In some ways it does not seem like it has been 12 years since the worst Terrorist Attack ever perpetrated on American soil.

In other ways, it seems like an eternity.

That horrible day was so surreal. It seemed to me like I was stuck in a nightmare.

Certainly this couldn’t be happening to us? We’re the greatest nation in the world.  Who in their right mind, would dare attack the United States of America? Who would be brazen enough to attack us, using instruments of our own design? Who would actually dare flying planes into the Twin Towers, a living symbol of American Prosperity?

For that matter,. who would fly a plane into the Pentagon? The Seat of Power behind our nation’s awesome Military, the finest collection of Fighting Men and Women on Earth?

It was not a nightmare. It was a reality.

Here is the tragedy of 9/11/01, broken down by the numbers.  Courtesy of nymag.com:

The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.

• Total number killed in attacks (official figure as of 9/5/02):2,819 
• Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
• Number of NYPD officers: 23
• Number of Port Authority police officers: 37
• Number of WTC companies that lost people: 60 
• Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402
• Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614
• Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658
• Number of U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom: 22
• Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks:115
• Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1
• Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39 
• Bodies found “intact”: 289 
• Body parts found: 19,858
• Number of families who got no remains: 1,717
• Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center: 36,000
• Total units of donated blood actually used: 258
• Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks: 1,609
• Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051
• Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20 
• FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274
• FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661
• Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300
• Number of funerals attended by Rudy Giuliani in 2001:200
• Number of FDNY vehicles destroyed: 98 
• Tons of debris removed from site: 1,506,124 
• Days fires continued to burn after the attack: 99
• Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100
• Days the New York Stock Exchange was closed: 6 
• Point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average when the NYSE reopened: 684.81
• Days after 9/11 that the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan: 26
• Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since 9/11: 1,714
• Economic loss to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion
• Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million
• Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million
• Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion
• Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion
• Estimated amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5 billion
• Amount of money recently granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55 billion 
• Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million
• Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25
• Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million
• Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9
• Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40
• Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50
• Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered “inappropriate” to play after 9/11: 150
• Number of mentions of 9/11 at the Oscars: 26
• Apartments in lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup: 30,000 
• Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,110
• Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to train or car: 1.4 million
• Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a result of 9/11: 422,000

Last year, America experienced a second tragedy. And, the difference in the way the current President and his Administration handled it, and the way that the previous Administration handled the original 9/11, was like night and day.

Shortly after Radical Muslims from al Qaeda murdered 4 Americans at the Benghazi, Libya U.S. Embassy Compound, it was reported by the British Newspaper, The Independent, that

American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential.

The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the “safe house” in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed “safe”.

Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and “lockdown”, under which movement is severely restricted.

Mr Stevens had been on a visit to Germany, Austria and Sweden and had just returned to Libya when the Benghazi trip took place with the US embassy’s security staff deciding that the trip could be undertaken safely.

Eight Americans, some from the military, were wounded in the attack which claimed the lives of Mr Stevens, Sean Smith, an information officer, and two US Marines. All staff from Benghazi have now been moved to the capital, Tripoli, and those whose work is deemed to be non-essential may be flown out of Libya.

From there, the pro-Muslim Spin, and out-and-out lies by Obama and his Administration rapidly spun out of control, until Obama himself,appeared in front of the UN, insisting that an unwatched youtube.com video, had been responsible for the horrific scene in Benghazi, rather than admit that it was al Qaeda, and accept responsibility for the lack of security at the Compound.

And now, on this anniversary of these horrific events in the life of the greatest country on God’s green Earth, we find the “land of the pilgrims’ pride” in danger and diminished by a feckless, sniveling, Pee Wee Herman impersonating, didactic former visiting lecturer and present empty suit, taking up space in the Oval Office, who gave a 15 minute speech last night on an international situation which he caused, in which he took credit for things which he had no hand in.

The very hubris of Obama overwhelmed the TV screen last night, as  he sought to lecture and shame Americans into supporting his clandestine mission to remove Syria’s President Assad from power and replace him with the Syrian Rebels, led by the self-same Radical Muslims who killed 3,000 Americans 12 years ago.

His ineptitude in handling the whole Syria Situation has been such an embarrassment, that even his own fundraising lackeys, Organizing for America, will not support him and his desire for an “unbelievably small” war with Syria.

The Emperor has no clothes and the clothes have no Emperor.

In conclusion I ask you to pray today.

Pray for our Embassies around the world, for the world has now realized what a feckless disaster of a President that America is stuck with.

Pray for our Brightest and Best, as they protect us and our nation with their very lives, around the world.

Pray for those left behind, on both 9/11/01 and 9/11/12, that God will grant them peace.

And, finally pray for our nation, that we survive this Anti-American President.

Until He Comes,

KJ