Sunday meditation
Read Gerard Van der Leun’s 9/11 essay, “The Wind in the Heights.”
Listen to Tim Sumner’s audio essay paying tribute to the FDNY operating in the South Tower on 9/11.
Revisit last year’s 2,996 Project for the blogosphere-wide remembrance of each and every innocent victim murdered on 9/11 by the jihadists who never rest.
And check out Mark Steyn’s 9/11 anniversary column, which ends: “On this sixth anniversary, as 9/11 retreats into history, many Americans see no war at all.”
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God Bless America.
Thank you for posting the link, Michelle.
We will never forget.
Thank you Mr. Prsident
Thank you Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Air Force personnel, and Coast Guardsmen. Your sacrfices will be remembered by this old soldier.
You are always in my prayers.
My heart still aches, my eyes still burn from the salty tears, my mind still thinks on revenge as another blue sky day of September breaks.
Thanks for the chance to say again:
I will nerver forget and damn it I will never forgive either.
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Thank God for our heroes.
View a tribute to our fallen.
Michelle,
Thanks for the links. I will never forget and never submit! God Bless America!
Steyn is right. God help us…
My heart breaks when I see these pictures. My husband is a retired fire chief and we have a large framed picture of the 3 firefighters putting up the flag in his office at home. We will never forget. It makes me proud to be an American and determined to help our country fight against those who would destroy us.
Thank you Michelle for the tribute. Never forget. What saddens me is that a good portion of our country has and apparently it will take another tragedy to wake them up. How true…God help us all. Praise God for our proud fighting men and women.
Thanks for mentioning all that stuff, Michelle. I have a post set for 9/11, and the pictures always bring a tear to my eyes.
BTW, might want to check the TB’s for your 2996 post, do a little deletion, matey.
I also think that the people doing “the shoeless shuffle” see themselves as doing something to contain terrorism and saying in their minds, we’re safe now, right?
Many of us don’t want to contemplate even the possibility of more terrible events and so they do a little something that makes them feel better and then try to dismiss that a much wider threat exists.
We can’t afford to ignore the totality of the menace we face.
May God continue to Bless America.
I lost relatives in the OKC bombing and know people who lost someone in NYC … I am still appalled at those that can’t grasp we are war and the survival of our way of life is at stake …
I personally think the video of the planes striking the twin towers should be shown on television every single day to remind people of the atrocity that was committed against us …
God bless those we lost, those they left behind, and all those that defend us … both at home and abroad …
God Bless The United States of America
I see some irony today about Time in all of this. Time and war.
In the old days, say the Civil War or WW2, it took the North and the American Nation, a good 2 or 3 years to bring the full power of its resources to bear on its enemy and turn the tide of victory.
We are 6 years passed the event that changed our Nation forever, much in the same way Pearl and Gettysburg did.
Still, more than half of our Nation’s people “see no war in their midst”.
Way back when, did our daily lives move at the speed of thought like they do today?
Yet, the truth seemed to find us faster given the Nation’s response to War in those days.
Today we are surrounded by a flow of information, facts, and hype. Yet, the net effect seems to be paralysis by analysis- and as Steyn so aptly described- overlawyered.
Hmmmm.
May the memories of the innocent people who have left us live on forever in our hearts and minds.
Lord:
Grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Steyn is right. It’s shameful that 9/11 has become an opportunity for the ambulance chasers and greedy relatives of the victims to profit off of American deep pockets. There are many times when I think we don’t have it in us anymore to defeat the Islamowackos.
If the Dems win there’ll be one of these for every day of the year.
I understand the discouraged sentiments about our will to defeat the IslamoFascists, especially due to the lack of character and political will to do so among many rather well-to-do Americans, people who forget whence their status, privileges, and power come.
Yet, the Heart of America is unlike any Nation’s in history.
We are not Britain, Rome, the Byzantine, Trojan, Persian, or Grecian, Nazi, Napoleonic, Dutch, Spanish, Mohammedan, or Mongol.
We are the Eagle Spirit rising high above the rest, beyond the wisdom of the ages, seeing what others have not seen in the heart of its people.
Let 9/11 remind us of how fragile is this Dream that defines America.
Let 9/11 remind us that we are an US, a WE forged in blood during our American Civil War.
Let 9/11 remind us that our attackers attacked us all.
Let 9/11 remind us of all we’ve been given- and that now, how much is required of us all.
Beware the mixing of Religion and Politics, no matter who’s doing the mixing!
Civil War? True, we were a nation divided at that time, but wouldn’t it be the Revolutionary War where our nation was “…forged in blood…”? I really hesitated to “correct” such a great thinker and writer as you, but, well, did it anyway.
BTW: On the first quote (the Serenity Prayer), you a friend of Bill W.?
Leepro- Yes, a friend of Bill W now for 18 years.
I appreciate your candor re the Revolutionary War. And it is a point that can be debated to the point of distraction. It is true. We forged our Nation with blood. Yet, in the American Civil War many historians agree that we forged two disparate segments of agrarian-based and industrial-based America into a juggernaut which evolved more cohesively under a federal government.
Minor point. But a distinction worth making.
A friend indeed.
From the French and Indian War, to Iraq, all this countrys wars have forged this nation in blood. Lets not quibble about which generations blood is more pure.
# 20 bear1909
Of course you are right… and I knew it the instant I hit “Submit Comment.”
Me? Also 18 years! May 10, 1989.
P.S. Where are you? I’m in Memphis.
Dandapani:
I want to be accountable for using language that may appear religious in a political forum.
For me, how I was raised- in two traditions (Catholic and indigenous)the basic reason for it was to incorporate Spirit into a human life, and all that it entails.
I believe in the power of Spirit to help me not to have power over those who would wish to harm me and my people, but to have power over my greatest enemy- Me.
Religious dogma and dogmatic code have no place in my life. Prayer and faith ( being a verb) are at least two cornerstones for living as though I have some sense of what it means to be a two-legged inhabited by a four-legged spirit.
Just a friendly qualifier.
Leepro- June 26th!
I am in Berkeley, CA
2 niner… point made, clarified, and now well-taken.
blood purity is a fools preoccupation.
nice to hear from ya today.
I Remember,
I remember, waking up to “just another day”
I remember, the innocence of thinking it was an accident.
I remember the HORROR of the second plane.
I remember the sickening realisation that this was a “deliberate act”.
I remember the “sucker punch to the gut” when the first tower fell.
I remember the feeling of having my heart being ripped out when the second fell.
I remember the feeling that someone was trying to systematically “take out” America when the report of the “Pentagon has been hit”
and I remember I then realised the whole World had just changed and could never be the same again!
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, December 17, 1895, to Congress.
DL #11: I’m with you. The video should be shown daily. We must keep speaking for those whose voices were silenced defending this country. In memory of the WWII USS Barbel crew – we’ll never forget. GoldStarSis/USMCgramma
I will never forget 9/11/2001. NEVER.
I would add a link to those provided by MM above. Gates of Vienna posted a poignant reflection with -
Point 1: What are the lessons of 9/11? Here are some candidates:
1. If lots of people around the world want to hurt us, some will succeed.
2. If someone hands you a memo titled “Bin Laden determined to strike America”, read it.
3. Brutal lawless failed states are a breeding ground for terrorists. Try to avoid creating them.
Point 2: What did our brave President do on 9/11 and 9/12? He flew around in AirForce 1 like a chicken and left others to run the country. He visited New York City once it became a photo-op days later.
Bottom line: remembering 9/11 doesn’t mean glorifying Republican or conservative politicians.
lgm..
I assume, based on your comments that if you were president on 9/11 you would have flown directly to New York or Washington DC.
And that would have been for what purpose? To implement what defensive or offensive options? Could those options have been implemented from some other place where the commander in chief would not have been placed in direct danger?
I thinbk we would have been much better off if Clinton, Gore, and Sandy Berger had done their jobs instead of shirking their obligations to benefit themselves. Of course, we’ll never know exactly how bad they were because of Berger’s law breaking foray into the world of wardrobe malfunction and document theft.
At least this President did something. That’s more than we can say about the democrats who read opinion polls before they decide what to do, assuming that they do anything at all.
Not long after the attack on 9/11 I was talking with some engineers that I was working with at the time. We discussed as horrible as the attack was in loss of life and destruction it could have been so much worse. Had the terrorists flown the planes into the buildings down around where you see the rings near the centers of the buildings they probably would have collapsed much sooner because of the weight of the building above where the fire was weakening the steel. All of the firemen and police would still have tried to get as many people out of the buildings as possible (because that’s what they do often at there own peril)thousands more would have been trapped above the impact zone. When the buildings collapsed 30 to 40 thousand would more than likely would have died along with those at the Pentagon and the heroes in the Pa.field.
I remember thinking at the time we will never forget. This will change forever our thinking about people that do this. Looking back I was wrong.
Today many Americans believe that our government conspired in the attack or we are at fault in some way for terrorism world wide.
I thank God today that those dedicated to preventing another attack from happening and have succeeded to this day haven’t forgotten!
Answering trinitytim (#30)
Bush should have gone before TV cameras as soon as AF1 was in the air to tell the American people what had happened and what he was doing about it (grounding flights, …).
By all accounts, Clinton took non state sponsored terrorism, and Bin Laden in particular, more seriously than Bush (pre 9/11). Look up the “hair on fire” testimony from Armitrage, for example.
Clinton caught the perps in each of the previous terror attacks while Bin Laden still is free. The Bush invasion of Iraq created more terrorist threat than it solved. Doing “something” is good only if what you do is good.
Oh, Lord, here we go again
OK, lgm, let’s see if you can answer without deflecting, since NO other liberal ever does: can you give specific material which indicates exactly when and where the strike was going to occur? Because that pdb sure didn’t.
And, had Bush put into place restriction like after 9/11, and it would have been necessary to profile, you libs would have gone surrender monkey shat over it.
Dick Morris helped get Clinton elected twice. Read what he has written about Bill Clinton and terrorism during his presidency.
Oh, and lgm, why didn’t Clinton take Osama when he was offered on a platter those 3 times?
Woulda coulda shoulda, lgm. Glad you aren’t on my team.
On 9/12, Bush told us to go about our business and let government professionals handle the crisis. No shared sacrifices, no across-the-board mobilization, no unifying outreach. Only business and politics as usual. And, of course, the message from the White House that Islam is a “religion of peace”. Our commander-in-chief became our therapist-in-chief.
It doesn’t mean bashing a sitting President either.
William Teach (#35) wrote:
The memo didn’t say where and when. If they had known, they could have arrested the guys without bothering the President. Before 9/11, Bush was transfering resources away from counter-terrorism. The memo was a (failed) attempt to reverse that.
Re: #38: In our democracy, Presidents get bashed. Washington, Adams, Lincoln, even Bush.
God bless our Armed Forces, and be with the families who lost loved ones on 9/11.
Special prayers to the families who lost loved ones in The Flight that Fought back. I hope the families of the Heroes of Flight 93 are as proud and inspired by their loved ones as I am. May God continue to be with us all.
And I will never forget. Thanks for this post, and I will continue to teach my family and friends about the dangerous war in which we find ourselves.