Free Republic's 9-11 100 Hours of Remembrance

Its a little more than 100 hours from the Second Anniversary of Start the World Trade Center Attack and the subsequent Strike on the Pentagon and the Crash in Pennsylvania. 100 hours seems to be a long time; however, it is barely enough to reflect and remember all those who perished on the ground and in the air. Each one of the victims has a story, a life, that if retold would take more than 100 hours to appreciate the richness of their stay on this earth before it was snatched away.

Since 911, there has been more sacrifice. More have taken from this earth – this time not in tragedy but in a quest for justice and the expansion of freedom. They were not helpless victims but Heroes of liberation for the Afghanis and Iraqis and protectors of our domestic security.

We would hope that you would take the time and reflect on the lives of those who died on 9-11 and those who have sacrificed their all since that day in these next 100 hours. Please contribute a post of reflection, a prayer, a memorial, a picture or even just a ping to your friends to let them know that 9-11 has not been ignored this year.

Yep ! I will never forget where I was when I heard about the first plane hitting the WTC.
I was at work, it was just before 8 a.m. Central time. Carol, one of my employees had her radio on. She said They just said that a plane hit the WTC Tower. I quickly replied You're kidding ? ... [pause] ... no, Carol, you wouldn't kid about something like that ...
Of course, we had no idea at the time what kind of plane, etc. at that moment, all the details were pretty sketchy in the first few moments. And of course I went to my computer and came over to FR and saw the breaking news posts. There was breaking news there ALL day long. When the SECOND plane hit, I told my office that it was opinion that this was the work of ObL because it was his style and that I thought he'd tried before in 1993.
Anyway, that whole day was a total waste for work ... almost. I'll never forget that day ...

Robert H. Lynch, 44, Cranford, N.J., USA
property manager, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Confirmed dead, World Trade Center, at/in building

Bob Lynch had recently been promoted from his position at Kennedy Airport to the Port Authority's prestige property at WTC. His rise was about as meteoric as it gets in the property management business. He was a good man.

On the morning of 9/11, he got his people together, and organized the PANYNJ's evacuation of the North Tower. After the South tower was hit, his people went to work getting the people out of there as well. Working with a thousand other heroes, he saved who could be saved, and got most of his own people out.

He was last seen running back into the South Tower about five minutes before it collapsed, to continue assisting the evacuation. Another hero who willing gave his life that morning, but one you don't often hear about.

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"Sickened" by clinton's Failure to Protect America from Terrorism
MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
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The Man Who Warned America
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UDAY: "The end is near… this time I think the… Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."

Democratic Party's Problem Transcends Its Anti-War Contingent: Mia T, 5.5.03

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copyright Mia T 2003.

by Mia T, 4.6.03

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.
Mia T, THE ALIENS

Al From is sounding the alarm. "Unless we convince Americans that Democrats are strong on national security," he warns his party, "Democrats will continue to lose elections."

Helloooo? That the Democrats have to be spoon-fed what should be axiomatic post-9/11 is, in and of itself, incontrovertible proof that From's advice is insufficient to solve their problem.

From's failure to fully lay out the nature of the Democrats' problem is not surprising: he is the guy who helped seal his party's fate. It was his Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) that institutionalized the proximate cause of the problem, clintonism, and legitimized its two eponymic provincial operators on the national stage. The "Third Way" and "triangulation" don't come from the same Latin root for no reason.

That "convince" is From's operative word underscores the Democrats' dilemma. Nine-eleven was transformative. It is no longer sufficient merely to convince. One must demonstrate, demonstrate convincingly, if you will… which means both in real time and historically.

When it comes to national security, Americans will no longer take any chances. Turning the turn of phrase back on itself, the era of the Placebo President is over. (Incidentally, the oft-quote out-of-context sentence fragment alluded to here transformed meaningless clinton triangulation into a meaningful if deceptive soundbite.)

Although From is loath to admit it -- the terror in his eyes belies his facile solution -- the Democratic party's problem transcends its anti-war contingent.

With a philosophy that relinquishes our national sovereignty -- and relinquishes it reflexively… and to the UN no less -- the Democratic party is, by definition, the party of national insecurity.

With policy ruled by pathologic self-interest -- witness the "Lieberman Paradigm," Kerry's "regime change" bon mot (gone bad), Edwards' and the clintons' brazen echoes thereof (or, alternatively, Pelosi's less strident wartime non-putdown putdown)… and, of course, the clincher -- eight years of the clintons' infantilism, grotesquerie and utter failure -- the Democratic party is, historically and in real time, the party of national insecurity.

The Democrats used to be able to wallpaper their national insecurity with dollars and demogoguery. But that was before 9/11.

The REAL "Living History" -- clintoplasmodial slime

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