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If I was someone that had a family member that WAS killed in the WTC, I would be deeply offended at people gleefully describing as "God-given miracles" various dumb-luck incidents that prevented people from being in the towers when they normally are.
50 posted on 12/08/2001 4:03:24 PM PST by John H K
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To: John H K
If I was someone that had a family member that WAS killed in the WTC, I would be deeply offended at people gleefully describing as "God-given miracles" various dumb-luck incidents that prevented people from being in the towers when they normally are.

How sad to be so bitter at so young an age; how blessed that you don't have a family member that was killed. I am grateful to God that no one I know was killed or injured. You are angry at random chance that anyone one. I much prefer my outlook. God loves you too; no one you know was hurt, apparently.

50,000 saved. 4000+ dead. Sounds like much better than "random chance" to me. I'll pray for you.

53 posted on 12/09/2001 1:24:32 PM PST by 50sDad
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To: John H K
If I was someone that had a family member that WAS killed in the WTC, I would be deeply offended at people gleefully describing as "God-given miracles" various dumb-luck incidents that prevented people from being in the towers when they normally are.

I was one of the lucky ones on September 11th. My Dad was on the 82nd floor of Tower One when the first plane hit. I only lost my last grandparent the week before. For five hours I lived with the fact that my father had been murdered. He has had a bad heart, and is overweight and I knew that even if he had lived through the impact, there was no way he could make it down alive. If it weren't for two firefighters that carried him down the last 40 flights of stairs, he would be dead. He still believes that he was the last person out of the tower as it collapsed when he was only 100 yards away.

I felt every emotion that day from anger, despair, and doubt in my faith. When I felt anger at God, I could only ask the question "why"? I received a miracle when the phone rang from the hospital with news that my dad was alive. That news was in no way "gleeful". The only thing I could feel was sadness for the people that would not be receiving the same phone call.

Today, I am working across the street from ground zero. There are family members of people who lost their lives walking down here every day. No one can explain their grief and I am certain that some of them have there own doubts. If I had lost my father that day, and ran into a survivor or family member of a survivor, I would thank God for them and their family that they are alive. Hearing the personal stories of that day, there was a little more than dumb luck at play when it comes to the relative low number of deaths when the potential death numbers are taken into account. One death is still one too many.

54 posted on 12/09/2001 4:39:18 PM PST by Wright Wing
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