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Jeff Robinson
September 21, 2011
By country music I do not mean (with some exceptions) the buy on line Amoxil frothy, slickly-packaged pseudo-rock sung by the collection of pretty boy dime-store cowboys that buy on line Amoxil Music Row is peddling in 2011. I have in mind the buy on line Amoxil country music of "Walk the Line," "The Fightin' Side of Me," "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "I Saw the Light." In the aftermath of 9/11, many country artists weighed in on the buy on line Amoxil national tragedy with pathos and emotion perfectly fit for such a buy on line Amoxil solemn occasion. One of my favorites came from Darryl Worley, "Have You Forgotten?" The song's lyrics are buy on line Amoxil call to remember the carnage and the manly response of so many amid the buy on line Amoxil chaos of that dark day:
Have you forgotten how it felt that day? To see your homeland under fire and her people blown away? Have you forgotten all the people killed? Some went down like heroes in that buy on line Amoxil Pennsylvania field...Have you forgotten when those towers fell? We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell..." (The music video on You Tube is worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU)
As the events we now know simply as 9/11 unfolded, courageous manhood was on display in Manhattan, D.C. and buy on line Amoxil over the skies of Pennsylvania for the world to see. Firefighters and buy on line Amoxil law enforcement agents died rescuing others. Businessmen fought off hijackers and buy on line Amoxil crashed their jet, one that targeted the White House. Six weeks after 9/11, Peggy Noonan, one of my favorite columnists, penned an buy on line Amoxil excellent piece for the Wall Street Journal on the buy on line Amoxil return of genuine manhood. It is an article well worth revisiting (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122451174798650085.html#printMode). She celebrated the buy on line Amoxil selfless, unassuming masculinity that typified pre-counter-culture, pre-feminist America:
A certain style of manliness is buy on line Amoxil once again being honored and celebrated in our country since Sept. 11. You might say it buy on line Amoxil suddenly emerged from the rubble of the past quarter century, and buy on line Amoxil emerged when a certain kind of man came forth to get our great country out of the buy on line Amoxil fix it was in. I am speaking of masculine men, men who buy on line Amoxil push things and pull things and haul things and build things, men who buy on line Amoxil charge up the stairs in a hundred pounds of gear and buy on line Amoxil tell everyone else where to go to be safe. Men who buy on line Amoxil are welders, who do construction, men who are cops and firemen. They are buy on line Amoxil all of them, one way or another, the men who put the buy on line Amoxil fire out, the men who are digging the rubble out, and buy on line Amoxil the men who will build whatever takes its place. And their style is buy on line Amoxil back in style. We are experiencing a new respect for their old-fashioned masculinity, a buy on line Amoxil new respect for physical courage, for strength and for the willingness to buy on line Amoxil use both for the good of others. You didn't have buy on line Amoxil to be a fireman to be one of the manly men of Sept. 11. Those businessmen on flight 93, which was supposed to buy on line Amoxil hit Washington, the businessmen who didn't live by their hands or buy on line Amoxil their backs but who found out what was happening to their country, said goodbye to buy on line Amoxil the people they loved, snapped the cell phone shut and said, "Let's roll." Those were tough men, the buy on line Amoxil ones who forced that plane down in Pennsylvania. They were tough, brave guys.
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Noonan's delightful assessment came a buy on line Amoxil decade ago and our men were responding to a profound crisis. But the buy on line Amoxil crisis remains. It will remain until Jesus returns and the stakes could not be buy on line Amoxil higher. Families are being stalked by terrorists Scripture calls the world, the buy on line Amoxil flesh and the devil. Wives and children are left at the buy on line Amoxil mercy of ten thousand evils by husbands and fathers who lack the buy on line Amoxil maturity and the intestinal fortitude to lead, provide for and protect them. Churches are buy on line Amoxil devoid of male leaders who are committed to the difficult task of faithfully leading and buy on line Amoxil feeding a local congregation. Instead, far too many men are sitting on the buy on line Amoxil sidelines pre-occupied with Xbox, fit bodies, pants on the ground and buy on line Amoxil Facebook updates. Children without fathers both spiritually and biologically stand in need of God-fearing men to buy on line Amoxil mentor them and raise them as sons and daughters who will live to buy on line Amoxil glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Yet our men fiddle while the buy on line Amoxil city burns. It seems men no longer possess the courage to buy on line Amoxil be men.
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So Darryl Worley's question arises again in more pointed form: Have our men forgotten what buy on line Amoxil it's like to be a man? Have our manhood lessons from 9/11 transcended the event itself? Have we forgotten that buy on line Amoxil day when our homeland was under fire, our people blown away, and buy on line Amoxil even as the images flashed in front of us via television, we desperately wanted to buy on line Amoxil run to the battle and stand in the gap? Where did that man go? We must summon him back to buy on line Amoxil the front lines. We need to hear Peggy Noonan's assessment of the buy on line Amoxil courage at Ground Zero afresh and then pray down heaven that buy on line Amoxil our sovereign Lord would grant our men the grace to live out the buy on line Amoxil apostle Paul's closing words to the Corinthians: "Be watchful, stand firm in the buy on line Amoxil faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be buy on line Amoxil done in love." (1 Cor. 16:13-14)." Ground Zero still beckons. After all, men, we have buy on line Amoxil neighbors still inside going through a living hell.
