Posted on 09/14/2001 7:50:02 PM PDT by rintense
SPECIAL EDITION
On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, President Bush gave one of the most inspiring speeches in our nation's history. In one of the most stirring moments, President Bush said, 'This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others; it will end in a way and at an hour of our choosing.'
Later in the day, the President visited the destruction in NYC, first flying over the rubble of the World Trade Center, and then witness the rescue and ruins first hand. In his rallying cry to the hundreds of rescue personnel, President Bush spoke to the workers with a megaphone. In the highlight of his speech in NYC, the President had the following exchange with the crowd:
RESCUER: I can hear you!
PRES. BUSH: I can hear you too! (crowd laughs)... And the world can hear you... (crowd cheers) and the people who knocked down these buildings will be hearing from all of us soon! (crowd erupts with chants of USA! USA! USA!)
Fittingly so, on this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, the nation and the world can take comfort in knowing that we have a man of passion and principle leading the greatest country in the world.
Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!
There is one thing that sets the poeple of our Nation apart from many others, and that is: The best in the American people is brought to surface in the worst of times.
God Bless
I need to say something though about all of our attitudes (me included). I teach in a retail store and people's attitudes are getting really crummy. There were women in there MAD because American flags weren't being sold. Stuff like that. We need to keep things in perspective. I worry that we have the resolve to see this through to the end if we're all getting testy over little stuff.
Rintense, THANK YOU!!!!!! Does anyone hapen to have ALL of what the President said today in New York that made the firefighters start their chanting? I heard it on the radio, Rintense posted part of it at the beginning of the thread, but it was so moving that I'd love to be able to save that one, too.
Just wanted to let you know I heard from DaughterofEve today.
She is fine. Her husband was one of the many eyewitnesses to the second plane hitting, as were several of her friends as they were approaching the city. Many are not doing well from that alone. She sends her best to all the other bush babes and bucks, and could use your prayers and support.
But tonight another quote has come to my mind ..... by another man we all admire and respect so much .....
Ladies and Gentlemen ......
THE WHEEL HAS TURNED.
IT IS TIME ..... IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GO!!!
And through the grace of God, we have the right man at the helm to show them the way out. America has become united again and we will defeat this enemy!!!!!!!
God bless President Bush! God bless America!
Thank you with all my heart.
I, too, notice parallels, more than a few, to this president and Abraham Lincoln. Not just for the causes they inherited that threaten to rive the Union, but for their placement in office by the hand of God for such as time as they found themselves there, and their responses to the challenges. I can't help but wonder how much help God was waiting to give to other presidents who would not take the time to seek Him, or ask for the faith to believe in Him.
I think it was Dan Rather who said, after W went to the WTC, that this was Gore country, the workers were chanting "Schumer, Schumer, Schumer," and < gag alert > "Hillary" (etc.), without doing the same for Bush. But once he got down into the wreckage and began to speak with them, the reporter said there was an electric response and he said you could FEEL the change that came over the people, the way the president connected with them. Reporter said W had completely won them over by the time he left. (And he wasn't there all that long.)
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