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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2006 – Chicago will remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the nation’s past and present veterans with a Freedom Walk on Sept. 10 at the north lawn of Soldier Field. The event is one of more than 120 similar events planned this weekend in all 50 states to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks. Chicago felt a deep-seated need to hold a Freedom Walk, Eric Schuller, senior policy advisor to Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, said. “Chicago’s kind of the heartland of the United States,” he said....

Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise Sept. 11 MiniseriesBy JESSE McKINLEY Published: September 7, 2006 Three members of the Clinton administration have written the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent, to complain that the network’s coming two-part miniseries “The Path to 9/11” is fraught with factual errors and fabrications. The letters ask that the five-hour movie, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, be either edited for accuracy or canceled, and ABC gave a small indication yesterday that some changes might be made. One of the officials, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said in...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2006 -- When José Rojas went to pull a badly burned woman from a Pentagon window after Islamic extremists drove a commercial airliner headlong into the building, her skin came off in his hands. “I had to actually take my fingernails and dig into her flesh with her crying and screaming to get her out of the window,” Rojas said, describing his efforts to help the victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Rojas, 43, a police officer with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, the successor of the Defense Protective Service, was...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2006 – Las Vegas will remember those lost in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with a Freedom Walk on Sept. 9. “We hope this will become an annual commemoration of those we lost on 9/11,” said Courtney Wroblewski, a special events planner with the city. The 2.2-mile loop will begin and end at the Kellogg Zaher Sports Complex at 7901 Washington Ave. Walkers, including Las Vegas Mayor Oscar B. Goodman and Councilman Larry Brown, will step out beginning at 7:30 a.m. Las Vegas planners called the walk a time to reflect on the lives lost on...

The second trial of Iraqi former president Saddam Hussein was adjourned on Wednesday for three weeks until Sept. 11, the Iraqi High Tribunal said. The deposed president and his six codefendants were back in dock on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in the anti- Kurdish Anfal campaign that slaughtered tens of thousand of Kurds. Four Kurdish witnesses, three women and one man, testifies before a panel of judges on third session, accusing Saddam and his top commanders of ordering chemical attacks on their villages. The witness, 45-year-old Adiba Owla Bayez, told the court one of her daughters died due to...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2006 – Momentum continues to build as 48 U.S. cities -- a number that continues to grow -- prepare to sponsor America Supports You Freedom Walks to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The first Freedom Walk, inaugurated Sept. 11, 2005, in Washington, D.C., attracted more than 15,000 participants, including family members who lost loved ones in the attacks. The walk proved to be so meaningful to those involved that Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, hopes to make it a nationwide observance. “We knew that it...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2006 – The first city to join the Defense Department’s “America Supports You” program is preparing to host a Freedom Walk on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. “The walk itself is not what we’re focusing on, as much as just getting people out to participate,” Enid, Okla., Mayor Ernie Currier said during a telephone interview with American Forces Press Service. Enid became an America Supports You partner in March 2005. Enid will host its Freedom Walk on Sept. 11 at a downtown ballpark, Currier said. Participants will walk...

WOODBRIDGE, Virginia, May 10, 2006 – The people of Prince William County gathered here yesterday to dedicate a memorial that honors the 22 county residents who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Prince William County, Va., residents wait in line to see the Liberty Memorial, which was built to honor the 22 county residents who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The memorial''s dedication ceremony was May 9 in Woodbridge, Va. Photo by Sgt. Sara Wood, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. It took four years and many donors to fund and build the...

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2006 – As more time passes since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans must not forget the lessons of that fateful day - lessons that are being applied today in the global war on terror, President Bush said today in Wheeling, W.Va. "The job of those of us who have been entrusted to protect you and defend you is really to do so in such a way that you feel comfortable about going about your life. And it's fine that people forget the lessons (of Sept. 11), but one of my jobs is to constantly...

Subject: Good Post I don't remember the name of the AOL member who wrote this post . However , he has given a great deal of thought to the only solution we in America face against Islamofacism . The author of this post should be given spots on Larry King , CNBC , Fox News Network , ABC , CBS , NBC , BBC , and most of all AL JAZEERA . "To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it,...

Frédéric Desagneaux, consul general of France for San Francisco, is not happy with the light being shown on his country’s involvement with U.N. corruption in Iraq. Poor thing. Yesterday, the independent committee investigating corruption in the U.N.’s “oil-for-food” program for Iraq made public the names of 3,545 companies that sold goods to Saddam. Also published were the names of 248 companies which received Iraqi oil under the program. Through oil-for-food, Saddam stole “$10.1 billion through oil smuggling and kickbacks from suppliers.” Leave it to the U.N. to pull off one of the biggest scandals in world history. Evidence is emerging...

Fallen Embers* * Originally written by Joshua Sharp, age 17, on September 9, 2004 * * * * Feedback welcomed at: placidrage.at.myfastmail.com * * * * Please do not distribute this speech without attaching this message. * * Three years after we watched the tallest New York City skyscrapers tumble, it seems that the images have been lost in our head. Most of us cannot even imagine a 1300-foot tall skyscraper, let alone imagine dozens of office workers jumping out of their windows for an agonizing five, six, seven seconds of falling to their death. We forget the pictures of...

The Candidate With No Name By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 29, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms ”Defeat Bush – VOTE In 2004!” I’ve seen more bumper-stickers with this platitude than I’ve seen ones that simply state, “Kerry/Edwards 2004.” While my liberal friends rarely mention Kerry and Edwards, they constantly remind me of how much they hate President Bush. This year, the politics of hate rule. The Left doesn’t even have a candidate. They are galvanized mainly by visceral hatred -- a hatred which stands on shaky assumptions, like the lies that Michael Moore sells as truths. In Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore insinuates that...

CommonConservative.com 09/16/03 ENEMIES WITHIN Think of them every day by Tom Adkins I woke up to bright sunshine, made a nice breakfast, then went off to work. I made a few phone calls, shuffled some papers, and took a client to lunch. More phone calls, more papers shuffling, then drove home and had a nice dinner with my wife. Later, I got together with a bunch of friends and played basketball. Just another day. The date? Thursday, September 11, 2003. Have I forgotten what day it was? September 11th? The anniversary of the single greatest terrorist attack in world history,...

NEW YORK -- Andrew Wasilewski is a chubby-cheeked toddler from Mississippi. Katie and Kathie Johnson are identical twins from South Dakota. Alyse Dansby is a playful 23-month-old from Alaska. These children come from far-flung places, but they are united by a common twist of fate: They were born on Sept. 11, 2001. Andrew, the Johnson twins and Alyse were among 28 toddlers from 27 states who came to New York for a two-day birthday celebration that began Sunday with a buffet dinner and birthday cake decorated with an American flag. Sept. 11 ``was such a tragedy, but in the light...

Senator Says Sept. 11 Report Too Soft on CIA, FBI WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leader of the Senate intelligence committee criticized on Tuesday a congressional inquiry into Sept. 11-related intelligence failures as too soft on U.S. agencies, especially the CIA. The report stops short of assigning enough blame to the FBI and CIA, Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of CIA Director George Tenet's harshest critics, told ABC television on Tuesday morning. A joint inquiry by the Senate and House intelligence committees has drafted a final, mostly classified, report that is...