September 11......Seven Years Later

I can hardly believe it's been seven years since the tragedy of September 11, 2001 that shook our nation.  I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing.... as does everyone.  That was a day where everyone's sense of security and safety was destroyed for a moment.  It's a moment when a lot of us learned that we have real enemies in this world.  Enemies who hate the freedoms that we have and take for granted.  Today I am especially grateful for the corpsmen, the pilots, the infantry, all those who put themselves in harms way to protect the freedoms that we enjoy.  I think the best way to sum it up is by quoting the 4th and not often sung verse of our nations anthem.  Yes this is the verse that the left wing nutjobs want taken out of our national anthem:

"And thus be it e'er, when free men shall stand

 between their loved homes, and the war's desolation

 Blessed with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land

 praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation;

 Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just

 and this be our motto: In God Is Our Trust,

 And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave

 O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

"Star Spangled Banner, verse 4." 

B.M.