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Remembering 9/11
One year later.....
September 11, 2002:

Good morning folks. I know I have been lacking on the front page updates in recent times but I just could not let today pass without somehow paying tribute to those who gave their lives one year ago this morning. Some gave their lives as heroes so others might survive. Some gave their lives simply by going to work. Some gave their lives without ever knowing why. All those lives were taken unnecessarily by faceless cowards. In the past 12 months, we as Americans have a lot to be proud of, we have a lot to be thankful for, and we have a little less to fear. But there is still great evil in the world that looks to single out these United States and it's citizens as pawns in some demented and sadistic attempt to make a statement. They do it in the name of religion, they claim to be Muslim - they are not and are far from it. There is no religion on Earth that condones the hatred, the killing and the evil these cowards revel in.

I wasn't exactly certain where the balance between remembering and reliving lies - I still don't know. What I do know is that my heart goes out to those who are still grieving the loss of their friends, their coworkers, their spouses, their parents, their children and their relatives. It's impossible to pretend we know what you are feeling, it's impossible to pretend that we know what you saw on that day or how that changed your world - but know that we care, know that we will continue to pray, know that we will continue to support every effort at retribution as these faceless cowards are scattered across the planet - and most of all, know that we will never forget.....

Modern Day Heroes - Revisited one year later...

Please remember the hundreds of brave men and women who gave their lives saving the lives of others. God bless their souls, their families, and their comrades - let them know Your comfort Lord, let them know their loved ones did not die in vain, but in selfless acts of compassion and bravery.

Like many others, I am simply beyond words when I try to comprehend the utter devastation of these attacks - and the attack on the Pentagon - and the failed attack that resulted in innocent people dying as one hijacked plane went down SE of Pittsburgh, short of it's intended target. As Rhodester said, it's hard to picture these events as simply planes crashing into buildings and planes crashing into the ground - they are seen as motherless and fatherless children, brotherless and sisterless siblings, son and daughterless parents. While there will eventually be some dollar figure attached to these terrorist attacks, there will never be a measure accurately describing the loss of human life. There will be numbers, atrociously high numbers of good folks who perished in these cowardly acts - but each one of those lost lives will be felt forever in the hearts and souls and changed lives of thousands of people...and their sorrow will be shared by many, many millions.

I asked Plug to lead us in a prayer yesterday morning as these surrealistic events began unfolding and I will leave you with that prayer: