Never Forget

I got this image from Naarah the morning after the attack. It's in my Bible now and I reflect on it often. 

We'll never forget.

Our grandchildren, who I love will not know life before 9-11-2001. They will never have a complete sense of safety and protection on our soil, but will always have an eerie sense that a deadly unstoppable attack could change their world forever.

Pearl Harbor was such an attack for my parents' generation. But most of them aged in safety and forgot to warn us. Maybe after this attack, we can help our children be more prepared. We can help them, so they never have to stand powerless as foreigners emboldened with hate and  religious fanaticism seek to destroy our lives and landmarks in our homeland.

Our 9-11 children may live in fear as their reality. Or, they may embrace our nation's wealth and freedom. We can tell them of a time when we were strong and powerful and no one dared attack us at home. We can tell them that America is a great nation, worth fighting for. We can help them be that nation again if we teach them the lessons of 9-11. These are the lessons I take away, 10 years after the towers fell and people died at the hands of killers.

• Teach our children that what we have in America is precious and special

• Teach them that there are people in the world that hate our freedom, our prosperity and they want to take this from us
• Teach them that faith and freedom are worth dying for

• Tell them you love them every day

• Teach them that good can triumph over evil