Replies to post #405 on America Strikes Back (ACTOFWAR)

[Paule]

October 4, 2001 Posted: 9:51 PM EDT (0151 GMT)

Workers at the World Trade Center disaster site look at a large illuminated cross near the rubble of the collapsed buildings on Wednesday.


NEW YORK (CNN) -- Two nights after two hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center, causing it to collapse in a mound of twisted wreckage, Frank Silecchia had just helped remove three bodies from the rubble when he looked up and saw a scene he says transfixed him.Among the debris from Tower One that had crashed onto the floor of the atrium of Building 6, the laborer with Local 731 said he saw steel beams strewn about in the shape of crosses that reminded him of depictions showing Jesus Christ and two thieves being crucified on Calvary.
"I seen this picture of Calvary with three, four crosses in it. The main structure of Christ's cross was in front of me. It took my breath away," said Silecchia.
Since then, the crane operator has scrawled "God's house" on the building and shown his find to others at ground zero.
"I've healed many people with this and brought contentment to them," the 47-year-old divorced father of two said.
Among those to whom Silecchia showed the cross was Father Brian Jordan, a priest at St. Francis of Assisi parish in Midtown, who was offering communion to workers at the site.
Jordan persuaded city authorities to pull the largest of the crosses from the wreckage intact and save it as a memorial. The cross will be removed from its resting place in the wreckage in a ceremony Thursday afternoon.
"They'll have something to hang on the wall, and some inspiration," said Silecchia, who describes himself as a born-again Christian.
"Our country is hurting right now, and I can't think of a better way to strengthen it -- through God's hands. It ain't a point of religion, it's a point of faith.
"This country feels, in some way, God has forsaken them, and I don't want that to be happening," he said.
Silecchia said the cross could help people of all beliefs. "Even an atheist watching this building must have said, 'Oh, my God!' Evil did this work, and God prevailed to show his strength."
The Brooklyn native, who lives in New Jersey, said he hopes his symbol of faith will inspire people outside the confines of ground zero: "It's healed so many people here; I'm just hoping it can do so for the nation."

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/04/rec.attacks.cross/index.html







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[Paule]

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So you have to commit an act of terror before you achieve the label terrorist? Aren’t their any ways to classify and define or categorize possible terrorist candidates before they hurt people? Do they have to have a bomb in a vehicle before they become a suspect?

When other countries do not believe or have the same moral ethical or civic values that we possess, what system then do we use to judge or classify as a terrorist? Possible terrorist? Do we impose our standard upon them? Men that beat women with sticks because they show their faces in public are terrorists? I remember reading old Oregon Law stating was legal to beat your wife with a stick or dowel of not greater than one inch in diameter, nor longer than 36” in length…That’s ONE BIG SWITCH eeeeouch!


Did you know that Saudi Arabia’s main religion is the same as the Taliban? Just as Christians do Christianity, They spend billions exporting this sect of the Muslim religion throughout the Middle East and into the world. Saudi Arabia is our biggest Middle East ally. Would you consider them a harborer of terrorism because they produce the types of people whom have engaged in these terrorist termed activities in the past?


Why are not murders (mass or serial) rapist(s) (fear power control) and drug dealer(s) (fear power control) charged with terrorism? I’m certainly afraid of them. The impact their crimes have upon us. Our People. Our streets.



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