Yesterday. Yesterday was 9/11. Yesterday was a day we never saw coming. Yesterday was a day we'll never forget. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the event that rocked our country more than anything in the last 50 years. Yesterday the significance of that event really sank in for me. Last night I watched a special on CBS about two French film makers who were following around a rookie fire fighter in New York City (seven blocks from WTC) at the time. These were to the two guys who have the only known footage of the first plane hitting and the inside of the World Trade Centers. What I was most in awe of was the realness of it. The scene looked like an apocalypse straight out of Hollywood, yet those firefighters walked into it anyway. Here are a few quotes that I think seem to describe them well.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important." - Ambrose Redmoon
"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow." - Dan Rather
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
See the resemblence?
"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."- President G.W. Bush
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" - John 15:13
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