On September 11, 2001 ......I remember working in Wichta, Kansas and talking with my news co-workers on how I was looking forward to vacation time in NYC in just four days. That morning; however, changed not only my vacation plans, but also it made me think of why would anybody want to do this to our country. In every generation there is an event that people don't forget on where they were, what time and what they were doing that day. For my grandparents it was Pearl Harbor, my parents it was the shooting of a president and for me it's 9/11. At the time, I was going through so many emotions I didn't know what to feel. A year later, I did take that NYC trip and when I visited ground zero, I remember in the center or near the center there was two steel beams that formed in the shape of a cross that was still standing. I took a photo of that cross and I turned to my roomate and said "Do you think that is a sign that God was watching over those people?" He turned to me and smiled, "Oh yeah he was definately watching over his people." I'm not really good with words on how to move forward, but I think Billy Graham might be able to help. Here is a portion of his sermon that he gave at the National Cathedral days after the attack. "Yes, our nation has been attacked. Buildings destroyed lives lost. But now we have a choice whether to implode and disintigrate emotionally spiritually as a people, and a nation, or whether we choose to become stronger through all of the struggle to rebuild on a solid foundation. And I believe that were in the process of starting to rebuild on that foundation. That foundation is our trust in God. That's what service is all about. And in that faith we have the strength to endure something as difficult and horrendous as what we've experienced this week.
--Billy Graham Sept. 14, 2001
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