Posted on 09/11/2008 10:56:33 AM PDT by PghBaldy
ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, U.S. Senator John McCain delivered the following statement on the seventh anniversary of 9/11:
"No American living then should ever forget the heroism that occurred in the skies above this field on September 11, 2001. It is believed that the terrorists on United Flight 93 may have intended to crash the airplane into the United States Capitol. Hundreds if not thousands of people would have been at work in that building when that fateful moment occurred, and been destroyed along with a beautiful symbol of our freedom. They and, very possibly I, owe our lives to the passengers who summoned the courage and love necessary to deny our depraved and hateful enemies their terrible triumph.
"I have witnessed great courage and sacrifice for America's sake, but none greater than the sacrifice of those good people who grasped the gravity of the moment, understood the threat, and decided to fight back at the cost of their lives.
"I spoke at the memorial service for one of them, Mark Bingham. I acknowledged that few of us could say we loved our country as well as he and all the heroes of September 11 had. The only means we possess to thank them is to try to be as good an American as they were. We might fall well short of their standard, but there is honor in the effort.
"In the Gospel of John it is written, 'Greater love hath no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends.' Such was their love; a love so sublime that only God's love surpasses it. I am in awe of it as much as I am in debt to it. May God bless their souls."
McCain is a patriot. Obama is not. God Bless America.
Never, ever forget.
McCain is a patriot, Obama doens’t even have a inkling of the concept.
Excerpt from Obama’s statement on 9-11
“Because the stuff we have done overseas has now been brought back into our own front yard! America’s chickens had come home to roost!”
Beautiful ending too. God bless America.
My sister always remembers those on Flight 93 in her prayers. Her son, an only child, was working for the Secretary of the Senate, and was also in the Capitol Building that day.
I was there. Right on Trinity Street. I was there all day long witnessing, aiding, and planning revenge. John McCain’s statement is moving and captures the spiritual truth of our debt to those who died. I watched helplessly as people jumped to their deaths. Obama is a worthless Manchurian candidate. He was not even born here. He is a racist Muslim who must be stopped at all costs.
“Never, ever forget.”
From another thread, a 9/11 Memorial Site:
http://www.jeffhead.com/attack/
McCain/Palin ‘08!
“Never, ever forget.”
or forgive.
I can't even read past this point.
The sheer magnitude of these selfless, courageous acts--and the acts every day of all men and women who lay down their lives to protect our freedom...I cannot think of those things without being completely overcome with emotion.
Thaks you PghBaldy for posting this.
Thank you..
That was a great statement from Senator McCain, patriot and hero.
Well said, Senator McCain.
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