Posted by Joe Cimoch on Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 8:26AM :
Welcome to Forum #50 - God Bless America
Its amazing to believe that this is the 50th Power Wagon Forum.
What's even more amazing are the events of 9-11-2001.
Its still hard for me to comprehend what happened that day. I would have never thought in my lifetime, that I would ever see
an attack on the USA - within our own borders. I have been lulled into the belief that we are safe and secure in the thought
that no one would ever want to, or would be able to terrrorize the USA. I could not have been more wrong.
Our lives have been changed. Safety is a big concern. We have had National Guard troops placed at our water supplies. The
Quabbin Reservoir, the main water supply for the Boston metropolitan area, has been closed off to the public for fear that it
may be poisoned. I haven't shot a gun in 20 years, but this week I took a gun safety course that is required in this state to
obtain a License to Carry a firearm.
If there is any good that comes form these tradegies, I belive Americans are more pariotic - It makes me smile everytime I
see an American Flag, and I'm seeing flags everywhere. Homes, buildings, cars, bikes, hats, even the cloth mill in town is
printing flag patterns by the truckload. We have always flown the flag at our house on holidays, now we'll have a flag
outside all the time.
I also think that we have seen a resurgance in God. Peggy Noonan wrote in a Wall Street journal Editorial "People are feeling
a little less self-conscious about integrating their actual thoughts about their faith into the actual statements they make
to friends and family, to coworkers and colleagues. That's a great thing. In my little town that's a kind of miracle too. I
was thinking the other day: In 1964, Time Magazine famously headlined "God Is Dead." I hope now, at the very highest reaches
of that great magazine, they do a cover that says "God Is Back."
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