Posted on 09/11/2006 5:54:41 PM PDT by snugs
Yesterday the President participated in 9/11 ceromonies in New York including attending a memorial service.
Today he attended a ceremony at the Fort Pitt Firehouse on the lower east side of Manhattan afterwhich he travelled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania to lay a wreath at the Flight 93 crash site.
He and the First Lady then went to the Pentagon to lay another wreath at the crash site there as in Shanksville the President and first lady met with families of those who lost their lives after the wreath laying ceremony.
Yesterday the Vice President appeared on the Meet the Press. Today he led the remembrance Ceremony at the White House joined by his specially invited guest Baroness Thatcher who also attended a memorial service with him at John's and later at the State Department.
Later on this evening the President will address the nation please feel free to use this thread as safe live thread.
I urge all that have not yet done so to check out Wolfstar's dose from yesterday where she does a fantastic timeline of the event of 11th September 2001. There are also some fantastic photos some of which you probably will not have seen before.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
The President gave a great speech, one for the ages IMHO
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrives for a 'Service of Prayer and Remembrance' in honor of the victims of the September 11 attacks at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, September 11, 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney, accompanied by Mrs. Lynne Cheney and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain, attends a Service of Prayer and Remembrance at St John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., Monday, September 11, 2006, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. White House photo by David Bohrer
Lady Thatcher is looking very good, I'm so happy to have her visit. Thanks for the pictures and ping snugs, I'm off to bed soon, a bit under the weather tonight.
FWIW I didn't care for the way Path to 9-11 portrayed the VPOTUS. Dick Cheney is a tough cookie and the character didn't do him justice whatsoever. IMO.
Other than that the flick was OK.
Been quite the day.
Emotionally draining.
We need to Get bin pig laden.
Thanks
She has had a few mini strokes and a few months was taken ill at her hairdresser but she seems to bounce back from these incidents. I think this is why she can no longer speak in public.
".he is clearly wearing body armor "
Made me go back and look. I can't think of what the reaction would be if some terrorist zeroed in on Laura Bush.
Picture #107: VP Cheney is obviously watching Rummy's foot work on the stairs because he knows it's hard to balance with one arm in a sling. Nice moment. I'm glad they got a photo of if.
Wow! Maggie Thatcher made the effort to come here for 9/11. She and Blair are two of the most staunch allies America has had in recent years. Many of us love them.
I am sorry it was so late going up by literally I have been working on since I had my dinner. I have never seen so many photos of such emotional events I just had to post them all.
"so many photos of such emotional events I just had to post them all."
Thank you again so much for doing so.
He does look pretty pleased with himself and from what I have heard he has every reason to.
Here is the transcript of the show.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060910.html
"I am sorry it was so late going up by literally I have been working on since I had my dinner. I have never seen so many photos of such emotional events I just had to post them all."
You did an AMAZING job . . . Thank you!
Now I'm off to relax in bed with my videotape of today's events!
Night all
God Bless her indeed and good to see you - hope life is treating you OK.
Are you fully heeled from falling down the stairs a few months back?
I thought Gibson's idea was a very good one: to ask youth, who really haven't known a life without terrorism, to share their thoughts about that day and the five years since. It was worthwhile to hear them.
I would like to have heard a longer interview with more youth.
I was babysitting a two-year-old shortly after 9/11 and when I had the TV on, which I rarely do, as soon as it changed to coverage of the Twin Towers, the little guy just tensed up something terrible, and I realized his parents had been freaking out in front of him. So I took him in my lap and spoke in a very soothing, yet strong, voice, about how everything was going to be okay and we didn't need to be afraid of the pictures on TV. He calmed down. (But then he went back to Mania Central after he left.)
A fitting tribute to and a fine way to end this somber day.
It was but it was worth it and even then there is the odd photo that I left out that normally would have been posted but there were so many and none of the ones I posted could possibly have been omitted.
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