“The Day that Time Stood Still”

“The Day that Time Stood Still”


We are fast approaching the 14th anniversary of the deadliest attack upon our nation since it’s inception.  On September 11, 2001, our nation saw the horror of terrorists using jet airliners for weapons.  Hijackers took four planes to do their dirty work.  They took two to New York City to attack the twin office towers of the World Trade Center.  They also used one to fly into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and yet still another didn’t reach its target as it came down in a remote field in Pennsylvania.


On that day when time halted for many, 2,977 innocent lives were taken by these terrorists.   In New York alone, 2,606 died.  Another 125 died at the Pentagon and 246 on the four jet planes including the field in Pennsylvania.   Air traffic came to a halt.  Our nation was on full alert.  And our leaders vowed to bring those who did this to justice.  Well that justice took a very long time to find the key figures of this plan to disrupt the nation and the world.  Some are still at large today.


The death toll continues to rise as those who went to help at the scene in New York City, many of them have gotten ill with strange illnesses of the lungs as well as over 1,400 have developed cancer.  The death toll will rise as even more of those involved will likely succumb to some respiratory or cancer related illness.  And look at the death toll from the troops in the foreign lands looking and fighting these terrorists.


What the nation should realize as they stop to reflect on that day is the fact that there are still those in this world who want to see us dead.  Keep that close at heart and never forget it.  Remember those family members and loved ones who lost those who were part of their lives that day.  Keep them in prayer as they are still hurting today after all this time.  And there seems to be a lack of people wanting to remember the attack on our nation that killed so many.  They seem to want to forget.  Let not anyone forget and let not our youth go without learning what happened that day fourteen years ago.

Thank you and God Bless,

Pastor Dr. Mike Moon, D.D.