wyntrout
09-11-2010, 09:37 AM
On a more solemn note, it's hard to believe that nine years have passed since this day of infamy in our history. I was awakened by my son calling and told to turn on the TV. The channel didn't matter. I was stunned and shocked. I thought surely that tens of thousands must be dying. It was around the collapse of the first tower, I believe. My son was blabbing on about something and I told him I couldn't listen to him... I was in shock and crying.
The horror at the loss of life was really intensified when I heard about all of the firemen and police who were on their way to aid the people in the higher levels.
We were all saddened and enraged and wanted to seek vengeance. Thankfully, we had a president who didn't waffle or wonder whom we had offended. I don't think that there was a better man to be in that position than the one we had. George Bush disappointed many of us in his fiscal policies and other areas, but he stepped up and immediately took charge and turned our country's undivided attention to finding the people responsible and to punish them. President Bush was no apologist or whiner. He was an American President and a real Patriot, as was and is his father.
Now, nine years later, too many people have forgotten that outrage and anger and are trying to appease the people who attacked us. I don't think that there's any greater challenge to our future as a nation as envisioned by our founding fathers, than the threat of radical Islam and the Progressive movement to destroy our way of life. It's as if they desire to bring down the Eagle that represents us and have it consumed by the horde of hungry ants that are the countries envious of our freedoms and prosperity.
If we don't change course and stop Obama and his Progressive Marxist, Socialist, and Communist cohorts, we are doomed to become another failed Utopian experiment, as the many others that have enslaved people and imposed absolute tyranny on their "subjects" over the last hundred years or so.
I hope that we remember our founders' intent and purpose to which they promised their lives and fortunes to bestow on us... real freedom and individual responsibilities for our own success and pursuit of our happiness, without dependency on a tyrannical central government.
We can best avoid falling prey to the others who would topple us and strip us of everything we hold dear, by being strong... the superpower that leads and champions freedom for the whole world... rather than a morsel to be devoured by the hungry hordes who don't have the freedoms and property that we've worked for so hard. They want to pull us down rather than accept our hand, offered to help raise them up from poverty and ignorance.
Remember that our nation is a shining jewel, prized by all, but despised by too many for they cannot maintain their dictatorial position, while our bright example exists to give others hope. Together these despots join to bring us down so they can continue to be rulers of the oppressed in their own little kingdoms.
Today is a day to remember that there are those who would destroy us and our way of life... and they are not all foreign enemies. Embracing them will only hasten our demise.
I would choose an American-Flag-Waving "smilie" now, but we still have only the Israeli one.:rolleyes:
Wynn
The horror at the loss of life was really intensified when I heard about all of the firemen and police who were on their way to aid the people in the higher levels.
We were all saddened and enraged and wanted to seek vengeance. Thankfully, we had a president who didn't waffle or wonder whom we had offended. I don't think that there was a better man to be in that position than the one we had. George Bush disappointed many of us in his fiscal policies and other areas, but he stepped up and immediately took charge and turned our country's undivided attention to finding the people responsible and to punish them. President Bush was no apologist or whiner. He was an American President and a real Patriot, as was and is his father.
Now, nine years later, too many people have forgotten that outrage and anger and are trying to appease the people who attacked us. I don't think that there's any greater challenge to our future as a nation as envisioned by our founding fathers, than the threat of radical Islam and the Progressive movement to destroy our way of life. It's as if they desire to bring down the Eagle that represents us and have it consumed by the horde of hungry ants that are the countries envious of our freedoms and prosperity.
If we don't change course and stop Obama and his Progressive Marxist, Socialist, and Communist cohorts, we are doomed to become another failed Utopian experiment, as the many others that have enslaved people and imposed absolute tyranny on their "subjects" over the last hundred years or so.
I hope that we remember our founders' intent and purpose to which they promised their lives and fortunes to bestow on us... real freedom and individual responsibilities for our own success and pursuit of our happiness, without dependency on a tyrannical central government.
We can best avoid falling prey to the others who would topple us and strip us of everything we hold dear, by being strong... the superpower that leads and champions freedom for the whole world... rather than a morsel to be devoured by the hungry hordes who don't have the freedoms and property that we've worked for so hard. They want to pull us down rather than accept our hand, offered to help raise them up from poverty and ignorance.
Remember that our nation is a shining jewel, prized by all, but despised by too many for they cannot maintain their dictatorial position, while our bright example exists to give others hope. Together these despots join to bring us down so they can continue to be rulers of the oppressed in their own little kingdoms.
Today is a day to remember that there are those who would destroy us and our way of life... and they are not all foreign enemies. Embracing them will only hasten our demise.
I would choose an American-Flag-Waving "smilie" now, but we still have only the Israeli one.:rolleyes:
Wynn