We Remember.

As everybody knows, today marks a profoundly important day in the history of our country. After September 11th, America—and the world—would never be the same.

All around the globe, the wicked celebrate this anniversary, while the good and decent pause in their labors only for a moment—then rejoin the fight with redoubled resolve.

It was an attack on our values, even on our way of life. But this challenge has brought us together, showing that while we may disagree on many things, on this issue all Americans speak as one.

We all know the story: a small group of highly trained fanatics, working in secret and brainwashed after years of exposure to poisonous doctrine, came together to execute a plan surely authored by Satan himself.

That these misguided young men were successful is tragedy enough. But the greater heartbreak is that their actions have inspired others around the world to follow in their footsteps. The conflagration they started shows no signs of abating.

I’m talking, of course, about the founding of The Yale Record. On September 11, 1872, a group of students at Yale University created what was to become the first humorous undergraduate periodical. Once unleashed, this type of humor spread relentlessly, as if guided by some aged-yet-ageless scotch-drinking bird.

Now, 135 years later, what was started in New Haven has engulfed the entire planet—on TV, in Hollywood, and on the web, college humor is the dominant form of comedy in America and the world. Not bad for a bunch of people who were probably half in-the-bag.

So have one on us today, because at The Yale Record, we may not remember everything, but we will never forget.