My View from Lady Liberty Lady Liberty must have turned her head and winced at the grisly scene she witnessed on September 11, 2001 in New York. Surely her lip must have quivered and her lamp dimmed into some clouds as if reaching to heaven itself. We went to the base of those great towers and stared up in disbelief at the twin towers. Last Tuesday I stared in disbelief again as I watched the towers crumble and thousands of people die. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi brought the Statue of Liberty to life inl886 and every detail words stand fulfilled and Lady Liberty stands tall and proud and lifts her lamp high as a reminder that the original statue name, "Liberty Enlightening the World is needed more than ever. If ever a world needed enlightening, it needs it this day. As the wrath of a nation that was wronged awakens and demands justice, we must seek the enlightening powers from on high that we dont become as those that have raged this unholy war upon innocent civilians. We must seek the enlightening power from on high to offer compassion and prayers for those that have directly suffered from the cowardly THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - Page 15 the great task remaining before u- s- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under she as God, shall have a new birth of a shed freedom - and that governtear down is symbolic. The original ment of the people, by the her noble statue was called Liberty people and for the people, shall face as by Gary Tones not perish from the earth. Enlightening the World. She fhlMlMBli was positioned so she faced We cannot let those ideals East. Every aspect of the of innodie with the twisted heart that cent people were killed. Lady Statue of Liberty is laden with revenge provokes. Without a doubt, we must bring those to Liberty has never had to the symbolism of liberation witness such a callous and enlightenment, and the justice that have wronged direction of Libertys gaze was mankind. They must be calamity. Like the smoke clearing not left to chance. America, deed inflicted upon America. subject to the strict demands from the debris, the senseless with its democratic ideals and Yes the light of her torch must of justice. But., we must do act ofterrorism that destroyed Republican government, was reach the very comers of our so in a manner that allows us the World TVade Center still already enlightened, Europe, soul where feelings of hate and to keep the delicate haunts my mind. I was in New still full ofczars and emperors, revenge reside. enlightening torch atop Lady We cannot let die the ideals Liberty glowing for another York a few months ago and I was not. Liberty therefore climbed the small twisting looks east, across the Atlantic." offered by Abraham Lincoln millenia. staircase up into the torch of Now, over 100 years later, she after he viewed Gettysburg in President Bush said, the Statue of Liberty and still stands offering to the 1863 we can not dedicate - we "Terrorist attacks can shake looked out on the vistas of the world the ideals that cause can not consecrate - we can not the foundations of our biggest hallow - this ground. The buildings, but they cannot New York skyline. madmen to rage. The prophetic lines penned brave men, living and dead, touch the foundation of I stood on the pedestal of Lady Liberty and looked to the by Emma Lazraus have stood who struggled here have America. These acts shatter northeast and could see the for decades as a great hope to consecrated it, far above our steel, but they cannot dent the World TVade Center towers all of mankind and now as a poor power to add or detract.. steel of American resolve. standing high above the consoling creed to our country, It is for us the living, rather, America was targeted for skyline like a king and queen "Give me your tired, your poor, to be dedicated here to the attack because were the Your huddled masses yearning unfinished work which they brightest beacon for freedom reigning over a royal court towers The readied so high to breathe free...send these the who fought here have thus far and opportunity in the world. that day as I took photographs, homeless, tempest toss to me. so nobly advanced. It is rather And no one will keep that light the tops actually disappeared 1 lift my lamp...1 Now these for us to be here dedicated to from shining. "Freedom was attacked by a faceless coward is perhaps the hardest of the facts to deal with. A faceless coward is so hard to bring to justice. The times ring back to December 7, 1945 when President Roosevelt called for American resolve, "Yesterday... a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by... The words echo in our hearts and resonate with such poignency that although our economy may reel and we may stagger for a moment indeed the sleeping giant will awaken again. President Roosevelt declared war on the Japanese Empire when less than 3000 people died during the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the undeserved attack kindled a wrath and awakened a sleeping giant that forced the giant to make from a peaceful plow share an angry atomic sword...a club so big and so strong that America and the world were changed forever. It is hard to imagine or project where America may go in the weeks and months to come. 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