Prepared by
American Patriots Association
Some years ago I suddenly lost my soldier father and a dearly loved brother. This left an emptiness inside my life and filled me with grief, pain and shock, the same feelings I know are being experienced by the loved ones of more than 6,500 people whose lives were changed by the terrorist attack upon our nation on 9-11-2001.
Watching jet liners crash into sky scrapers, seeing the World Trade Center come tumbling down, crumbling to ruins, witnessing the wreckage at the Pentagon, listening to grief stricken stories of heroes upon ill fated flight 93 which crashed in Pennsylvania, feeling the suffering of those who hang on hoping their loved ones will return, reminded me of my own sudden loss, the tears, the pain, the shock. So I understand very well what our country is going through.
If life has taught me one great truth it is that we must go on living and loving, turning our loss not into hate and desire for revenge, but into love. That is what the many who are gone would have wanted and that is what the terrorist who took their lives would least like each of us to do.
So in honor of the memories of each of our loved ones who perished we should light candles and burn eternal flames of love, keeping them with us dear, forever warm inside our hearts. We should plant trees to make the world a greener place, more lovely for our children, the air cleaner to breath, to provide shade from the sun and an umbrella of leaves from the storms of life.
Yet, paradoxically, we must also each respond in our own way to rid the world of terrorism, that the pain, the loss, the suffering, the grief, the emptiness we have come to know does not grow and spread. In this regard we must support America and the ardent, almost impossible task at hand, to bring all terrorist to justice, no matter how long it takes or what the cost.
This certainly is a difficult resolve. Yet it must be done for our children and for those who died at the hands of evil. Only by ridding the world of that evil which brought their destruction will we be able to secure our homeland and make the world safe for our children, that never again will these terrorist be able to take our loved ones away or tarnish another soul with their evil deeds; that never again will our children ask, "When is Daddy or Mommy coming home," only to be told, "They are in Heaven, sweetheart, and Heaven doesn't have cell phones or special delivery mail service." The only way you can talk to the dead is through God inside your heart, mind and soul.
Sincerely,
Terry Lynch
24 Sept. 2001