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SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2008: MAY GOD BLESS AND SAVE AMERICA
We’ve all seen these pictures and videos of what happened on September 11th, 2001, when America was assaulted by 19 Islamic miscreants sent by Usama bin Laden to bring down this great country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-fLf3lSXAY&NR=1. As you view them, consider what our attackers did and, more importantly, what they did not do that day.
They succeeded only in bringing down two great towers in New York City, symbols of our strength and power, damaging another building in Washington, D.C., the seat of our military protectors, and creating yet another reminder in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania of both the evil that men do and the courage of other men on United Flight 93.
In the process, the evildoers slaughtered thousands of innocent and defenseless men, women, and children and left behind many thousands more to grieve their loved ones to try to live out their lives knowing their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children were killed for no sane reason.
As we commemorate that worst day of infamy in our nation’s history, let us remember those we lost and offer prayers for their immortal souls.
Let us continue to rebuild the physical structures that were destroyed that day as a lesson to our enemies that they can damage us but that they can never destroy our spirit and our resolve.
Let us forever remember September 11th, 2001 and let us never forget that no men, good or bad, are islands entire unto themselves, that the good people who perished that day will always be in our hearts and that the evil people who caused, supported, and perpetrated this nameless tragedy shall all pay for their despicable acts.
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
