Remembering September 11th, 2001
Fri, 11 Sep 2009
[On September 11, 2001, we watched, helpless, as terrorists used passenger planes as weapons against innocent civilians. It was a day of horrors, played out before us on every television screen. We knew little: No reckoning of the dead had been made. The criminals who planned and perpetrated this act were still unknown.
Speculation was rampamt: News anchors were suggesting that essential American freedoms, afforded us by our Constitution and dearly bought with the blood of countless heroes, would have to be cast aside to prevent a future possibility of such horrific acts.
In the evening of that sad day, with eyes still rimmed with tears of grief for the fallen, I was moved to write the following entry in my web journal:]
The Fiery Darts of the Wicked Cannot Pierce America’s Shield of Faith.
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. - Ephesians 6:16 KJV
Horror, fear, outrage and pain mingle together in our hearts following our nation’s tragedy. Villainous and inhuman cowards have committed detestable acts of unimaginable violence upon the innocent. The intent of the attack is clear: It is to shake America’s faith and make us afraid. We will not be moved. We pray, while doing what is needed.
We cannot allow these cowards to succeed. Abridging civil liberties, trading the protections of our Constitution for the security blanket of a police state, would be an utter defeat for America. Freedom cannot be the next victim of this atrocity.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
[Originally published to the Space Coast Web Journal on 9/11/2001.]
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