Our military and their families carry a heavy burden on behalf of all of us. That makes the threat against them by a shadowy outfit claiming affiliation with ISIS particularly heinous.
A group, calling itself the “Islamic State Hacking Division,” posted the names, home addresses and photos of one hundred American service members and called for attacks against them.
This is not news. Since 9/11, terrorists have wanted to kill us in our own backyard. In May 2007, six Islamist terrorists were arrested for planning an assault on Fort Dix, N.J., with assault rifles and grenades. In November 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 32 more fellow soldiers in a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas—the most despicable terrorist attack against the U.S. military on American soil in modern memory.
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