Why is this question being asked?

Why is this a question?

Is the country ready for ‘United 93?’

Did anyone ask if the country was ready for V for Vendetta, or American Dreamz? Of course not, and for two key reasons:

1) They can make whatever damn movie they want. If you don't want it to be made, then you don't make it. You don't get to decide that someone else can't make it either. It's well established that if an artist wants to create something, more power to 'em. I thought this question was settled when the NEA defended funding "Piss Christ".

2) Because those movies, and others, slam the current administration and its policies, to one degree or another, and thus are perfectly acceptable. What is not acceptable, apparently, is portraying ordinary Americans as extraordinary people.

I don't know if I'm ready for United 93. I want to see it, I'll buy it when it comes out on DVD, I know it's a story that desperately needs to be told and re-told, but I don't know if I have the fortitude for the theatre experience. But bless the producers and director for making this film.

Let me try and make this clear and please don't misunderstand. The firemen and policemen who died in the World Trade Center, the men and women killed in the Pentagon, were heroes for being firemen and policemen and for serving their country, not necessarily for anything special they did on 9/11/2001. The fact they were willing to do a job that most people would not, to risk (at best) their reputation and (at worst) their lives made them heroes.

Indeed, members of those departments, and PD's and FD's around the nation, members of our Armed Forces, are our heroes. To focus on the police, the best of them prove the truth of Sir Robert Peel's principles of law enforcement, most especially:

Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The key phrase is "the police are the public and the public are the police". How is this relevant to United 93? Because those passengers gave rise to Peel's observation that the police perform the duties "which are incumbent on every citizen".

They knew what was happening, they knew how things would end. They opted not to be passive, they took action and it cost them their lives. We will never know how many lives were saved but we should damnwell honor their sacrifice and remember what happened.

So yeah, hell yeah, United 93 had to be made, and we ought to be ready for it because we should never forget what happened that day. Not ever. And certainly we should never forget the sacrifices willingly made.