Nine years ago today, I was working quietly at my desk at EdwardJones' HQ in St. Louis. I saw a newsflash crawling across the top of my monitor ... something about the stock market closing due to "an explosion on Wall Street" (initial news reports were sketchy).
"That's weird," I thought, but kept on working. A few minutes later, a co-worker walked by my office with tears streaming down her face. I turned to ask her what was wrong, and saw the TV in the corner with live pictures of the first tower. We all started drifting toward the TV, without anything being said. That was few minutes before the 2nd plane struck the other tower.
Today, that memory still makes me angry. The inability of all the bureaucracies & other special interests to agree on what should be built on that hole in the ground is insulting, disheartening, and more than a little aggravating.
If Honolulu had responded that way to Pearl Harbor, most of the Pacific, the western U.S. and Alaska would be speaking Japanese today.
In honor of those who lost their lives that day, I'm meeting a new friend at the range. I can think of few better ways to respond to the threat of terror than to exercise my Constitutional right to keep and bear arms ... and send great quantities of lead downrange.
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
3 comments:
Have a terrific day and shoot a few for me too! Can't think of a better way to spend the day.
now that, that was fun.
Thank you. :)
Sending a few round down range seems like an appropriate tribute. I will never forget where I was either, however it seems like a lot of people have.
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