I will never understand it. I will never accept it. Feels like it's just being wallpapered over to me...
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry. Our voices need to be heard not only at Town Hall sessions or Tea Party demonstrations but in the very halls of Congress. We have to speak out to stop the desecration of September 11th..
NEVER FORGET
"Every 'moderate' Muslim is a potential terrorist. The belief in Islam is like a tank of gasoline. It looks innocuous, until it meets the fire. For a 'moderate' Muslim to become a murderous jihadist, all it takes is a spark of faith.
It is time to put an end to the charade of “moderate Islam.” There is no such thing as moderate Muslim. Muslims are either jihadists or dormant jihadists – moderate, they are not."
Ali Sini
Ali Sini is head of Faith Freedom International. FFI is a grassroots worldwide movement of ex-Muslims and all those who are concerned about the rise of the Islamic threat.
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Watch 'Remembering 9/11' on the Geographic Channel. Repeating Thursday 3PM CST: 'Inside 9/11: Zero Hour'- EXCELLENT.
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Watch this moving video. It is the most viewed of any of the 9/11 videos and is now in the Smithsonian.
Be sure to read (at the site) Anatomy Of The Attack and the moving essay,’That Day’ by Steve Golding, a New Yorker who lived through it.
This construction should have been at this stage in 2004, if the objective was to demonstrate to the Islamic jihadists that their assault was really blunted, and we would be so much stronger than they could ever knock down.
Now if we just went and made a radioactive crater where the Kaaba stands in Mecca....
Then tell the Islamic jihadists, “Rebuild that.”
And if they squealed at that, take out the Golden Dome on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Four or five of their “Sacred sites” leveled like that would show them the comparative power of the non-Muslim world.
When the Chinese believe themselves to be threatened by the Islamic jihadist horde, they would not hesitate to take just those kinds of steps.
I watched 3 of the 6 parts of
Steven Spielbergs "Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero" and it was awesome.
Personally, I think what they are rebuilding and the way they are rebuilding it, is a tribute to all those that lost their lives on 9/11, as well, goes to show the strength of America and it's people.
One must watch the in-depth documentary, to understand fully what is being rebuilt and how it is being accomplished. Many who work on rebuilding ground Zero, lost loved ones on 9/11. This 6 part documentary, to me, was a touching, and I think awesome way to show what is happening at Ground Zero. I had no idea what was going on there, or what progress was being made.
The best episode (so far, since I've only seen 3 of 6), was the one detailing the memorial. And I was blown away at how awesome the architects and designers were in how they came up with the idea. There are 2 of the largest man-made waterfalls (1 acre each), where each occupies the exact footprint of one of the Twin Towers destroyed in the attacks and, as each tower was big, each cascade is a cuboid Niagara, an inverted eruption, falling 30 feet to a flat basin, and then another 30 feet through a smaller square hole in the center.
Around the rim of each fountain is a long bronze strip perforated with the names of the victims of the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, Flight 11, Flight 93, and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. The names are grouped by the location of each victim at the time of the attacks, modified by "adjacency requests" whereby relatives could ask for individual names to be by others to whom they were close. As well, the bronze strip, is hooked up to some sort of electric, as it will always be warm to the touch, no matter what the weather.
The fountains stand in an eight-acre paved plaza, filled with 415 trees: they are all the same size. Underneath the plaza will be a large museum of the events, which is still under construction.
Not to mention, the buildings and architecture and how they are strategically built. Tower 2 has the angled roof, which points directly down to the memorial, so no matter where you are in NY, you look at that building and are reminded of the memorial.
They are building a whole grand central station underground, which will reach four stories underground, with a five-track New Jersey PATH train terminal, 200,000 square feet of retail, and concourses for 12 subway lines. All of the rebuilding so far, has been done with the trains still running around them. The design for the new
Transit Hub is awesome.
I thought it was pretty great that the way it is designed, because of the hub’s angled orientation, sunlight (weather permitting) should pour through that skylight unencumbered by shadows every September 11 between the key times of 8:46 a.m. and 10:28 a.m.
So, just because they are rebuilding it and people are happy about it and it has brought the neighborhood back to life, doesn't mean those that died on 9/11 aren't being remembered or honored. Quite the contrary, IMO.
