9-11-01

I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.

On this tenth anniversary, my heart goes out to the 9/11 Families.

A group that includes the loved-ones of those on the planes, those in the buildings, and those who gave their lives trying to save them; the first responders who didn't die but were permanently disabled as a result of their heroic efforts—and their loved-ones; the thousands of Ground Zero workers who have developed life-threatening health problems as a result of tirelessly sifting through the toxic rubble to find survivors...and then bodies—and the loved-ones of those workers.

As my heart aches for the 9/11 Families, I'm also thinking of those other, unacknowledged victims of that horrific day in September.

"The Lord will settle disputes among the nations, among the great powers near and far. They will hammer their swords into ploughs and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will never again go to war, never prepare for battle again. Everyone will live in peace on their own vineyard and sit under their fig tree, and no one will make them afraid. For the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of their god and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. "

- Micah 4 3-5

09/11/01
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