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JOHN ONDRASIK: What 9/11 taught us about courage, unity and the price of freedom

Last updated: September 11, 2026 12:09 pm
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9/11 occurred on a Tuesday.

In October 2009, I released a song entitled “Tuesday” — a musical plea to never forget the lessons of September 11, 2001, when Islamic terrorists murdered 2,977 innocent people on American soil.

Is Monday coming back

Thats what Mondays do

They turn and turn around

Afraid to see it through

Welcome to Monday.

9/11 IS BECOMING HISTORY. MY GENERATION MUST MAKE SURE AMERICA NEVER FORGETS

Performing my song “Superman” at Paul McCartneys Concert for New York City was one of the great honors of my life. To spend that day — and share that stage — with heroic New York City first responders and the families of those murdered was an incredibly humbling, life-changing experience.

Much of the audience at Madison Square Garden consisted of firefighters, police officers, rescue workers and others who had spent the previous month sifting through the rubble and carnage of Ground Zero. The images of thousands of people singing, screaming, crying and embracing one another remain seared into my memory. For a few hours, music gave them — and all of us — a chance to release some of the pain we carried within.

I LOST MY WIFE ON 9/11. PLEASE LET THIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY BELONG TO THE FAMILIES

The world sang and cried with us.

You may remember what happened in the aftermath of 9/11. America came together in a way we had rarely seen before and have not seen since. There was no red America and blue America. There was only red, white and blue.

Americans stood shoulder to shoulder across the country with compassion, love and resolve — and with an unequivocal commitment to bring Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network to justice.

The thing about memories

Theyre sure and bound to fade

Except for the stolen souls

Left upon her blade

Imagine standing in your neighborhood on September 12, 2001, and telling your neighbor what America might look like 25 years later.

Imagine telling them that radical leftist ideologies, hostile to America , would infiltrate some of our most prestigious universities and metastasize through mainstream and social media. That members of Congress would echo propaganda promoted by terrorist

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organizations such as Hamas. That candidates could associate with people who openly express hatred for America—or even suggest America deserved 9/11—and still win elections and govern American cities.

They would not have believe you, such lunacy!

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