THE FREEPER CANTEEN - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning

My memory? Where was I?

I was walking through the house while getting ready for work, when I glanced at the TV, which I don't usually watch. There was a view of the WTC with smoke pouring out the upper floors and the reporter on Fox News was saying that a plane of some kind had hit the building. There was no panic, just reporting the incident and wondering how it happened and what kind of plane it was. While I stood there, the 2nd plane hit the other tower. My heart nearly stopped and of course, like everyone else, I KNEW that was no accident.

I went on to work and everyone was scared and glued to the tiny TV we had in the back room of the store. I worked in the mall and we finally closed at 1 and went home, because it was pretty much empty. Not only did I work in Bush's hometown but his mother in law still lived there, and we all feared that Midland, Texas, would be a prime target for people who hated the president. We also found out that the Pentagon had been hit and the plane had gone down in PA.

For the rest of that day and the rest of the week, I, like the rest of the world, was glued to the set, my heart breaking.

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Taking the First Step

September 12, 2017

God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:19

Tham Dashu sensed something was missing in his life. So he started going to church—the same church his daughter attended. But they never went together. In earlier days, he had offended her, which drove a wedge between them. So, Tham would slip in when the singing started and leave promptly after the service ended.

Church members shared the gospel story with him, but Tham always politely rejected their invitation to put his faith in Jesus. Still, he kept coming to church.

One day Tham fell gravely ill. His daughter plucked up the courage and wrote him a letter. She shared how Christ had changed her life, and she sought reconciliation with her dad. That night, Tham put his faith in Jesus and the family was reconciled. A few days later, Tham died and entered into the presence of Jesus—at peace with God and his loved ones.

The apostle Paul wrote that we are to “try to persuade others” about the truth of God’s love and forgiveness (2 Cor. 5:11). He said that it is “Christ’s love [that] compels us” to carry out His work of reconciliation (v. 14).

Our willingness to forgive may help others realize that God desires to reconcile us to Himself (v. 19). Would you lean on God’s strength to show them His love today?

Is there someone you need to try to reconcile with? What practical first step can you take today?

Our willingness to seek reconciliation with others shows God’s heart to them.

INSIGHT

The “ministry of reconciliation” Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 5:18 is the story of the gospel. We were alienated from God, but in His mercy and grace He reached out to us. In sending Jesus, the Father extended the greatest offer of peace in human history—the Prince of Peace Himself.

For more on reconciliation, consider What Do You Do with a Broken Relationship? at discoveryseries.org/q0703.

Bill Crowder

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CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (Jan. 14, 2008) The first major snowfall of the New Year blankets the USS Constitution. Despite the weather "Old Ironsides" remained open for free public tours. At 210 years-old, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, manned by 67 active-duty United States Sailors and visited by nearly half a million visitors annually. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Brown (Released)

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!!!

Boston, Oct. 21, 2009 - Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).

USS Constitution's 1812 Marine Guard fire vintage Springfield flintlock muskets during the ship's underway. "Old Ironsides" was underway for the "Constitution Day Cruise," which is conducted to thank the family and supporters of Constitution. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nick Lyman (Released)

OUR TROOPS ROCK!!!!!!!

I’ll never forget.

At 20,000 feet in a private plane when I was told to land immediately. See, it was general aviation that took the hit from 9/11, closed down all GA airports for months.

Thank You so much for posting Luv W.

It was so long ago, yet I remember it better than I do yesterday.

#1...The Mayor
Thanks for God's comforting Word!

#2...Conor
Permission Granted
Welcome Aboard, patriot!

#3--ML
No, I think you wouldn't
Patriots don't forget!

You must have been so confused...unless they explained what happened as they gave the order!

Thanks very much, Luv!

*HUGS*

And thanks very much for this evening's Memorial to the Fallen of 9/11!

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Amen.

I know how you feel, KC. And I have spent most of the day watching videos...

....such as THIS ONE that refresh those raw memories. But...I must watch.

I was actually on FR when I first saw what was happening.

I did not have a computer but had just purchased a WEB TV device and was hooked up to my television. At first I wasn’t sure what was going on.

The clock radio had just woke us up, my wife turned to me and said something is happening in New York.

I made coffee, showered, got dressed and turned on Fox News and watched in amazement as the twin towers were on fire.

I went to work and my boss and I spent the morning at a customers house but we both decided to call it a day at lunchtime and I went home, and with the rest of America, watched the events unfold on the TV, watching in horror and disgust as America was under attack.

You’re welcome, Conor. I felt that I HAD to. For all of the ones who want the world to remember!

God rest the souls of those who were murdered in Benghazi, too. :(

I was in my car on the way to work and listening to the news on the radios. The electronic signs on the highway said something like “Airport Closed - National Emergency.” The first thing I did when I got to work was call family to make sure that my pilot relatives were okay (one flies for American, the other for United).

A pox on Muhammed Atta, Osama bin Laden and gang, and the false “religion” Islam.

Does GA stand for general aviation or Georgia?

I was on Amtrak's Coast Starlight traveling from Seattle to San Jose to attend a conference of West Coast passenger rail advocacy groups. I was on my way to the dining car when I received word from one of our members on the train that the two WTC towers had fallen and that the Pentagon had been attacked.

Our California counterparts were at their emergency stations, and our Oregon counterparts who were flying down from Portland were stuck at the airport because the skies were shut down. As a result the conference was canceled. One of our members lost friends at the WTC. I ended up at the motel watching the carnage unfold on CNN and marveled at the silence of the skies except for the fighter planes making regular passes over the area.

Getting home the next day was another tale.

According to CNN, people stranded away from home were hitchhiking, renting cars or searching for interstate buses. Nobody outside the Northeast Corridor knew that we had a national network of passenger trains that was still running.

The Coast Starlight was three hours late into San Jose. We were placed "in the hole" on a siding in the Sierras for five hours because of a rail terror scare in Utah that turned out to be nothing more than an engineer running a red block signal. We missed every dispatching window on the Union Pacific and were 12 hours late into Portland. Once we got onto the BNSF tracks in Washington state, I could feel the dispatchers in Fort Worth moving us from track to track to get us around slow moving freights. We held to 12 hours late into Seattle, which meant we arrived at 4:30 AM. But the Amtrak employees were there to serve us despite the hour, and the lights of King Street Station never looked more welcoming. I was glad to be home.

Without the train, we would have been stranded in San Jose for weeks or thumbing it up old Route 99.

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS AND OUR BELOVED NATION!

"The Star Spangled Banner"
Verse Four
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Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

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