Honoring 9/11… God Bless America!!




Honoring September 11th: Flight 93, and a Free People

by Chuck DeVore

Today, eight years ago, acts of unspeakable evil were committed on American soil. Al-Qaeda terrorists killed almost 3,000 people.

Whether the effort to preserve our liberties, secure our Constitution, and protect our people is called the “Global War on Terror” or “Overseas Contingency Operations,” the result of failure is the same: more terror and death.

Let us stop to reflect on what happened eight years ago and pray for the families of the dead, both civilian and uniformed, and the living serving on the front lines of freedom. As we do, let us also remember the nature of the attacks in far flung places like Mumbai, Islamabad, Jerusalem, Beirut, Baghdad, Kabul, and Sderot. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: Serve and Remember

by J.R. Head

President Obama has designated September 11th as The National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Remember.

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Honoring September 11th: Earle’s Take

by Christian Toto

The September 11 attacks reset plenty of people’s ideological clocks, with Dennis Miller being one of the more prominent folks to reconsider their views.

For me, the attacks showed me a new side of some of the country’s most respected artists. And it wasn’t pretty.

Earle

Artists reacted to 9/11 in a number of ways. Some wrote songs promising a holy whup ass (Toby Keith) on the terrorist nation, while others went on to create stirring work about a city struck without warning (Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising”)

Alt-country troubadour Steve Earle opted to write a song from the perspective of the traitorous thug, John Walker Lindh, who joined the Taliban against his own country. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: Remember

by Mr. Wrestling IV

I remember the moment when I turned on the television that morning eight years ago and saw smoke coming out of a hole in one of the World Trade Center Towers. I had worked briefly in that building, during my short time living in New York. I sat in horror, wondering what horrible accident had occurred, what misfortunate pilot had wandered off-course and made such a fatal error. What a tragedy, I thought. What a horrible accident. What a shame.

And then, while I sat there in my comfortable American home watching my big screen television on my recently purchased couch with my coffee in hand, in real time, I saw a second plane hit the other tower.

At that moment, I knew: This is an attack. And everything changed for me, utterly and completely.(more…)

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Honoring September 11th: We Will Prevail

by Adam Baldwin

I recall vividly the profound sadness, anger and horror I felt the moment the first tower collapsed.

I was glued to the television that fateful American morning when Matt interrupted Tom & Katie to report: “We just saw a live picture of what seemed to be a portion of the building falling away from the World Trade Center.”

After the initial shock then realization that our nation had been attacked, suffered thousands of innocent civilians murdered at the hands of barbarians, and that America had been thrust into war — My mind hurtled back to an earlier reading of Tom Clancy’s gripping novel Executive Orders.

In it, the author describes how a deranged commercial jet pilot — bent on revenge against America for WWII — crashes his 747 Jumbo jet into a joint session of Congress, thereby slaughtering nearly the entire American political leadership, save of course Mr. Clancy’s heroic protagonist, Jack Ryan. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: Saved

by Evan Sayet

I must admit to some snobbery. My kind didn’t become cops. My kind didn’t become fireman. We went to college as simply a rite of passage and became the “Masters of the Universe” holding meetings with others like us on the top floors of buildings like those in the World Trade Center complex. In fact, I, at the age of twenty-three, had an office on the 106th floor of building number one with an unquestioned entitlement to it for no other reason than that was the way of the world.

The kids from the Bronx with the accents became fireman. The kid from Queens with the gaudy chains and the girlfriend with the big hair became cops. People who worked with their hands, people who risked their lives, I am now terribly embarrassed and ashamed to say, were thought of as just of another kind, the kind that my Leftist friends continue to deride as being from “fly-over country,” or from Kansas where the people have something “the matter” with them. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: The Restart of History

by Andrew Leigh

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” – Michael Corleone, Godfather Part III

True story: As a young man just out of law school, I was consumed with politics. I even went to work on the Hill (Capitol, that is, Washington, DC) and in journalism. But at some point in the ’90s, my interest faded away.

Francis Fukuyama wrote a then-notorious book called The End of History, published in 1992, shortly after the Soviet Union’s collapse. He argued that the age-old ideological struggles over what constitutes the best form of government were over, and the undisputed universal champion was Western liberal (in the classic, free-market sense) democracy.

I grew up during the latter stages of the Cold War, when the existential threat of nuclear war hung over and colored almost everything. It made politics seem vital to one’s very survival. And I found the debate between capitalism and communism hugely compelling. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: He Kept Us Safe

by John Nolte

My sense that the September 11th attacks would transcend partisan politics lasted less than a few days. That may sound cynical, but after counting myself as one of them for over a decade, I know how the Left thinks and I knew what was coming.

Within days of the attacks, it began. Without a word, those who had endlessly looped the video of the beating of Rodney King stopped airing footage of Americans jumping to their deaths from the burning World Trade Center. Not long after, those who would later sear the images of a few misfits at Abu Ghraib into the hearts and minds of the enemy, began the inevitable murmurs of “being responsible” when it came to airing footage of passenger planes exploding into the towers.

Soon, and predictably, the footage all but disappeared.

Step one at chipping away at our resolve was complete, and all in the name of a few sophisticates doing what was best for us.

What followed was also expected. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: The Rage Ratchet

by Bill Whittle

Well, it’s been eight years since that terrible morning – George Bush was as deep into his first term of office as Barack Obama is today when those awful events unfolded.

The anniversary in the mainstream media will be muted, as always – and we’ll come back to that. And even though three thousand people died that day, I want to concentrate on two – not to exclude the others, but simply to show you that they were not some abstract number but individual lives.

Kevin Cosgrove

One of the people who died that day, eight years ago, was a businessman working in the World Trade Center. His name was Kevin Cosgrove. Kevin Cosgrove stands out from the other three thousand because he was on the phone to 9/11 when the tower he was in collapsed around him. (Fast forward to about 4:00 if you are pressed for time) And I’m warning you, this is not for the faint hearted. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: Friend From Foe

by Gary Graham

It wasn’t a ‘disaster.’ Hurricanes, tsunami’s, earthquakes and famines are disasters. It wasn’t a ‘tragedy.’ Accidental drownings, poisonings, SIDS, freak accidents….those are tragedies. This was an evil, premeditated attack. The worst, most deadly and devastating attack ever carried off against the United States. And on our own ground – smack in the middle of the greatest city in the world, New York City.

Nearly three thousand souls perished. Not combatants on a battlefield, but average everyday citizens like you and me, starting their days like any other, working to earn a living to feed their families. Along with them were hundreds of valiant firemen and policemen rushing in to the buildings to save lives.

The images of those New Yorkers the next few days wandering the streets around Ground Zero with pictures of their missing loved ones, hoping beyond hope that perhaps it was a simple bump on the head and temporary amnesia that kept them from phoning home to tell them they were okay… These thoughts suck the wind from my soul. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: We Remember

by Chele Stanton

WE REMEMBER 9-11

Smoke billows rolled
As planes shattered glass
Concrete and steel
The trees and the grass

An enemy attack
On the Land of the Free
How could this happen
How could this be

Our hearts gripped with fear
In sheer disbelief
Unbearable sorrow
One hardly could speak

As evil sought triumph
Through catastrophic strife
Towers fell and buildings crumbled
Tragically ending innocent lives (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: Memories of the WTC — King Kong, Carol Channing, and Ground Zero

by Charles Winecoff

I never liked the Twin Towers. As a boy, I watched them go up - slowly, for years – from the terrace outside my parents’ bedroom. My dad, who was an architect, griped about them: they were too big, they lacked style, they were monstrous. They sat vacant for years, a folly of the Port Authority.

And they ruined the skyline.

We all loved the Empire State Building, for decades the tallest building in Manhattan, even the world. The Empire State Building inspired loyalty. It was a marvel of engineering and design. It was a class act. And King Kong had died for love on it.

Of course, we went to see what the WTC was all about. The lobby was tacky, grandiose yet bland, like an airport or a ballroom in a chain hotel. The elevators were fast – a cheap thrill, like a ride at Disneyland – but when you debarked, the mundane, office hallways were an anticlimax. Nothing special. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: Days of Infamy

by Burt Prelutsky

There are certain dates that are indelibly etched in our minds because they were drummed into us in school, such as the 1066 Battle of Hastings; some because they commemorate joyous events such as July 4th, December 25th or the births of our children; and some because they remind us to never forget how quickly everyday life can be turned into something horrific.

The first of three such dates for Americans is 12/7/41. That was, as FDR put it, a day of infamy. It was a Sunday between Thanksgiving and Christmas when, without warning, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, killing 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians.

The second of the nightmarish dates was 9/11/01 when 19 Islamics hijacked four airliners and murdered 2,998 human beings, most of whom were Americans. (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: The Unavenged

by Bosch Fawstin

Eight years later, and we still haven’t begun to do what needs to be done.

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Honoring September 11th: Not a Tragedy

by Robert J. Avrech

Offspring#2 steps into our bedroom and says:

“Do you know what’s going on in New York?”

My wife Karen and I look at each other, baffled.

“Better turn on the TV,” says Offspring#2.

Black smoke is rising from one of the Twin Towers. A newscaster tells us that a passenger jet airliner has hit the World Trade Center.

Ariel, our son, senses that something is happening. He tears himself away from his Talmud study and steps into our bedroom, gazes at the TV screen.

“How many people work there?” Ariel asks.

“Thousands, tens of thousands, it’s an entire world.” (more…)

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Honoring September 11th: They Want Us to Forget

by Mark Tapson

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner

“We will write our own future, and the future will be what we want it to be.” – Barack Obama

In a quiet and seemingly innocuous gesture, President Obama has designated 9/11 as “The National Day of Service and Remembrance.” Personally, I liked the ring of “Patriot Day,” and what does “service and remembrance” mean, precisely ? The idea is to get Americans to “engage in meaningful service to create change…in four key areas”: education, health, energy/environment and community renewal. None of these seems to have anything to do with honoring 9/11, but that seems to be the point: in the Huffington Post, Muslim-American playwright Wajahat Ali wrote, “In the US, we are trying to move away from focusing on 9/11 as a day of horror, and instead make it a day to recommit ourselves to national service.” An excellent Spectator article provides a blunter translation: “Nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.” Why? ”They think it needs to be taken back from the right.”

In other words, they resent the surge of patriotism and righteous outrage stirred up by the attacks, sentiments that empower the political Right. In order to advance the leftist agenda of dismantling American exceptionalism and recasting ourselves as the villain in our history books, they need Americans to put 9/11 behind us, forget the victims, forget that our enemy danced in the streets in celebration, forget that Islamic terror plots on our very shores continue to be disrupted, and forget that our rights and freedoms are under assault by a subversive civilizational jihad. (more…)

Honoring September 11th: The Price of Liberty is Great; the Gifts of Liberty Priceless

by Andrew Klavan

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Honoring September 11th: Frank

by Chris Burgard

Frank Munoz was a good guy. When he was a teenager, he worked hard to straighten his life out. He went to school. He got married. He got a job. He took good care of his mom.

Frank Munoz died on the 73rd floor of The Second Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.

For days after 9/11, his family searched the hospitals because some sick person put his name on a fake Internet survivor list.

I didn’t cry for him until two years later when my wife and I stood at the edge of Ground Zero.

Afterwards, Lisa and I wanted to get a burger. A block away, we walked into a bar called O’Hara’s. On 9/11, O’Hara’s had their windows knocked out and the building was covered in debris. (more…)

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Open Thread Friday

by Big Hollywood

Source: Big Hollywood

9/11 – We Will Never Forget – Yet Obama Administration Move to Downplay the Anniversary Event – Ask Marion

After Eight Years the Trade Center Sits Still the Same! WHY?
(part of the beginning of this program was distorted so not presented here)

Re-wrting History is NOT Honoring Those Who Died on 9/11 or Thoughout our History!!!

Textbook authors literally re-write history to paint Muslims, in particular, in PC-better light…where is the push for this really coming from, and how many people bet it’s the Al-Sayud family in Riyadh…which has spent billions over the last 20-30 years to spread wahabbism throughout the world by any means necessary.

Taking this textbook special in light of Gordon Brown’s push to release the Lockerbie bomber in exchange for Libyan oil sure makes us believe the Muslim members of OPEC have extorted the West to subversively engineer this pro-Muslim PR campaign in exchange for feeding our collective addiction to MidEast crude.

Islam is specifically PROMOTED, with much effort to downplay terrorist acts committed by Muslims and heavy propaganda used to convince children that Muslims worldwide are just misunderstood Care Bears, looking for nothing more than hugs, all that suicide bomber, plane hijacking, “Death to America!” stuff just a figment of our collective imagination. Even September 11, an event hardly shrouded by the haze of time, gets a rewrite. In Prentice Hall's textbook on contemporary American history, for instance, the 19 hijackers are not identified as Islamic extremists. Students are left to guess why they did it. Yet Christianity and Judaism is referenced and taught as theory. (Full Article)

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