The PC people are trying to disstort history. Sign Jeff's deal to help put a stop to their nonsense.
Posted on 01/31/2002 6:50:30 AM PST by Jeff Head
This is an update report to those who have signed, or who are contemplating signing, the:
"Depict the Flag Raising at Ground Zero of the WTC Attack as it actually Occurred!" Petition
It is also to those who have otherwise supported that effort in any way. The purpose is to give a status and let you know plans for the petition.
First, let me thank those who have signed or supported this effort to insure that an accurate memorial is erected to the victims and heroes of 9-11, instead of anything based on a political agenda. The activism of thousands i showing just what people can accomplish if they take a mind to.
There are now over 127,500 signatures in sixteen days!
This issue has struck a nerve in tens of thousands of people all across this nation. That number is growing to hundreds of thoiusands, and I am sure if people were aware of it, it would grow to millions. Revisionism and political correctness are not going to be tolerated with respect to 9-11. They should never be tolerated and perhaps this issue and this effort will start the ball rolling that way.
Specifically, the effort is paying off and together with the firefighters themselves and the many thousands of others who have protested, it has resulted in New York City scrapping plans for an altered flag raising statue. Ultimate plans have not yet been announced, and so there is still a chance that they will propose some other politically driven memorial which alters the history of what happened that day. Therefore according to the 2nd point in the petition, which indicates that only a historically accurate memorial should be erected, the petition is continuing. It will do so until final plans are announced for a historically accurate memorial not based on any political agenda.
In that regard, I am also writing to let you know the current plans for the petition and its signatures.
It is my intent intent to have the first 100,000 signatures delivered directly to the City of New York and the New York City Fire Department as soon as possible. I intend to give two copies of professionally bound signatures (which will amount to ten volumes of five hundred pages of signatures each) to firefighters there in New York City who can in turn present them to the Fire Department and to the Mayor and/or his representatives. I would hope to attract media attention to that event, but intend to do it with or without the media. I would then repeat this process at the 250,000, the 500,000 and the one million signature marks if the petition goes that far, which I hope it does.
I believe that stacks of bound signatures from all over the country piled on politicians' and planners' desks will help insure that we hold those same politicians' and planners' feet to the fire. It will help insure than no more political nonsense and revisionism is applied to any ememorial dedicated to any event of that tragic day, 9-11. Tragedy that turned to heroism that generated patriotism and unity across this entire nation.
The effort required to make this happen will not be incosequential. Electronically extracting the 100,000 names, formatting them, professionally printing them, copying them, professionally binding them and then delivering them to New York City will take considerable effort and expense. Anyone who is interested in the details of that effort and who agrees with the importance of it, and would like to help, please contact me at the following email address and I will send you the details regarding how you can help.
Any excess funds that result from this effort will be donated proportionally to the IAFF New York Fire Fighters 911 Disaster Relief Fund, the Port Authority Police WTC Disaster Survivors Fund, and to NYPD and EMS worker funds established directly by those associations for the support of families of personnel killed or injured on 9-11.
Thank you for your time, and again, either way, thank you for your support in this effort to insure that we depict accurately what occurred on 9-11. It must remain accurate so that we can always remember and never forget those who died or were injured ... and so that we can therefore maintain our national sovereignty and liberty against those who would destroy them.
Gee, seems like I'm the only one with nothing else to do today ....... *sigh*
The PC people are trying to disstort history. Sign Jeff's deal to help put a stop to their nonsense.
# 138,771 was signed by George Johnson of Rockaway Beach. That's either the fireman on the left in the flag raising photo...or his dad who is retired FDNY.
On its 55th flight, the airship USS Macon crashed on February 12, 1935. After taking off from Point Sur, California, a gust of wind tore off the ship's upper fin, which deflated the gas cells and caused the ship to fall into the sea. Most of Macon's 83 crewmen were rescued from the warm waters, but two of them died in the accident. The U.S. Navy had suffered the loss of the airship Shenandoah in 1925 and Akron in 1933. Some considered airships too dangerous for the program to continue at that point, and work on them in the United States halted temporarily.
On February 7, 1928, Australian Bert Hinkler took off from London in a two-seat Avro 581E Avian biplane on the first leg of his solo flight from England to Australia. The unassuming Hinkler's grueling flight was little noted by the press until he reached India, then the world press got caught up in the drama of another "Lone Eagle" performance so soon after Charles A. Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. As he plotted a course across Asia and the Timor Sea using a London Times atlas as his navigational chart, a newspaper editor dubbed him "Hustling Hinkler," a nickname later immortalized by the American Tin Pan Alley hit song, "Hustling Hinkler Up in the Sky." On February 22, after flying 128 hours in less than 16 days, Hinkler's 11,250-mile adventure ended in Darwin, Australia.
If we will only beleive, there is no limit to the blessings God will shower upon us. We are told that Christ came to give us "the abundant life." That is something far beyond the narrow, limited, frustrated lives most of us live. The whole emphasis of the N.T., which we so tragically miss, is that God wants to pour out His blessings until "your cup runneth over." No blessing is too great, no power too strong, no victory too complete.
So in all sincerity I bid you, "try faith and watch what happens!"
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."
(oh boy, we need more people like this little kid!)
This coming week we will make serious progress on the signatures. I have all the names extracted now and will format them so they are legible but as economic in their use of space as possible. Right now it's well over 5,000 sheets ... but I hope to cut that down to 4,000 through some formatting and the use of particular fonts.
Then, it's off to the printer with them!
Thanks for all of your comments and BUMPS. Let's keep it up!
Here's another BUMP at 139,150!
Good night and God bless all!
Just sent out more emails on this.
139216
Day 01 - = January 15 = *2,800-----Day 08 - *8,800 Total = 73,200
Day 02 - *9,700 Total = 12,500-----Day 09 - *8,900 Total = 82,100
Day 03 - 16,600 Total = 29,100-----Day 10 - *8,900 Total = 91,000
Day 04 - 10,400 Total = 39,500-----Day 11 - *6,100 Total = 97,100
Day 05 - *6,700 Total = 46,200-----Day 12 - *4,500 Total = 101,600
Day 06 - *8,200 Total = 54,400-----Day 13 - *6,900 Total = 108,500
Day 07 - 10,000 Total = 64,400-----Day 14 - *7,300 Total = 115,800
Day 15 - *6,400 Total = 122,200
Day 16 - *6,200 Total = 128,400
Day 17 - *5,400 Total = 133,800
Day 18 - *3,600 Total = 137,400
Day 19 - LET'S ROLL!!! on to Super Bowl Sunday. Next Stop - 150,000.
139,247
UPDATE: 139,247
Hey Dubya, you always come throught with the most fantastic postings.
BTTT
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