More Related Content Similar to We'll go forward september 11th 2001- remember you Similar to We'll go forward september 11th 2001- remember you (18) We'll go forward september 11th 2001- remember you4. Text From We'll go forward from this moment BY LEONARD PITTS JR. The Miami Herald Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5. It’s my job to have something to say. They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that which troubles the American soul. PRESENTATION BY ED MILLER 14. What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward’s attack on our World Trade Center, 17. What was it you hoped we would learn? PRESENTATION BY ED MILLER 26. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, 27. a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, 31. believers in a just and loving God. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith . . . 32. Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us weak. 34. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals. 35. We are in mourning and we are in shock. Yes, we’re in pain now. . . 37. and the probable final death toll, Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition . . . 38. in the history of the United States, and, probably, the world. your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism . . . 40. But there is a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall. 41. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, 42. the last time anyone brought us such abrupt and monumental pain. 44. We will bear any suffering, When provoked by this level of barbarism . . . 47. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. I tell you this without fear of contradiction. . . 48. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future. What I know reassures me. . . 53. So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? 54. It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred.