seventh in our series “Landmark Speeches in American History.” We are celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with articles by prominent authors about how some of the greatest speeches in our history—by celebrated orators like Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.—honored the vision of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence….
    Gillian Richards
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    Resistance Becomes Revolution: North Carolina, 1776
    By 1774, North Carolina had spent years learning to resist authority. The Regulation had exposed resentment toward corrupt colonial officials, the Stamp Act crisis had produced organized resistance to Parliament, and the women of Edenton had demonstrated that the Patriot cause was no longer confined to male politicians. Events beyond North Carolina were forcing its…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Atomic Bombs Dropped in Japan Were Not Satanic
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  It’s August, so we have the annual debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The Constitution Can Unify America, Levin Says at SPN Annual Meeting
    ORLANDO, Fla.—In his keynote address at State Policy Network’s Annual Meeting this week, Israeli American journalist and constitutional studies expert Yuval Levin said that the U.S. Constitution once united our nation—and perhaps, surprisingly, might do so again. Hot topics at this year’s gathering ranged from data centers and artificial intelligence in health care to school…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Dolly Parton, RIP: The Story of Her Most Famous Song Embodies Her Life Story—and the American Dream
    Dolly Parton died Tuesday of cancer at the age of 80, surrounded by loved ones. She was loved like few other entertainers in American history. The story of how her most famous song, “I Will Always Love You,” came to be—and how Whitney Houston came to record it—may be the best of all the Parton…
    Lee Habeeb
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