Posted on 01/22/2002 9:31:53 AM PST by d14truth
Here is an online petition to Depict the WTC Flag Raising as it Actually Occurred!
VIEW SIGNATURES ---------- SIGN THE PETITION
To: The New York City Council, The New York City Fire Department
We the undersigned citizens of the United States, and concerned citizens from other nations, hereby petition the New York City Fire Department and the City of New York as follows regarding the proposed statue depicting the raising of the US flag at ground zero of the WTC attack by firefighters on September 11, 2001.
As a Retired Lieutenant Fire Fighter and Retired Coast Guard Reserve, this is not what our Country Stands for. These Fire Fightes did not Raise the Flag at Groung Zero so they become Famous. They did it FOR OUR Great Nation and to Bring Everyone TOGETHER. If this is not DONE as it Happened and By those that Raised it, I will not Visit New York City and PASS the Word to my Friends not to Visit also. Let HISTORY be TRUE with no Changes to IT. I Hope you will make the RIGHT Choice as to it ACTUALLY OCCURRED. God Bless this Great Nation
"In no way, what so ever, should anyone change an actual event in history and depict it in a way that is not true! By changing the ethnicity of the fire fighters or the sex is simply recreating an untrue event. Fact is this, those were the men who stood tall together in support and for the sake of them, their families, the fire union, all the individuals who where killed and impacted by this tragic event; they should be given the respect and the statue should be created as what truely happened that day. The day needs to be represented as it happened and not creating an issue of ethnicity, we need to accept people and things as they are, haven't we all been hurt enough!
BUMP
Regards.
Now at: 74100
I'll be back around 2 or 2:30 to create a new thread for the 75K mark.
"It was just the luck of the draw that the three firefighters raising that flag were white. Be that as it may, they were AMERICANS, PERIOD! Not Anglo-Americans. Not German-Americans. Not Irish-Americans. Just my brothers, like all the others (male, female, black, white, tan, yellow or polka-dotted) who served in that tragedy. Depict it as it occurred, or not at all."
-- Master Firefighter, Va. Beach, Va. Fire Department.
Today from 7 -12 Pacific 2,400 signatures added
From 11/minute down to 8/minute. Monday was about 9/min.
History is truth or it is NOT history. We must make the 21st Century the century of truth not of lies.
David Lane
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