This page of my website is dedicated in memory and honor of those who lost and gave their lives on the tragic day of September 11, 2001.
Let's never forget how foreign terrorists hijacked four planes; flying two into the World Trade Center; one into the Pentagon; and crashing the forth in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Let's never forget those who were suddenly forced to choose how they would die.
Let's never forget the brave firemen and police officers who sacrificed their lives trying to save others.
Let's never forget the valiant American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other parts of the world.
Let's never forget the deranged minds of those who "danced in the streets"; celebrating the lose of our loved ones.
Let's never forget the people of New York City who bonded together in strength, love, and determination...letting the world know that the spirit of America will not be broken!
Let's never forget.
I'll never forget!
I don't know your name, or names -
we may never know who you are -
so I can't address you personally.
Today, you killed several thousands of our friends ... perhaps not people we knew
personally, but people like us. People who
worked hard to make a living, who loved
someone, who were loved by someone, who
worried about making a better life for their
children and grandchildren, who believed in
God and the American Dream, who criticized this country for its insufficiencies
and cared enough to try and change things and ensure a better future, not just for us, but for the world.
People who leave behind scores of loved ones, friends, pets, neighbors, coworkers, and members of their faith. Perhaps even people who derived from your country and who sought refuge here.
Your act was a slaughter of the innocents. You are like an insidious cancer that strikes without warning, ravages badies, tears families apart, and in the end can never destroy the soul. You are the ultimate coward. You may topple our buildings, collapse our communication systems, disrupt our government, crash our markets, and leave behind the carnage of bodies, but you will never destroy the soul of America.
We made this country from the bits and pieces of the rest of the world; we took the best, the worst of every culture and nationality, race and creed, and made an alloy that may be dented, but not even a trail by fire can melt.
I don't know what god you believe in, or what hateful rhetoric you espouse, or what your misguided political beliefs might be that allow you to do what you did today without a fear of eternal damnation. I only know that you may win a battle or two, but you will never win this war. We have the entire history of the world on our side, and no dictator, despot, or madman has survived as long as America has thrived and prospered. If you accomplished anything at all today, it was to give America a wake-up call, and we will now rise up stronger than before. You are defeated before you've even begun, there in your private hell and later in your eternal one.
Someday your people may even need our help, and because we are America, we will respond.
May God bless the friends we lost, their families, friend, neighbors and coworkers. We will help them rebuild from the ashes.
May God continue to bless America, help her to protect us all, and may she continue to shine as a beacon of democracy and hope to the rest of the world.
