AMERICA'S PROVIDENCE
9/11 TRIBUTE IN PHOTOGRAPHS
FAITH, FREEDOM, AND
THE FORCES THAT WOULD UNDO AMERICA
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On April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City. No Bible had been provided. Jacob Morton hurried to St. John’s Lodge No. 1 and returned with theirs. Washington swore on it, kissed it, then led the First Congress on foot toward Trinity Church to pray for the new nation — but Trinity had burned in the Great Fire of 1776. So the procession walked several blocks farther, to the modest chapel of St. Paul’s.
There, on ground that would one day border the World Trade Center, America was prayed for as a completed nation for the first time.
That connection is the spine of this book. Written looking back from the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, it traces a providential thread from that chapel to the towers that rose beside it — photographed over the last forty years from multiple locations along the New Jersey waterfront, from Bayonne to Weehawken, the skyline they defined, and the smoke that poured across the Hudson from the rubble. It follows the largest maritime evacuation in history, when nearly half a million people were carried off Manhattan by boats that simply came, and the Tribute in Light that has pierced the sky every year since.
Roughly sixty photographs anchor the account. But the book refuses to stop at grief. It examines Operation Northwoods and the Kennedy killings, the lease and insurance arrangements struck weeks before the attacks, the questions the official collapse narrative never answered. It weighs what Europe’s cities have become, and asks whether “Never Forget” survived a quarter century. It documents the assault on the family, on medicine, on the border, on the currency — and a legal system turned into a weapon against political opponents while genuine crimes went unprosecuted.
Its argument is old and unfashionable: that no law ever separated this nation from God, only a phrase in a private letter; that the founders said plainly they could not have succeeded without divine help; and that a country dedicated in prayer on its first full day carries a responsibility heavier than its power.
The towers fell. The chapel still stands.
So does the promise
