We on FR should have an ongoing NEVER FORGET thread. We are in all states. We all know people who know other people. We should make an all out effort to remind people why we fight. A grassroots effort, regardless of MSM, can work. The internet, talk radio, constant intelligent letters to the editors of fair minded newspapers, and printing and showing the forgotten pics to those around you who may be wavering, will be a big step in this effort. This will need to be a very big effort involving a lot of people but too many in this country have forgotten and the stakes are too high. We have had too much of the Anti-American movement and the apathetic, clueless individuals. Pro- American rallies are almost unheard of. Why?? 9/11 is less than 3 months away and we cannot afford to let what happened and why we fight slip further out of sight. On 9/11 wear a black armband with NEVER FORGET emblazened on it. It will certainly start many conversations. It is certainly possible to get an effort such as this going with individuals, organizations, churches etc., uniting, with all having more ideas on how to expand it and always keep it alive. Let it begin here.
It started as a typical first day of class. Everyone was excited to start our sophomore year of high school.
Friends were catching up with friends after a summer apart, so updating was in order.
Then, slightly before third period, our vice principal came on the loud speaker and announced that a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center. No one thought anything of this, and we continued on with our schedules.
The next period was history and as we walked in, our teacher had the television on just after the second tower was hit.
My class was in pure terror, mostly because our school is by the Delaware River, across from Philadelphia. We were terrified that a plane could hit a building in Philadelphia.
Not knowing what else to do, we swamped our teacher with questions about what was going to happen, and he didn't know what to tell us. No one really knew or understood what was going on.
With that, the TV announcer said that if any hijacked planes were still in the air and didn't land, then they would be shot down. My dad flies a little plane every day for work and I was extremely nervous.
I immediately ran up to my teacher and explained why I was upset and he reassured me that nothing would happen to my father...
I'm with you. If there can be a 'canteen' thread and a 'hobbit hole' thread; why not a running 'never forget ' one?