I'm probably too lazy to see this through, but I might as well make a start. At the least, it is going to be very spare compared to some of the great AH stories I have read on here. Maybe this counts as a first draft?
Wish me luck!
BLACK SEPTEMBER:
Introduction:
“I have always believed that God has been so good to our nation. But I have always worried that we have taken his blessings for granted, and have fallen short over and over and over again. But I continued to believe that in spite of our sins, God still held a place in his heart for our country. I kept the faith after President Kennedy was assassinated. I did so after Martin Luther King … a great Christian man and my friend … was assassinated. I kept it through times of violence in our cities and on our college campuses. I kept it during the terrible war in Indochina and the horrors that followed our defeat. I kept it even in the midst of the fall of someone I have considered a friend, Richard Nixon. But now, I wonder. Has God withdrawn his blessing from us? Have our sins of discrimination, of immorality, of treating life so cheaply, finally caused God to withdraw his favor from us? Has God turned his back on us? There were many times when he punished his chosen people, the Israelites, for their sins. Do we imagine ourselves somehow exempt from God’s judgment? What is happening to our country? Whatever it is, I imagine that Jesus would weep over our country just as he wept over Jerusalem.”
Rev. Billy Graham, October, 1975