I'm sure our brotherhood needs no reminder, but I just wanted to say lets show our Patriotism , and respect for all those that perished and suffered 10 years ago.

" Time is passing. Yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children."
- President George W. Bush

Right on Hooker,let old glory wave dogs.




I'm glad we can say we got the bastard that caused it.

I was wondering if someone would have started a thread by the time I got to work tonight. I am glad that someone did. I like that quote Hooker, good call to start this thread off. Thank you.

** DONE ON September 15, 2001 but just as appropriate now.



A PRAYER FOR AMERICA



DEAR LORD,

WE’RE STILL HOPING WE’LL WAKE UP. WE ‘RE STILL HOPING WE’LL OPEN A SLEEPY EYE AND THINK, “WHAT A HORRIBLE DREAM.”

BUT WE WON’T, WILL WE, FATHER? WHAT WE SAW WAS NOT A DREAM. PLANES DID GOUGE TOWERS. FLAMES DID CONSUME OUR FORTRESS. PEOPLE DID PERISH. IT WAS NO DREAM, AND DEAR FATHER; WE ARE SAD.

THERE IS A BALLET DANCER WHO WILL NO LONGER DANCE AND A DOCTOR WHO WILL NO LONGER HEAL. A CHURCH HAS LOST HER PRIEST, A CLASSROOM IS MINUS A TEACHER. CORA RAN A FOOD PANTRY. PAIGE WAS A COUNSELOR AND DANA, DEAREST FATHER, DANA WAS ONLY THREE YEARS OLD. (WHO HELD HER IN THOSE FINAL MOMENTS?)

WE ARE SAD, FATHER. FOR AS THE INNOCENT ARE BURIED, OUR INNOCENCE IS BURIED AS WELL. WE THOUGHT WE WERE SAFE. PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. BUT WE DIDN’T.

AND SO WE COME TO YOU. WE DON’T ASK YOU FOR HELP; WE BEG YOU FOR IT. WE DON’T REQUEST IT; WE IMPLORE IT. WE KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO. WE’VE READ THE ACCOUNTS. WE’VE PONDERED THE STORIES AND NOW WE PLEAD, “DO IT AGAIN, LORD. DO IT AGAIN.”

REMEMBER JOSEPH? YOU RESCUED HIM FROM THE PIT. YOU CAN DO THE SAME FOR US. DO IT AGAIN, LORD.

REMEMBER THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT? YOU PROTECTED THEIR CHILDREN FROM THE ANGEL OF DEATH. WE HAVE CHILDREN, TOO, LORD. DO IT AGAIN.

AND SARAH? REMEMBER HER PRAYERS? YOU HEARD THEM. JOSHUA? REMEMBER HIS FEARS? YOU INSPIRED HIM. THE WOMEN AT THE TOMB? YOU RESURRECTED THEIR HOPE. THE DOUBTS OF THOMAS? YOU TOOK THEM AWAY. DO IT AGAIN, LORD. DO IT AGAIN.

YOU CHANGED DANIEL FROM A CAPTIVE INTO A KING’S COUNSELOR. YOU TOOK PETER THE FISHERMAN AND MADE HIM PETER AN APOSTLE. BECAUSE OF YOU, DAVID WENT FROM LEADING SHEEP TO LEADING ARMIES. DO IT AGAIN, LORD, FOR WE NEED COUNSELORS TODAY, LORD. WE NEED APOSTLES. WE NEED LEADERS. DO IT AGAIN, DEAR LORD.

MOST OF ALL, DO AGAIN WHAT YOU DID AT CALVARY. WHAT WE SAW HERE ON THAT TUESDAY, YOU SAW THERE ON THAT FRIDAY. INNOCENCE SLAUGHTERED. GOODNESS MURDERED. MOTHERS WEEPING. EVIL DANCING. JUST AS THE ASH FELL ON OUR CHILDREN, THE DARKNESS FELL ON YOUR SON. JUST AS OUR TOWERS WERE SHATTERED, THE VERY TOWER OF ETERNITY WAS PIERCED.

AND BY DUSK, HEAVEN’S SWEETEST SONG WAS SILENT, BURIED BEHIND A ROCK.

BUT YOU DID NOT WAVER, O LORD. YOU DID NOT WAVER. AFTER THREE DAYS IN A DARK HOLE, YOU ROLLED THE ROCK AND RUMBLED THE EARTH AND TURNED THE DARKEST FRIDAY INTO THE BRIGHTEST SUNDAY. DO IT AGAIN, LORD. GRANT US A SEPTEMBER EASTER.

WE THANK YOU, DEAR FATHER, FOR THESE HOURS OF UNITY. DISASTER HAS DONE WHAT DISCUSSIONS COULD NOT. DOCTRINAL FENCES HAVE FALLEN. REPUBLICANS ARE STANDING WITH DEMOCRATS. SKIN COLORS HAVE BEEN COVERED BY ASH OF BURNING BUILDINGS. WE THANK YOU FOR THESE HOURS OF UNITY.

AND WE THANK YOU FOR THESE HOURS OF PRAYER. THE ENEMY SOUGHT TO BRING US TO OUR KNEES AND SUCCEEDED. HE HAD NO IDEA, HOWEVER, THAT WE WOULD KNEEL BEFORE YOU. AND HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT YOU CAN DO.

LET YOUR MERCY BE UPON OUR PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, AND THEIR FAMILIES. GRANT TO THOSE WHO LEAD US WISDOM BEYOND THEIR YEARS AND EXPERIENCE. HAVE MERCY UPON THE SOULS WHO HAVE DEPARTED AND THE WOUNDED WHO REMAIN. GIVE US GRACE THAT WE MIGHT FORGIVE AND FAITH THAT WE MIGHT BELIEVE.

AND LOOK KINDLY UPON YOUR CHURCH. FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS YOU’VE USED HER TO HEAL A HURTING WORLD.

DO IT AGAIN, LORD. DO IT AGAIN.

THROUGH CHRIST, AMEN.

Written by Max Lucado for “America Prays” a national Prayer vigil on September 15, 2001. Permission to copy granted and encouraged. Also available on www.upwords.com.

This was written by a Canadian woman, but oh how it also applies to the U.S. , U.K. and Australia
Written by a housewife in New Brunswick , to her local newspaper.

Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1. Jesus Christ

2. The Canadian Soldier.

3. The British Soldier.

4. The US Soldier, and

5. The Australian Soldier

One died for your soul, the other 4 for your freedom.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET ALL OF THEM.

This is only a very small part of a two page letter she wrote. Perhaps many of you have read it as it came to me in an e-mail many years ago.

Somber words for a Somber day, lest we forget.

On this Day the World will Never forget, Pray or Wish for peace in this world, even though we know peace will never happen as long as there are two people alive IN the world. Pray that at least these mindless cowardly occurrences will NEVER be repeated ANYWHERE ever again.

Do not pray or wish for a "One World Order", that is only another name for despotic dictatorship. Pray and wish only that all the peoples of the world will recognize that MOST PEOPLE are honorable and want only to be left to live their lives in peace. Pray or wish for the downfall, the destruction of those Few radical unreasonable individuals who think that "THEIR" way should be the only way and will be brought about by force and destruction, trampling on ANYONE that does not believe as do they. They come from all Nations, Faiths, Colors. Radicalism knows no boundaries, recognizes no laws beyond it's own twisted beliefs.

Free peoples, people who want to live out their lives in peace MUST NOT allow these others to dictate our way of life, they MUST be stopped, at all costs.

There is a saying that time heals wounds.................I am not so sure. I do know that we will never forget the fear, pain, sadness and hatred that was spurned that day. The US, and the world, was changed on this day 10 years ago. Many of us were not directly affected by the loss of loved ones in the Towers, Pentagon, or in PA but many of us have be affected in the days since. Lets not forget the brave men and women who have sacrificed due to the actions of the gutless cowards that decided to pick on the population of America.

Summerize in one sentance your feelings about 9-11.

Hatered is a pervasive force against us.

This generations pearl Harbor.

The many held victim by the few.

Terrorism comes not so much from the ACT itself, but the THREAT of it happening again.

Amen!