9/11 17 years on:
"I remember the emotional feel of that morning. No one knew what was going on. How many planes were out there? How many might come down? And as my wise-cracking camera man noted: maybe they have guys with AK 47s hidden all over D.C." - Intellectual Takeout
That this was an assault upon our society, whatever its ostensible capitalist and militarist “targets,” was again thought too obvious a point for a clever person to make. It became increasingly obvious, though, with every successive nihilistic attack on London, Madrid, Istanbul, Baghdad, and Bali. There was always some “intellectual,” however, to argue in each case that the policy of Tony Blair, or George Bush, or the Spanish government, was the “root cause” of the broad-daylight slaughter of civilians. Responsibility, somehow, never lay squarely with the perpetrators.
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18543 ]Former Wall Street Journal editor Melanie Kirkpatrick escaped 9/11...saw in New York "that religion and people's reliance on God in a time of crisis was very evident."
“According to a study by the Values Research Institute and reported on the new www.nycreligion.info Web magazine covering religion in the city, 40 percent of Manhattan evangelical churches started after 2000. That’s about 80 churches.” Baptist Press
How Evangelical Leaders Have Changed Since 9/11
Of course, a stupefying event like 9/11 should never be reduced to a matter of personal growth or understanding. At the same time, to be unchanged by such an event, or not to notice such changes, is to be ranked in the top tier of those who are not really paying attention.
Student Project Portrays 9/11 Testimony of American Airlines Pilot
Associated YouTube: In my seat
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/09/07/ten_years_after/pa... After 9/11, the U.S. Congress created the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration... Nearly $8 trillion was spent on what is called "security,"... Was it worth it? John Stossel at Townhall.com
