AMERICA ANSWERS THE 911:
          HEROES ARE MADE NOT BORN

Last week America stood proud and strong against all odds.   Last week America got attack by Moslem fanatics.  Last week America got suckered, hoodwinked, and fooled. Once again New York’s Twin Towers would be the target. What the truck bomb eight years ago did not do, airplanes would. 

Middle East terrorists boarded four different planes on the morning of Sept.11, 2001 if you look at this date it spells out 911. Yes, it was an emergency call to all Americans. It was an emergency call for all Americans to help those who are now in need. It was a wake-up call for all of those Americans who thought the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans protected them from harm’s way. Well ladies and gentlemen, now you know we can be attacked at anytime in any American city. 

America's pain last week became my pain. My beloved sports town, New York, has been damaged but not broken. New York will come through in flying colors. New Yorkers know how because they have been taught by their neighbor, New Jersey. 

Heroes always come out of tragedies like this. Heroes, firemen, policemen, that will never, ever be forgotten. The first responding firefighters coming to the towers, just doing their jobs, responding from the call of help, will never go home again, falling into the rubble of the twin towers.

Heroes the New York Police Department who like their fellow fire fighters went into the towers wanting to save lives at the cost of their own.  

A Hero is a man staying with his disabled friend on the 100th floor. He stayed with flames, smoke, and falling metal coming down all around them.  He did not want his disabled friend to die alone. We should all have friends like this man. Within an hour they would both fall 100 floors to their deaths. His spirit will live on for many Americans. How many friends would do that, knowing that they could have saved themselves by just leaving the building? 

Heroes are the two people who carried another disabled person from the 68th floor. They lifted her out of the motorized wheelchair each one of them on each side of her. They had to carry this person down all of those flights of stairs. Stairs were filled with smoke and other people trying to leave in the same direction. Tower stairs that were filled with falling pieces of metal and hot jet fuel dripping from the above. They carried this person to safety, seven blocks away. Thank God these two were thinking of a possible collapse of the building. Heroes. 

The terrorist took two flights from Boston’s Logan Airport and two flights from Newark International Airport, my home state of New Jersey. 

Three of the four planes hit their targets. Three of the four planes caused much death and distruction. The fourth dove straight into the Pennsylvania. countryside, killing all aboard. That fourth plane once again showed the American Sprite, American Pride, and American Determination. They gave their lives to save thousands of other American lives in Washington, D.C. 

Here is a message to other terrorists:

You Failed
If you the terrorist wanted to break the American spirit, YOU FAILED
Americans are helping New Yorkers and Washingtonians, like Americans have always done in tragedies.
If you wanted to break the American’s pride, YOU FAILED 
The American flag now flies in every state, in every county, in every city, in every building, and in every household.
Even little kids are flying flags over freeway overpasses from New Jersey to California
If you wanted to crush American’s determination, YOU FAILED 
Americans are cleaning up the Pentagon and the Twin Towers 
And vow to rebuild both, bigger and better.
If you wanted to stop American’s financial business, YOU FAILED
Wall Street returned Monday. 
If you wanted to break America’s heart, YOU FAILED
Americans have raised over two billion dollars with more coming.
If you wanted to dismantle current American alliances overseas, YOU FAILED
Countries all over the world have come to our assistance even Moslem countries.
If you wanted to create racial disharmony, YOU FAILED
Black, White, Asian, Latino, Arab Americans all are hand and hand, united as one.
If you wanted to create religious turmoil, YOU FAILED
Jews, Christians, Moslems are also united as one hand in hand.
Yes, we Americans fight amongst ourselves on different issues, at different times.
Yes, we do not agree on a lot of subjects. But when an outsider attacks one of us, then it’s an attack on all of us--it’s a family matter. 

The Moslem fanatics who flew those jets into the twin towers failed to comprehend or understand this. Yes, Mr. Terrorist, you may have taken down the twin towers, a building, but you will never take down the American drive to live, the American drive to make the world a better place for all, including you, Mr. Terrorist. Now the shoes will be put on your feet. I wonder if you, Mr. Terrorist, can stake the same claims. 

We have many American heroes with many more to come
That is the Gray Line