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The ***Official*** Weekend Singles Thread - Remembering 911(September 8-10)
DollyCali and All of the Singles & their FRiends | September 8, 2006 | DollyCali

Posted on 09/08/2006 12:45:56 PM PDT by DollyCali

Remembering 911

On Monday is the fifth Anniversary that our country was savagely attacked the united hearts of our nation cried out in pain.. Here are a few pix that I chose out of the more than 500 I have on file. Feel free to post your pix, your memories, where you were and what you were doing “that day” and perhaps how this has impacted your life.



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KEYWORDS: 5yearanniversary; 911; alqaeda; barbaraolsen; bcm; bko; fifthanniversary; flight93; memorials; pentagonattack; september11; singles; terrorism; united93; worldtradecenter; worldtradetowers; wtc
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To: DollyCali
have you been to the site? it might be a good meeting place for FReepers in days ahead. to have a picnic, discuss, cry , whatever

Not yet but I'd like to go see it sometime. I know the President is coming tomorrow, I saw three "Jolly Green Giants" and two Blackhawk helos fly over my house yesterday. Would be a good place for Freepers to meet. BTW, the five helos scared my cats except for Boo. B-) I thought the molars were going to shake out of my head too. B-D

I still think of Pansy, like Boo, she was very hard to scare too.
301 posted on 09/10/2006 10:02:02 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Pansy: b. 8-19-1987 - d. 8-27-2006, I'll miss you, little princess.... B-()
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To: Portmeirion

I was thinking that there are so many stories like yours.. I am also wandering how many of us DID loose people we know that day, but people we have lost tract of over the years. The longer we live :& more we move, the longer that type of list is. There is an emptieness and sense of being cheated, something was stolen from us.

I have never been to NYC.. and feel cheated that the buildings that ohters loved & visited can't ever be in my future there..It may seem silly, but that is how I look at it.


302 posted on 09/10/2006 10:06:15 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Nowhere Man

Last weekend was the air show in Cleveland. On Thursday & Friday, many of the big planes & the blue angels flew right over our home to the Cleveland /Lake Erie Airport... NOISY & ground shaking here also. We are also on the path of the Goodyear blimps that cover events in Cleveland.. from Akron they pass over our home. and they are often low.. I recall the first time Oliver heard/experienced it.. she ran between my legs (she was a bit of a sissy dog) and was shaking ..


303 posted on 09/10/2006 10:08:19 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Portmeirion; Nowhere Man; The Mayor; All

304 posted on 09/10/2006 10:10:39 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: feefee
Thank you for reporting what happened in your corner of the USA that day & following... so many memoires are so vividly imprinted on our minds


305 posted on 09/10/2006 10:13:04 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: DollyCali

The Browns are really stinking up the place right now...


306 posted on 09/10/2006 10:56:25 AM PDT by RockinRight (She rocks my world, and I rock her world.)
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To: 38special; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; aft_lizard; A knight without armor; Alberta's Child; ...
Early Ping again. Our Renewal (revival) begins this evening at church and I have a picnic prior for the Hudson Bandstand Committee(this is the group that puts on summer Sunday Night programs).. will see you all later

If you haven't looked yet, do check out Silent_Johnny's artwork of Barbara Olsen & Chaplain Judge at the beginning of the post

Don't forget to get me the Dear Abby/Dolly Questions..

I have three & might use the problem that was brought up on the thread as another perhaps..


307 posted on 09/10/2006 10:58:54 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: RockinRight

Oh dear, I have been going in circles today & really forgot about the game.. will turn it on for the few minutes I am still here.


308 posted on 09/10/2006 11:00:10 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: SuziQ

you are so right regarding this issue suzi


309 posted on 09/10/2006 11:03:10 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: DollyCali; silent_jonny; AZamericonnie; snugs; All

Thank you for a poignant, beautiful and moving tribute to all of those lost on 9-11, all of the FDNY who worked so hard to save everyone and to our marvelous troops who have sacrificed their lives to keep America free.

Freedom isn't free!


310 posted on 09/10/2006 1:20:15 PM PDT by jtill (You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think!)
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To: DollyCali

It is sad to know you can't visit a place with the same features you've known about and anticipated seeing. (Glen Canyon is a good example - it was flooded in the 1960s to create Glen Canyon Dam, and created Lake Powell, causing countless landforms to be covered in water, and wildlife to cease existence in their former home.) I'm not an Enviro-Nazi - I just think that this was unnecessary.

I visited New York City twice in the 1970s. A lifelong resident of the Chicago area, and very familiar and enamored with our Gem On The Lake with all its architectural glory, old, modern, and brand-new, I had no feelings that New York would be all so wonderful. My first flight in, I looked out the porthole window at late dusk in October and my first impression of lower Manhattan as we curved by it, lowering our altitude, on the way to LaGuardia, was my surprise that it looked like a very elegant, tall, lit-up cake from some high-society party! It was a big statement of a big city. I was very impressed. Among those building were the Trade Towers, and I must admit they looked rather plain to me at the time, and not much more than tall cracker boxes all lit up!

I never gave them another thought, and unfortunately, my college friend whom I visited never thought to take me there to see them. They signified big money and industry, and we were still hippy-like, anti-mainstream people who disdained big business! (OH, THE MISTAKES OF BEING IN YOUR TWENTIES WHEN YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING!)

That first visit to New York was in the middle of the Garbage strike, and mountains of garbage were along all the streets! Yecch! (As Alfred E. Neuman would say.) Unfortunately I never got to see New York after Rudy Giuliani cleaned up the town - of garbage and punks.

I don't know about my friend anymore - we had a falling-out in the late 70s, and I think we'd both be astounded by our differences these days - haven't seen her in 30 years, and I'm sure we'd disagree with a lot of things. I do know that she left NYC for Pennsylvania and got married to a lawyer.

In any case, I'm glad that New York is "New York" and not "New Amsterdam", which was one of the town names attached to the settlement early on.

There may be many stories out there, as you nention, and some of them are foiled by not knowing married names to go along with maiden names. This has been my bugaboo in trying to search for past schoolmates over the years.

Well, hope you have a peaceful evening, though watching the ABC program will likely stir up things a bit, but it NEEDS to be, in the majority of our population according to recent polls.


311 posted on 09/10/2006 3:11:03 PM PDT by Portmeirion (Never Forgive - Never Forget!!!)
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To: All

Anyone around?


312 posted on 09/10/2006 3:48:46 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux

Yeah, I'm just back on the Bad Album Covers thread again...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1620250/posts


313 posted on 09/10/2006 3:54:24 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (II Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Looks like fun.


314 posted on 09/10/2006 4:01:06 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: pcottraux

We found a whole slew of them to post. I just threw a couple of really goofy ones from Mexico...8^)


315 posted on 09/10/2006 4:06:32 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (II Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Hmm...go the world over and you'd probably find a limitless amount.


316 posted on 09/10/2006 4:20:35 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: Portmeirion; All
Pentagon..9/11: Five Years Ago
317 posted on 09/10/2006 4:24:36 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: pcottraux

Yep...


318 posted on 09/10/2006 4:25:21 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (II Computers 3:14))
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To: All; mware

ABC...The Path to 911---- 8:oo to 10:30.. watch it!!!!!

mware's Live thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698873/posts

see ya'al later!

319 posted on 09/10/2006 4:46:00 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Wolfstar; All

wolfstar's special edition Dose on 911.. good one...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699036/posts


320 posted on 09/10/2006 4:50:24 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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