Recalling 9-11

At first I thought it was a fluke, radar gone awry.  Then a second plane hit the towers and the smoke billowed across the New York skyline.  We could hear all the screams coming from the frightened masses.

I was unsettled with fear.  Who would have done this?  There are innocent people in those towers!  Will we be able to get them out?  Oh my God, they are jumping from the windows!  What is happening?  I need to awaken from this terrible dream?

There are more aircraft veering off course, what is going on?  Confusion and uncertainty rocked me, rocked everyone.

News flash! The Pentagon has been hit.  Another hijacked plane, recovered by the courageous passengers, crashed into a field.   It was suppose to take out the White House.

I am befuddled.  I cannot comprehend this lack of concern for human life.  What kind of people would do such things? 

Now, the foolish reporters are telling everyone exactly where the President is, where he is going, and when we can expect him to arrive!  Are they nuts????  We are in serious jeopardy here, what in the hell are they thinking?

Shaken, I fervently pray:

Oh Lord!  Please, get our bombers in the sky, to escort any other off course planes.  Don’t let another innocent person be taken out, today.  Please stop this madness or we shall never again, rest.  Faceless cowards who have no regard for their own lives, let alone the lives of others, are raping my country, killing our people. Oh, Lord, please help us.  Please help us, Lord. 

Nearly three thousand, murdered, to what avail?

Did the terrorists feel a thrill, while seeing the expressions of shock and fear on the face of the world?  Was it exciting to them, to watch the mighty buildings fall, knowing they had trapped thousands of innocent people and caused them to die a slow and painful death?  In their small minds and unenlightened hearts, did it make them feel like big or mighty men?  

I have lived my life in peace, but now, with all my heart and soul, I wish for every terrorist to be eradicated from this planet.  I do not feel that they deserve to live and go on spreading their poison to more innocent people.   I believe they would murder their own mother if she stood between them and their heinous goal.  They act like barbarians, and as such, I find that there is no place for them in a our society.  This was a difficult choice for me to make, but I believe it is the only choice, if I want our children to live in liberty and the world to be free from the terrorist’s grasp.

9-11 was only the first chapter, in the book of undoing, written by the terrorist groups.  I pray that we remain strong and that I live to see the defeat of all who think that human life has no value.   
 

The terrorist’s lack of concern for humanity affects the entire world.  We need the cooperation of all countries, all people, to defeat them.  As each of us has seen, the terrorists do not target only the U.S.A., they are targeting the world.

Sherry Gail Heim

September 10, 2004

Copyright © Sherry Gail Heim 2004

Please fly your flag in remembrance of all who perished on this day.