Traumatic Situation on September 11

Traumatic Situation on September 11

Isaiah 24:18, ". . . for the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth tremble and shake." Assailed from above, and from beneath deprived of its supports, the earth must feel itself in the judgment hands of God.

The world's annals is inexorably going in the direction of a fixed aim repaired by God[1], in alignment that one class of persons may worry, and another class rest in the indemnity of a solid support in every test and lure, with a positive wish of last victory. God has put each of Adam's children on the identical cornerstone upon which He put their first parents free lesson bureau with the alternative of searching to realize and go in the kingdom of God by His righteousness[2], therefore conveying their mortal essence and body material under pre-eminence such that their inhabits marked the Word for their day, or just being churchgoers and good scouts who comply the regulation, pay tithes, and endure the amusement and dead customs that make Satan's experienced "church" today. So close it may mislead the very vote into agency if it were possible.

September 11, 2001, ushered in a new age in America and in America's relations with the world. On that date, terrorists flew hijacked airliners into both of the World Trade Center towers, killing themselves, their fellow passengers, and several thousand people inside the buildings[3]. Another hijacked plane was flown into the western face of the Pentagon—the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of the U.S. military. Yet another crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers, having heard of the earlier attacks at the Pentagon and World Trade Center, stormed their hijackers. This brave but Pyrrhic victory prevented an attack on another prominent American landmark—possibly the U.S. Capitol Building or the White House itself.

As America and the world watched on live television, both of the Trade Center's towers collapsed; many emergency workers and firefighters were killed along with those they had entered the buildings to rescue[4]. The final death toll in New York was over 2,600, with the total number of people killed in the four attacks totaling around 3,000, including all passengers on the aircraft. This tally, while horrifically high, was—considering the fact that over 50,000 people worked at the World Trade Center on a typical day also mercifully low. That said, the sheer scale and scope of these attacks dwarfed any previous terrorist strike.

Immediately after the attacks, America was a nation in mourning and a nation under siege; for the first time, air traffic was almost totally grounded for three days. The state of alert that followed the attacks in the United States was also mirrored overseas, with flights over London, for instance, barred for several days. The New York Stock exchange closed until September 17, and within a week of its reopening, the Dow Jones Industrial Index experienced its largest drop ever over such a short time period. America was effectively a nation at ...