I remember being awakened the morning of 9/11 by a relative. When I got the TV turned on the first tower was ablaze and the second hadn’t been damaged yet. That moment was the start of a day I’ll never, ever forget.

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I’ve since been to Ground Zero and I’ve worked should to shoulder with survivors. I’ve trained soldiers to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve been forever changed by the actions of men who’ve let the enemy of Heaven distort their judgement of what is right and what is wrong. The fight that brought down the Twin Towers, destroyed a wing of The Pentagon and crashed an airplane in a field in Pennsylvania has been raging since Lucifer rose up against God and was cast out of Heaven. It is Satan who encourages men to do evil. Yes, men make choices but who puts those opportunities in their paths?

While I remember with sadness the lives of those lost this day, I will also remember that this is but one battle in the greater war for the souls of men. A war in which we already know the outcome, that Jesus wins, that God loves us and that all will be made right. The only question that remains is how many men and women will fall to the great deceiver and how many will come to know The Truth?