GAILLARDIA OR BLANKET FLOWER

In Memory - 09-11-2001

Saturday marks a solemn anniversary in Unites States history.

It has been nine years since our country was violated in a most horrendous way.

Jihadist terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Towers in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Washington DC, while brave US citizens took away another plane from the terrorists as it dove into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Over three thousand brave, innocent people lost their lives that fateful day.

It will be a day you'll remember where you were and what you were doing when those travesties happened.

It doesn't seem possible nine years have passed. For those who lost family and friends its as though it happened yesterday. It created a hurt that even time won't heal.

Since that time many more have lost their lives fighting in two wars to bring those responsible to justice and to prevent it from ever happening again.

The Pentagon has been repaired, a memorial is planned for the field in Pennsylvania and ground has been broken and work begun on the buildings that will replace those destroyed in New York.

There will be many programs on TV and the Internet this week about the event that destroyed so many lives. One caught my eye today. It was on Fox News Channel and hosted by Shepard Smith. It will be seen each evening this week at 7PM on Fox.

It is about those who lost loved ones, those who are re-building the buildings and those who managed the ones that fell on that fateful day and are instrumental in building the new ones.

God Bless those engineers and tradesman who are giving their all to restore dignity to the barren, empty hole in lower Manhattan, that was created by evil, sadistic, immoral, in-human molecules of flesh.

On this anniversary, we solemnly pray that those who gave the ultimate sacrifice didn't die in vain. We pray that their loved ones will continue their endeavors to live one day at a time.

We pray that the upstanding moral citizens of our United States of America will stand firmly together to protect our great nation, from those who wish to destroy it from without and within.

God Bless America, may she ever be a shinning star of bravery and courage, a strong bulwark against her enemies and faithful to the Constitution framed by her founders.

On Saturday, take a moment and say a prayer for all those who lost their lives and all those left behind, to face every day without them.

Pause, reflect, remember and vow it will never happen again.