One of the problems with society’s chronic attention deficit disorder (ADD) is that we move so quickly from last week’s story, no matter what it was, to this week’s story without looking back. The impact or lessons of what just happened are never given enough time to sink in.
If you were to travel to Ireland, you might notice the numerous murals throughout the country that depict happenings and people that Irish culture refuses to forget and commits to remember. This is so embedded into the culture that an eight-year-old Irish youth can tell you by name who all of the 1981 hunger strikers were.
To be sure, until lately life has moved slower in Ireland, so it takes longer for new events to wipe out the memory of past events. In the meantime, you’ve had time to more fully absorb what your culture has collectively experienced.
The opposite is true throughout most of the West. Charlie Kirk was assassinated just over a year ago, and even conservatives are starting to forget the particulars. President Donald Trump was almost assassinated in July 2024, and people are generally not even curious about the would-be assassin Thomas Crooks. Collectively, we all experienced the myriad of lies and the deception throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but we’ve moved on. This past September, we marked the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 radical Islamic terrorist attacks on our homeland, and the number of people remembering that day is dwindling.
It doesn’t help that the left controls most of the levers of curation. For a long time, the Big Tech platforms wouldn’t even allow you to see those planes ramming into the World Trade Center towers because such content was deemed “unsafe,” but for whom? One could only conclude that the platforms were more concerned with perceptions of radical Islamists than the obligation to preserve the historical significance of that event within American culture.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas executed one of the most horrific and cold-blooded attacks on peaceful, unarmed people in history. Over 1,200 people were murdered, and another 251 were taken hostage.
The minute Israel started to retaliate in kind to Hamas, the leftist media decided to memory hole the October 7 attacks. Instead, the left reframed the whole situation, painting Israel as the aggressor, as though it had no right to defend itself and to permanently eliminate such a geographically close threat to its people and its national sovereignty.
One tech platform, Twitter, which Elon Musk had purchased in 2022 and rebranded in 2023 with a commitment to free speech, decided it would not memory hole those October 7 attacks. And so, on this somber anniversary, I’m not going to say much more, but give you some reminders of the brutality that happened on that day – a day in X posts.
Warning: These posts are not for the faint of heart, but we cannot forget what Hamas did, and what every “pro-Palestine” activist today is defending.
This was Gaza three years ago on October 7. Palestinians were kissing the floor with joy as Hamas paraded dead Jews through the streets. Remember this the next time you see someone call them the victims. https://t.co/LvHZU903Kf
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 7, 2026
This is Gaza on October 7, 2023. Thousands of Gazan civilians celebrate Hamas parading dead bodies of Jews and spitting them and hitting them with iron bars. Savages. https://t.co/K3tMXATtZp
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 7, 2026
On October 6, they were a family. On October 7, they were burned alive and reduced to ashes by Hamas terrorists. Johnny, Tamar, Shahar and Arbel (6) and Omer (4) Siman Tov. Never forget October 7, 2023. https://t.co/ONIgUq2rCi
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 7, 2026
Never forget the Bibas Family. 💔🇮🇱 Kidnapped from their home 3 years ago on October 7th 2023. Held hostage in Gaza. Then killed in “cold blood” by their captors. This is what ‘Free Palestine’ activists mean when they call for Palestinian ‘resistance.’ https://t.co/2hMYuOgfon
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 6, 2026
If you have forgotten this video, you have likely forgotten October 7th. https://t.co/nskR1clYEF
— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 (@EliAfriatISR) October 5, 2026
October 7, 2023, in Israel. Hamas terrorists shot a father to death while he was holding his daughter. One of the most horrifying videos from that day. How anyone can not stand with Israel blows my mind. https://t.co/nRZT8hxLW8
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) September 15, 2026
JUST IN: German-Israeli festival attendee Shani Louk, who was filmed being paraded around in her underwear by Hamas with her legs broken, is confirmed dead. The news comes after her mother told news outlets earlier in the month that her daughter was alive. The family says Louk is now confirmed dead and believes she was killed by a bullet to the head on October 7, the day of the attack. “We are devastated to share that the death of 23-year-old German-Israeli Shani Luk was confirmed,” Israel's foreign ministry said. “Shani who was kidnapped from a music festival and tortured and paraded around Gaza by Hamas terrorists, experienced unfathomable horrors. Our hearts are broken. May her memory be a blessing.” Devastating.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 30, 2023
I could have tried to provide analysis as others have done, but for me it’s the fact that we could see in so many ways exactly what happened on October 7 for ourselves, and it is still hard to comprehend that it really happened.
On some days, we owe it to the victims to not look away. Sometimes, we owe it to the victims and their families to remind ourselves of what actually happened, so that future news cycles don’t erase something like this from our collective memory.
Take a moment today to pray for the victims, their families, and for Israel.
