The Past, Present and Future of the State of the Union

Tonight’s State of the Union address by President Joe Biden could be the most important one since the one 20 years ago.

In 2002, President George W. Bush delivered the State of the Union speech just a few months after the 9-11 terrorist attack.  With the country still feeling the shock and the pain of that unprecedented event, President Bush stood before a joint session of Congress and the world as President Biden will tonight.

President Biden will speak to the nation just one week after the dictator of Russia, described by many as evil or mad or both, ordered troops to attack and invade a sovereign Democratic country. And even as the speech is being given tonight, the people in Ukraine will be continuing their fight to save their country as missiles, rockets rain down and Russian tanks draw closer and closer to their capitol.

The world has been shocked by what has happened, but the U.S. and all its allies are now united against evil again…in a way that they have not been since right after sept 11th. 

So, some of the words from President Bush’s State of the Union speech un 2002 are ones with remembering today:

“Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.”

And then President Bush said this: "The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them….in all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom.”

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