Free Republic's 9-11 100 Hours of Remembrance

Free Republic | 9/6/03 | Free Republic

[spookycc]

Never Forget - The Heros and Victims...

Never Forgive - The Bastards that did it...

I couldn't possibly say it any better than that.

Rescue One, Manhattan, August, 2002.

[firewalk]

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[visualops]

BTTT

[DooDahhhh]

well stated.

[spookycc]

But, I didn't feel, and still don't feel, the things you all have told me. I have never shed a single tear for the fallen of September 11th. I have never grieved once over their murders.

I did not choose whether to cry or not to cry. The tears came, and kept coming. My soulmate and I wondered at the end of September, 2001, if our tears, and the anger, would ever end. Now we don't care if they *never* do.

I've cried more over 9/11 than over everything else in my life before and since, combined. I buried a brother on October 11, 2001. I buried my father on March 11, 2002. I don't think those dates were insignificant. I feel linked to 9/11 even though I live nowhere near NYC or DC.

[jriemer]

Union Square Vigil

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the ping. I know the media refrains from showing those films anymore but I frankly think they should be shown over and over again. I know it is painful for families but out of sight, out of mind. We must never forget.

My pleasure, and thanks. That is worth repeating !! ...

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings jriemer, tonk, KiA, Freepers, et al:

Two of my Coast Guard Reserve brothers never returned home to their families September 11. These reservists, one a firefighter, the other a police officer, gave their lives saving others at the WTC. Needless to say, we remember their sacrifice.

Many times people have asked “what have you done?” Without compromising operational security:

In less than three hours after the WTC attack, not only were we recalled to active duty; our unit was hard at work. Before all civilian airliners were on the ground, we had quickly secured the critical infrastructure of a major US port.

We often worked eighteen hour work days. The sleeping situation was so crowded, some nights even "the Chief" slept upon the floor. We put the equivalent of three years average run time upon each of our boats between September and December 2001.

Can’t say for sure if any terrorist attacks were prevented by our efforts. However, in my unit's specific area of responsibility, we made three highly probable contacts in our first year. Intelligence gained from the one of those contacts may have led to the capture of a US based Al-Qiada terrorist cell in another part of the country.

Now approaching the end of a second recall since September 11; my sincere thanks are for the FReepers of Free Republic. Your unfaltering support of our Homeland Security mission and our Nation’s war on terror is a great source of strength for those young men and ladies at the pointy end of the spear.

Guarding Liberty,
OLA

[lowbridge]

Shimmy D. Biegeleisen, 42, New York, N.Y., USA
vice president, Fiduciary Trust International
Confirmed dead, World Trade Center, at/in building

My landlord for almost 15 years

John Moran, 43, Rockaway, N.Y., USA
battalion commander, New York Fire Department
Reported dead, World Trade Center, at/in building

Fellow FReeper BCM. Coincidentally, we both attended our very first FReep (during the recounts) in Times Square.

NYFD Battalion Chief John Moran (Freeper BCM) Perishes In World Trade Center

[dutchess]

Thanks dansy. What a lovely tribute. May we never forget...

[Tennessee_Bob]

The Names

By Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States

Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night.
A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze,
And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows,
I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened,
Then Baxter and Calabro,
Davis and Eberling, names falling into place
As droplets fell through the dark.
Names printed on the ceiling of the night.
Names slipping around a watery bend.
Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream.
In the morning, I walked out barefoot
Among thousands of flowers
Heavy with dew like the eyes of tears,
And each had a name --
Fiori inscribed on a yellow petal
Then Gonzalez and Han, Ishikawa and Jenkins.
Names written in the air
And stitched into the cloth of the day.
A name under a photograph taped to a mailbox.
Monogram on a torn shirt,
I see you spelled out on storefront windows
And on the bright unfurled awnings of this city.
I say the syllables as I turn a corner --
Kelly and Lee,
Medina, Nardella, and O'Connor.
When I peer into the woods,
I see a thick tangle where letters are hidden
As in a puzzle concocted for children.
Parker and Quigley in the twigs of an ash,
Rizzo, Schubert, Torres, and Upton,
Secrets in the boughs of an ancient maple.
Names written in the pale sky.
Names rising in the updraft amid buildings.
Names silent in stone
Or cried out behind a door.
Names blown over the earth and out to sea.
In the evening -- weakening light, the last swallows.
A boy on a lake lifts his oars.
A woman by a window puts a match to a candle,
And the names are outlined on the rose clouds --
Vanacore and Wallace,
(let X stand, if it can, for the ones unfound)
Then Young and Ziminsky, the final jolt of Z.
Names etched on the head of a pin.
One name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel.
A blue name needled into the skin.
Names of citizens, workers, mothers and fathers,
The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son.
Alphabet of names in a green field.
Names in the small tracks of birds.
Names lifted from a hat
Or balanced on the tip of the tongue.
Names wheeled into the dim warehouse of memory.
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

[JLO]

Aloha Ronnie! Not sure if you've seen this yet, as I just started reading this thread.

[deadhead]

Michael Warchola

Michaels brother, Denis a retired firefighter himself, had a chance for the most intimate of farewells. After his brother was dead, he said "I got to put my hands on my brother's arm."

I know Denis, a buddy of my cousin's husband. Denis told my cousin that he was one of the lucky ones, his brothers body was found. My cousin's husband and Denis served in Vietnam together. Had the opportunity to attend one of their reunions here on Long Island. God Bless Michael and all those that lost their lives that day. God Bless their families.

Thanks for the ping, dansangel.
Bless you for wearing the Mercy Band for Margaret Benson.
Prayers for Margaret and all. I think of 9/11 every day.

Thank You jriemer for this thread.

We will NEVER FORGET

[inflorida]

Before

After

[Radix]

9/11 changed the world forever.

Indeed you are correct.

I am troubled by the shameless exploitation of the president's critics in the handling of this new war.This president has acted properly in all of his actions in the engaging in this war against terror and terroism. These liberal politicians and the media supporters are completely shameless in their behavior.

We need to take the war to the ones who are responsible for the atrocities commited against us. We did not ask for this war, nor did we initiate it. We shall however, finish it.

We will make these primitives regret the day that they attacked us unprovoked. Those people, and their supporters need to know that we are Americans and that we represent every nation of the world. We will not submit to their sick perverse attempts at intimidation. We all need to let them know that we will not stand idly by as they attack the greatest nation that this world has ever known.

This nation was built because every other political entity in the history of the the human race has failed it's citizens. The USA is the best invention ever made. They may hate us for that, but they are just going to have to get used to the idea. We are here, and we are ready, willing, and most of all able to defend our way of life. We are going to rid the world of this vermin, and better days are coming.

[Old Sarge]

Well said, FRiend. Well said.

[Fintan]

 

 

[Coleus]

May we never forget

[WSGilcrest]

BUMP

[JustPiper]

Bump!!!