September 11, 2001, is one of those days in American history that will “live in infamy.” Just like the Japanese on December 7, 1941, who thought they could strike a mortal blow against the United States by their dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor, Osama bin Laden believed he could so weaken America, with his attack on multiple sites on the East Coast, that the country might never fully recover from it.

The Japanese were wrong in 1941 and found out, pretty quickly, that they were wrong. 

Osama bin Laden was wrong, too. Twenty-five years later, America is still the strongest nation in the world, with the most powerful military that can humble a nation using only a fraction of its power, and an economy that remains the envy of the world. Millions upon millions of people still migrate to America because America is…well, it’s America. The symbol of freedom, prosperity, and all that should be right in the world. We don’t mind immigrants coming to America; we only wish they’d come legally, as previous generations did, and become true Americans — not try to change the country into their image.

But the Japanese didn’t succeed in stopping America. Osama bin Laden didn’t succeed in humbling the country. And if the hate-America immigrants think they are going to do it, they’ve got a long, hard battle ahead of them.

America — true America — the land of the free, the home of the brave — a country “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”—this country is far from finished.

And the great people within it — which,........

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