Good versus Evil!                               

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>We are told that evil is the antithesis of good. And so it was on September 11, 2001, in New York City and Washington, D.C. The evil visited upon our shores was met by the goodness of thousands of men and women who wore the blue of New York City's finest and the yellow and red of the city's fire department. Goodness was everywhere to be seen among the men and women who wore the white uniforms of aid and comfort and those in military attire who faced the inferno at the Pentagon.

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>Evil is not comprehendible but goodness is. We will never know why those who boarded four doomed domestic airlines envisioned a future of goodness through an act of evil--but they did! But we can comprehend why brave men and women mounted the stairwells of the World Trade Center to rescue the occupants and, in many instances, perished. And we can understand why police and fire fighters placed themselves in harms way around the towering infernos as they came tumbling down.

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>These men and women of goodness, many of whom made the supreme sacrifice, are the soul of public service in America. Their courage and bravery make us all proud to be Americans and give us a standard to live up to. Goodness and public service go hand-in-hand.