I was at work on that fateful day for about a half-hour when word of the attack came down by way of word of mouth. The net was frozen, and no one was able to access it and no one could get any work done for the entire day. Most of us were just sitting around trying to make sense of it all. After noon our bosses just told everyone to go home, and so I did.
When I got home I turned it onto CBS and watched Dan Rather warning everyone about the graphic footage and language. Yes, I heard the lady screaming “Jesus F***ing Christ!” and it was NOT censored. The first and only words out of my mouth were YOU SONS OF BITCHES! After that I didn’t say much for the next couple of days or so, I was as stunned as everyone else.
Then when President Bush visited the ruins and got on top of that pile with the bullhorn, I knew something was gonna be done about it, and right then and there a lot of things fell into place as to why things happened the way they did after the 2000 election: God just wanted for George W. Bush to be there leading us when this happened. Then we went into Afghanistan and made the Taliban surrender power. And that was the beginning.
In November 2002 I saw Ground Zero in New York City; I was with my girlfriend at the time and we had just completed a tour of Ellis Island and after we left the ferry back to Manhattan, we made it a point to go there. First stop was the Sphere, which had survived the attack and was damaged, but it still survived. It was in Battery Park, and from there it was a five-block walk north to Ground Zero.
We stood there in total silence for about twenty minutes. The rubble had been cleared and though it looked like a pit, it was a National Scar. I don’t fully recall if I cried...but I know I didn’t have any words for just seeing Ground Zero with my own eyes. And it hit me in the gut, filling me with a terrible resolve to fight this Evil. If I couldn’t fight it with my body, I’d sure fight it with my words and spirit, which is one of the reasons I started blogging. While the Terrorists took the World Trade Center away from us, they’ll NEVER take away my heart and determination to call a spade a spade and to call Evil by its name. It was a powerful remembrance indeed.

This war is going to take a long time, this isn’t going to be done within a single term even if we capture Osama bin Laden, what’s happened so far pales to what might occur...and we MUST do everything in our power to stop it from reaching us here.
Men like President Bush and Vice President Cheney are providing the stalwart fortitude to make the decisions in the best interests of protecting the American People, no matter who we are: Republicans and Democrats, men, women and children, straights and GLBTs, the cowboys and the hippies and the Rebels and the Yanks! He is protecting us ALL. That is why we must re-elect George W. Bush as our President!

LET US ALWAYS REMEMBER.