Today, 14 years ago, "our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts." Many children were left fatherless, motherless, and some even orphans. The city of New York was dark, covered with smoke, dust, ash, glass and debris. Many firefighters, police officers, military service men and women and innocent civilians were killed. There were those killed instantly- as the men and women serving our country rushed to the site, as fast as they could, being stopped in their tracks as the buildings fell on top of them. The surviving ones- running, not from terror, but right into it, searching for the ones left alive. As our whole country mourns, two more planes crash. One into The Pentagon, and another brought down by U.S civilians willing to give up their lives for my country.
And today there are kids without parents, women and men left widowed and a country with no security. So now we must pray. Pray for healing in the families of those killed and left disabled during this tragic terroristic act, pray for healing in our country, our schools and our churches. And pray that as the media and schools talk less and less about what happened yesterday, we the people talk more and more about the truth about who we are as a nation.
Just hours after this happened, our then-president George W. Bush gave a speech that not only threatened the terrorists behind the mass act of terrorism. Please take five minutes out of your day and listen to the words of a man who knew how to run and take care of our country.
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