It's Thursday, Sept. 13. Today, as I write this, I am watching news coverage of the greatest tragedy to befall our country. By the time many of you read this, we will know much more. America may be in a shooting war with someone once again. We will probably also know more about casualties. We all hope and pray that they will be low. However given the tens of thousands of people that work in the World Trade Center complex and the Pentagon, it may be far higher than we could have imagined in our worst nightmares. Many of you may have lost friends or family in this attack, and I know it is a small gesture, but our thoughts and prayers are with you as they are for everyone who has suffered in this atrocity. I'm not sure what will become of us, our nation or our world.

My hope and concern is that we take time and care in making our actions. We all have our passions raised over this. We want blood for blood -- an eye for an eye. However, we must make certain that we get the guilty and not the innocent. As much as we may want to "destroy the enemy," we must make sure that we don't wantonly kill or maim innocents. We all have studied the history of war. Many of those wars are old blood feuds based on the premise of "your grandfather killed my grandfather, therefore I must kill you." Many of our families and those of other Americans left their birth country to escape that stupidity. We cannot bring that level of idiocy to the country they called sanctuary. We are the bastion of freedom and the beacon to the world. We must show intelligence in out actions. If we act rashly, we could light the fuse to a another attack that could cost hundreds of thousands or millions of lives on both sides of the conflict. Who knows, it may cost that much before this is over with.

May you and your families and friends be safe and well. God bless you and keep you all and our nation and world.