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.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
~ Winnie the Pooh ~

Where were you when the towers fell, and the Pentagon was crushed, and so many perished. 

I Was Everywhere

I am every man. I was everywhere when the Towers fell. I was at work, in school, plowing the fields, changing a  diaper, typing a letter, driving a truck, making decisions  that affect our economy. I was doing whatever mundane, every day task that runs my life. And now my life is  irreparably changed by the act of madmen who believe  that God will make a place for them in heaven because of their hatred. I have lost my spouse, my parent, my friend, my childhood. I have lost my faith in humanity. I have lost my innocence and my ability to trust. I may well have lost my future. 



I have changed from a loving, forgiving person to someone who knows full well that the days ahead will be filled with war and I will have to, at the  very least, encourage and applaud the death of  someone else in order to survive. I am standing on the very edge of Armageddon, and I have lost myself and I have found fear.



But I have also found a unity in spirit in a nation that has been too long divided. I have found heroes in  everyday people doing their everyday jobs. I have seen continuing acts of faith as people search for their loved ones. I have seen a need to do something, anything, from every corner of my country. I have seen an entire world, far removed from my tragedy, embrace my sorrow and stand for me. I have heard my country's anthem
ring from the very countries that we once  considered our enemies.



I am ashamed that I read of bombings in Israel and  thought, "how sad", and did nothing; read of car bombs in England and reflected only briefly on man's inhumanity to man; I have watched brothers fight brothers in Bosnia and did nothing to heal their anger. I am brought to my knees with shame that I saw the horrors inflicted on other countries on my television set, and changed the channel. It is only now, now that it is here, in my own backyard, that people have died and lives have been changed, and only now do I understand how horrible it is that people hate and destroy. 

May God help us all. 

~ unknown ~

   
Death

......is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me. 

Let my name be ever the household word that it always
was, let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight ?

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.

All is well.

Henry Scott Holland
(1847-1918, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral)

From Lady Starlite of Garden of Friendship

My Country, 'Tis Of Thee,
Sweet Land Of Liberty,
Of Thee I Sing;
Land Where My Fathers Died,
Land Of The Pilgrim's Pride,
From Ev'ry Mountain Side
Let Freedom Ring. 

My Native Country Thee,
Land Of The Noble Free,
Thy Name I Love;
I Love Thy Rocks And Rills,
Thy Woods And Templed Hills;
My Heart With Rapture Thrills
Like That Above. 

Let Music Swell The Breeze,
And Ring From All The Trees,
Sweet Freedom's Song.
Let Mortal Tongues Awake;
Let All That Breathe Partake;
Let Rocks Their Silence Break,
The Sound Prolong. 

Our Father's God! To Thee,
Author Of Liberty,
To Thee We Sing;
Long May Our Land Be Bright
With Freedom's Holy Light;
Protect Us By Thy Might,
Great God, Our King!

Name: Raihan
Region: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Subject: from Malaysia

I'm deeply troubled when I heard about the attack on the US on Sept 11, 2001.

I just want you ladies in LOTH to know that as a Muslim, we totally condemned the act of this attack. Islam is not a religion who promotes the act of terrorism like this.

I have heard about the report on American-Muslim being assaulted and mosque being attacked. I know that Americans are so angry about this attack and I do too. But by attacking Muslim in general, is not right, especially because Islam is certainly not a religion that promote the act of terrorism. Let us pray so that justice will be done to the person directly involved in the attack, and not being prejudice to certain groups.

I just want you ladies to understand that. My heart goes to anybody who have lost the families and friends during the tragedy. Nobody can replaced them.

In the meantime, lets pray for justice to be prevailed. Lets reach out our hands and give supports to others who need them. Doesn't matter what religion we are, what ethnic we are, we should stand together.

Love, Raihan

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