On this day it is good to be reminded. 9/11 Memorial slide show at Pajamas Media.

I wrote the following piece a year after September 11, 2001. Nothing has changed.

Lest We Forget
Turn on the television today in the United States and you’ll see what the news media has been calling “unprecedented coverage” of the memorial services, and special events covering the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and flight 93 that went down in Pennsylvania. You will most likely see interviews of survivors from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
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By Kenneth F. Pierpont
September 11, 2002
(Kenneth F. Pierpont is Kevin’s father, has pastored for over 40 years, and now pastors with Kevin at Jonesville Baptist Church.)

This morning and through the day, our television sets have given us many opportunities to hear about and relive the awful events of last year, this day. In an hour or so, our president will speak to the nation live. I want to hear him.

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Shortly after the 11th last September I hung a flag from a pole on our house. It was something I’d been meaning to do but it took a wake-up call like the attacks on our country to light the fire in me. Soon my children were making flags and hanging them around the house. We began praying more earnestly for our country, our President and leadership and our military. These were things we could do. We realized then we would never forget September 11, 2001.

This excerpt is from an article I originally wrote for blogs4God.com. Read the whole article here.