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9/11: Remembrance and resistance

By Michelle Malkin • September 11, 2007 07:21 AM

Update 1:30pm Eastern. Memorial photo of the day comes from Iraq, via MNF-I:

The caption reads:

Never Forget

Task Force Marne Soldiers take time on the sixth anniversary of the attacks Sept. 11, 2001, for a remembrance ceremony at the Task Force Marne Headquarters. Camp Victory firefighters are also present to represent the emergency responders who lost their lives six years ago. Photo by Tony Lindback, 302nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.

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Scroll down for more updates/links…

Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”

What do you remember? When I think back to September 11, 2001, the crisp morning before jihadists struck on American soil, I remember transluscent blue skies. Green-gold leaves. And the blush pink cheeks of my then-one-year-old daughter, who was waiting to go for a walk while I did a double-take at the first cable TV reports of a “small commuter plane” crashing into the World Trade Center.

Then the skies turned black. And the Twin Towers turned to ash.

Zogby released a poll for the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks showing that “77 percent of those living in the East and 46 percent of those living in the West — 61 percent overall — said they think about the attacks at least weekly. Eighty-one percent — 90 percent in the East and 75 percent in the West — said the attacks were the most significant historical events of their lives.”

I am, like most of my readers, one of those people. Sixteen percent of those polled said said they had visited Ground Zero in NYC. This summer, my family and I became part of that group. An American flag flies at the Tribute Center across from GZ:

A view of the construction site:

A memorial at the fire station across from Ground Zero:

What won’t you forget? These are the 9/11 sounds and images burned onto my mental hard drive:

Kevin Cosgrove.

The Falling Man.

The Hanson family.

The 9/11 babies.

Melissa Doi:

Betty Ong:

The cross at Ground Zero:

And Old Glory at the Pentagon unfurled the day after the attacks:

But remembrance without resistance to jihad and its enablers is a recipe for another 9/11. This is what fueled my first two books, on immigration enforcement and profiling. This is what fuels much of the work on this blog and at Hot Air. Not every American wears a military uniform. But every American has a role to play in protecting our homeland–not just from Muslim terrorists, but from their financiers, their public relations machine, their sharia-pimping activists, the anti-war goons, the civil liberties absolutists, and the academic apologists for our enemies.

The Left greets such a commitment with mockery and derision, preferring instead to suck its collective thumb, play the grievance card, and engage in hindsight hypocrisy.

As the most infamous of all Internet leftists once said: Screw them.

The 9/10 crowd stubbornly refuses to connect the dots to see any connection at all between 9/11 and the Iraq war. But it is all of a piece, and the troops who joined the military after the terrorist attacks and volunteered to go back again and again see it clearly. Watch. “Kill them over there so they don’t kill us over here” isn’t just an empty slogan for them. They live and die for it. For their children and ours. In Iraq and around the world.

There are 9/10 people and there are 9/12 people.

This is a 9/10 person:

Cindy Sheehan and company’s CAIR-approved t-shirt reads, “We will not be silent.” Their vow is not a vow to report suspicious behavior or assist counterterrorism efforts. Their vow is a vow to bitch and moan about every effort to combat jihad at home and abroad.

What is your vow?

Never forget.

It’s not just a once-a-year slogan. It’s a 24/7 frame of mind.

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Readers are asking where to get the “Lan astaslem” t-shirt. You can buy them here. All proceeds will be donated to Soldiers’ Angels.

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Resistance. Baron Bodissey liveblogs the Stop Islamisation of Europe protest in Brussels.

Remembrance. Lorie Byrd pays tribute in words, photos, and links.

Resistance. Terrorism expert Laura Mansfield has the latest bin Laden propaganda audio/video release.

Remembrance. Is 9/11 becoming just another calendar date?

Resistance. Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles “Chic” Burlingame, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, and one of my personal heroines, is joining the Divest Terror campaign:

As the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, Ms. Burlingame, whose brother was killed when the hijacked plane he was piloting crashed into the Pentagon, has a new cause.

The 53-year-old former television producer and lawyer has aligned herself with a group called Divest Terror, which is attempting to convince American pension funds and investors to pull their money from companies that do business with countries that sponsor terrorism, such as Iran.

“It is something that can put the squeeze on terror-sponsoring countries without shedding a drop of blood or firing a bullet,” she said yesterday during an interview at The New York Sun’s offices. “It is marshaling the economic power of this country against our enemies and people who want to wreak havoc in the Middle East and other parts of the world.”

Remembrance. Daily Kos-style. Click only on an empty stomach.

Resistance. An LGF reader blows the whistle on 9/11 whitewashing at the Liberty Science Museum in NJ.

Remembrance. Villainous Company asks:

Did you open your eyes and hope it never happened
Close your eyes and not go to sleep
Did you notice the sunset the first time in ages
Speak with some stranger on the street
Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow
Go out and buy you a gun
Did you turn off that violent old movie you’re watching
And turn on “I Love Lucy” reruns

Did you go to a church and hold hands with some stranger
Stand in line and give your own blood
Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family
Thank God you had somebody to love

I’m just a singer of simple songs
I’m not a real political man
I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love

The greatest is love
The greatest is love…

Where were you
when the world stopped turning
that September day?

Remembrance, BBC-style. Again, click only on an empty stomach.

Resistance. Meet the Anti-Jihad Federation.

Remembrance, milblogger-style. Greyhawk reflects from the battlefield in Baghdad:

As I write it’s 16:45 my time. In America it’s Tueday, September 11, 2007.

And it’s 8:45. Six years ago that was the last minute of peace before the beginning of the war on terror.

Six years later, how many people know why Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States? It’s not a difficult topic - he stated the reasons himself in his 1998 fatwa. Americans were in Saudi Arabia enforcing sanctions against Iraq. It’s just that simple, boys and girls…

Rebuilding. Lawhawk reports on Ground Zero.

Remembrance, moonbat-style. Same health warning applies. Read Mary Katharine Ham’s account of 9/11 conspiracy theorists disrupting somber memorial gatherings. One shouted at mourners: “You’re sheep! You are sheep!”

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#101

On September 11th, 2007 at 10:41 pm, Schweggie said:

Rick Moran said:
What kind of an idiot thinks the President should go into an area where he could get hurt or killed?

A mathematics professor at NYU? Shocka!
#102

On September 11th, 2007 at 10:45 pm, Jim M. said:

Dart and LGM have provided us with great insight regarding the intellectual horsepower of the left. Unfortunately, the power generated is less than one horse, so we will have to use a different animal as the unit of measure - a sheep seems highly appropriate.
#103

On September 11th, 2007 at 10:52 pm, purplepeep said:

Rick Moran
the fires were burning for weeks after the President’s appearance. If you’re going to spout inanities, at least give people the impression you know what you’re talking about.

And if a body’s gonna really lay the shinola on, he’s best advised not to do it about something so incredibly unforgettable. Especially to those of us who live near major airports and who remember those first weeks so very well.

Even a tougher sell to those who’ve served protecting us and defending our skies in Operation Noble Eagle.

By way of a starter to get the lad up to speed on that account:

“Within minutes of the attacks, fighter aircraft under NORAD control were airborne over key cities, and kept a near-constant sortie pace for almost six months. They flew more than 19,000 sorties, and since the attacks have racked up more than 34,000 sorties supporting Noble Eagle. In 2000, by contrast, the NORAD air defense mission logged only 147 sorties. National Guard fighter units made up the backbone of what would eventually become a large network of surveillance, support and war fighting aircraft flying Noble Eagle missions.”

About.Com - US Military - Air Denfense
#104

On September 11th, 2007 at 10:56 pm, dartagnans_blade said:

No I don’t think soldiers are thinking bout today. They are thinking about their wives and children and friends. Mcdonalds, Football season, sex and their wives and children. They’re thinking about staying alive and how much the heat sucks. They’re thinking “how did I get into this sh*t?

There thinging where is my fu*king full page ad in the times? Or , why does our side let Harry Reid say we lost and not confront him? They’re thinking..”if I can just get home, surely they won’t send me back again.

9-11? No I don’t thing they are. What did you do today Rick? Big Mouth? What did you do to “support the troops?” Where’s the link where you called someone out on some BS they said about “the troops?” Where did you and the other 97 commenters here demand that our side stop pussyfooting around and really fight back. Today I heard Hannity call the lowlifes attacking Petreaus “pompous elitists” Then Ann Coulter called them “idiots” You tell me Rick, who threw the punch? Do you know why Hannity won’t say it? Or Michelle or Bill O? Tell me because the only thing I can come up with is “job security” Is that supporting the troops?

Take a look at the number of responses here in the archives when the topic is taking on the leftist scum and helping defend the military from those who have created this chasm from which our sons and daughters are caught dead center. How many comments there huh? Too boring is it…supporting the troops” You people pat yourselves on the back for supporting the troops because you feel special and like cuddling up to Michelle here. SCREW THAT.

Yeah I remember 9-11…I remember that Harry Reid called Iraq Bush’s War, I remember Pelois saying it was Bushs War, I remember scum like KOS cherry picking testimony to make a honorable man look like a fool and a liar.I remember reading page after page of action bulletins and alerts from leftists bent on our destruction and the collapse of our way of life, regardless of the horror and suffering it may inflict. Do you remember these things Rick?
No I don’t think so. I don’t think any of you people deserve to pat yourselves at all. Dumb A**
#105

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:10 pm, chsw said:

Six years ago today, I watched several friends die. Some were casual friends from college and grad school. Some were family friends. Two were in my wedding party.

Six years ago today, my wife and I were sudden babysitters of several children whose parents could not get out of their Manhattan workplaces.

Six years ago today, my mother - a survivor of the London airblitz - explained to my panicky wife that everyone has to develop “an everyday sort of courage.”

Six years ago today, my world changed. I changed. I developed a quiet anger. And I’m still angry.

chsw
#106

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:10 pm, dartagnans_blade said:

Soldiers and 9-11…I think they are tryiing to remember what their children look like, what their wives and husbands feel and smell like. Cool breezes and relaxation. 9-11 is not there. They are trying to stay alive. And asking how did I get in this shi*. When am I ever gonna get home and surely they won’t send me back again. And where in the hell is my full page ad in the times. No I think 9-11 is far from their minds.

What about you though Rick? Where are you at? you see I remember Pelosi and Reid standing smugly before buglike “reporters” playing the “Iraq id Bush’s war” card. I remember scum at Kos picking a snippet from General Petreaus’s testimony so as to mock him and call him a liar. I say page after page of action alerts and bulletins at moveon and then I came here and say this.

Did you hear Hannity today Ricky? Did you hear him call the slimy lowlifes attacking the man who has given his entire life to service of his country…”pompous elitists”? And then, quess what..Ann Coulter called them “Idiots”
Who threw the punch ? And why? Why does are side not throw punches? Any ideas…perhaps..Job Security?

I remember just fine…but I am too busy trying to fight back I can’t pine on it…Neither should any of you.
#107

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:22 pm, labwrs said:

Today I voted in an election.
At first I was annoyed that the run-off for Mayor of Nashville,TN was being held today. Then, I thought about it. It seemed perfect. An absolutely PERFECT way to say to Caveboy and his fascist acolytes:
SCREW YOU JIHADIS, WE STILL STAND AND SO DOES EVERYTHING WE BELIEVE IN!! I VOTED AND MADE A FREE CHOICE!!
I am EVERYTHING they HATE: a FREE WOMAN who can CHOOSE who governs!
It made ME feel better!
God Bless the USA and MOST especially our Armed Forces, our First Responders and our Presiden!
#108

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:23 pm, purplepeep said:

dartagnans_blade said:
I remember just fine

You just seem to have a wee bit of a problem in confusing your emotions with facts, bladie. When a person learns to distinuish between the two he’s just started the first step of a stroll down the path of wisdom. But until then it’s just gibberish because you can’t argue emotions.
#109

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:24 pm, GlenW said:

I’m still angry too. And deeply deeply upset.

And the deniers are just adding to my anger. I’ll never understand why so many people are unable to grasp the dire world changing event that 9/11 was… are they so completely detached from anything that doesn’t happen directly to the,?
#110

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:37 pm, dartagnans_blade said:

Are you really that incredibly stupid peeps. Do you not hear what I am saying. Screw you and your snide crap.
WE HAVE KIDS DYING….WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW PEEPS? NOT ONE DAMN THING THATS WHAT. DON’T GIVE ME THIS EMOTION BS.
#111

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:38 pm, dartagnans_blade said:

What does your pathetic smug crap about wisdom have to do with soldiers dying and no one here fighting for them? Tell me that jerkoff?
#112

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:44 pm, purplepeep said:

dartagnans_blade said:
DON’T GIVE ME THIS EMOTION BS.

It does indeed sounds like ya got enough to already handle. You can disagree but I just believe going with facts over odd emotional explosions is more helpful. Easier on the keyboard, too, what with pounding away at all caps and all.
#113

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:56 pm, IrishEi said:

OT, but this seems to be the only active thread…

Just returned from Hannity’s Freedom Concert and wanted to let everyone know that Geraldo Rivera showed up, spent perhaps 30 seconds on stage, and he was booed. He was the only person who was booed the entire night. The best part: someone nearby shouted out: “Who you gonna spit at?” Geraldo heard it but ignored it. The booing stopped as soon as Geraldo said something about our wonderful troops.

God Bless America. Land of the free because of the brave.
#114

On September 11th, 2007 at 11:59 pm, flenser said:

dartagnans_blade said:

Why don’t you people do something for the Soldiers dying now in Iraq and Afghanistan?

It’s off topic, but what did you have in mind?
#115

On September 12th, 2007 at 1:12 am, USpace said:

Great job! Incredible memorial post and roundup, thank God for all you do Ms. Malkin!

we will NEVER forget
you 9/11 victims
will get justice

past mistake -
accepting terrorism
like hurricanes

hijackers on board -
passengers MUST STOP them
preferably kill

when Bush heard the news
he should have said: Children, I
must go, duty calls…

remember to stay in school
and always love your country

get Bin Laden -
we just need big SWAT team
and search warrant

peace is best -
but you must hit back
post viscious attack

Muslims bomb Muslims -
try democracy or not
their chance to choose

enemies of God -
terrorists must stop or die
Allah free their souls

severing heads -
shows sick barbaric
primitive culture

hate evil
embrace the feeling
- but what is it?

history’s fascists -
those ones Christian were
led NOT by Bible

Muslim ones claim God’s will
words of Quran justify

anniversary?
six years ago some friends lost
way too many friends

painful truth -
9/11 should be our
wakeup call

we will NOT forget
you 9/11 victims
will get justice
.
#116

On September 12th, 2007 at 1:33 am, puhiawa said:

Both the Arizona and the Pennsylvania memorials are still memorials to the Muslim terrorists who attacked this country. The liberals of NY continue to try to turn the World Trade Center into a ‘Peace’ memorial which is really dedicated to the disarmament and capitulation of America to the greater wisdom evidenced by the savages who attacked us. Why, you may ask? No one asks. So we don’t know. We really do not know why the left wants to surrender to these savages. No one knows. Will some one please ask?????
#117

On September 12th, 2007 at 1:35 am, nbarry said:

In viewing what’s going on in the wake of 9/11, I feel the following poem by W.B. Yeats is most appropriate.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
#118

On September 12th, 2007 at 3:50 am, gayle said:

Dart; Your grammatical errors and crude comments speak volumes.
#119

On September 12th, 2007 at 4:41 am, purplepeep said:

dartagnans_blade said:

Why don’t you people do something for the Soldiers dying now in Iraq and Afghanistan?

flenser said:
It’s off topic, but what did you have in mind?

Near as I can tell we’re all supposed to become unhinged and type in ALL CAPS.
#120

On September 12th, 2007 at 6:21 am, JDPendry said:

We face soulless bastards on two fronts in this war for our survival - Islamic fascists and despicable politicians with their move-on supporters. If our country is to survive in any recognizable form, we must defeat the enemies of our country on both fronts.
#121

On September 12th, 2007 at 10:02 am, Rick Moran said:

Dart:

First, get off your high horse. There are a gazillion ex military people who comment on this blog you just insulted by making light of the way they support the troops. You are NOT the only one with the answers. To believe so is arrogant and stupid.

The only point I was trying to make about your stupid comment above regarding “Why don’t you people do something for the Soldiers dying now in Iraq and Afghanistan?” was that there are days to bash the left and then there are days to ignore them and remember. 9/11 is one of the days we remember and honor the dead.

Today, we can go back to taking the left to task for their lies and calumnies. But my point about the idiocy of your comment stands. And your insults to those who have served or are serving are unacceptable.
#122

On September 12th, 2007 at 10:51 am, dartagnans_blade said:

No…I will not. Show me some comments here whereby people military or otherwise demand more from our side in the war of hearts and minds. Just one beside mine. Again….Where is our and their front page times ad? Why does Hannity say..pompous, elitist, while Coulter says Idiot? Where other than meeting the scum in DC with counter protests are our action plans to mobilize to fight this onslaught of hate coming daily from the left?

Show me a single comment from any of you on this blog anywhere begging, pleading, demanding more.Do you think we are winning the battle of words? If the left is “supporting the terrorists by promoting failure why don’t we say it anywhere other than Fox and on radio. Our soldiers and their familys deserve more.
I fight back everyday. I post retorts to garbage on liberal blogs, I email owners of liberal blogs when they ban me(kos), I do vids on youtube standing up for my nephews and others, I pay for a domain to fight them…What are we doing here and elsewhere? Why are we getting our ass kicked ? Why do we have to go to DC to meet the protesters…Why are we not the protesters to begin with? Protesting the dems, the fringe, the media, on and on and on.

I have a donation…let me know where to send it..

Where is the soldiers front page ad?…Can any of you answer that without attacking me?
#123

On September 12th, 2007 at 12:43 pm, Rick Moran said:

Dart:

You really are quite full of yourself, aren’t you? In fact, you are a right wing hysteric. People like you don’t convince anybody. You do the cause more harm than good.

The fact is that you are blind to this due to your extraordinary ego. My suggestion is to take a step back and get a hold of yourself. People do what they can when they can. You not accepting that matters not a whit to anyone else.

Get a grip.
#124

On September 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pm, blacktygrrrr said:

Michelle,

I was at Hannity’s Freedom Concert last night at Great Adventure. Of all the people who got rousing ovations, the only person to get a tepid response was Geraldo. Several people did not want to clap for him, and you were a part of that.

I was tempted to remark out loud that he should apologize to you (I was in the front row), but I did not want to act in a manner benath your dignity. Also, it was 9/11, and I was on my best behavior.

I just wanted you to know that the cheering crowd was much quieter when he came out.

http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/9117-sean-hannitys-freedom-concert/

I wish your family a peaceful Rosh Hashanah, and I am dealing with the ethical issue of whether or not to blog on those days. Jewish Law says I should not. I will decide tomorrow.

Respectfully,

eric http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
#125

On September 12th, 2007 at 4:36 pm, dartagnans_blade said:

Right wing?…….Alrighty then…lol
So that is your answer…people do what they can when they can?

Post #122…what do you disagree with?