"Oh no," he objected.
"Anybody can open an oyster."
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.
"Oh no," he objected.
"Anybody can open an oyster."
God Bless her and their family. May God keep them close to his heart and watch over them ever so close.
POST # 142,330: The statue is a memorial not a political statement.
UPDATE: 142,336
Good Night all and God Bless
Btw, I was reading this weekend and came across this so I thought I'd pass it along.
Excerpt:
It is worth recording the names of those brave men, because, if the forces of political correctness had had their way, their deed would have been airbrushed into the amnesiac limbo of ideological expediency. Like the vast majority of firefighters in New York, McWilliams, Johnson, and Eisengrein happened to be white. How to deal with that politically incorrect fact in this age of "affirmative action"? Simple alter the historical record. Thus the model for the sculpture depicts not the three white firemen but a rainbow coalition of one white, one black, and one Hispanic man. Just as we were going to press, the news came down that the public outcry against this effort to rewrite history had led the sponsors to drop plans for the sculpture splendid if true."
"We imagine a similar thought crossed the minds of those responsible for commissioning the nineteen-foot bronze sculpture that was supposed to be placed in front of the New York fire departments Brooklyn headquarters this spring. Meant to commemorate the 343 firemen killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, the sculpture is based on the famous news photograph by Tom Franklin of the Bergen County Record, of three firemen raising an American flag on a pile of rubble at Ground Zero. Probably all our readers remember that photograph, taken the very afternoon of the attacks, in which fireman Dan McWilliams, George Johnson, and Billy Eisengrein are seen hoisting Old Glory on a length of metal wreckage.
From "Repealing History", in the "Notes and Comments:February 2002", section of The New Criterion. An EXCELLENT magazine!! Congratulations, Jeff! You sure do us proud!
Have a great day!
I do not trust them as far as I can throw them and so we are continuing the petiton now (according to point two in the petition) to insure that whatever plans they come up with are not politically motivated or historically inaccurate. Otherwise, in a few months they will quietly erect some other monstocity.
Hope all is well with you and yours, the words quoted in that article are right on.
BUMP at 142,850
Just signing in to say Good Morning to all
Have to get ready for work now
BUMP at 143,200
Now at 143,275
Headed for 150,000, hopefully tomorrow spometime.
Running at about 500 per hour right now, maybe a little less.
Tuesday at noon will be three weeks. Would love to be at 150,000 by then, whihc would be an average of 50,000 signatures per weeks. Amazing.
It sure is.
Does anyone know what is meant in this mornings Mallard Fillmore
"Looks like its a done deal." "Who said we wouldn't get back to normal?"
This is the one.<P. off to work.
I am still waiting for an official announcemnt from NYC as to what the atcual smemorial will be ... then we will know.
144,350 BUMP
1500 in the last three hours ... 500/hour.
Off to put more bread on the table now ... will check in later this PM.
Its in the Star Telegram news paper.
144,894
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