By Diana WestThis Memorial Day, according to our civilian and military leadership, the Fort Hood fallen do not rate remembrance as war dead. As a result, no Purple Hearts have been awarded for military casualties (as in the 9/11 attacks), no combat death benefits are awarded their survivors, no recognition is given to Hasan's jihad. As the general says, we may never even know why they died.
This is just the way our leadership wants it -- "senseless," as President Obama put it, describing another 2009 jihadist attack that killed Pvt. William Long and wounded Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula outside a Little Rock, Ark., recruiting station. That trial, which begins in July, is currently subject to a tug of war between prosecutor Larry Jegley and defendant Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad. Jegley is determined to prosecute Muhammad as "nothing but a street thug" accused of "just a drive-by shooting." Muhammad, a Muslim convert who may have studied with a jihadist imam in Yemen where he drew the attention of the FBI, is pleading, strenuously, to be tried as a confessed jihadist. Like the rest of our government, the prosecutor is pushing jihad down the memory hole.
Which makes you wonder: By next Memorial Day, who will remember?