{"id":639,"date":"2017-09-11T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/09\/11\/not-made-of-cotton-candy\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:28:01","slug":"not-made-of-cotton-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not Made of Cotton Candy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8242,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.defense.gov\\\/News\\\/Article\\\/Article\\\/1305754\\\/mattis-dunford-honor-pentagons-fallen-survivors-families-16-years-after-911&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIt is somewhat hard to believe that September 11, 2001 was sixteen years ago. It still seems so clear in my memory that I feel like it was only yesterday that those four airplanes filled with mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, were hijacked and made into weapons. I guess this is the way all seminal events in our lives feel.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to the speech given by Secretary of Defense James Mattis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Article\/Article\/1305754\/mattis-dunford-honor-pentagons-fallen-survivors-families-16-years-after-911\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today<\/a>. He said, &#8220;But we Americans are not made of cotton candy, we are not seaweed drifting in the current, we are not intimidated by our enemies.&#8221; He was right. It filled our nation with a terrible resolve to use Admiral Yamamoto&#8217;s words after the Pearl Harbor surprise attack. We struck back and we struck hard.<\/p>\n<p>While today is officially known as Patriot Day, I will continue to use the old term of September 11th. I will remember those lost that day and those that died in the conflicts that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Mattis&#8217; full speech is below. His quote used in the headline comes at about the 1:45 mark.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ypfEQusBRvM\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is somewhat hard to believe that September 11, 2001 was sixteen years ago. It still seems so clear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1457,1458],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-james-mattis","tag-september-11th"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11155,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}