On September 11, 2001 I was living on base in North Carolina, at home with my youngest napping peacefully in the crib, my oldest enjoying the early days of first grade twelve miles down the road. By 9:45 am I had ALREADY PHONED Hunky Husband at the squadron and told him to go get Dash One at school because I was certain that the base would shut down at any moment. All he said was an unquestioning, "ROGER!" and when he arrived at school to get our kid, the office was CLUELESS as to why we would want our child in hand. They were not connecting the dots at all. By the time the second tower was hit, this already suspicious Marine wife knew instantly that we were being attacked.
And I knew exactly who it was.
The Base was indeed locked down by 11:30 that morning. My child and husband were safe inside by that point due to some lucid thinking and faster action. No one went in or out for THIRTEEN HOURS. Children stranded at school, no plan in place to shelter them while their parents were locked down, cars choking the post gates for four miles.
Thanks to my collegiate confessor, a Jesuit priest with military experience, ever since the attack on the Marine Barracks in Beirut, I have known who Islamic terrorists were and the hideous nature of their ultimate mission. He did not mince words back then about the world we would inherit, and consequently I have the strength to stare this down as an informed Christian adult.
As I have mentioned here at least twice before, I have had a ragged newspaper photo PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED ON MY DESK that I have prayed over every single day since September 3, 2004 when Islamofacists killed 333 children at their school in Beslan.
THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE CHILDREN. AT SCHOOL.
I pray over it to remind me that my Government would rather appease the swine that want to bring Beslan home to Smalltown, U.S.A. on a wave of political correctness THAN SAVE AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LIVES.
Are these the images that YOU want to LIVE?
Do you want to carry your child's DEAD BODY from a flaming school building?
Unplug from the anesthetic of "reality television" and EDUCATE YOURSELF TO REAL REALITY all this week at 7 and 9pm Eastern on CNN. Glenn Beck is often accused of being an hysteric, but I assure you that MY FAMILY IS INTIMATELY AWARE OF THE THREATS HE WILL ENCAPSULATE FOR YOU TONIGHT AND WE LIVE THIS RISK EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
My family is prepared with REAL information and A REAL PLAN.
I pray for the mother pictured below every single day. Her grief is chillingly palpable in its quiet disbelief. She smooths her child's bloody hair as if her love might animate his tiny, tortured, lifeless body.
Be brave enough to watch real REALITY TELEVISION tonight,
and wake up a more prepared American tomorrow. Not a helpless victim burying your child alone in the cold, dark ground.
This mother didn't have a "Beslan" to prepare her for the Hell and fury of Islamofacism.
You do.
