My wife and I just watched the movie "World Trade Center" on DVD. My brother lived in NYC at that time. I had already moved out to California after having graduated from business school the prior summer. I remember getting a call from my mother early that morning. Given the time difference, the call woke me up. My mom said that she was calling to let me know that my brother was ok. My immediate response was "why wouldn't he be ok?" She then described the planes crashing into the buildings but none of it made any sense. I got up and turned on CNN. The coverage was surreal. I couldn't even process it all - especially when I saw the twin towers collapse. But I was so thankful to know that my brother was ok. As disturbing as that day's events were, I was glad my brother was ok. I feel selfish saying that given the amount of loss other people experienced that day but that's how I felt. My brother was all that mattered to me. I couldn't even process the rest.
After the movie, I told my wife that I loved her. I also told her that if anything unexpected every happened to me, I wanted her to know that I knew in my heart that we would be together again. Nothing, including death, would be able to seperate the two of us or seperate us from our kids. I am very thankful for that.
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Looking back, why do you suppose people subscribe to these methods of destruction? Is it really a battle of good versus evll? And can the terrorists, do you think they can be forgiven.
I honestly don't know sometimes why people do what they do. I know the rationale arguments for why someone would commit a terrorist attack like Sept 11 but I can't understand why they would go through with it or think they have God's support in that action. In terms of forgiveness, I don't think we need to condone the act (far from it). But, yes, I think we can and need to forgive these people (even though that is an incredibly hard thing to do and something that I'm not convinced I could have done had my brother been injured or killed in the attacks). As we've discussed, being a Christian (in this particular aspect) is a VERY hard challenge but one I hope we'll all strive toward.
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