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
Hi mystery. Hello to Mike too.
That's okay, Snugs. No worries.
Thank you for all you do for us.
Thank you so much Snugs for all you do on the Daily Dose! I posted to Wolfstar earlier that w/o you all, we would miss out on so much!
It was great to see pix of PM Thatcher! And I kept hearing PM Blair's speech today to support the war on terror and out National Anthem played by you Changing of the Palace Guard the day after 9/11. Thank you ALL so much!
May we all prevail in this fight!
Good evening, snugs. Thank you so much for today's important Dose. It's late here as I post this, and you may already have gone to bed (don't know; haven't checked yet). So you may see this tomorrow some time. I just wanted to say thank you very much for all you do for us. :)
Jonny, thanks for pinging me to that extraordinary photo. I'm sitting here trying to decided exactly what I want to say about it. Lots of thoughts running through my head, but nothing quite captures what my eyes see and my heart feels.
I thought of President Reagan -- what a great president he was, and how much I love and respect him. And yet GWB towers above him for me in a way I'll never be able to express.
I thought -- how can such a genuinely good human being like our Dubya be so reviled, but the answer came immediately. It's isn't him so much as it is a bitter clash of the petty ideologues on both sides who infest much of politics these days. They hate him, I believe, because he's what they are not. He's courageous while they are cowards. He truly is not in this for the aphrodisiac of power. They are. He is a genuine man of the people. They are pretenders. He genuinely believes in a higher power and the desire of people everywhere to be free. They fear him because of his convictions.
As for me, I love him precisely because of the qualities others hate about him.
I'm a little late to tonight's Dose, but snugs thank you for the wonderful photos. I love this president so very much. And I'm so happy that Mrs. Thatcher came to Washington, I adore her as well.
That's it exactly. Everything they accuse him of doing is what they would do themselves.
That was outstanding post, Wolfstar. I'm going to save it for future use :)
snugs - you would have been so proud of VP Cheney on this show Sunday. Tim Russert was horrid to him. It was an inquisition, imho. But Mr. Cheney was fit for battle and gave him heck, very nicely.
Snugs, I suspect the key people who had the weight of the nation and the world on their shoulders on that fateful day will always have deep feelings about 9/11. The key people on that day were few: the President, Vice President, Defense Secretary (who refused to leave the Pentagon), Transportation Secretary, Chief of Staff, Press Secretary and the small number of senior advisors who stayed at the WH with the VP.
As time goes on and they near the end of their long journey together, I suspect their emotions about 9/11 will strengthen, not decrease.
BTW, Colin Powell is notably not among this small key group. He was traveling in South America on that day.
G'nite Marti!
Yes, and there's something about his rock-steadiness in the face of their onslaught that they truly fear, I think.
That was outstanding post, Wolfstar. I'm going to save it for future use.
I'm glad you'll get use out of it, Jonny. We need to support him in every way we can, so if anything I ever write can be used to such good purpose, that pleases me very much. :)
Thanks for providing the link to the interrogation of our Vice President. I refuse to watch the trash, but it was great to read how the VP handled the cretin.
jonny is so right about your words, Wolfstar. But then I've said as much about your eloquence before.
I don't believe that I can come close to your way with words, although I do express myself much better on paper (or keyboard) than verbally. But when I write about my feelings for President Bush, the words just come.
Flawed human being that he is, President George W. Bush is a truly remarkable man, an extraordinary LEADER and we're blessed to have him as president at this time in history. In this respect God has been so good to the U.S.A. I pray for those who do not realize this, that their eyes will someday see.
That is so cute. It makes me want to mosey up to bed!
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http://securitysolutions.com/mag/security_wtc_tragedy_took/
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5843
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzhjODk1ODg4M2NiODU4Yzc3YWE1OTA1MDNmYWQ5M2Y=
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/9_11__five_years_on_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm
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