Flight 93 National Memorial dedication LIVE WEBCAST

History.com ^ | Sept. 10, 2011 | Staff

[La Enchiladita]

On September 10, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. EST, almost ten years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Flight 93 National Memorial will be dedicated. Following a decade of healing, the promise of this sacred ground will finally be realized. The Memorial Plaza and Field of Honor will be the first features of the memorial to be completed for dedication, and will be permanently open to the public after the September 10 ceremony. Be a part of this remarkable moment. Coverage will begin at 12:30 p.m. EST – watch the dedication ceremony LIVE at History.com.

[maica]

ohio, you said it very well. The disclaimer seems to be a habit, an apology for saying something nice about President Bush. We don’t read or hear the same kind of remark about any other politician or public figure.

[kempster]

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/video/6240713-secretary-of-interior-ken-salazar-speaks-at-flight-93-memorial/

Here is the speech from Salazar. His hat does not look like your Park Hat to me. Comes on right after the Roto Rooter Commercial of ten seconds.

[PigRigger]

The Cathederal speech has always stayed with me as well....

President George W. Bush's Speech at the National Cathedral on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance September 14, 2001

We are here in the middle hour of our grief. So many have suffered so great a loss, and today we express our nation's sorrow. We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who love them.

On Tuesday, our country was attacked with deliberate and massive cruelty. We have seen the images of fire and ashes, and bent steel.

Now come the names, the list of casualties we are only beginning to read. They are the names of men and women who began their day at a desk or in an airport, busy with life. They are the names of people who faced death, and in their last moments called home to say, be brave, and I love you.

They are the names of passengers who defied their murderers, and prevented the murder of others on the ground. They are the names of men and women who wore the uniform of the United States, and died at their posts.

They are the names of rescuers, the ones whom death found running up the stairs and into the fires to help others. We will read all these names. We will linger over them, and learn their stories, and many Americans will weep.

To the children and parents and spouses and families and friends of the lost, we offer the deepest sympathy of the nation. And I assure you, you are not alone.

Just three days removed from these events, Americans do not yet have the distance of history. But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

Our purpose as a nation is firm. Yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed, and lead us to pray. In many of our prayers this week, there is a searching, and an honesty. At St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Tuesday, a woman said, "I prayed to God to give us a sign that He is still here." Others have prayed for the same, searching hospital to hospital, carrying pictures of those still missing.

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own.

This world He created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end. And the Lord of life holds all who die, and all who mourn.

It is said that adversity introduces us to ourselves. This is true of a nation as well. In this trial, we have been reminded, and the world has seen, that our fellow Americans are generous and kind, resourceful and brave. We see our national character in rescuers working past exhaustion; in long lines of blood donors; in thousands of citizens who have asked to work and serve in any way possible. And we have seen our national character in eloquent acts of sacrifice. Inside the World Trade Center, one man who could have saved himself stayed until the end at the side of his quadriplegic friend. A beloved priest died giving the last rites to a firefighter. Two office workers, finding a disabled stranger, carried her down sixty-eight floors to safety. A group of men drove through the night from Dallas to Washington to bring skin grafts for burn victims.

In these acts, and in many others, Americans showed a deep commitment to one another, and an abiding love for our country. Today, we feel what Franklin Roosevelt called the warm courage of national unity. This is a unity of every faith, and every background.

It has joined together political parties in both houses of Congress. It is evident in services of prayer and candlelight vigils, and American flags, which are displayed in pride, and wave in defiance.

Our unity is a kinship of grief, and a steadfast resolve to prevail against our enemies. And this unity against terror is now extending across the world.

America is a nation full of good fortune, with so much to be grateful for. But we are not spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender. And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.

On this national day of prayer and remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

As we have been assured, neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, can separate us from God's love. May He bless the souls of the departed. May He comfort our own. And may He always guide our country.

God bless America.

[MEG33]

President G. W. Bush Speech at National Cathedral after 9/11

[Right_in_Virginia]

Get a life.

[lonevoice]

You're right, that's not the Parks Service Dept hat, it's a cowboy hat. My eye was fooled by the other uniformed members of the Parks Dept on the dais. Thanks for clearing it up. Unlike the uniformed personnel, it was egregious and disrespectful for him not to remove his hat.

[ohioWfan]

I would respectfully respond that it is you who need to ‘let it go.’

[ohioWfan]

Exactly so - an apology for not being as nasty as is expected.

You don't see the same disclaimer for the less-than-perfect Ronald Reagan, because it is now accepted that he is a 'saint' and no one questions your integrity if you admire him.

Interesting self-protective double standard going on, IMHO.

[ohioWfan]

Oh, wow. THANKS for reposting the President's National Cathedral speech.

As much as I appreciated and was moved by his speech yesterday, THIS speech is his best.......and perhaps one of the best ever by any President.

AWESOME.

Thanks again!

[Right_in_Virginia]

I would respectfully respond that it is you who need to ‘let it go.

I would love to.....so you and your "FRiend" need to stop posting to me about this nonsense.

I'll believe we have reached a friendly agreement.

Thanks.

[ALPAPilot]

Emerson's is close - especially the last two verses

On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deeds redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

O Thou who made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, -- Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raised to them and Thee. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[ALPAPilot]

one black pilot on flight 93

Lee Homer- and he was a very good guy. I had dinner with him about 3 weeks prior at a pilot hangout in London on a layover. We spent most of the time talking about our kids. His daughter was about a year and a half younger than my son.

[ohioWfan]

You're right. It is nonsense.

Glad you finally saw the light. :)

[ohioWfan]

These pictures reveal the character of THE President and remind us of what we no longer have....

[toldyou]

“Lee Homer- and he was a very good guy. I had dinner with him about 3 weeks prior at a pilot hangout in London on a layover. We spent most of the time talking about our kids. His daughter was about a year and a half younger than my son.”

I’m a retired EWR F/A. Are you still flying?

[toldyou]

Great pics of a great guy. Thanks!

[opentalk]

[ohioWfan]

You’re welcome. :)

[RasterMaster]

[ALPAPilot]

Are you still flying?

777-IAD

I was JFK from 1997-2006

Lee was in my new hire class in May of 1995.