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Special Rose Parade float honors 9/11 victims
ABC7 ^ | Dec. 27, 2010 | Elex Michaelson and Rob Hayes

Posted on 12/30/2010 2:35:38 PM PST by La Enchiladita

PASADENA, Calif. -- Thousands of volunteers were hard at work in Pasadena and Irwindale getting the floats ready for the 122nd Rose Parade Presented by Honda, but one float in particular is much more than just a float.

"It's a dream come true for me. This is something I've wanted to do for nine years," said Jerry Thomsen, a firefighter specialist.

When America was attacked more than nine years ago, a group of Los Angeles firefighters headed to Ground Zero to help, and Thomsen was among them. Now he and his L.A. firefighting buddies are honoring their fallen comrades in a uniquely Californian way.

"I've heard 'never forget' for a long time, and I think we've forgotten about our heroes that we lost," he said.

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TOPICS: Announcements; Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2011; 911; fdny; firefighters; hussein; neverforget; onerose; pentagon; roseparade; shanksville; twintowers; wot
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To: tet68

“Never Forget’’. And Never Forgive.


21 posted on 12/30/2010 5:03:41 PM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: Westbrook
If you cannot forgive, neither can you be forgiven

Oh well..

22 posted on 12/30/2010 5:08:44 PM PST by tomkat (FUØ)
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To: tomkat

> Oh well..

:)

I understand. Perhaps if the menace is neutralized, you will be able to forgive.


23 posted on 12/30/2010 5:15:57 PM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: La Enchiladita

What!? No Mosque? /s


24 posted on 12/30/2010 5:17:18 PM PST by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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To: Westbrook

Well, you are a far better person than I for I will hate adherents of the pedophilic prophet forever.


25 posted on 12/30/2010 5:20:35 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Fear God and Government - especially when one tries to become the other!)
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To: Westbrook
Perhaps if the menace is neutralized...

As that won't happen in the years left to me, the chance is <=Ø .. but thanks for the thought  

26 posted on 12/30/2010 5:39:26 PM PST by tomkat ( fubo)
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To: Westbrook
you are a far far better person than I, and I am a God fearing person, as are you. I read my Bible and I have tried to forgive them (all Muslims), yet my heart and brain will not allow me to forgive them. I should be sad that I cannot forgive them, yet I am not. My heart wears a deep scar from that terrible day and my brain remembers that day as yesterday. Pray for me, FRiend, as I pray for our victory over Islam. I confess I hold nothing but contempt for Muslims and their cult of a religion.
27 posted on 12/30/2010 5:43:04 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Thank You for this thread. I remember 911 as though it happened yesterday. This will be a wonderful memorial to those murdered that day by the satanists calling themselves a religion.


28 posted on 12/30/2010 5:47:17 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Neverforget01

RE: “Thanks for posting. The float is beautiful.”

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I can’t wait to see what the crowd’s reaction is when the float passes down the parade route......................


29 posted on 12/30/2010 5:59:05 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: La Enchiladita

30 posted on 12/30/2010 6:16:36 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: La Enchiladita
Now let's see how much TV air time it gets.

But this is wonderful.

31 posted on 12/30/2010 6:22:31 PM PST by AGreatPer (Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
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To: La Enchiladita
A float honoring the fallen of 9/11 will only end up serving as the biggest recruitment tool extremists have had in a long time. We shouldn't do this and should try to be more sensitive to muslim sensitivities. </kneejerk democrap stupidity>
32 posted on 12/30/2010 7:29:20 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: no-to-illegals
> I confess I hold nothing but contempt for Muslims and
> their cult of a religion.

Confession is the first step in healing.

However, you are free to detest and hate Mohammed, the pedophile pirate polygamist rapist genocidal savage and his satanic religious system. Mohammed is alreday dead, died in his sins denying Christ, and is suffering his judgement in Hell.

His religion is a system, not a man, and you are free to despise it and defame it and fight against it with every fiber of your being.

As for the living Moslems, Jesus said to love our enemies and to pray for them that hurt us.

Mohammedans need prayer. Every day, many of them are coming to Christ. Many of them risk their lives, their families, and all that they own to renounce the death cult of Islam and embrace Christ.

One Mohammedan convert says that the house of Islam is all hard on the outside, but soft and rotting on the inside. I have friends working in the mission field "Behind the Sun", as they say. They are preaching Jesus and making inroads.

Pray that they succeed.

Islam will fall, my friend.

Ishmael, whom the Mohammedans call their father, is not mentioned in Revelation. The Beast and the Whore Religion, in my humble estimation, will emerge out of Europe in league with Asia.

One man I know had the following vision of the Apocalyptic Map of the World. I don't vouch for it's accuracy, but it is chilling, nonetheless.

apocalyptic worldmap

33 posted on 12/30/2010 8:07:23 PM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: La Enchiladita
10 years, folks; we are looking at the 10 yrs. anniversary of 9/11....

WWII lasted six years. We bombed Germany into oblivion. Hitler committed suicide. We nuked Japan. They unconditionally surrendered.

Oh what a difference, political correctness makes. Full body scans at the airports for grandma, the wife of a WWII pilot. Or, maybe an up close and personal pat down.

Ten years later, our right to privacy has been compromised, and still no resolve.

34 posted on 12/30/2010 10:07:12 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: Westbrook
Thank You for your comments. I shall be in prayer for your friends working in the mission field "Behind the Sun", as they say. They are preaching Jesus and making inroads. I confess again, my heart and my brain refuses to love our enemies and to pray for them that hurt us. The day Islam brought America this pain is so fresh upon me, even after ten years, that I am tearing as I type this to you. I believe I have been saved by the grace of God, yet my soul has this mark from being unable to love our enemies and to pray for them that hurt us.

One day, once this nation's enemies are defeated, I pray I may be able to forgive them for what our enemies have done and attempt to try and do again. Till our Victory arrives, I shall remain in prayer that God and Jesus will help America to Win. If I should pray in vain, I will have still prayed, as I pray Jesus will intercede for me when I arrive to be judged.

America is the only hope for those who are oppressed by others. Moslems are oppressed, yet moslems direct their hate toward America. This makes no sense to me why moslems hate what offers them freedom from oppression. Thank You again, I promise I shall remain in prayer.

35 posted on 12/31/2010 4:55:17 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Quix; The Comedian

Check this out. Never seen it before.


36 posted on 12/31/2010 6:29:31 AM PST by houeto (Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.)
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To: no-to-illegals

> This makes no sense to me why moslems hate what offers
> them freedom from oppression.

It is what their satanic death cult teaches them to do. Think of Orwell’s “Freedom is Slavery”.

Their founder, Mohammed, was a genocidal mass murderer, a torturer, a thief, a liar, a truce-breaker, a slave-trader, a cruel tyrant, a polygamist, and a profligate rapist and child molester. His rabid teachings insist that his proselytes follow his hideous example.

They even murder eachother for not being the same kind of Moslem. There was a time when so-called Christians did this also.

However, the rulebook for Christians, the Bible, opposes such behavior, so as Christians became more familiar with their fundamental teachings, the more kind and tolerant they become of eachother as well as towards those who don’t believe.

The very opposite is true for Islam. The more a Mohammedan becomes familiar with his “prophet” and his rabid teachings, the more violent and intolerant he becomes.

Remember that Jesus took upon Himself all our sins, died a horrible death, suffering the pains and torments due to each and every one of us for every sin we ever did or will commit. Yet, He forgives us. We must follow HIS example.

Love and peace to you, my brother. I am confident that Jesus will calm your heart and that you will be able to deal with the necessity of converting Moslems, or defending your life and family against them, as required by circumstance, without being emotionally wrought by hatred for the individual.


37 posted on 12/31/2010 6:44:23 AM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: houeto

WILCO


38 posted on 12/31/2010 8:51:33 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: La Enchiladita

THX


39 posted on 12/31/2010 8:53:00 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Westbrook

WELL PUT.

THX.


40 posted on 12/31/2010 8:58:07 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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