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Ron Martz: Have we changed for the better since 9/11?
National unity after attacks has given way to fear, division, weaker military, reduced world stature
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President Barak Obama, left, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, second from right, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, right, bow their heads as a prayer is said Sunday at a Sept. 11 memorial observance ceremony at the Pentagon. - photo by Cliff Owen
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, there was some thought that as a nation we would become united as at no time since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. We would stand together to repel the insidious threats from sources we did not fully understand. We would reverse the trend in military downsizing and beef up our troops and weapons so that only the foolhardy would dare attack us again.