Eight years later: Remembrance and resolve
Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”
Remember: Project 2,996.
Remember: “Let’s roll!”
Remember: The angels on loan from God.
Remember: The 9/11 babies.
Remember: Falling Man.
Remembrance is worthless without resolve. Resolve is useless without action.
God bless our troops for doing what’s necessary to combat jihad on the front lines. Here’s how they are marking 9/11 overseas:
American troops in Afghanistan donned shorts and sneakers Friday to run in memory of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, as they fight a war that was born of that day but now faces waning public support.
About 1,000 service members ran 9.11 kilometers (5.5 miles) at the main U.S. base, both to commemorate the anniversary and remember troops who have died in nearly eight years of fighting.
The U.S. and its allies first invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to oust the Taliban regime for sheltering al-Qaida leaders who planned the attacks. The Taliban were quickly routed, but the militants regrouped and have mounted an increasingly strong insurgency over the past three years.
Organizers of Friday’s race, which also was held at two other bases, called it an act of defiance against insurgents who have killed more American troops this year than in any other since the beginning of the conflict. August was the deadliest month for U.S. troops so far, with 51 killed.
“Our soldiers are running in the heart of Taliban territory, where the attacks on America were planned,” a military statement said.
This is not a day for fighting climate change or changing light bulbs or hugging trees or cheerleading expansions of government national service programs.
This is a day to honor innocent men, women, and children slaughtered by evil Islamic jihadists — and to resolve that “Never again” remains America’s operational stance, not an empty slogan.
What will you remember? What will you resolve?
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Hear! Hear! Bless you MM.
I know we all remember where we were, what we were doing, and what we initially thought (a small plane had reportedly crashed into the tower…maybe the radars over NYC had been sabotaged and were misdirecting pilots…what is going on??). Then the horror.
Prayers and remembrances for all those who were affected by 9.11. We should never have forgotten, but I think the nation is forgetting, little by little, the horror, the feeling of utter helplessness.
I remember watching the coverage on the TV in the cafeteria at work & thinking of Admiral Yamamoto’s words after Pearl Harbor. “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and roused him to a terrible anger.” I’m flying the flag today, and will see how many of my neighbors know why. Sadly, very few will.
I will never forget or submit.
Prayers this day for the family and friends of those heroes lost on 9/11/01, and for the survivors, that all may have comfort.
Additional prayers for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. God bless you and keep you safe, and thank you for your service.
New York City.
Washington DC.
Pennsylvania.
Oklahoma City.
USS Cole.
Kenya and Tanzania Embassy’s.
We should never forget.
Kill them. Kill them all. Every single one of them.
The USA changed on that day. It was very noticeable in the first few weeks afterwards. Now the ‘change’ has taken on a different emotion.
There was a wedge driven through the USA on Sept. 11, 2001. On one side, a group kept quiet. Thought secretly that we deserved it. Empathized with the attackers. Live a hate-filled yet ‘entitlement’ life.
The other side wasn’t silent. It was patriotic, introspective, and emboldened to act. They weren’t afraid to say out loud that they love the USA and even die for her.
Now the haters aren’t silent. The patriots are subdued.
We can’t let it just slide.
What the hell happened?
May God rest the souls of fallen American heroes.
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With regards to the jihadists, kill them all and let God sort ‘em out.
It is time for a moment of silence. 8:46
Rememberance? Plenty.
Resolve? Individually, here, we have plenty – but we are a tiny minority.
As a city, NYC has implemented a fantastic array of intelligence gathering and defensive measures. Say what you want about this liberal bastion, but the sight of those towers was enough to make that happen.
Sadly, that’s as far as it goes. As a nation, our resolve is trivial – and shrinking.
Take the fight to the bad guys? No way. We want out.
Keep the CIA funded? Please. Chauncey has communists he needs to hide in his team, and a strong intelligence arm will only cause problems there.
Keep the sword of our military strong and sharp? Sure. Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Schumer, etc. are all about strong defense.
As I said in an earlier post, on rail threats, the only thing that gets liberals attention is tragedy. And, even then, they blame us for “persecuting the attackers and goading them into it.”
BTW, flyoverman, I share your sentiments – but I know that we’re essentially alone in them.
Amen…And if LGM and company don’t like it, they can just go stick it…
I remember hearing about the first plane while driving to work. I remembered the military plane that crashed into the Empire State building during WWII and thought something similiar happened. When news of the second plane came a few minutes later, I realized “We’re at war!”.
We fly ours frequently, just because it’s our flag and we love what it represents.
But my husband took it in a couple of days ago, even though the weather was sunny and fair. He wanted its absence to be notable.
This morning he put it back out, even though it’s supposed to rain today. We know that proper protocol dictates that the flag not be flown in inclement weather, but today we’ll make an exception.
And tears from heaven seem appropriate too.
I remember.
It’s our president that wants to forget it ever happened. Obama, the piece of crap fraud that he is.
Thank you, Michelle, for my day’s quote on my homepage. Screw anyone who doesn’t like it.
I remember exactly what I was doing that day. I remember tears coming to my eyes as I watched the live feed of the second plane hitting the tower. I remember the sadness and the anger that I felt.
I remember seeing the televised reaction of people in Iran and Iraq laughing, dancing and singing in the streets as they heard the news of this act of war.
I hope we never forget that day. But how do you explain this headline on Drudge today:
Senate panel votes for military cuts sought by Obama…
What kind of a garbage is running our country?
As for what we remember, if I started, this comment would become an epistle.
I will never forget, though I fear that America as a whole has a case of narcolepsy – I was going to say collective amnesia, but America hasn’t forgotten, she just nods off at unexpected and inconvenient moments, with loss of muscle power and some strange hallucinations. Use your imaginations and you’ll see how each of those conditions have been manifested.
And apologies in advance to anyone who genuinely suffers from narcolepsy; I know someone who does, and it isn’t anything to speak lightly about. Please believe me, I’m not using that analogy lightly.
Never forget. Never surrender.
Last week, I was standing on a patio at work under a cloudless blue sky. The air was crisp. From my vantage point, I usually see airliners passing overheard either to destinations west or into BWI. But there were none. I suddenly felt that now familiar chill.
I couldn’t help but wonder when the next day of days will be. I pray it will never happen again but with this crowd in DC, all bets are off.
A co-worker sent me an email of declassified aerial pics of 9/11 yesterday. The most disturbing was of a man who had jumped. That image will stay with me today as I pray for his and the others souls.
Dear Lord, I pray….
I try to remind myself that we’re supposed to respect the office. But it’s becoming more and more difficult.
I will never forget or forgive Islam and the muslims. However, as mentioned above, there are a lot of Americans who have forgotten and/or think we deserved it. One of them sits in the White House. And while our military wins every battle it is assigned, the war is again being lost by our disgusting politicians. Think about the strides radical Islam has made around the world since 9/11. Who is winning?
There is a small group that remembers, but we are in the minority.
I am sorry to be down on this day, but I don’t see any reason to think we are even close to prevailing against the ones who did this to us.
Eight years later and there is still only a hole in the ground.
Ditto to that.
Fixed it.
Never forget
On that day 8 yrs ago after watching the Towers collapse, I grapped my flag and put it out. I resolved to never take it down again. It has only been down a few time for really bad weather or replacement, but to me it symbolizes my resolve to Never Submit!
So long as I breath and am vertical, it will stay up. When a hurricane decided to visit the DC area in 2003, the Gaurds at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were told they didn’t have to walk their post during the height of the storm. They refused and walked their post anyway. That is the kind of resolve I feel as my flag flys.
Gov. Kaine, here in Virginia, has announced a “day of service” to remember 9/11. Always politics, right Kaine? If your hero stays in the WH, there will be plenty of “days of service” for the populace.
I will never forget. And I resolve to wrestle my government from the hands of scumbags who think that we were somewhat responsible for what happened on that horrible day.
And to those folks who mentioned flying their flags: I resolved a while back (since the Obama election) to fly my flag every day. Because under him, I’m not taking for granted the fact, that I may not one day be allowed to fly THE flag.
WayfaringStranger, my parents taught me that respect is not automatically given, it has to be earned. I still respect the office of the president but not the idiot who occupies it at the moment.
He’s a sock puppet, a dope who thinks he’s king. The idiots who still fawn over him make me sick. We are not safer in this country since he was elected. I pray that we will not have another attack but the more I read and listen, I fear the attack is already happening with the take over of the auto industry and banks, the threat to our healthcare system through his idiocy and the collapse of our economic system. We’d better be afraid because he’s changing America while we watch.
mrcakes & I have been through several flags since Sept. 11, 2001. They are always flying.
I remember seeing that same cloudless blue sky at home, but feeling very odd as the B-2s were the only aircraft in the midwest air.
I remember that event. As you say, that’s the kind of resolve we should have.
A member of my extended family was serving with the Old Guard on 9/11, and was on duty at Arlington when the plane hit the Pentagon. He was sent in with the rescue and recovery team. Since that day, he’s served two tours in Iraq, re-enlisting while over there.
No, my family doesn’t forget. I have other reasons, reasons that touched me directly, but it would only take the above to keep that day alive in my memory.
God bless and keep you and yours.
My resolve is no different now than it was in 1964 when I took the following oath as I proudly entered the US Marine Corps …
“I, DesertLover, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
I am leaving shortly for the airport on yet another business trip … I always consider flying anywhere on 9/11 as an expression of tribute, solidarity and thanks to those that lost their lives on this date, to all of our brave military personnel, and as a personal message to those around the world that seek our demise …
I WILL:
Fight you to the death,
Never submit to terrorism,
Never stop seeking your destruction,
Never yield my freedom,
NEVER FORGET
Let’s Roll
5 sides representing the Pentagon? Check
2 vertical lines representing the twin towers? Check
I don’t see anything representing the single finger telling our enemies what we think of them. Unless it’s that thin line…
I watched MIB on dvd last weekend. My blood boils everytime I see the WTC.
We have not extracted enough “payback” yet. We should stop trying to be nice to all the “innocents” and let them know what war is. That is how you get them to stop.
Until then, we are just waiting for the next time.
Bloomberg is reporting that The Won is not going to be at the memorial services at ground zero. He’s sending Biden instead. What a piece of human waste.
Sorry, should have read further in the article. The Won will be at the Pentagon.
I will never forget.
And I will be forever thankful that my former coworkers in World Trade 2 all made it out safely.
And I will mourn those that went to work that day not realizing that it would be their last.
TigerLady—-at least we won’t have to put up with him tossing a flower nonchalantly, as was done last year.
I will never forget!
spaceycakes said:
Yes, I’d rather he not go at all. He really couldn’t care less since it’s not about him. Idiot-in-chief.
Not forgotten. Far from it. The memory is still fresh.
“We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”
—George W. Bush, September 20th, 2001
We’d better not.
Dust off the napalm, FABs, and BLU-82s and “walk the dog” up and down the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
I don’t know what FABs or BLU-82s are, but I like the cut of your jib, mister.
RedDog–oh yeah–walk that damn dog!
Thanks Wayfaring. Please tell your family member thanks from me.
I was so angry that day I was ready to enlist. Alas, I’m 25 yrs too old for that. It’s better that I stay on the home front and support the ones that have.
Arclight
That’s the stuff, Flyoverman!
shock & awe, bay-beee!
I worked with a gentleman for about three years that unbeknownst to me was a survivor of the WTC. He was in the first tower and had gone down to find out what his firm should do about evacuating. After the collapse, he escaped by crawling through the subterranean sewer system. He never mentioned a word of this, I only found out when he decided to speak out on 9/11/2007 in an interview with a local TV station. He said he had to speak out to confront the demons that plagued him because he was the only survivor from his firm (about 100+ people). Many died, but perhaps we forget that there are many times that number who are stricken with various forms of Post Stress Syndrome that will never recover.
DesertLover said, and I paraphrase:
My resolve is no different now than it was in 1968 when I took the following oath as I proudly entered the US Marine Corps …
“I, Sea_Dog, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
I WILL:
Fight you to the death,
Never forget my oath,
Never forget those who have fallen protecting those who can’t,
Never submit to terrorism,
Never stop seeking your destruction,
Never yield my freedom,
NEVER FORGET
Semper Fi my brother, Let’s Roll
I will always remember the horror of that day, and the anger and hate I felt toward muslims.
What will I resolve? At 8:38 am, flyoverman said:
“Kill them. Kill them all. Every single one of them.”
Amen, brother. Give no quarter.
I remember a friend who was killed in the attacks.
I also remember having the same initial reaction as Krazybee…
As soon as I learned of the second plane, I knew there was no way it could have been an accident.
I remember thinking “this is a modern-day Pearl Harbor… an act of war… who is attacking us?”
I am DISGUSTED that Obama is trying to erase this day and call it a national day of service! I guess after sitting in the Rev Wright’s church for 20 years he probably thinks we deserve it.It sickens me,especially with my son being in Iraq right now.
I worked in a large local government in central PA at the time. I watched the second tower come down, and someone grabbed me by my shoulder. I turned around, and it was a police officer in full tactical gear telling me that I had to report to our emergency management center at the police station, and was escorted to the room. While it wasn’t mass confusion, we were runniing blind except for CNN and phone calls made by our public safety team to their peers in other locations. We put cops at all schools to assist with traffic control as parents came for their children, and volunteered our EMS to whichever agency needed them. By 4pm, it seemed to be over for us. I watched the news for 2 days straight, and then couldn’t watch anymore. God Bless the lost, and their families and friends. I will not submit.
9/11 and the American patriotism and sense of vigilance that rose from the ashes – have become ‘inconvenient’ for Obama… so he means to make it ‘go away’.
– MD/Ron
Ditto!
I will never submit.
To me, Obama’s speech this a.m. sounded as strained and deep as Gaylord Focker’s “prayer” in “Meet the Parents”.
I expected him to add the words to, “Day by Day”!
Ditto, Flyoverman.
On this most sad day, I resolve to NEVER FORGET:
Those murdered
Their families
The Policemen and women
The Firemen and women
The Red Cross workers
Those who helped others
The citizens of New York, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, the nation
The National Guard personnel
The United States Military
The FAA
God bless the USA
Let’s keep the faith.
This is a moving video-please watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyQyH4RoDbw
This is the most difficult day of my life. Every year that goes by, it only gets harder. I remember my friends faces who died. The families they loved and who will never be see them again.
I often think Americans are too scared to face evil and like their comfortable, little suburban lives where they can pretend 9/11 didn’t affect them. Or pretend that voluteerism will ever fill the void on that day.
I watched Obummer make an insincere stab at caring about 9/11. How could he? He’s an America blamer who’d rather take the hijackers’ side. My thoughts to him are this: if you don’t care stop pretending. There are plenty of Americans who know you, and many other Americans, don’t give a damn.
I’m beginning to wonder if it’s just too late for America. 9/11 didn’t bring America together, it just tore us apart even more. Some of us take Islamic fascism/terrorism seriously, and many of us don’t. Some of us took into account what gave our lives meaning, and other just moved on in a zombie fog. Some of us used 9/11 as a wake up call and realization that terrorism is a danger and looming threat while others used 9/11 as an excuse to hate our country even more.
The sad things is, that so many Americans don’t care. A great article that brings all of this into focus is the one by Patrick Buchanan on Drudge. It puts it all into focus. I highly recommend it.
I will light my candles to remember my friends. I will shed my tears. And, still, people will shrug their shoulders and move on.
emjem24. I’m sorry for your pain. I do not know anyone who died on 9-11 but I remember how violated I felt as an American citizen knowing that these thugs came into our country with a plan to destroy us. They were not totally stopped but the courage of a few people on that day still stand out. I remember how proud I was to hear the charge of “Let’s Roll” by courageous people who knew that they were about to die. I still cry when I listen to the tapes of the callers who were sounding the alarm or the one of the man calling his wife to say he wasn’t coming home that night.
I agree that many, many people in this country take our freedom for granted. Many have their hands out and whine for them to be filled. We are greedy and selfish and self centered. We don’t care much when others hurt as long as it doesn’t get too close to us.
We are about to see the consequences of actions by those greedy, selfish and self centered people who wanted to believe that the Liar in Chief is going to give them something for free. I will take to my grave the words of that woman at the Democrat convention who said “I never thought this would happen in my lifetime. I won’t have to worry about my mortgage…”. Clearly she was thinking only of herself and her situation.
I have a lot of hope that good people who believe in what this nation has stood for will begin to openly oppose this coming oppression by the Alinski crowd. They are haters and they need to be stopped.
We can’t do anything about the people who will shrug their shoulders and walk around the problem but our nation was formed on the backs of a few, not the majority. We need to remember today and work to take back our country tomorrow.
Tiger Lady:
Thank you so much for your kind words. Everybody forgets that there are still those who grieve, suffer, cry. Everybody forgets that the people who died were human beings, not some act of revenge and terrorism (which was what it was too). My own parents don’t know how deeply I grieve, how I loved my friends, how they deeply impacted my life. My own military husband doesn’t know how to help me.
I don’t really care that a black guy is our president. The office is bigger than a race. I’m not stupid. I won’t let some half-hearted PR stunt like the one that Obummer did today snow me and comfort me when I know it doesn’t come from a place of sincerity and emotion.
I’m genuinely scared. My husband is in a deployment window for Afghanistan right now. Life can be taken from us so fast. When my cousin was killed in a car accident I never thought I would feel that kind of pain again. Ever.
Those of us who grieve, suffer, cry feel so alone. It will never go away. I even sought counseling but it didn’t make it better.
People are too concerned with giving up their liberty to please others, be more PC, and more “empathatic.” I won’t play that game. I will not make excuses for murdering thugs. I won’t let my government devalue this day or think that transfering these murdering thugs over to a state maximum security prison from Guantanamo will change anything.
You can’t humanize terrorists and you can’t make deals with the Middle East. I wish we had turned Saudia Arabia into glass. They are the originating point of this evil. The Saudis need to take responsibility for it but they won’t. Hell, they fund a freaking school in Northern Virginia where they preach wahabbism to young kids.
There are so many egocentric people like Dear Leader who need to get over themselves. They put our country at risk because of their own hubris and selfishness. If you want to make deals with terrorists, feel bad for them, harbor them, this country isn’t for you. Yet, so many Americans are cowards, and know they won’t have it better anywhere else. So they just content themselves with destroying our country from within.
Terrorist-loving Americans are as bad as the terrorists themselves. They live in our country and we let them. They’re not interested in being “Americans” but world citizens.
The world is not America but America is still my world.
emjem, I will keep you in my prayers. I don’t know what it must feel like for you to have suffered so much loss and then to be waiting for your husband to be deployed as well.. That must be very hard for you and your family.
I pray every night for our soldiers because the price they are paying for our freedom is high. It should never be bought and sold by this idiot in the white house who seems to have more respect for the terrorists than for our young people who serve in the military.
I hope that you can find some way to work through your fears and your loss. It’s not an easy thing. I recently lost someone very close to me, a young man who died of cancer. I still don’t understand why he had to die but the impact he had on the lives of soldiers is evident to me. He was a writer who told the stories of veterans who had fought in the Vietnam war.
I hold that close to my heart and I let God be the one who knows and understands all of these things. I fully trust in Him and try to let go of things that I have no control over. It’s a difficult thing to do sometimes. Our president doesn’t love people. He doesn’t love America. But he’s not in charge of the world, despite what he thinks or wants.
You and your husband will be in my prayers. I pray for peace for you. As hard as it is, I pray for Mr. Obama, too.
On September 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, emjem24 said:
I lost a friend in the WTC. It’s hard enough to lose 1 friend, let alone multiple. I think about the families they loved and the children they didn’t get to have – the unseen victims.
I couldn’t agree with you more.
And in my opinion, it appears that he and his “family friends” may have done just that… more than just figuratively taken the hijackers’ side.
…RedPill, that quote from Obama’s book always ticks me off; that “UCC” church was no such thing when the Boston Tea Party took place; it was a Congregational Church. The UCC wasn’t formed until (if memory serves me) sometime in the mid-1800s.
I feel no small measure of ill will for the UCC because of its willful perversion of scripture. My own church was part of the UCC, but left that denomination to become an independent Congregational church once again. It has grown and thrived since that time, while the UCC diminishes, wallowing in its PC perversion.
I remember walking up the main stairs from Science class, turning left then walking into Mr. Drummy’s History class and seeing a the burning the WTC then seeing a plane smash into the other tower. I will never forget the reaction and silence of everyone in the room. Soon the school fell dead silent.