Remembering Nine-Eleven in a variety of ways

Woai.com ^ | 9/11/05

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- Today marks the fourth anniversary of Nine-Eleven, the attack on America by terrorist hijackers.

People are remembering in a variety of ways. President Bush attends services in Washington. New Yorkers pause this morning at the moments two jetliners hit the World Trade Center towers, 8:46 and 9:03, and again at 9:59 and 10:29 a-m, when the towers collapsed. More than 600 family members who lost brothers or sisters will read the victims' names. Last year the names were read by parents and grandparents.

In Washington there's a walk of remembrance. The Freedom Walk, as its called, goes near the Pentagon crash site.

And in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Flight 93 went down, Senator Rich Santorum and former governor and homeland security director Tom Ridge are scheduled to speak.

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Shanksville at Sunrise

Karen Castel (L) of Johnstown, Pennsylvania comforts Yachiyo Kuge of Osaka, Japan at the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania September 11, 2005. Kuge's son Toshiya Kuge was one of the passengers who died when Flight 93 crashed four years ago during the attacks on Pennsylvania, New York and Washington D.C. REUTERS/Jason Cohn

A group gathers at the temporary memorial site to Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., at sunrise on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

William Ura, 19, of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania looks at items left by other visitors to the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania September 11, 2005. Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of the attacks on New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania. REUTERS/Jason Cohn

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A group of people hold a large flag at the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania September 11, 2005. Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of the attacks on Pennsylvania, New York and Washington D.C. REUTERS/Jason Cohn

Courtney Ball of Sommerville, NJ., visits the temporary memorial to flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., at sunrise on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Jeremy Perussi, of Closter, NJ., visits the temporary memorial site to Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., at sunrise on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Courtney Ball of Sommerville, NJ., right, and Jeremy Perussi, of Closter, NJ., visit the temporary memorial site to Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., at sunrise on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Sara Phillips of Manalapan, NJ., right, and Gleen LeVasseur, of Neptune, NJ., place flags at the temrorary memorial site to Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., at sunrise on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Sara Phillips, from Manalapan, NJ., right, and Rob Lantos of Statton Island, NY., visit the temporary memorial to Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., at dawn Sunday, Sept., 11, 2005. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Yachiyo Kuge, of Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan, wife of Flight 93 passenger Toshiya Kuge pays a visit to the temporary memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., crash site Saturday Sept 10, 2005, the eve of the fourth anniversary of the terror attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Flight 93 Ambassador Clay Mankamyer holds up a book with the pictures of passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 for a tour group at the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania September 10, 2005. Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. REUTERS/Jason Cohn

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A Mennonite woman from Perrysville, Pennsylvania, stands next to a cross at the Flight 93 Temporary Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania September 10, 2005. Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. REUTERS/Jason Cohn

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U.S. President George W. Bush (L), First Lady Laura Bush (2nd L), Vice President Dick Cheney (2nd R) and his wife Lynne Cheney participate in a moment of silence on the south lawn of the White House in Washington, DC September 11, 2005, to honor the events of September 11, 2001. REUTERS/Chris Kleponis

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Members of the color guard hold an American flag during the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony at the site of the former twin towers of the World Trade Center Sunday Sept. 11, 2005, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Friends and relatives of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, hold up signs during the memorial service at the World Trade Center at the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony at the base of the former twin towers of the World Trade Center Sunday Sept. 11, 2005, in New York. (AP

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Patricia Tamuccio, of Bellmore, New York, second from right, wipes her eyes as she holds up pictures of her son Michael Andrew Tamuccio, as she, and her husband, James Tamuccio, foreground left, join others during a rally calling for the removal of the International Freedom Center from the World Trade Center memorial plans, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005 outside ground zero, the site where the World Trade Center once stood, in New York. Michael Andrew Tamuccio lost his life in the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Patricia Tamuccio said of losing her son, 'It doesn't get easier. Our son was never recovered, so this is his final resting place.' (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

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The flag-draped casket holding the remains of firefighter Gerard Baptiste travels along 6th Avenue on top of a fire truck after funeral services at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, Wednesday Sept. 7, 2005. Just days short of the fourth anniversary of his death, family, colleagues and friends gathered Wednesday to mourn Gerard Baptiste whose remains were identified only this year. Baptiste was one of three firefighters from Ladder 9 in the East Village to die at ground zero. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Family members place flowers in a pool of water placed in the footprint of the north tower of the former World Trade Center during ceremonies marking the fourth anniversary of the attack of the twin towers in New York September 11, 2005. Families of victims of the collapse of the World Trade Center were allowed down to two pools of water placed on the ground where the buildings once stood. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

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A family member of a victim of the World Trade Center attack holds a commemorative set of pictures at the site of the disaster on the fourth anniversary of the attack in New York September 11, 2005. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

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A member of the Fire Department of New York rings a ceremonial bell during the first moment of silence at the fourth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York September 11, 2005. REUTERS/ Chip East

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Absolutely insulting! What will you do about it???

 

Final Design Announced
The design for the permanent Memorial for Flight 93 was announced on September 7, 2005 amid overwhelming support . .

So the mark of the Jihadists will forever emblazon our landscape. Is it time to cry for America yet...???????????? This design seems to be a fitting memorial for the Muslims who died aboard Flt 93. The hijackers whose ashes are fused into the shale with those of their victims, of all the shapes, in all of geometry, they pick the symbol of Muslim power, THE CRESCENT!!!

Why not a monument of the passengers beating the crap out of the hijackers?

 

"When it comes to a memorial, all mankind sympathizes," he said." The idea of the Crescent of Embrace, Murdoch said, is to be a gesture of healing and bonding.

 

Muslims didn't/don't sympathize - THEY consider this to have been a great victory!

This is like making a holocaust memorial in the shape of a swastika. Absolutely disgusting. I think is a slap in the face of every solider that is fighting terrorism now. And a shameful way to honor those that have died in this fight.

Recognize it for what it is....

A commemoration for those who bravely died in their fight to expand islam!

Fouad El Bayly, leader of the Islamic Center of Johnstown, said the crescent isn't a holy symbol, but one identified with the lunar Muslim calendar.

http://www.flight93memorialproject.org

This atrocity was commissioned by the National Park Service Memorial Project under the direction of Ms Joanne Hanley.

Comments and Suggestions are encouraged.

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Thanks for posting these pictures. May God rest their souls!

On a related note, it seems to me from watching TV over the past week that there are many more specials (with footage of the crashes and collapses) than last year.

Anybody else remember what the coverage was like in '04?

Since this is not a numerologically significant anniversary the only explanation I can come up with is that the media did not want to remind people of 9-11 in an election year.

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Troy Krastev weeps at the site of the World Trade Center attack as a shadow of a nearby building is cast on part of the World Financial Center on the fourth anniversary of the attack in New York September 11, 2005. Krastev's friend lost a brother in the attack. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

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An honor guard of British police observe a moments silence to mark the time the first attack on the former World Trade Center took place in New York September 11, 2005. Fourth anniversary ceremonies marked the fall of the twin towers after they were attacked September 11, 2001. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn