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I Pray With Thee Statement
I will always remember 9-11 vividly in my mind, and especially, in my heart.
Those haunting images on TV as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
came into our living room via the media, and the fears that accompanied them
that this was real and happening to our nation in front of our eyes. It was
truly devastating in more ways than I could have ever imagined.
I grew up as a boy and played war many times in the backyard with plastic
army soldiers blowing them up with dirt clods and rocks, wishing it was
the real thing. How sad the irony. Growing up during the Vietnam conflict
put a different spin on my ideas of war, it brought to mind the loss of
so many innocent lives for what, political gain? Were we really in it to
stop Communism, and if so, why not go full force to put an end to it and
help the other country? I was young and never did understand the full
reasons of why the Vietnam War.
I am older now, but still have so many questions that can never be fully
answered. One thing I do know is Terrorism is real, War is real, and it
goes on everyday. Not just here in the United States, but everywhere.
Yes war, we are at war folks and the end is not in sight, and may never be.
Hard facts in a hard life that grew comfortable, maybe a bit too comfortable?
Soldiers marching off to war are innocent, but never come back that way, if
they come back at all. Civilians under attack, innocent, but their families
and friends only have the memories left of that innocence, after it is taken
away by the tragedy of war. Heroes with the courage in their heart to save
others, struck down by the devastation of war. It has happened all through
history, it has happened all too recently.
I wrote a little piece hours after 9-11. On this Memorial Day,
I think it is appropriate to share it with whomever would like to read it.
In memorial to not only all the innocent lives lost, but who have lost...
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