Posted on 02/18/2002 12:21:06 PM PST by Jeff Head
The Petition to New York City regarding the Firefighter Memorial
protesting the originally proposed Ground Zero Flag Raising Statue and seeking that the as yet unstated plans for a memorial be non-political and historically correct, has surpassed the 250,000 signature mark. It now stands at:
250,650 Signatures
The First 120,000 signatures have been sent to New York firefighters for delivery to the Mayor's Office.
The next 130,000 signatures will be on their way as soon as they are extracted, printed and bound. We will keep doing this until it is clear that plans for the memorial are not politcally driven and are not revisionist. That being the case, please continue to point others towards the petition site at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/flgraise/
to sign and forward the petition on to all they know. We can win this fight and in the process see many of our fellow Americans awakened to the PC-BS going on all around them which they in turn will question and then fight.
Here are the prior FR threads regarding this:
WTC Flag Raising Petition - First 120,000 signatures shipped to NYC - 73 posts
WTC Flag Raising & Memorial Petition Status - Surpasses 200,000 Signatures!!! - 307 posts
WTC Flag Raising & Memorial Petition Status - Surpasses 150,000 Signatures - 501 posts
UPDATE/STATUS/PLANS - WTC Flag Raising Petition - 127,500+ Signatures 422 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Surpasses 100,000 Signatures - PRESS RELEASE 486 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Breaks 75K Signatures 880 posts
FDNY inspired on-line petition blows by 64,000 signatures, 1 week 196 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition gathers over 40,000 Signatures in Four Days! 75 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Breaks 10,000 signatures in two days! 198 Posts
Online Petition: Depict the Flag Raising at Ground Zero of the WTC Attack as it Actually Occurred! 717 posts
It will not be marked by the chiming of any clocks or the ringing of bells, but at that precise time, on that specific date, something will happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen again.
As the clock ticks over from 8.01pm on Wednesday, February 20, time will, for sixty seconds only, read in perfect symmetry 2002, 2002, 2002, or to be more precise - 20:02, 20/02, 2002.
This historic event will never have the same poignancy as the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which marks Armistice Day, but it is an event that has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated.
The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch and the 24-hour clock - at 10.01am on January 10, 1001.
BUMP for the WTC historic event to be kept honest.
Tell ya what, make that 10:01 10/01(Oct 1), 1001 and I'll go with it. ; )
Hmmm, then that would make 02:02, 02/02 (0)202?????? Okay then, how about, 0202020202?????
I will NEVER get used to putting the day before the month...
Most of us are old enough to remember 12:34 5/6 '78.
Fun with numbers....
FGS
.....Terroism saw no color, race or creed. Why should we??!!
..... Why is the fact that the men are white even a question. Just the fact that they are American is all that matters!!!
.....As a historian I am appalled at the notion of making history politically correct. This seems like the actions of a former political group once known as the USSR.
263,161
Jeff,Regards to all.Im an officer in Washington, DC. I salute you on your efforts. This is a historical moment in our nations history, it should not be changed for the sake of political correctness. I pray that your efforts are successful.
Michael X. XXXXXXXX
U.S. Secret Service/UD
Washington, DC
BUMP at 263,790
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