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Lord, I pray for our country right now, that even as this email goes to all I have sent it to, that each of them would feel your presence and your comfort and that they would know that even in the chaos andthe unknown, that you are in control of each of our lives and that you love us all. We are all in so much shock, Lord, and our lives have been shaken though we are not actually physically at theplaces that have been devastated. Help us each to find comfort in you and help us to feel your presence as we learn more and more detailsas the hours and days go by. Be with the victims, the emergency personnel, and our leaders in government. Guide them, strengthenthem, and comfort them as they continue to face the horror of this tragedy. I pray this all in the powerful name of Jesus. Amen.Please pass this prayer on...at a time like this when we all feel so helpless, the best thing we can all do is PRAY! In memory to those who lost their lives and to those who were injured in the tragic attacks Tuesday, September 11, 2001, in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Sympathies and condolences to the families, relatives and friends
of those who lost their lives and who were injured in the tragedy.
"No affliction nor temptation,
no guilt nor power of sin,
no wounded spirit nor terrified conscience,
should induce us to despair
of help and comfort from God."
Thomas Scott
Friday has been declared as a Day of Mourning in the United States. I am
not sure what we are supposed to do, to remember those people that have
died. When a team member dies, the players wear a black armband.
Let's think about what we can do to show our respect to the people
that sacrificed their lives.
We can drive with our headlights on.
We can wear black clothes.
Light candles (Make sure the curtains are pulled back if you put in the
window)
Fly your American Flags, at half-staff.
Tie Black Ribbons on your mailbox.
Tie Red, White and Blue Ribbons onto things.
I thought this was well written and wanted to share it with everyone.A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES America: The Good Neighbor.Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of histrenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for theAmericans as the most generous and possibly the leastappreciated people on all the earth.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
forgave other billions in debts. None of these
countries is today paying even the interest on its
remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956,
it was the Americans who propped it up, and their
reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets
of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped! The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that
is gloating over the erosion of the United States
dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese
technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German
technocracy, and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find
men on the moonnot once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
right in the store window for everybody to look at.
Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.
They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless
they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India
were breaking down through age, it was the Americans
who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and
the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced
to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name
me even one time when someone else raced to the
Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside
help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!
Nostradamus' prediction on WW3:
"In the year of the new century and nine months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city..."
"In the city of york there will be a great collapse,
2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos
while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- NOSTRADAMUS (1654)
He said this will be bigger than the previous two.
2001 is the first year of the new century and this is the 9th month.
New York is located at the 41st degree Latitude.
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Irving Berlin, 1918 [revised 1938]
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.
God bless America, land that I love Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with the light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the ocean white with foam
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
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God Bless our great country. May Freedom ever ring!
Take a minute, and pray for WORLD PEACE today
for everyone -- everywhere!
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