9-11 Eyewitness - Osama Bin Laden Death has Shaken True Evil

Only Through Turbulent Waters Can We Transgress Evil to Find a Peaceful Consequence

The day after the death of Osama Bin Laden, a 9-11 eyewitness finds pain intertwined with peace.

9-11 Eyewitness - Osama Bin Laden's Death Has Shaken True Evil

Late Sunday evening, the White House prepared the press and public for a surprise presidential press conference. It was an announcement long overdue, and so late in coming that we could not have even imagined it. Just a day after an attack on Libya nearly killed Gaddafi, we thought perhaps this briefing was related. Then sweetly, the news leaked that U.S. Special Forces reached and killed Osama Bin Laden, the sinister and devious leader of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization that destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and three thousand innocent Americans, including my colleagues on Wall Street. For those of us who shuttled through the Financial District in Downtown Manhattan daily, that dark shadow shattered our hearts. But at last, after several shots in the dark, a righteous bullet begun on its journey long ago by another president has finally eliminated this true evil from the earth.

But while Americans exhale and exclaim that justice is served, many of us are remembering solemnly yet again our lost brethren who only went to work one morning and never returned, who died because they were scheduled to be in the Trade Center on Tuesday, rather than Thursday, as I was scheduled. For those of us who felt the fumes burning our lungs and our eyes, those eyes that watched with disbelief as our brothers leapt from burning death to assured demise; whose throats itched from the fine debris we breathed in that day and thereafter; who had our solemn silence in the fall days that followed regularly interrupted by the slamming down of steel remnants of legendary structures on their transport to a damned place called Fresh Kills, sanctified by the blood of innocence - for us this is not a happy day. It is as if we have been transported back to September 12th all over again, so while we have some further closure, we also have renewed pain.

Now, while Americans embrace justice, the enemy becomes more likely to flail out at us. In places where America is viewed with jealousy; where the red, white and blue flag is burned; and where the effigy of every American leader is regularly defaced; where American journalists are beheaded simply because of their religion or nationality; in those places this justice is viewed instead as a reason for new vengeance. So, while May should have been more peaceful absent of this heinous excuse for a so-called religious leader, instead it becomes a month of high concern.

I remember now the famous words of someone I read often, "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword." Killing only begets killing, so brace now my American brothers, because the enemy will come. But, it is written that no matter how horribly we suffer on earth, a righteous final victory is ensured. Thus, have no fear but of God and of His final judgment. Therefore, I say let them come. We will be ready, with our righteous God and our hopeful ideology. For only through turbulent waters will we disrupt an evil world, in order to embrace it in a peaceful consequence.

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