"Are you guys ready? Let's roll." The passengers of Flight 93 chose to resist, knowing they might die, for people whose names they would never know. 25 years later — what does that sacrifice require of us?

On September 12, 2001, no one had to argue that Islamist extremism was a real threat. That clarity didn't make us hateful. It made us serious. Where did that seriousness go?

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