To find out the answer to your question. You and others can Freep Mail Jeff to find out how you can help Jeff in this stage of this great American Preservation of History project!
To all supporters and signers of Jeff's petition, please Freep Mail Jeff to find out how to help him in the next step of this historical event. Yeah history, that we are involved in!
I completely disagree with your petition regarding the proposed statue to be raised at the site of the former World Trade Centers. Further, I am going to actively oppose it.Amazing isn't it? This guy is guilty of his own accusation in demanding that the event be changed to insure his "all inclusive" ideas. If we are all Americans, regardless of skin color, etc (which we are), then why propose changing it to begin with? Folks like this don't even look at the rhetoric they are repeating to see how it contradicts itself.More important than the fact the flag was raised by Caucasian men is the fact it was raised by AMERICANS. If such an event is to be permanently commemorated through a statue, than it should be AMERICANS that are commemorated - and America is made up of whites, blacks, and browns. That's right - Europeans, Africans, Asians, Hispanics, and Middle-Easterns *ALL* make up this fine country, and an attack on one is an attack on all.
Many people died in that tragic event; not all of them were Caucasian. Many people helped after the fact; not all of them were Caucasian. They *all* should be recognized.
It is efforts like yours that keep racism running in our country. It's time we got past the color of skin and started recognizing that men are men regardless of skin color, and that Americans are Americans. Period.
Oh, and by the way - not that it matters, but I am a Caucasian male of European descent.
Her is my response to this individual:
You are free to do as you please and actively support and promote whatever cause you desire as long as it violates no one's rights ... as am I.Forward to 1/4 million and the preservation of the truth as it happend on 9-11 at the WTC!Our ability to do this, and to do so in peace, is one of the strengths of this nation. So, knock yourself out.
Regarding this issue, let me just say this.
We are a diverse people, but in America we are also supposed to be a united people. That flag, that those three firemen raised, represents everyone of us. The planners needed look no further than the flag itself to see all races, sexes and cultures represented that come together to make us all Americans.
Quite frankly, I had never contemplated the ethnicity, race or gender of the firefighters who raised that flag until this issue was raised by the people proposing to change the depiction of the historic event. They are the ones who brought race into the equation. Until that time, it was enough that they were Americans, irrespective of whether they had been white, black, brown, red, yellow or any mix. Those three men had been fighting to find and save lives that day, just like there brother and sister personnel. They got it in their minds to raise the flag, they didn't do it for personal gain or reasons which is abundantly clear to anyone familiar with the event.
There is talk now of the these political and administrative planners not creating such a depiction of the statue. If this turns out to be so, then BRAVO that we have perhaps helped influence them towards what we consider to be a more correct decision. It is a shame that such pressure had to be brought to bear, but sadly, a reality of today's world.
In fact, they are now talking about looking at "different options" altogether. That's fine and I (and most people signing the petition) have no problem with another memorial being created to honor all of those who served ... only let it be an accurate depiction of what occurred that day. Ideas of revisionism and altering the historical record to influence opinion and fulfill political agendas are Stalinist and Maoist in nature and not consistent with the liberty we seek to uphold in this nation in my opinion, a liberty that must first and foremost be based upon integrity and the truth about events.
Until a final decision is reached and it is clear that they do not intend to attempt to revise history, we will keep up the pressure. So, we will therefore continue to email, call, tell others and point them all to the petition.
This is not about race ... it is about historical accuracy and the truth just like it says it is, whether you believe it or not, whether you agree with it or not. As I stated earlier, that's another great thing about our nation, we can disagree and seek and garner support on either side of the issue.
Sincerely,
Jeff Head
Emmett, ID