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There were four members of a church in Brooklyn who lost their lives during the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

One of those members of the church who died was a police officer who ran into the burning

buildings to save innocent civilians.

And in the days that followed, the police officer's funeral was held at the church,

the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

Rudy Giuliani, who was the mayor at the time, came to the funeral and was asked

to say a few words, and the thing he said just really sticks out to me. He says this,

you know, people, I've learned something through all this. Let me see if I can express it to you.

When everybody was fleeing that building and the cops and the firefighters and the

EMS people were heading up into it, do you think any of them said, I wonder how many blacks are up there?

I wonder what percentage are whites up there? How many Jews are there? Let's see, are these people

making $400,000 a year or $24,000? No, when you're saving lives, they're all precious.

I confess I haven't always lived this way,

but I'm convinced that God wants us to do it.

He wants us to value every human life the way he does.

Now here's the thing, I don't know what Giuliani's theology is.

I don't know what he believes in,

but in that moment, grieving with a church full of people

who had just lost someone they loved,

Rudy Giuliani stumbled onto something that is deeply and profoundly true.

That when you're saving lives, they are all precious.

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