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Eye Will See
USA God Bless America 
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to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unseachable
things you do not know. Jeremiah 33: 3
(NIV)
God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit reign
in our lives each day. If we all ask our Heavenly Father in
unison; he promises to answer us. God loves us so much, he
gave His only Son to us, as the sacrificial lamb. Through the
Holy Spirit we can do miracles God Himself wants accomplished,
but we must believe and worship Him with our unending love.
Pray for God to answer and tell us what needs to done to
accomplish a miracle on earth. Only God, Christ, and the Holy
Spirit, have the power to guide us.
Watch the
clip "every eye" below and remember to pray every
day.
God
Bless,
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 This
is lengthy, but it's definitely well worth reading. It
clearly shows why the United States
of
America's
war on terrorism is truly
justified.
America
Wake Up
Dan Ouimette
Pensacola
Civitan
February
19, 2003
"America, wake up!" That's what we think we
heard on the 11th of September 2001, and maybe it was, but I
think it should have been, "Get out of bed!" In fact, I think
the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979, and we have
continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few
more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It
was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going
through a religious and political upheaval when a group of
Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in
Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil;
it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country
hostage and paralyzed a presidency. The attack on this
sovereign U.S. embassy set the stage for the events to follow
for the next 23 years.
America
was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience
and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when
then-President Carter had to do something. He chose to conduct
a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended
in ruin but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal
with terrorism. America's military had been decimated
and
downsized
since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly-trained,
poorly-equipped, and poorly-organized military was called on
to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the
start.
Shortly
after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped
and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little
to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks
against U.S. soil continued.
In
April 1983, a large vehicle packed with high explosives was
driven into the U.S. Embassy compound in Beirut. When it
exploded, it killed 63 people. The alarm went off again and
America hit the snooze button once more.
Then
just six short months later, a large truck heavily laden with
over 2,500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the
U.S. Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut. Two-hundred
forty-one U.S. servicemen were killed. America mourned her
dead and hit the snooze button once more.
Two
months later, in December 1983, another truck loaded with
explosives was driven into the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, and
America continued her slumber.
The
following year, in September 1984, a van was driven into the
gates of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, and America
slept.
Soon,
the terrorism spread to Europe. In April 1985, a bomb exploded
in a restaurant frequented by U.S. soldiers in
Madrid.
Then in August, a Volkswagen loaded with
explosives was driven into the main gate of the U.S. Air Force
Base at Rhein-Main. Twenty-two were killed, and the
alarm was buzzing louder and louder as U.S. soil was
continually attacked.
Fifty-nine
days later, a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was hijacked,
and we watched as an American in a wheelchair was singled out
of the passenger list and
executed.
The
terrorists then shifted their tactics to bombing civilian
airliners when they bombed TWA Flight 840 in April 1986,
killing four. The most tragic bombing, that of Pan Am
Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killed
259.
America
wants to treat these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact, we are
still trying to bring these people to trial. These are
acts of war. The wake-up alarm is louder and
louder.
The
terrorists decided to bring the fight to America. In January
1993, two CIA agents were shot and killed as they entered CIA
Headquarters in Langley,
Virginia.
The
following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists were
arrested after a rented van packed with explosives was driven
into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center
in New York City. Six people were killed and over 1,000 were
injured. Still, this is a crime and not an act of war? The
snooze button is pressed
again.
Then
in November 1995, a car bomb exploded at a U.S. military
complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing seven servicemen and
women.
A
few months later, in June 1996, another truck bomb exploded
only 35 yards from the U.S. military compound in Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia. It destroyed the Khobar Towers, a U.S. Air Force
barracks, killing 19 and injuring over
500.
The
terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that
America does not respond
decisively.
They
moved to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on
two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were
planned with precision. They killed 224. America responds with
cruise missile attacks and goes back to
sleep.
The
USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling
on October 12, 2000 when a small craft pulled alongside the
ship and exploded, killing 17 U.S. Navy sailors. Attacking a
U.S. war ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to
investigate the crime and went back to
sleep.
Of
course, you know the events of September 11, 2001. Most
Americans think this was the first attack against U.S. soil or
in America. How wrong they are. America has been under
constant attack since 1979, and we chose to hit the snooze
button and roll over and go back to
sleep.
In
the news lately, we have seen lots of finger-pointing from
every high official in
government
over
what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read
the papers and paid a little attention, I think you can see
exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA
or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that
has been developing since
1979.
President
Bush is right when he says we are engaged in a war. I think we
have been in a war for the past 23 years, and it will continue
until we, as a people, decide enough is
enough.
America
has to get out of bed and act decisively now. America has
changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make
the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot
afford to hit the snooze button again and roll over and go
back to sleep. We have to make the terrorists know that, in
the words of Admiral Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor
in
1941,
"all they have done is awakened a sleeping
giant."
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A LESSON TO MY SON (Email
4/14/2003) Thanks JA, God Bless.
by
A PROUD AMERICAN Irma S. Chambers
The other day, my nine
year old son wanted to know why we were at war. My
husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband
and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be
honored to serve and defend our country again today. I
knew that my husband would give him a good
explanation.
My husband thought for a few minutes and
then told my son to go stand in our front living room window.
He told him:
"Son, stand there and tell me what you
see?"
"I see trees and cars and our neighbors houses,"
he replied.
"OK, now I want you to pretend that our
house and our yard is the United States of America and you are
President Bush."
Our son giggled and said
"OK."
"Now son, I want you to look out the window and
pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different
country," my husband said.
"OK Dad, I'm
pretending."
"Now I want you to stand there and look
out the window and see that man come out of his house with his
wife and he has her by the hair and is hitting her. You see
her bleeding and crying. He hits her in the face, he throws
her on the ground, then he starts to kick her to death. Their
children run out and are afraid to stop him, they are crying,
they are watching this but do nothing because they are kids
and afraid of their father. You see all of this son....what do
you do?"
"Dad?"
"What do you do
son?!"
"I call the police, Dad."
"OK. Pretend
that the police are the United Nations and they take your
call, listen to what you know and saw but they refuse to help.
What do you do then son?!"
"Dad, but the police are
supposed to help!" My son starts to whine.
"They don't
want to son, because they say that it is not their place or
your place to get involved and that you should stay out of
it," my husband says.
"But Dad...he killed her!!" my
son exclaims.
"I know he did...but the police tell you
to stay out of it. Now I want you to look out that window and
pretend you see our neighbor who you're pretending is Saddam
turn around and do the same thing to his
children."
"Daddy...he kills them?"
"Yes son, he
does. What do you do?"
"Well, if the police don't want
to help, I will go and ask my next door neighbor to help me
stop him," our son says.
"Son, our next door neighbor
sees what is happening and refuses to get involved as well. He
refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my husband
says.
"But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by
myself!!"
"WHAT DO YOU DO SON?"
Our son starts
to cry.
"OK, no one wants to help you, the man across
the street saw you ask for help and saw that no one would help
you stop him. He stands taller and puffs out his chest. Guess
what he does next son?"
"What Daddy?"
"He walks
across the street to the old ladies house and breaks down her
door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and sets her
house on fire and then...he kills her. He turns around and
sees you standing in he window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU
DO?!!!"
"Daddy..."
"WHAT DO YOU
DO?!!!"
Our son is crying and he looks down and he
whispers, "I close the blinds, Daddy."
My husband looks
at our son with tears in his eyes and asks him...
"Why?"
"Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to
help...people who needs it....and they won't help....You
always say that neighbors are supposed to HELP neighbors, but
they won't help either...they won't help me stop him...I'm
afraid....I can't do it by myself...Daddy.....I can't look out
my window and just watch him do all these terrible things
and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to close the
blinds....so I can't see what he's doing........and I'm going
to pretend that it is not happening."
I start to
cry.
My husband looks at our nine year old son standing
in the window, looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to
my husbands questions and he tells him...."Son"
"Yes,
Daddy."
"Open the blinds because that man....he's at
your front door..."WHAT DO YOU DO?!!!!"
My son looks at
his father, anger and defiance in his eyes. He balls up this
tiny fists and looks his father square in the eyes, without
hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA
LET HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM,
DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!"
I see a tear roll down
my husband's cheek and he grabs my son to his chest and hugs
him tight, and cries..."It's too late to fight him, he's too
strong and he's already at YOUR front door son.....you should
have stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife. You have to do
what's right, even if you have to do it alone,
before......it's too late," my husband whispers.
THAT
scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war with Iraq. When
good men stand by and let evil happen is the greatest EVIL of
all. Our President is doing what is right. We, as a free
nation, must understand that this war is a war of humanity. WE
must remove this evil man from power so that we can continue
to live in a free world where we are not afraid to look out
our window and see crimes on humanity.
So that my nine
year old son won't grow up in a world where he feels that if
he just "closes" the blinds the atrocities in the world won't
affect him. Today the second day of "WAR on IRAQ" I felt
compelled to write this and pass it along. Hopefully, you will
understand the lesson my husband tried to teach our
son.
"YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT!
EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!
BE PROUD OF OUR PRESIDENT! BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT
THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA!! SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN
WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR
BLINDS...."
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This Pastor has guts!! 7/2003
Thought you might enjoy
this interesting prayer given in Kansas at opening session of
their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people.
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new
session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual
generalities, but this is what they heard. "Heavenly Father,
we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek
your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to
those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have
done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our
values. We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth
of Your Word and called it Pluralism.
We have
exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have
rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed
our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists
and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline
our children and called it building self-esteem.
We have
abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our
neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have
polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it
freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored
values of our forefathers and Called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and
know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us
free.
Guide and bless these men and women who have been
sent to direct us to the center of Your will and to openly ask
these things in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus
Christ.
Amen!"
The response was
immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the
prayer in protest.
In 6 short weeks, Central Christian
Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000
phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively.
The church is now receiving international requests for copies
of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea. Commentator Paul
Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of
the Story," and received a larger response to this program
than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may
this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become
our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under
God." If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends.
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for
everything."
Think about this: if you
forward this prayer to everyone on your email list, in less
than 30 days it would be heard by the
world.
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Subject: From a Romania Newspaper News
Editorial Clip
Sent Email: 09/25/2002
The United States rarely gets
a chance to see another country's editorial, written
presenting our country in a positive way, until this editorial
was written. When you think most countries in the world do not
appreciate, nor like the United States, the kind words in the
editorial reflect and speak of the American People, as we
really are. Even
if this is not a Romania Editorial, it does describe how our
Country joined and how we will continue to join and fight to
keep our freedom.
An Ode to
America
Why are Americans so
united? They do not resemble one another even if you
paint them! They speak all the languages of the world
and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some
of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one
another and in matters of religious beliefs, and not even God
can count how many there are.
Still, the American
tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on
the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the
Army, nor the Secret Service of wrongdoing. Nobody
rushed to empty his or her bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the
streets nearby to gape about.
The Americans
volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the
smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the
colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings
and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or
the president was passing.
On every occasion, they
started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!"
Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on
Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV
channels. Celebrities that donated their talents were:
Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts,
Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester
Stallone, James Wood, and many others whom no film producer
could ever bring together before.
The Americans'
solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually,
choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy
artillery of the American soul. What neither George W.
Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without
facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being
heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert.
I do not know how it happened that not all this
obsessive singing of America sounded croaky, nationalist, or
ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you
were not able to sing for your country without running the
risk of being named a chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of
who-knows-what.
I watched the live broadcast and the
rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy
who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair
without knowing who she was. Additionally, of the Californian
hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented
the plane from hitting a target that would have killed another
unknown number of people. How were they able to bow
before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word
and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth
of tragic heroes.
Moreover, with every phone call,
Americans donated millions and millions of dollars aimed at
rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit that money
can not buy. What can unite the Americans in such a
way? Their land? Their galloping history?
Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to
find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with risk
of sounding like common places. I thought things over,
but I reached only one conclusion. Only
“freedom” can work such miracles.
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United States of
America
Subject:
Fw: DO NOT
FORGET
- FROM A MARINE (Received Email 9/24/2002)
I sat in a movie theater
watching "Schindler's List," asked myself, "Why didn't the
Jews fight back?"
Now I know why.
I sat in a
movie theater, watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself, "Why
weren't we prepared?"
Now I know why.
Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the
actions of evil people.
On September 11, 2001, dozens
of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be
overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because
they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated
their captors.
On September 11, thousands of innocent
people were murdered, because too many Americans naively
reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the
dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifist's and
media personnel want us to forget the Carnage. They say we
must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the
cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the
motivation of the perpetrators. Major television stations have
announced they will assist the healing process by not
replaying devastating footage of the planes crashing into the
Twin Towers.
I will not be manipulated.
I will not pretend
to understand.
I will
not forget.
I will not forget
the liberal media who abused freedom
of the press to kick our country, when it was vulnerable and
hurting.
I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather
preceded President Bush's address
to the nation with the snide remark,
"No matter how you feel about him, he is still our president."
I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings
questioned President Bush's motives for not returning
immediately to Washington, DC and commented, "We're all pretty
skeptical and cynical about Washington."
And I will
not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters
weren't informed of every little detail of this war, they
aren't "likely -- nor should they be expected -- to show
deference."
I will
not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an
attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the
United States of America.
I will not forget the Clinton
administration
equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters with the
world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment and
encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability
to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and
modem communications.
I will not be appeased with
pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected by
the previous administration.
I will not be comforted
by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the silly "Have
your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.
I will not be influenced by so called, “antiwar
demonstrators" who exploit the right of expression to chant
anti-American obscenities.
I will not forget
the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war
protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers,
airmen, sailors and Marines.
I
will not be softened by a dream of pacifist's who chose
reassurance over reality.
I will embrace the wise
words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told Labor Party
conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of
the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but
70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced
in it?
There is no compromise possible with such
people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with
such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it.
And defeat it we must!"
I will force myself to:
-hear the weeping
-feel the helplessness
-imagine the terror
-sense the panic
-smell the
burning flesh
- experience the loss
- remember the
hatred.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private
Ryan" and asked myself, "Where did they find the courage?"
Now I know.
We
have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.
--
Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)
Not as lean, Not as mean,
But still a Marine.
Keep this going until every living
American has read it and memorized it so
we do not make the same mistake again.
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Immigrant
- This says it all!
Received email 3/8/03, ditto, received in 2002;
Thanks Cousin.
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