{"id":7246,"date":"2011-09-11T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2011-09-11T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:30:36","slug":"9-11-%e2%80%93-10-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/09\/9-11-%e2%80%93-10-years-later.html","title":{"rendered":"9-11 \u2013 10 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Every American can recall exactly what he or she was doing when the Muslim Terrorists murdered over 3000 Americans in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 We all recall what a beautiful day it was that September morning.\u00a0 The sky was a perfect blue and the humidity and temperature was just the right level for human body comfort.<\/p>\n

I had just come down from upstairs having finished doing what every wife and mother does upstairs before coming down after her family leaves and heads off to their various destinations.\u00a0 Make the beds, change the towels, pick up the socks, put them into the hampers, whatever it takes to make everything look neat and clean.\u00a0 I punched the start button on the computer and began setting it up to listen to a conservative talk show host over the Internet who would be on at that time, shortly before nine in the morning.\u00a0 Michael Reagan was on and all of a sudden he announced that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center.\u00a0 I ran over to the TV set and turned on Fox News and there it was, a short time later, a video of the plane crashing into the Tower.<\/p>\n

The reports were conflicting.\u00a0 It was thought to be a small plane, no it was a large one, no a small one with only a few windows, no it was a huge passenger jet.\u00a0 Every American was glued to their TV sets.\u00a0 Then we all saw the unthinkable, the second jet crash intentionally into the other Tower!<\/p>\n

I was on the phone with my quasi-adopted daughter, Ann.\u00a0 She said I exclaimed, \u201cWe\u2019re under attack!\u201d\u00a0 We were both crying.<\/p>\n

I call her my quasi-adopted daughter because I love her like she\u2019s my daughter, but she is my real daughter\u2019s best friend.\u00a0 She lived with us for a few years when her family told her shortly after her graduation from high school that she was no longer permitted to live in their house.<\/p>\n

\"\"But the worst still hadn\u2019t happened before our eyes on TV.\u00a0 It was only minutes later when the first Tower collapsed.\u00a0 I recall just about that time a telemarketer called me.\u00a0 I was aghast!\u00a0 I tried to be as polite as I could, wrestling with the lump in my throat, thinking as the newscasters were suggesting that 50,000 were in that tower, and that we had just witnessed the death of 50,000 fellow Americans and here some person in an office, who knows where, was trying to sell me something.<\/p>\n

\"\"My son was less than a mile from home at his own business.\u00a0 He was ready to come pick me up and head out to the country where it might be safer than being in our city.\u00a0 We knew that another plane had crashed into the Pentagon and one was headed towards Cleveland Hopkins International.\u00a0 Since we live in the fly-over section of airspace that happens to be under that, we knew that the airplane that refused to land was somewhere in Cleveland\u2019s airspace, but we didn\u2019t know where.\u00a0 It was an eerie feeling knowing that condemned people, being held hostage, who would soon make a plunge into some tall, important building in theU.S.A.was flying overhead.<\/p>\n

I remember praying.\u00a0 I have no idea what I prayed, ten years is a long time, but the prayers I was saying just kept running through my mind and softly being whispered through my lips.<\/p>\n

I called my husband at work to see if they knew about the attack and he said, they did and were all gathered around a small TV set.<\/p>\n

The Mayor of Cleveland Michael White came on TV to talk about the plane they had in lockdown at Cleveland Hopkins which, of course, was not the plane that ended up in the field in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 There were so many conflicting stories on that I didn\u2019t know what to believe, except one thing!\u00a0 I knew life in America was never, ever going to be the same again.<\/p>\n

My son was the first person to say those words to me, but I had already thought them.\u00a0 I still had no idea how drastically life would change for all of us.\u00a0 We used to go to New Hampshire every autumn and would drive up north, cross into Canada, with a hand wave from the boarder patrol, exiting the U.S.A and reentering with the same friendly hand waves.\u00a0 We marveled at how friendly the boarders were and how free we were in theU.S.A.\u00a0 How different it is now.<\/p>\n

A few years after 9-11 when we crossed into Canada, we were looked at with those skeptical, piercing eyes of authority, that stared you down into a bundle of nerves \u2013 and that was before it got worse, long before scans to strip a human body naked.<\/p>\n

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Pentagon Attacked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our country changed drastically on 9-11.\u00a0 At first it was really for the better.\u00a0 We went to Florida shortly after 9-11 and found a store that still had a supply of American flags in stock \u2013 maybe the last store in theU.S.A.with any patriotic items left.\u00a0 We bought bags full of sweat shirts and cups, huge flags and poles for all our friends and neighbors who couldn\u2019t find them in any store up home.<\/p>\n

The feeling in America was good again.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t matter if you were a Republican or a Democrat, a conservative or liberal, you were an American first, and we were all of the same mind!\u00a0 \u201cGet the Muslim terrorists who did this and make them pay!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"America was like the America I\u00a0grew up in!\u00a0 It was patriotic and loving.\u00a0America was united and caring.\u00a0 It was praying again!\u00a0 It was singing, \u201cGod bless America\u201d with pride.<\/p>\n

\"\"People were brave, wearing shirts with the slogan, \u201cThese Colors Don\u2019t Run,\u201d with the red, white and blue American flag waving on their chests behind the brave declaration.<\/p>\n

Within days my sister-in-law\u2019s two sons signed up for the Marines.\u00a0 We were so proud of them.\u00a0 One son was KIA in\u00a0Iraq and the other son brought home his brother\u2019s body.\u00a0 I still remember the phone call.\u00a0 My brother-in-law called us.\u00a0 My husband answered.\u00a0 I was sitting at the very computer I\u2019m sitting at right now in direct line with the telephone.\u00a0 My husband\u2019s face looked very strange.\u00a0 It was a look that I had never really seen on his face before.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t quite identify it.\u00a0 Then he just hung up the phone.\u00a0 He looked at me and said, \u201cBrian is gone.\u201d\u00a0 I asked, \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d\u00a0 He repeated the same words, but they didn\u2019t sink in.\u00a0 How can someone be G O N E?\u00a0 Then he said the fateful words, Brian was killed in a firefight in Iraq.<\/p>\n

I immediately thought of my sister-in-law.\u00a0 The weight of the Twin Towers had just fallen upon her.\u00a0 Brian\u2019s son was not even a year old yet and now he was fatherless.<\/p>\n

At Brian\u2019s funeral some kind, very patriotic person, made a little Marine uniform for the son of the fallen hero to wear.<\/p>\n

The line to get inside the funeral parlor was several blocks long.\u00a0 Water bottles had to be passed out to keep people hydrated and safe from passing out.<\/p>\n

Then it was time to take Brian to the church where he would be buried in the Name of Jesus.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t see much because the church was so full that we had to sit upon chairs that were hastily put up in the side alcove because the townspeople had already filled the huge church and all around the outside people were just standing, waiting to pay their respects.<\/p>\n

For miles upon miles, the entire route from the funeral parlor to the church, then to the cemetery, the two to three mile long funeral procession sadly moved slowly and respectfully.\u00a0 Every street was lined with people two to three deep along the curbs, who held signs saying, \u201cOur Hero, We Love You.\u201d\u00a0 Firemen, who lost friends \u00a0and colleagues on 9-11, put their ladders up to the top notch on their fire trucks, with the American flag flying at half mast in honor of another fallen hero!<\/p>\n

In our car, we barely spoke.\u00a0 What words could we say?\u00a0 Words escape us at times like these.\u00a0 What words are there to equal the gravity, the sadness, the loss, the finality, the hurt, the pain, the empathy we felt for Brian\u2019s parents, his wife, his son, his brother, also a Marine.<\/p>\n

Brian didn\u2019t belong to just his mother or his family anymore.\u00a0 He was an American hero and everyone was paying tribute to him.<\/p>\n

Oncoming cars saw the funeral, figured out who must be inside the black funeral car and did more than stop, they pulled off the side of the road, got out of their cars, saluted and prayed on their knees in the streets as Brian passed by.<\/p>\n

A mail truck stopped and pulled off.\u00a0 This was one time the mail wasn\u2019t the first thing on this postman\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

\"\"Then at last we arrived at Brian\u2019s final resting place.\u00a0 At the cemetery, the news helicopters were so loud I couldn\u2019t hear the preacher pray hardly, but I knew they were interring Brian in the name of Jesus.\u00a0 It was a Christian burial and this was hallowed ground.\u00a0 Brian was buried with many hundreds of other former fallen war heroes from all the other wars theU.S.A.had fought, including World War I, World War II, the Korean War,\u00a0Vietnam and Desert Storm.<\/p>\n

\"\"The guns saluted Brian, fired by other Marines, totally twenty-one shots.\u00a0 Taps played mournfully.<\/p>\n

The flags were presented to his widow and his mother.\u00a0 But nothing could bring Brian back to their arms ever again.<\/p>\n

The war was real.\u00a0 Death was real.\u00a0 Emptiness and heartbreak are forever.<\/p>\n

The one consolation we all have who are Christians is that our loved one is waiting for us in heaven.\u00a0 But recently something changed in America again.\u00a0 In military cemeteries, now the name of Jesus is banned, the word \u201cGod\u201d is not allowed to be whispered, and even the Chapel is no longer allowed to be called a chapel, but must now be referred to as a meeting room.<\/p>\n

How in ten years have we forgotten God so miserably?<\/p>\n

How could we have turned our backs so wantonly on the God we begged to bless us at every baseball game following 9-11?<\/p>\n

How can the people in the Veterans Administration and the Obama Administration forbid families the consolation of interring their beloved fallen hero to enter into the ground in the name of Jesus?<\/p>\n

Who is more unjust, those who refuse Americans the freedom to practice Christianity in public places on government ground that we have done for 250 years praying openly in the name of Jesus, making it illegal to even breathe God\u2019s Name quietly, or are they the Muslims who are responsible for the thousands lost on 9-11 and thousands more in the aftermath?<\/p>\n

What have the godless terrorists won and who really are they?<\/p>\n

Everyone is saying this 9\/11\/2011, \u201cNever forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"But no one is saying what should be said, \u201cRepent, America!\u201d<\/p>\n

America has to repent of its national sins of abortion and wide-spread acceptance of every thing God hates and all that He has already declared to be sin!\u00a0 Otherwise, we leave ourselves opened to the consequences of those national sins \u2013 which is the consequence of not gaining God\u2019s favor of blessings and protections.\u00a0 That is the dangerous place America\u2019s people have placed themselves in.<\/p>\n

\"\"Listen to God\u2019s Word and heed His Warnings!<\/p>\n

[2 Chronicles 7:14] If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. [King James Bible]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0~\u2020~<\/p>\n

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CNN Breaking News Reports on 9\/11\/2011<\/strong> –\u00a0At a ceremony in\u00a0New York\u00a0marking the 10th anniversary of the 9\/11 terror attacks, family members of the victims have begun reading the names of those who died. \u00a0Silence spread across New York at 8:46 a.m. — the time when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the\u00a0World Trade Center\u00a0a decade ago. \u00a0The city observed another moment of silence at 9:03 a.m., when United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower. \u00a0More than 200 miles away in\u00a0Washington, mourners will observe a moment of silence at 9:37 a.m. — the moment American Airlines Flight 77 struck\u00a0the Pentagon\u00a0and killed 184 people. \u00a0And at 10:03 a.m., silence will fall on\u00a0Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 thwarted a hijacking plot and crashed the plane into the ground. \u00a0The attacks killed 2,977 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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