We are dedicating this page to the friends and families of those killed or injured during the cowardly attack on an innocent American civilian population on 9/11/01; also to the rescue workers and volunteers who have given so much of themselves to help during this tragedy - some have given all.

"With something this immense, there is no comfort that we can give.  All we can do is bear each other's pain."

~ A Crisis Counselor ~

From Melanie of Jazzltubes

Light a Candle

Subject: The barbarians will learn what America's all about
By Leonard Pitts JR
Syndicated columnist The Miami Herald

They pay me to tease shades of meaning from social and cultural issues, to provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the American soul. But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the only thing I can find to say, the only words that seem to fit, must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering.

You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard.

What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you failed.

Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause.

Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve.

Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together.

Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, cultural, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae, a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse.

We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though - peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.

Some people - you, perhaps - think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.

Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did, still working to make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel.

Both in terms of the awful scope of its ambition and the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the history of the United States and, indeed, the history of the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before.

But there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice.

I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future.

In days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security, misguided talk of revoking basic freedoms. We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. But determined, too. Unimaginably determined.

You see, there is steel beneath this velvet. That aspect of our character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this day, the family's bickering is put on hold. As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish.

Still, I keep wondering what it was you hoped to teach us. It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred.

If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're about. You don't know what you just started.

But you're about to learn.

Sir I would like to thank you for taking the time out to send a few of your willing workers of hate and deception to this country to attempt to destroy  us. In the process of trying to terrorize us to death, the hand of God Stepped in and still got glory within your evil and deceptive plan to put fear in the hearts and minds of the American people. 

1. Thank you for showing and allowing our President and past Presidents to worship and pray together in the same Sanctuary. 

2. Thank you for having Congress bow at the Feet of Jesus and ask for forgiveness and ask for the Lord's strength in leading the nation's people. 

3. Thank you for allowing Prayer in the schools once more and having our children across the nation be able to ask God for strength and protection throughout their school day. 

4. Thank you for letting employers give workers time to pray and worship our Savior during their work hour. 

5. Thank you for showing us that it is the hand of God that allows us to be here day in and day out, we are not just here on our own . 

6. Thank you for leading more people back to church in one day to get things right with God than all the witnessing of all the Christians in this country could do in one year. 

7. Thank you for waking us up and letting us know that people still care in this country and that we are bigger than the problems in this country. 

8. Thank you for reminding us that racial, religious, and cultural hatred is useless and nothing good comes from harboring it. 

9. Thank you for letting us again understand why on our money it says in God we trust, we sing God bless America and what true patriotism is. 

10. Most of all Mr. Bin Ladan now that the Lord is on our side, Thank you for letting him take his rightful place on the battlefield, so you will know that he will have the victory His word says...If two or three gather in my name it is done. 

So in all, we thank you very much for strengthening our faith in God and our love for our fellow American no matter what color, race, creed or religion. 

A Proud American Citizen and a Soldier in the Army of the Lord.

Terror Timeline - 9/11/2001 

8:48 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 en route from Boston's Logan Airport to Los Angeles International with 92 people onboard, slams into the north tower, 1 World Trade Center.

9:05 a.m. Approximately 18 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, also a Boeing 767 enroute from Boston to Los Angeles with 65 people onboard, hits the south tower, 2 World Trade Center. 

9:21 a.m. New York City Port Authority closes all bridges and tunnels in New York City. 

9:24 a.m. President Bush calls the crashes "an apparent terrorist attack on our country." 

9:32 a.m. New York Stock Exchange closed 

9:40 a.m. The FAA orders the entire nationwide air traffic system shut down. All flights at U.S. airports are stopped. 

9:43 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 enroute from Dulles Airport outside Washington to LAX with 58 passengers and six crew members, crashes into the Pentagon. One of the building's five sides collapses. 

9:45 a.m. The White House is evacuated. 

9:59 a.m. The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses in a plume of ash and debris. 

10:00 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco with 38 passengers and seven crew members, crashes just north of the Somerset County Airport, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Shortly before impact, a passenger called on his cell phone from a locked bathroom: "We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked!" At this time there was concern the plane was headed to Camp David. 

10:24 a.m. The FAA reports that all inbound transatlantic flights are to be diverted to Canada. 

10:28 a.m. The World Trade Center's north tower collapses. 

12:15 p.m. The United States closes some border crossings with Canada and Mexico. 

1:02 p.m. New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani orders an evacuation of Manhattan south of Canal Street. 

1:04 p.m. In a speech at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, President Bush announces that security measures are being taken and says: "Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." 

1:44 p.m. The Navy dispatches aircraft carriers and guided missile destroyers to New York and Washington. Around the country, fighters, airborne radar and refueling planes scramble. The North American Aerospace Defense Command go to its highest alert. 

1:44 p.m. President Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force Base for Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, home to the U.S. Strategic Command. 

4:30 p.m. President Bush leaves Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska for Washington. 

4:45 p.m. The City of New York announces that 200 firefighters have been killed and 78 police officers are missing. 

5:20 p.m. Seven World Trade Center, a 47-story tower, collapses from ancillary damage.

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