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On September 12, President Bush, while
calling the attacks “acts of war,” vowed an all-out war on terror. “There
will be a monumental struggle of good verses evil,” he promised. “. . . Good
will prevail. . . this battle will take time to resolve.”
NATO strongly supported Bush’s case
for military action. NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson declared in that regard,
“An attack on one is an attack on all. The parties will take such action as it deems
necessary, including armed force.”
Donald Rumsfield assured U.S. troops
worldwide that they would be called to arms “in the days ahead.” Secretary of
State Collen Powell stridently promised “full-court press diplomatically,
politically, militarily. . . Our spirits will not be broken. The resilience of this
society will not be broken. We will find out who is responsible for this and they will pay
for it.
“. . . We are, in a sense, seeing
the definition of a new battlefield in the world, a 21st century battlefield. And it is a
different kind of conflict.”
Attorney General John Ashcroft revealed
on the same day that teams of three to six terrorists hijacked the four planes and, using
pilots trained in the United States, put the aircraft on their deadly courses. According
to Ashcroft, law enforcement officials had developed “credible evidence that the
White House and Air Force One had been targets.” Circumstantial evidence of bin
Laden’s role in the disaster was also growing.
“We have identified through a
number of leads a number of individuals whom we believe may have had something to so with
the hijackings, and we are pursuing those leads aggressively,” FBI Director Robert
Mueller added.
According to Sen. Kay Hutchinson, five
of the men suspected in the hijackings had passports from Arab countries. Other hijackers
had ties to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The fact was most of the hijackers came from
supposedly friendly Arab states: Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. According to a
Boston Globe news release on September 14, investigators had evidence that the planning
for the act began at least five years prior to the incident.
Fighting back the tears on September 13,
as he visited New York, President Bush declared September 14 as a “national day of
prayer and remembrance.” He asked Americans to spend their lunch breaks taking part
in services at their chosen places of worship.
Then, turning his attention to bin Laden
the president continued that the United States was now part of the “first war of the
21st century . . Now that war has been declared, we will lead the world to victory. . .
There is a quiet anger in America.”
And there was a promise that this anger
would result in strong retaliation. According to the Pentagon, the United States would
soon launch sustained military strikes against the terrorists and their support systems.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said in that regard, “One has to say that
it’s not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but
removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor
terrorism.”
In the mean time, New York firefighters
valiantly dug into the ruins in the hopes of finding any survivors. “The firefighters
of this city are not going to give up until every effort is made to rescue every
firefighter or every civilian who might be in the rubble,” Harold Schaitberger,
president of the International Association of Firefighters revealed. Then, referring to
the hundreds of firefighters who perished under the weight of the mighty colossus,
“This was the darkest day in the history of firefighters of the world. It will change
every one of our lives forever.”
On September 14, with U.S. fighter jets
roaring overhead, President Bush stepped unto Ground Zero (the site of the New York
attack) to give a thumbs up and shake hands with the courageous firefighters who had
already removed 10,000 of debris while desperately searching for a any life in the ruins.
Up to that point the gallant men and women had only found two people alive since the
terrorist assault. They desperately needed a shot in the arm. While grabbing an American
flag and a bullhorn to personally thank the rescue workers, the president declared,
“The nation sends its love and compassion.”
“I can hear you, and the rest of
the world hears you,” the president responded. “And the people who knocked these
buildings down will hear us all soon!”
To that declaration the demoralized
workers cheered and chanted, “U-S-A, U-S-A,” and “Go get ‘em
George!”
Michael Curley, a retired firefighter,
had a chance to talk to President Bush: “You got a warm feeling from the man. I
needed that a little bit, so I’m going to go to my car, change my socks and go back
in.”
As lawmen made their first arrest of a
man suspected of having information, a State Department Official met with 15 Arab
representatives and gave them a stark choice: Either they declare their nations members of
an international coalition against terrorism or risk being isolated in this growing global
conflict.
Don Wigton
is a graduate of the prestigious music department at CSULB where he studied under Frank
Pooler, lyricist of Merry Christmas Darling, and sang in Pooler’s world renown
University Choir alongside Karen and Richard Carpenter. During this time Don was also the
lead composer of the band, Clovis Putney, that won the celebrated Hollywood Battle of the
Bands. After giving his life to God, Don began attending Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa to
study under some of the most prominent early Maranatha! musicians. Subsequently he toured
the Western United States with Jedidiah in association with Myrrh Records.
Eventually
Don served as a pastor at Calvary Chapel Bakersfield to witness thousands of salvations
through that ministry. As the music/concert director, Don worked for seven years with most
major Christian artist of that time while producing evangelical concerts attended by
thousands of young people seeking after God. Don’s Calvary Chapel Praise Choir
released the album Let All Who Hath Breath Praise the Lord on the Maranatha! label.
The next
years of Don’s life were spent as the praise leader of FirstBaptistChurch in Bakersfield
during a time of unprecedented church renewal. Don teamed with the leadership to
successfully meld the old with the new through a period of tremendous church growth.
During this exciting time, Don’s praise team, Selah, produced the CD Stop and
Think About It.
Today Don is
the leading force behind Wigtune Company. This
webbased project located at www.praisesong.net has provided several million downloads of
Don’s music and hymn arrangements to tens of thousands of Christian organizations
throughout the world. More music can be found at Don's Southern
Cross Band website at www.socrossband.com.
The book Holy
Wars represents Don’s most recent effort to bless the church with biblical
instruction and direction in praise and worship. This heartfelt volume is an offering not
only to God’s people, but also to God Himself.
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was formed as a service to the body of Christ to encourage scriptural
worship. To accomplish this goal Wigtune Company offers free contemporary Christian praise
and worship music, contemporary Christian rock and hymn mp3 and chart material along with
a free on-line worship study book for personal devotions, Bible study groups, Sunday
schools, pastors, music ministers and ministry training. In order to bridge the gap
between the old and the new the worship study book gives solid theological and
historical support to the use of traditional Christian hymn-singing in conjunction with
praise chorus singing. 
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