A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day...911 Week, Day ONE 09-09-02

Written by JohnHuang2 with Graphics and Layout by Billie | JohnHuang2

[Lorena]

Pippin, I'm sorry to say that I missed that interview. Maybe they'll replay it this week or I can read about it on FR.

Thanks for sharing your memories of that day, Pippin, dansangel, and Chair.

I only lurked on FR last year and as was my routine, I headed first thing for my favorite thread on FR, "Senate Held Hostage" (now "America the Right Way".) Miss Marple had just posted "A 737 has crashed into the World Trade Center!!! Turn on your TV's if you have them!!" I turned on FOX news and watched the replays in shock and horror and then saw the second plane hit. We now knew this was no "accident" and I started praying the hardest I had since election night 2000 and its aftermath. I felt like I was living in a nightmare.

I had to help get my boys ready for school but kept running back to the T.V. every chance available. Needing to share my feelings and fears with a fellow believer and with tears streaming down my face, I took a moment to run over to my neighbor's house to see if she had heard the news. We hugged and cried together as we shared our disbelief about what was happening and agreed that this must mean war for America. Back home, I e-mailed my husband the news at work in case he hadn't heard. My sons and I prayed together before I took them to school and I urged them to pray for our nation and our President throughout the day.

I remember feeling so fearful for the safety of the President and Vice-President. They were constantly in my prayers. I spent the rest of the day glued to the T.V. and F.R., anxious for every tidbit of information, crying and praying all the while, enraged and incredulous when two more planes went down. I remember the media's unbearable sniping at the President for not immediately returning to the White House when it could very well be a target. It was outrageous and of course, they kept it up for days.

It is hard but necessary to relive these feelings again. How the liberals can be so nonchalant about the attack on America and so quickly have forgotten the terror and outrage of September 11, 2001 is absolutely amazing.

Senate Held Hostage!!! (Day 97) [AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 234)] September 11, 2001

[Billie]

Hi, daisy! Love the photo and the newsclip about Merrill Lynch! Thanks for the most special words, too. Love you, partner!

[Billie]

Oh, thanks for another graphic. I remember seeing the one of the flight paths of the four planes.

[Billie]

It's my other beautiful partner with another beautiful post. I love you!

[Billie]

Hi, Pippin - yes, a new look for this week - thought we'd replace the original thread this week with the special tribute John wrote, and wanted to concentrate fully on 911 with our openings all week.

[Billie]

Hi, Teacup - I'm glad you could be here. Thank you for the prayers.

[Billie]

Thank you for the ping-a-ling 911 Bump! Or rather, thank you for the 911 Bump, Ping-a-Ling! Hi, blackie!

[Billie]

Your post just gave ME goosebumps all over! How wonderful for Eric he got to have this NASCAR 911 ceremony experience! He's doin' you so proud, Mom!

[lodwick]

Waking the Eagle

Befeathered now, the tiny warrior
In triumph dances round the blaze,
Filling the night with chants of vict’ry,
In laughing songs of boastful praise;
“I’ve climbed the heights where the Eagle,
Mighty Eagle, found her rest!
“And snatched from there an egg and feather
While she slept upon her nest!”

But then the wise man comes rebuking,
“Do you know what you have done?
“That sleeping Eagle posed no danger,
But with the coming of the sun
“She’ll wake and see and know her loss;
With dreadful cry she’ll voice her pain,
“Then turn her eyes to seek the villain:
Vengeful gaze fall on this plain!”

“I’m not afraid!” the youth responds,
With haughty voice filled with disdain.
"The Eagle’s bloodied, I took her feather:
She’ll not be able to fly again!”
“Not afraid?” the old man counters,
“You think one quill will steal her might?
“The Eagle’s feathers all united
Will bring her here with deadly flight!”

“Lightening filled, a storm of anger,
With dark resolve she’ll fill our skies:
“Mother’s strength will launch her upward,
On mighty vengeful wings she’ll rise!
“That sleeping Eagle, you’ve awakened,
Will haunt our heavens till you die:
“Foolish one, too late you’ll realize,
It’s best to let the sleeping Eagle lie!”

by Robert D. Wilson

[Billie]

Thank you, Clancy - good to see you. I wish I could hogtie JH2 and get him to write more and more for us!

[Billie]

Oh, it's the LouieWolf with another bluebird for me! YEA!!!

And what a cutie she is! Thank you so much, TLL - you think we can hire John to work for us? Will pay him double what the three of us are getting! :)

[Lorena]

I'm really enjoying your wonderful posts and graphics. You add so much to the thread and your patriotism shines bright. God bless you.

[ST.LOUIE1]

Never To Be Forgotten

FR's Favorite FReeper

Barbara Olson

She was the wife of U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson,
but she was better known as a frequent commentator on CNN and other news networks.

Barbara Olson was aboard American Flight 77 from Dulles International Airport
when it crashed into the Pentagon.
She twice called her husband as the plane was being hijacked
and told him the attackers were using knife-like instruments.

Olson was a chief investigator for the House Government Reform Committee in the mid-1990s.
She later became a lawyer on the staff of Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles,
before branching out on her own as a TV commentator and private lawyer.
She was a frequent critic of the Clinton administration
and wrote a book about Hillary Rodham Clinton.

[Billie]

[ST.LOUIE1]

RE: 173

Ooops! You blew the HTML, Louie. : (

[Billie]

Thank you, Pippin, for your very moving post. I'm glad you shared it with us.

[dansangel]

Thank-you both for your kind words.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

[Billie]

Well, your post made me cry. It must have been hard for you to tell your dad what happened, and then, still crying over the 911 events, you lost your dad, too.

[GailA]

AWESOME GRAPHICS

[lodwick]

Good afternoon there - nice to see ya. It's a pleasure and honor to be here surrounded by friends and patriots on algore's wonderful internet. ;-)