It’s been a while since I’ve thought about where I was when the planes filled with people hit the twin towers in New York City and how that day went after that. I was working for the day at a small textile plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina trying to solve some problem that I can’t even remember when I noticed people sitting around a television. I went over and looked and was shocked what I was seeing on television. That was before the second plane had hit because I remember it being in the 9 o’clock hour.
As I rode back home later in the day listening to NPR, what I’d seen on television had seemingly changed everything and all I wanted was more answers about what had happened, who did it and why they did it. I remember trying to pull up the CNN website from my job and it was completely down because it couldn’t handle the load. They would post a static little page with blurbs on it until they could get it back up again. No, I wasn’t political at the time. I was barely out of college and working the first big job of my life.
I remember seeing the video of the twin towers being hit by planes over and over and over on the news. I remember the newspaper photo the next morning of all the people jumping out of one of the towers to their death because of the massive amount of heat from the explosion. It was all horrific.
I remember feeling the unity with everyone after that day and hearing George W. Bush’s words on the night of 9/11 from the White House and later that week, as he promised we’d go after the guys who did this.
Then it’s all a bit of a blur, from then to now. I look at our country today and I just don’t recognize it. All of that unity after 9/11 quickly dissipated and all I remember is how the left hated George W. Bush so much, and how the media went after him relentlessly. He managed to win a second term but the Democrats won power in the House in 2006 and the media continued to vilify him all the time – and over stupid things like refusing to expand SCHIP to people who didn’t need it. They would say he hated children.
Things were fuzzy for me back then as I tried to understand the difference between the right and the left and I finally realized I was a conservative. At some point soon after Obama got elected, I started The Right Scoop and the rest is history. But all of that fighting during Bush’s presidency left scars on me politically. The media seemed to hate him and I’d never seen anything like it.
Now I look at our country and see what the left has done to it and I just don’t recognize much of it. I was naive back when 9/11 happened, not really understanding much. I didn’t realize what this country was up against and how the left was really the enemy within who wanted to do worse than 9/11. (I say that, politically speaking, but if you consider all of the babies who have been destroyed in the womb it doesn’t even compare). But that’s more apparent to me now than ever as I think back over the last 23 years. So much has happened and the left has solidified their hold over a significant part of this country. Just like the days after 9/11, I feel like we are fighting a battle for our freedom and that we cannot let the left win. They want to destroy the greatness that America has always been since its founding and take us down the path of socialism and communism.
A lot has happened since the days of 9/11 and I wish I could say that America is better for having suffered through such a horrific attack. But I feel that we now only hanging by a thread.
I don’t mean to sound so bleak. Maybe I’m still reeling after the debate last night that I feel didn’t go well. But when I get like this I always have to remind myself that at the end of the day, we will prevail. Good will overcome evil and it’s not just some fantasy. For those of us who are Christians, we understand that God will prevail in the end. This country could become a third world communist country under the hands of ruthless dictators and God will still prevail. Even though it may feel that we never get the justice we deserve in our lifetime, justice will always win the day because God will prevail. We may not see it in this life but we will surely see it in the life to come. God will prevail. That is the true hope that I stand on and there is nothing that can take that hope away. This life is fleeting but eternity with our loving God is forever and it will happen as surely as the sun comes up shining brightly after a long, dark night. Amen.
