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~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering 9.11.2001 ~ ~ We Will Never Forget!! ~ Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. John Phillip Sousa ~ Star Spangled Banner John Wayne ~ America, Why I Love Her John Phillip Sousa ~ Stars & Stripes Forever Toby Keith ~ Courtesy of The Red, White, & Blue (Angry American) Bobby Bare ~ God Bless America Again Charlie Daniels ~ My Beautiful America John Phillip Sousa ~ Armed Forces Salute John Wayne ~ Face...

Tuesday, 11 September, 2001, 09:11 GMT 10:11 UK Australia ordered to accept boat people An Australian Federal Court judge has overruled a government decision to turn away more than 400 asylum seekers who are currently being transported to Papua New Guinea. An ancient power of the court is to protect people against detention without lawful authority The refugees were prevented from landing on Australia's Christmas Island two weeks ago after being rescued by a Norwegian cargo ship, the Tampa, from a sinking Indonesian ferry. In a case brought by civil liberties campaigners, Federal Court Judge Tony North ruled that Australia ...

Cover UpBy Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | January 27, 2005 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Peter Lance, a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- The Untold Story. He is the author of the new book Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror. FP: Mr. Lance, welcome to Frontpage Interview Lance: Great to be talking with you.FP: What motivated you to write this book? Lance: Cover Up began as an effort to answer the two big unanswered questions left after I had finished 1000...

SIERRA VISTA - A color guard of city fire and police personnel tended a U.S. flag that flew from Sept. 2 to Sept. 11, 2003, at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, during Saturday's 9/11 remembrance ceremony at Sierra Vista Fire Station No. 2. Col. Michael W. Boardman, director of Intelligence for the Combined Joint Task Force in Bagram, Afghanistan, returned to Sierra Vista with the flag used in Saturday's ceremony. Boardman is a former Fort Huachuca garrison commander. Sierra Vista firefighter and paramedic Bob Fields began the ceremony by asking people to remember when they first found out about the Sept....

Many of you may have seen this already but it can't be said enough or repeated enough. This is not very long, and very informative. You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years. US Navy Captain Ouimette...

Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal Budget Deficit September 11, 1990 Mr. President and Mr. Speaker and Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, fellow Americans, thank you very much for that warm welcome. We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August 2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. Within 3 days, 120,000 Iraqi troops ...

This Day in History: Sept. 11, 1990 - U.S. President Bush vowed "Saddam Hussein will fail" while addressing Congress on the Persian Gulf crisis.

PARIS (AP) - French authorities investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States have arrested two men - a Moroccan and a German believed to be a top al-Qaida recruiter - in the last two days at the Paris airport, judicial officials said Thursday. The officials said they believe there's a link between the two suspects. On Sunday, Karim Mehdi, a 34-year-old Moroccan, was taken into custody at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, the officials said on condition of anonymity. He had arrived from Germany and planned to leave to the French island of La Reunion...

Couple Who Lost a Son on Sept. 11 Now Loses Niece Aboard the Shuttle By Miranda Leitsinger Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 1, 2003 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Astronaut Laurel Clark's death on the space shuttle Columbia was the second sudden and very public tragedy to hit Doug and Betty Haviland in 17 months. Laurel Clark was their niece and her final moments were broadcast again and again on television Saturday, exploding white dots 200,000 feet above the earth. On Sept. 11, 2001, television had first brought tragedy. The Havilands were watching after the World Trade Center absorbed...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) — A tape of emergency radio transmissions on Sept. 11 shows that firefighters reached the burning 78th floor of the south tower where the jetliner sliced through, nearly 30 floors higher than officials had estimated.</p> <p>Four people who have listened to the tape said at least two firefighters reached the crash site and were helping the injured, The New York Times reported for Sunday editions.</p>