🧵 Want to see a testimony of faithfulness? His wife died less than 48 hrs ago. We’re on a plane to AR for her funeral & he’s been reading his Bible since the moment he sat down. He’s cried plenty of tears but he hasn’t cursed God. He trusts that Jesus is sufficient.
The number of OU fans in Ann ArbOUr is insane. Fans in every section except the student section. I won’t be surprised if we have 35k here. Let’s go! #BoomerSooner#OUDNA
Rebuilding it would have turned it into an office park again. You’d have have people responding to slack messages and eating sad little slop bowl meals at their desks atop a mass grave everyday. Let me be clear, turning ground zero into an office building where you have some “grindr for dogs” tier VC backed tech startup headquartered on the 57th floor WOULD be the most American thing to do. Luckily, more tasteful minds have prevailed.
I understand why people feel this way, however, many of us never received bodies to bury--despite extensive DNA testing.
Our loved ones were essentially vaporized. Keeping the ground as a memorial is the only resting place we have to pay respects to our loved ones.