I remember being at work and seeing that mornings events unfold on the TV in the employee lounge/breakroom in shock and horror. I remember watching private aircraft frenetically landing at the small private airstip adjacent to my building...and then just as suddenly as the landings began....they ended. I remember calling my girlfriend at the time to coordinate meeting up to go to the Red Cross to donate blood. I remember the hundreds of Americans lined up there too, ready to give that gift of life solemly mindful of those in N.Y.C, at the Pentagon, and in that PA meadow who had their lives taken from them, defenseless or freely gave their lives to in defense of our Nation to prevent others from suffering the next planned terrorist atrocity that morning.
It's been 10 years plus since then, and we have invested a great deal of our Nations' resources in the effort to prevent if not end terroist aggression and violence in the Persian Gulf and across the world. We have sacrificed our young men and women in the defense of freedom, and in effort to bring Liberty to those who despise our National efforts in alturistic works and aid. We have labored in blood and money for those who do not know how to live in true Liberty within their own borders. Yet prefer inflicting injury upon their own peoples in pursuit of some extreme theological agenda to gain power over one another through opression.
In the days that followed the tragic events that came to our shores on 9/11/2001 I believe we missed an opportunity as a Nation to labor in unity of commom cause in justice for the innocents slain on that fateful day (and since). Unlike our response after Pearl Harbor, we failed to commit our full action as a Nation toward victory against terroist aggression at every level of our society.
I grieve for those lost on that fateful day, for their families that will never know the joy and light those lost would have brought to their own lives in the course of time.
I also grieve, that our Nation is now lost to those that would prefer to apologize for our policies and actions across the globe and capitulate our Republics' sovereignty and the freedoms our citizens hold so dear in favor of more Socialistic leadership and legislation.
Indeed, we pray..May God Bless America, those who have been lost in terroist violence and ease their families sorrow. May His light and protection bless those service persons currently defending the cause of Liberty across the globe, and those who have paid the greatest sacrifice in our defense as well!
