Remembering 9-11-2001

Our heart felt prayers and thoughts go out today to those families who lost loved ones 9-11-2001 on America’s darkest day. We also send our thoughts to the ones who lost sons and daughters in the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “WE WILL NEVER FORGET”! On this seventh annivesary it’s appropriate to put down our partianship and realize that seven years ago on that fateful day none of us were Democrats, none of us were Republicans, we were ALL Americans. There were no red states or blue states that day; there were no whites, blacks, Hispanics or Asians – we all were one albeit for a short time.

I’m writing this at 8:34, about 10 minutes prior to when the first plane hit the first tower at the WTC at 8:46. My wife and I had actually sat in Logan Airport on Monday, September 10,2001; I was working in New England at the time selling portraits; she had joined me for a mini-vacation and I was waiting with her till her plane flew out later in the day. We had been on the phone the night before begging the airlines to change her ticket so she could leave a day later but was not allowed to. I see that now as God’s providence and protection on our lives. Had she flown out a day later we would have been affected directly by this terrible tragedy.

The day of 9-11 I was in Manchester, New Hampshire; I had went to a local bookstore about 8 that morning; got back to the hotel room about 8:50 when I noticed a message to call my wife asap. When she came on the phone she was in tears and said calmly, “turn on the TV.” It was then I saw where the first plane had hit; then witnessed in horror as other Americans the second plane hitting at 9:15. We both cried on the phone knowing we were 24 hours removed from the airport where the planes flew out of and how close we had come to being more involved in the affects. It was and will be a day this writer will never forget even if he lives to be 100 years old.

What I am about to say next may sound political, but it is not; it is from the heart of someone who loves this nation and is proud to be an American citizen. The people who attacked America on 9-11-2001 attacked America not because of our ‘foreign’ policy or any other reason than simple religious hatred; hatred for Israel; hatred for Christianity; hatred for democracy; hatred for anyone who did not embrace the jihadism of Islam, the religion that was behind the attitudes that caused the loss of nearly 3,000 on 9-11 and now another 4,000 of our young men and women who were sent into harms way to defend the nation from further terrorism.

When I hear people insinuate America or George Bush orchestrated these events on 9-11 as to perform some kind of sick political stunt it makes my blood run red. That is the highest form of offensive and stupid talk I think one could engage in. When people think such they are as deluded as an individual can be. Enough said on that but let this writer be clear. The morons who think such do not love their country and are not patriots and to be blunt about it don’t deserve the freedoms this nation has provided them to spouse such stupidity. The nations controlled by the same religious framework of those who perpetrated 9-11 would not allow them to speak such; if they did, most of them would have had their heads lopped off. Only in a free society like America can people spouse their opinions freely no matter how far out those opinions are.

Islam hates Israel; because America supports Israel (AND RIGHTLY SO) Islam thus hates America. These acts were not planned overnight; the events of 9-11 were planned years out by all viewpoints and were not done as a response to the election of George W. Bush as some believe. I actually read one article on the Internet a few days ago that insinuated such saying that America’s enemies had reason to attack us when Bush took office because of his policies. Bush had not been in office but nine months when these events took place; Clinton had been in office 8 years and had not responded to the warning shots fired across the bow in 1993 at the first World Trade Center bombings and then the subsequent bombings in 1998 of the U.S. Cole and American Embassy in Kenya. That is not to be taken as this writer is blaming Bill Clinton; he is not. 9-11 was going to take place no matter the external circumstances in our nation’s politics.

It’s 8:46 now as we observe with a local program here in town a moment of silence for the victims.

In looking back it makes us know that for just a short time this nation showed what can be done when it comes together. You cannot negotiate with men like the ones who did these acts of terror. There is evil in the world that goes beyond American foreign policy or who is in the White House.

I plan to write a blog tommorow about the two different viewpoints of the world by both John McCain and Barrack Obama as it pertains to terrorism; today is not the day for that; we’ll get back to politics then.

For today, our hearts go out to the numerous families in this nation who lost loved ones seven years ago on that infamous and dark day that will remain engrained on this writer’s heart till the day he dies. We must never forget what happened; sadly, many have. Others have remembered and instead of humbling themselves and looking at the greater good spiritually for the nation, they have hardened their heart and became more cynical, more biased, more racist, and more jaded than ever before.

We cannot afford as a nation to become such. America the Beautiful is beautiful because of the PEOPLE in this great nation; we’re not perfect; but if we don’t come together as a nation soon then should God forbid another act of terrorism take place as took place on 9-11, we will be destroyed.

May God bless America today and beyond but more importantly, may America bless God in these troubled times.

“WE WILL NEVER FORGET”

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