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.

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty"

~ President John F. Kennedy ~

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Pride and shame in my fellow man
The emotions have only slightly calmed in the last 36 hours, but the resolve of Americans and free people everywhere has not dimmed. The horrible acts of terrorism yesterday have to have been the most massive and staggering act of terrorism in all of written history. I can think of no act myself.

I am today very pleased with our nation, our fellow citizens, our friends, neighbors, etc. There has been shinning in our hearts a resolve to help, in what ever way we can. Lines are 50 feet long outside the Red Cross office to give blood and they have appointments booked solid for almost two weeks locally. All manner of donations are filling the Salvation Army and Good Will, as well as many funds set up to help.

The people responsible meant to cause pain, suffering, and mainly terror and fear in our hearts. They want to destroy us, but although they have produced great worry for friends and loved ones near the attacks, they have NOT broken us! They have done just the OPPOSITE. They have inadvertently re-lighted the roaring flame of patriotism and kindness in the hearts of MILLIONS that had forgotten. We have joined together to help each other and demand that the responsible PAY for what has happened! I am proud of America today!

There are however individuals I am not proud of, and to live in the same community as them shames me. Last night in our small town, a kind and loving Arab man just paying for his gas at a local gas station was shoved around and tormented by local teens. This behavior also infuriates me. I understand we want to make someone pay, I feel it too. But the innocent American citizens must not suffer for their linage. We must guard ourselves and protect the innocent.

Muslims that truly follow the Koran know that it teaches love and kindness, not hate. Unfortunately several militant leaders have twisted the true teachings and have inspired hate. Those of any religion need to learn for themselves what is true and not take fully for granted that what their leaders state is truth. Every responsible religious leader will tell his followers to check it out for themselves.

Not all Muslims or Arabs are to blame and we cannot harm the innocent. Have the terrorists done enough of that? Why would you destroy all we try to rebuild by doing what they have done? YES, those responsible must pay, but the innocent must be protected. Anger is nothing but misdirected fear. I say to those teens, you are no better than the terrorists that have put fear in your heart, killed thousands, and hated us with all their hearts. I hope you will turn around and be sorry... SAY you are sorry, and ask for forgiveness.

copyright 2001, Keith Zimmerman. All rights reserved.

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Overcoming Evil with Good: A Test for American Christians 

Sher Singh was born in India and has lived in the United States for two years. On Wednesday, when his train from Boston to Washington, DC stopped in Providence, Rhode Island, he was arrested -- suspected of involvement in the terrorism that rocked the country on Tuesday.

Alerted by television reports, a crowd gathered outside the train station. As police led Mr. Singh from the station the crowd whooped and jeered. "Kill him!" yelled one man. "You killed my brother," shrieked another. Mr. Singh, who had absolutely no connection with the terrorism, is a Sikh and wears a
turban, a long beard, and a ceremonial dagger strapped to his shoulder.

Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. In Chicago a crowd marched on a local mosque shouting, "USA! USA!" Someone threw a fire bomb at an Arab-
American community center in Texas. Arab Americans have been assaulted and harassed across the country. A nineteen year old in Chicago commented, "I'm proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always have."

Evil, in this world, begets more evil. It's self- perpetuating. And we're already seeing that in the rage against Mr. Singh and people like him. By sharp contrast, Paul wrote to the Romans: "overcome evil with good" [Romans 12:21].

One of the reasons I believe the Christian Gospel couldn't be a made-up religion as some people think, is that it tells us to do that which is contrary to our human nature. When evil is done to us, the human instinct is to respond with evil. The result is that evil triumphs. In this case, if we responded to the terrorist attacks with evil, the terrorists would win. But the Gospel tells us to act exactly contrary to our own nature, to respond to evil with good.

The most powerful example of this principle I know is Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko, a Catholic priest in Poland in the early 1980s. The pale, gaunt priest had a two-fold message: Defend the truth, and overcome evil with good. People responded and overflowed his church. The secret police followed him everywhere. He began to receive threats and, finally, one night after celebrating Mass and preaching, Fr. Jerzy disappeared.

About ten days later, as 50,000 people came to Mass and to listen to a tape of his last sermon, they heard that his body had been found in the Vistula
River -- badly mutilated by torture. The secret police braced for an uprising. But on the day of Fr. Jerzy's funeral, the huge crowd that walked past their headquarters bore a banner and shouted what it said, "We forgive." Fr. Jerzy taught them well.

Only Christians, men and women who are touched by and understand the present reality of the Cross, can possibly overcome evil with good. And if we don't, no one else will. Rage and anger will carry the day and the terrorists will have won.

This doesn't obviate the government's use of the sword, of military force to swiftly and proportionately respond to these terrorist attacks. We must do that, and our government will. But, as the nation's anger rises, there is a great test for American Christians: Can we live by the Gospel? Will we love our neighbors -- even those who look, sound, or seem like those who so ruthlessly attacked us.

BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #010914 - 9/14/2001
For further reference: "Arab-Americans Attacked, Threatened. The 
Washington Post Online, 13 September 2001.

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA 

I am the spirit of America. I am the Stars and Stripes waving proudly from homes, schools, football fields, office buildings and government centers.

I am New York City Chief of Department Peter J. Ganci, Jr., First Deputy Fire Commissioner William Feehan, Capt. Raymond Downey and FDNY Chaplain Mychal Judge.

I am the hundreds of firefighters, policemen and Port Authority officers who are missing and will not be found.

I am the men and women who knew they were going to die and thus jumped from the towers, choosing to have some measure of control over the last breaths they would take.

I am the thousands of volunteers who have rolled up their sleeves and donned surgical masks to aid the workers digging through the incomprehensible rubble and debris in lower Manhattan.

I am Michael Benfante, 22, and John Cerqueria, 36, who carried a disabled woman down 68 floors of a World Trade Center stairwell and placed the woman in an emergency van.

I am the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who fought with their hijackers and brought the plane down outside Pittsburgh, 250 miles from its
intended target in Washington, DC

I am the dozens of passengers aboard the other hijacked planes who called loved ones to say good-bye, or tried to alert authorities.

I am the pilots and flight attendants on those planes.

I am President George W. Bush, doing and saying the right things in the face of an unprecedented national tragedy.

I am former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore, voicing unconditional support for President Bush.

I am the members of Congress, standing on the steps of the Capitol and breaking into a rendition of "God Bless America."

I am the loved ones who are holding up photos on TV, pasting leaflets on the side of TV news vans, and keeping vigil in the faint hopes that their mother, their father, their child, will be found.

I am the crowds lining the streets of lower Manhattan, cheering the rescue workers and truck drivers and technicians heading to the disaster site.

I am the nurses and doctors who have come to New York to help.

I am the millions of Americans who have reached out to friends with e-mails and phone calls saying, "I hope you're all right I hope you didn't lose anyone close to you, and if I haven't said it lately, I love you."

I am New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, wearing a cap and sweatshirt emblazoned with logos of the New York City Fire Department, standing strong and calm and forceful while addressing the city.

I am the thousands upon thousands of Americans in Los Angeles and Denver and Phoenix and Detroit and Philadelphia who have lined up to donate blood.

I am the electric ribbon of red, white and blue rimming the top of the John Hancock Center on a Wednesday night in September.

I am the New Yorkers who have laid flowers and hand-scribbled words of mourning at the site of the disaster.

I am the construction workers who fashioned stretchers from materials at their nearby work sites, and then joined the firefighters and the police in rescue efforts.

I am the Chicago-area firefighters who rode in a caravan of RVs and SUVs to New York to offer assistance to their colleagues.

I am the people gathered in Riverfront Park in Spokane, Wash., singing "Amazing Grace."

I am the business professionals who have donated coffee, food, hotel rooms, phones and other services.

I am the journalists covered in soot and risking their own safety so they can tell the world what has happened.

I am the camera operators who stood strong and took video and still photographs, even as people around them ran for their lives.

I am General Electric, donating $10 million to the families of emergency workers who have lost their lives.

I am the investigators who are working swiftly and with precision to identify the terrorists and their accomplices.

I am the Pentagon workers who aren't coming home.

I am Ronnie Clifford, who was trying to save a woman's life outside the first tower, even as his own sister was aboard the United Airlines plane that was about to hit the second tower.

I am the rescue personnel who toil to the point of exhaustion, take a break--and then get back to the most grisly and heartbreaking work imaginable.

I am the millions of Americans who will mourn, weep, pray--and never forget.

I am the spirit of America, and I am alive and strong, and you can never kill me.
September 14, 2001
BY RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST 

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