AMERICA - The Right Way!! (WEEKEND EDITION - Days 742 and 743) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | February 1, 2003 | All of Us

[Mr. Mulliner]

I was out almost all day and couldn't be near a radio most of the time. Do you know where I could read what President Bush said in his speech?

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Here you go: Statement by President Bush

[Mr. Mulliner]

Thanks, ABG!

[Guenevere]

Bruce Buckingham --(The Voice of NASA)--is talking to Greta right now.

My daughter taught his children a few years ago...

[JRandomFreeper]

I just got off the phone. I may be in the piney woods for months doing close order grid square search and recovery.

Disclaimer: I don't have any orders in my hand....so all of this could be standard issue grapevine Bravo Sierra.

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

God bless our President, he must truly feel he has the weight of the world right now.... ...we must pray for him....

Daily, Guen. Daily.

/john

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Sounds like you heard some breaking news from Foxtrot company. ;^)

When my unit got activated in 1990, we had been expecting it, but until you get the "OFFICIAL" phone call from your section, division, or squad leader it's just rumors.

[JRandomFreeper]

Everybody that signs stuff is at a top-3 party. My supervisor made MSgt last cycle. I begged off because I'm suddenly poor.

Yep, it's unclear at this point. Right after the Col. left the building.

/john

[Brad’s Gramma]

Aw, geez, John......I'll pray for your whole unit. God bless you, each and every one.

[JRandomFreeper]

I would ask for prayers for an unspecified large group tonight. Tough times today, and ahead.

ISB, Prayers continue for your situation.

My Father,
Which art in Heaven.
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy Will be done.
On earth, as it is in Heaven......

God bless us all. Each, and every one.

/john

[MozartLover]

Good night, Johnny. You know I'm praying.

[JRandomFreeper]

Thanks a bunch. Prayers are very welcome.

I've got to get some sleep. I'm going to have to be in earlier than I thought tomorrow.

/john

[Brad’s Gramma]

If you're still here, sleep well, John. Know that there's a whole family of us praying for you and for your whole crew.

Let them know that, if you can, OK?

God bless you.

BG

[Brad’s Gramma]

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/e/t/eternalf.htm


Will you please post this on Sunday's ATRW? Thanks.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

was that you I saw sitting at the Great One's (Mark Levin's) table last night?

Yes, that was me. He is polite, but he does have a certain touch of sarcasm about things. Nice guy, though.

At the end of the dinner, he told me it was a pleasure meeting me - when really I am sure it was much more my pleasure.

Obviously gracious!

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

We heard about the shuttle during CPAC. A long moment of silence, and an awkward carrying on - the organizers felt it would have been what the crew wanted.

My condolances to the family, and the Nation, for the loss.

I will post more tomorrow (later today?). But I need some sleep.

[Lorena]

Remarks by the President on the Loss of Space Shuttle Columbia
February 1, 2003

My fellow Americans, this day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country. At 9 o'clock this morning, Mission Control in Houston lost contact with our space shuttle Columbia. A short time later, debris was seen falling from the skies above Texas.

The Columbia's lost. There are no survivors.

Onboard was a crew of seven -- Colonel Rick Husband, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Anderson, Commander Laurel Clark, Captain David Brown, Commander William McCool, Dr. Kalpana Chawla, and Ilan Ramon a colonel in the Israeli air force.

These men and women assumed great risk in this service to all humanity. In an age when space flight has come to seem almost routine, it is easy to overlook the dangers of travel by rocket and the difficulties of navigating the fierce outer atmosphere of the earth.

These astronauts knew the dangers, and they faced them willingly, knowing they had a high and noble purpose in life. Because of their courage and daring and idealism, we will miss them all the more.

All Americans today are thinking, as well, of the families of these men and women who have been given this sudden shock and grief. You're not alone. Our entire nation grieves with you. And those you loved will always have the respect and gratitude of this country.

The cause in which they died will continue. Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

In the skies today, we saw destruction and tragedy. Yet farther than we can see, there is comfort and hope.

In the words of the prophet Isaiah, "Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing."

The same creator who names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth, yet we can pray that all are safely home.

May God bless the grieving families, and may God continue to bless America.

HIGH FLIGHT
~~~ John Gillespie Magee, Jr. ~~~

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

[Lorena]

AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 741)
[Remember the Trade Center!!]

Yesterday's Thread
(1/31/03)

[Lorena]

A Prayer For Sunday Morning ...

For this new morning and its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For every gift His goodness sends
We thank you, gracious Lord.
Amen.

~ Anonymous ~

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I'm probably going to have to sign off now. Mentally, I am exhausted.

Iraqis and al Jazeera celebrating, the DUh'ers whining that the President's approval rating will go up because of this(those are some sick individuals), and awhile ago on a different forum, I napalmed a guy from the UK who is usually a very nice person. But somebody had dared post the tragic news outside of the Off Topic forum(shades of the FReeper post police) and he tried to raise a fuss over it. His cavalier attitude just sent me through the roof.

In short, this day sucked.