Amber Scroggs

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@glennbeck When you played Rush I lost it. Oh how I miss those gifts on loan from God.

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@MrsErikaKirk @ericmetaxas I voted, but praying seems like the most beneficial endeavor today. Sola Deo Gloria.

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@itzWicks @ScottPresler I voted, and now I pray for God’s mercy to be made evident

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@VigilantFox What is a Human? That’ll be the next Matt Walsh movie

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@MichaelDell @Realalexclark My son, who is 7, was a recipient of your generous gift. Thank you for investing in our children.

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@spencerpratt @DefiyantlyFree Well said.

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@BlondeOfWar @end3of6days9 I’ve said the same thing

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@michaeljknowles I think it was wrong when FDR did it and I think it’s wrong that Trump is doing it. I actually think it’s fine for him to kick the networks out of the press pool-they’ve demonstrated bias openly-but state TV? How about not give the left anymore talking points before midterms?

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@japan_nobunaga Thank you for these stories of survival and perseverance. They are providing a history of hope from that terrible day.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

One month after September 11, workers clearing the rubble at Ground Zero found something alive.

A tree.

Eight feet of blackened stump. Roots snapped. Every branch broken but one.

They could have thrown it away with the rest. Nobody would have noticed.

They did not.

It was a Callery pear. Nobody had ever paid attention to it. It had been planted in the 1970s in the plaza between Buildings 4 and 5 of the World Trade Center, one of dozens of ornamental trees the Port Authority put in to make the concrete feel less like concrete. Office workers ate lunch under it. Tourists walked past it on their way to the observation deck.

On the morning of September 11, a hundred and ten stories fell on it. Twice.

In October, on the pile, someone saw a single living branch sticking out of the wreckage. Green. Still trying.

A decision was made on the spot. They dug it out.

The city's Parks Department took the stump to a nursery in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The horticulturists there looked at it and were not optimistic. The trunk was charred. The root system was mostly gone. Trees in that condition do not usually come back.

They went to work anyway. They cleaned the burns. They trimmed the dead wood. They set it in good soil. They watered it. And they waited.

That first spring, in 2002, against everything the experts expected, the stump put out blossoms.

Small white flowers, on a tree that had been under the World Trade Center six months earlier.

It stayed in the Bronx for nine years. Relearning how to be a tree. Growing new branches out of the old scarred wood. Getting taller. Filling out.

In 2010, weeks before it was finally scheduled to go home, a storm tore through the nursery and ripped it out of the ground.

The people who had been nursing it for nine years came out the next morning and found it on its side, roots exposed again.

They stood it back up. They repacked the soil. It survived that too.

On December 22, 2010, it was replanted at the 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan, a few steps from where the South Tower had stood. Where it had been found.

The eight-foot stump is now more than thirty feet tall.

Walk up to it and look at the trunk. There is a line on it. Below the line, the bark is dark and gnarled and twisted. That is the wood from 2001. Above the line, the bark is smooth and pale and new. That is everything that grew after.

The tree does not hide the line. It does not cover it over. The scar is right there, and the whole rest of the tree grows up and out of it.

People tie tags to the railing around it. Prayers. Names. Messages to the dead.

Every spring it is the first thing on the entire plaza to bloom. It goes white before the other trees have even leafed.

In 2013, the Memorial started a program. They gathered seedlings from the Survivor Tree, and every year they sent them to a community that had just had its own worst day.

Newtown, Connecticut, after Sandy Hook. Orlando, after Pulse. Puerto Rico, after Maria. Paris. Manchester. London.

A small tree from the rubble of the World Trade Center, planted in the ground of the next place that thought it would never grow anything again.

Twenty-five years ago this month, a hundred and ten stories of steel came down on a pear tree and someone on the pile saw one green branch and said, not that one.

Not that one.

The last living thing pulled out of Ground Zero has children now, growing all over the world.

It did not survive by being untouched.

It survived by growing out of the wound. 🌸

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@data_republican @EricLDaugh That’s exactly what my thought was, too. I’m a conservative and I don’t like this policy. It feels icky. If we’re making that much let’s pay down the deficit! Also, I’m not an economist, but why won’t this lead to inflation?

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Thank you @Dell Philanthropy for this very kind gift. My 7 year old is amazed anyone would give him so much money! 💕

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@JeremyDBoreing @DefiyantlyFree I agree with you completely. I suffered from post-partum. I was hospitalized and got help. I feel more people are culpable in this case, but SHE committed those murders. PPD is real, but so our consequences for horrid choices.

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Afghanistan’s education minister announced that women are permanently banned from attending schools.

The United Nations? Silent.
Women’s Rights Organizations? Silent.
Greta Thunberg? Silent.

They’re too busy being obsessed with Israel and the Jews.

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@EricLDaugh If they get in power and you resist this agenda in any way they’ll kill you. That’s not exaggeration-look at what happened in China with Mao. Individuals are disposable in the warmth of the collective. These people are like the Borg.

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@LauraLoomer I believe it’s a sign of integrity and humility when someone seeks out info on their own and then admits they were misled. It’s ok to admit we’re wrong, but Pride is a powerful vice. Grace should go to the deceived, woe to the deceivers.

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@WhiteHouse The best part of the app for my son (who is 13) was the part where he learned about investing, compound interest, etc. I learned a lot, too. His exact words were: “Investing is awesome” and he loves the tool that lets him see how things grow.

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@michaeljknowles Aren’t there fire ants in Texas?! Who lets their kids run around barefoot and risk that? Tells you all you need to know about his critical thinking skills. 😉

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@ChiSteve77 @libsoftiktok I don’t believe they really want tolerance. They want endorsement, and anything less is considered hatred.

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@mattvanswol If the parents of school shooters can face charges then the parents of these minors should as well.