We all remember exactly where we were 7 years ago today. I was at Mounds View High School, just coming back from a morning meeting, when the phone in my classroom rang. Jeremy was at home in our first apartment in New Brighton, and told me to turn on the news. A bunch of teachers gathered around my TV and we watched in horror what was unfolding. I was so grateful that due to construction, our school was starting late that year and there were no students yet.
Here are excerpts from Joel Rosenberg's blog today (please click on the link I have to the right to read the rest and his other entries -- they are excellent.)
"Never forget the evil done to us seven years ago today. Never get fogged about the evil that will be done to us if we get distracted and confused.
As horrible as September 11 was, it pales in comparison to what al Qaeda has been praying and planning for a decade at least: acquiring weapons of mass destruction – ideally nuclear weapons – to be used against the United States to kill between four and ten million Americans.
Even in the darkest days of the cold war, we could count on the fact that the Soviets, just like us, wanted to live. Not so with the terrorists. Al-Qaida boasts that while we fear death, they embrace it.”
Please remember to pray for our leaders today, and never forget what happened 7 years ago.
4 comments:
Thanks, Steph
I was at my 2nd day on the job at Robroy. It was a little strange to experience something like that with people I had just met. Thanks for the thoughts.
I was on my route truck headed to my next stop when I heard about what had happend over the radio. It was a surreal moment in time, almost like your ears and eyes could not quite allow your mind to process what was taking place. Being quite the action movie buff, it was almost like watching a big bugget special effects scenece out of a die hard movie. Unfortainetly it was no effect and there was nothing special about what was taking place.
I had written several more thoughts down about my thoughts on Al-Qaida, well really it was more like a short story.However,after going back and reading it, I decided to delete it out of respect for Steph and any one else who would have been offended by my comments.
I realize as Christians we are taught that you have to be able to forgive the ones who have hurt or done you wrong in life. I do not think that America is any where close to that moment in time. Nor do I believe that we ever will get there any time soon. I know I am not.
Please pray for our troops and their families. Also and most importantly pray for the families who lost their loved ones on 9-11 and especailly the children. GOD bless them with the strength to get past what happend and go on with their lives which is what their mothers or fathers would have wanted. And GOD help the rest of us to never forget what happend, ever!!!
That picture is burned into my mind.
What I remember most is waking up on the 12th of Sept. thinking how are they going to attack us today. If you would have told me we wouldn't be attacked again in 7 years I would have said your crazy.
It's amazing the unity the country had...Now it's all gone. How can we have forgotten so fast? How can we be so divided in a time of such great danger?
President Bush is very unpopular but I have a feeling as the time passes we are going to look back and say "Job well done Mr. President"
Please listen to what is being said over the next couple of months this is a very important election I pray America chooses a candidate that knows what it takes to fight evil.
Not one who HOPES too avoid evil.
DON'T LET OUR NATION BECOME AN OBAMANATION
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