FREE REPUBLIC'S 9/11 100 HOURS OF REMEMBRANCE

Its a little more than 100 hours from the Second Anniversary of the 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.

AMEN! NEVER, EVER FORGET!

I was at work early that morning out here in the Intermountain West near Bosie.

I remember I got an email from a FReeper friend while reviewing the schedule for that day in my office. It simply said,

GET ON FR NOW! WTC HAS BEEN HIT BY AN AIRLINER.

I got on and then witnessed the whole thing as it happened, just a few minutes after the first hit...before our news even carried it on the radio here.

When the second one hit and it was shown live...my eyes welled up because I knew hundreds of innocent people were being killed.

When that second tower went down, followed shortly thereafter by the first one hit, the tears flowed because we witnessed thousands who were killed.

I'll never forget the pictures of the hundreds of firemen and policemen streaming towards the towers before they collapsed as others were running away. Many of them were bravely going to their deaths in an effort to help others. God bless and rest their souls, Heroes every one.

I started putting together my Attack on America Site!that afternoon and have kept it going ever since.

"America will lead by defending liberty and justice because they are right and true and unchanging for all people everywhere." - President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002.

"It cannot be in [your] interest... to go on irritating the United States. There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and there are no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back. The American eagle sits on his perch, a large, strong bird with formidable beak and claws. There he sits motionless, and [someone] is sent day after day to prod him with a sharp pointed stick — now his neck, now under his wings, now his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle." - Winston Churchill, House of Commons. June 5, 1946.

"An American is brought up with the huge burning phrases of great revolutionaries. . . . forever ringing in his ears. To forget them, to act against their hope and faith in men, is to take an axe to his own roots. There is in the American mind, just because it is an American mind, an idealism that cannot be quenched, a small voice of conscience that all the hokum in the world cannot drown." - J.B. Priestly, October 1947.

"We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds." - Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 26, 1982.

"The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1st annual message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1901.

"The temper of the Americans is vindictive, like that of all serious and reflecting nations. They hardly ever forget an offense, but it is not easy to offend them; and their resentment is as slow to kindle as it is to abate." - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835.

"I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's, and Truth's. I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American." - Daniel Webster, Speech, July 17, 1850.

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis #1. December 23, 1776.

Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?
- Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, 1808.

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