Fox News opinion writer Liz Peek argues that Americans must not allow the political left to downplay or reframe the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks as the 25th anniversary approaches. She singles out Rep. Ilhan Omar's remark that "some people did something" as an attempt to obscure the fact that Islamist terrorists deliberately killed thousands of Americans, and insists the historical record of who carried out the attacks and why must be preserved.

Peek recounts her own memories of the day as a New York resident, including her daughters' fear that the attacks had struck their father's nearby office, colleagues escaping the debris and ash-covered chaos, and the citywide fear of further strikes in the weeks that followed, when 2,977 people were confirmed killed. She also describes the New York Philharmonic's Brahms Requiem performance weeks later, attended by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, as a symbol of a city and country forever changed by the attacks.