9/11 Reflection

I'm sitting on my couch, and I can see a local police cruiser making a drive through my neighborhood. When we first moved in, seeing this made me nervous. Was my neighborhood so dangerous that it required the police to check in? Over time though, I came to a realization. While the town C and I settled on for our first home together isn't the most picturesque and has a bad crime rep, our specific neighborhood isn't so crime stricken that the police need to tame it. The police presence is just the opposite. Their drive-throughs are a reminder that they are present in a town that they swore to protect. They observe and are always ready and on the front line. 
While I know that I have a large bias because of C's involvement in law enforcement and in the military; I stand behind our troops, our police officers, firefighters, first responders, doctors, nurses, the whole lot. These are the people who keep this world going around. I don't engage in any "black lives matter" or "police brutality" topics that have plagued our media lately. This is not because I do believe that black lives or officer's lives do not matter. They each hold unmeasurable value, just as any other life matters. 
However, what is on my mind today, is the same thing that is on every other American's mind. Fourteen years ago, in 2001, I was a little girl and I tried to understand the tragedy my mother was explaining to me. However, what a monumental movement I got to see as our nation came together as one. One nation who honored heroes and saw no race, color, religion, sex, origin, age, or disability.
We saw patriotism. 
Today, on the anniversary of September 11th, 2001, I have seen endless of posts stating "never forget" and honoring the police and other heroes who stepped up and who lost their lives on September 11th. Let me disclaim that I feel the same sense of patriotism that each of these posts express. What I cannot understand is how our culture can further promote and make villains of the same heroes and their brothers who they are commemorating today.   
What I cannot understand is how we, as a society, can memorialize and idolize these heroes on this somber day, and yet make villains of them every other day. The posts of "#neverforget" are a fallacy when they are among a sea of ignorance built by each hateful thing shared by the nation who once bound together as one colorless force of Americans. 

Heroism is eternal. Think before you post.