09/11/2025
Dear America- it’s 24 years post 9/11. The day was much like today - weather was beautiful. Blue skies, clear as could be, a little hint of fall… even in Birmingham, Alabama where I lived at the time. Then it happened. Before cell phones and social media, we all found out some how. I watched the towers fall. I watched evil come in from out side of this great country and try to take us down. I watched Americans respond by becoming ONE NATION, UNDER GOD. We all did our part. We hung flags, some joined the military, some sacrificed it all and took a plane down or ran into a burning building. But I knew we would triumph bc we worked TOGETHER TO DEFEAT this evil. No colors, no ethnicities, no ages, no socioecomomics, just US as U.S.
What happened to US? What happened to U.S? We are better than this. We are stronger than this. We CANNOT BE SILENT. Lincoln said “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” We can’t wait for him or anyone else to save us… only WE can do it. WE Started a new country… against all odds. We kept it when they came to take it back. We stormed beaches…. We defeated communism… we defeated socialism… and now we have to defeat THIS.
Some sacrificed all so the rest
Of us can have the freedom we have here. WE are all responsible to uphold the values of liberty and the freedom
To pursue our happiness and become
The best version of ourselves. WE are entrusted to hand these values down to the next generation. Let’s get to work, People. This is our Turning Point #9/11
