There is a “chain-letter” circulating around, encouraging people to fly Old Glory on the anniversary of the 9/11 “tragedy”.

I am confused, honestly.

Somebody has to tell me where I am wrong when I don't see the point of it.

We fly OG to celebrate our achievements in history or to salute our dead heroes. We don't go around either celebrating events where we were victimized, or saluting our victimizers. Flying OG on September, 11, would be tantamount to celebrating a day when we were the victims of the coldest-blooded mass murder in our history, and at the same time saluting the cold-blooded, mass-murderous Islamofascist perpetrators.

Do we fly OG on December 7, the anniversary of the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? No, we don't. We just reminisce of and mourn over the day, and mourn as well over the braves that the Japs felled that murderous day...and curse the Japs for what they did. Caution: Notice the abysmal difference between "Japs" of yore and the Japanese of nowadays; the former were the adherers to bestial Japanese imperialism, the latter, the adherers to effective democracy (the emperor is just a symbol, and the nobility has disappeared) and to living in harmony with nations that adhere to akin principles.

Next September 11, we should fly black flags, to express our profound pain for the victims and --more important-- our intense and unabated, rageful anger at the evil brain-masters and perpetrators of the diabolic deed. There rather should be a nationwide memorial --for the victims, and not for the perpetrators as the Democrats and the rest of the Left would propose-- at places of worship (would Obama's and Jeremiah Wright Trinity United Church join in?), led by a majestic memorial at the National Cathedral. A moment of silence should be observed at public sports and entertainment events.

And last, 9/11 was not a "tragedy"; it was heinously-calculated, flagrantly cold-blooded mass-murder. Those who blame America for anything bad in the world, including when America herself is at the receiving end, have been successful in pegging the term "tragedy" to the cold-blooded, mass-murderous Islamofascist evil deed. Now everyone accepts it automatically, unwittingly agreeing with those subtle America trashers.

That said, is it that it got “lost in the translation” that we should fly OG rather as an expression of defiance against our enemies, rivals and antagonists? If this is what's meant, the risk is that America trashers could gradually, creepingly spin it into a mass act of national repentance and atonement...where there is absolutely nothing to either repent or atone for.

See what the blame America firsters did with the Vietnam War Memorial (aka Vietnam Veterans Memorial). They got a wall on a black slab semi-buried in the ground, as if trying to hide shame . . . for America’s titanic and noble feat of stopping Soviet communism expansionism in South East Asia, a plague that dominoed from Vietnam, fortunately “only” to Laos and Cambodia, along with the more than 2 million murdered by the communists in the three new communist countries: Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

No GO flying for me.

As up today, my plans for September 11 are exactly what I have been doing since the harrowing day: 1- keep Old Glory -- which I inherited from beloved Charlotte Amorette Palmer, a logistics specialist with the Marines in WWII -- in its custom-made mahogany and glass corner vitrine; 2- hang a small, homemade cypress wreath laced with black ribbons from my front door; and 3- take a moment of profound and solemn cogitation for all those felled by Islamofascism on September 11, 2001.