Compass Points - Four Fateful Flights

Planes hijacked on September 11, 2001

Compass Points - Four Fateful Flights

Planes hijacked on September 11, 2001

September 11, 2024

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He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

-- Psalm 147:3

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Marines are warriors. They are no strangers to combat. Again and again, Marines have seen more than their share of danger and more than their share of death.

But even to experienced combat veterans, the attacks on thousands of civilians on September 11, 2001, were a malign and diabolical evil.

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Four Flights on September 11, 2001

8:46am - Flight 11 crashes into the north face of the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center.

9:03am - Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center.

9:37am - Flight 77 crashes into the western side of the Pentagon.

10:03am - Flight 93 crashes after a struggle between the hijackers and some passengers about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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On this day, Compass Points joins with those mourning the victims of 9/11, and salutes all those who fought the terrorists on 9/11 and in the years that have followed. The fight against evil goes on.

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Four Fateful Flights

As each flight swept through the sky,

‘Safe landings’ someone always cried.

Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93,

For them safe landings would not be.

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Vile brothers of the terror oath,

With schemes dark and forbidden,

They swore to break our Nation's soul.

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Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

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Those vile brothers, first stole four planes,

And marinating murder,

Took evil grip, 'round Nation's neck,

And smiled as they hurt her.

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And those asleep inside their seats,

Could not be comprehending,

That as they dreamed on finer things,

Their earthly lives were ending.

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Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

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But near one-hundred years before,

Two true brothers took a flight,

And by risking all their giving,

They advanced all human life.

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The first flight of terror brothers,

Launched from Logan, Boston, Mass,

While the first flight of Wright brothers,

Leapt aloft from N.C. grass.

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Two sets of men; two sets of flights,

With ten decades in between,

One created aviation.

One created tears and screams.

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Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

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A knife blade in an evil hand,

Will stab, and cut, and die.

But a sharp blade in a surgeon's hand

Will save the gift of life.

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Two blades, two hands, two choices too,

We hold the blade before us.

What option will we dare to do?

The selfish or courageous?

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Two flights, two hands, two courses set:

Fly the craft into the flame?

Surrender to demonic crypt?

Or choose, instead, a better way?

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Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

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The Angels high, must shield their eyes,

From evil that is done,

Or stand aloft, with warm applause,

When better choice is won.

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Free human choice can help us soar,

Wright brothers' flight reminds us.

While choice that's made in hate and rage,

Can harm but never bind us.

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Vile brothers of the terror oath.

With schemes dark and forbidden.

They swore to break our Nation's soul,

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Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

Four Flights on Nine-Eleven.

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What cosmic trust is placed on us,

At dawn without restriction.

Sad that this day, some would betray

The freedom we've been gifted.

-- © 2024 JDK

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Coming tomorrow: comments and analysis of the Commandant's Planning Guidance, Section 1 - INTENT.