SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 VICTIMS
This page is dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001 tragedy.
You got our Twin Towers but you
missed America you Monsters!!!
Get ready, America's Biggest Fire Works
Show ever is coming your way. ...
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The following poem is for anyone
who has ever suffered the loss of a loved one:
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning's hush
I am the soft uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there. I did not die.
---Anonymous
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The Miami Herald - Leonard Pitts Jr.
Published Wednesday, September 12, 2001
We'll go forward from this moment. It's my job to have something to say. They pay me to provide words that help make sense of that which trouble The American soul. But in this moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes, the only thing I
can find to say, the only words that seem to fit, must be addressed to the unknown author of this suffering. You monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard. What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was,
please know that you failed. Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause. Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve. Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together. Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial,
social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae ... a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse. We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and
maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement. We are fundamentally decent, though ... peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. Moreover, we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God. Some people
... you, perhaps ... think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals. IN PAIN Yes, we're in pain now. We are in mourning and we are in shock. We're still grappling with the unreality of the awful thing you did,
still working to make ourselves understand that this isn't a special effect from some Hollywood blockbuster, isn't the plot development from a Tom Clancy novel. Both in terms of the awful scope of their ambition and the probable final death toll, your attacks are likely to go down as the worst acts of terrorism in the history of the
United States and, probably, the history of the world. You've bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before. However, there's a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall. This is the lesson Japan was taught to its bitter sorrow the last time anyone hit us this hard, the last time anyone brought us such
abrupt and monumental pain. When roused, we are righteous in our outrage, terrible in our force. When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice. I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I
know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future. In the days to come, there will be recrimination and accusation, fingers pointing to determine whose failure allowed this to happen and what can be done to prevent it from happening again. There will be heightened security, misguided talk of revoking basic
freedoms. We'll go forward from this moment sobered, chastened, sad. Nevertheless, determined, too. Unimaginably determined. THE STEEL IN US You see, the steel in us is not always readily apparent. That aspect of Our character is seldom understood by people who don't know us well. On this day, the family's
bickering is put on hold. As Americans we will weep, as Americans we will mourn, and as Americans, we will rise in defense of all that we cherish. So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the
message received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't know what you just started. However, you're about to learn.
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Sept. 06, 2001
This was sent to me Last week-[before N.Y. was Devastated] ..However* --I think it's very Appropriate for *Now.
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"PROUD TO BE AMERICAN"
[AMERICA : THE GOOD NEIGHBOR]
Widespread, but only [partial news coverage was given recently]
to a `remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian TV *Commentator.
What follows..is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed `in the *Congressional record:
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"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans- as the most generous and possibly the least...
~appreciated people on all the Earth. Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of War- by the *Americans who poured in *Billions of dollars & *Forgave other Billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying Even the ?Interest, on its... remaining debts- to
the.. United States.
When France was in Danger of *Collapsing in 1956, it was the *Americans who propped it up, & their reward was to be insulted & swindled on the Streets of Paris. [I was there. I saw it.]
When the Earthquakes hit Distant Cities, it is the United States that hurries in to *HELP. `This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by *Tornadoes... ~Nobody helped.!!
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped Billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar -build its own airplane. Does any
other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC-10? ... If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines, (except Russia) fly American Planes?
Why does (no other land on earth) even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about the Japanese technocracy, & you get radios. You talk about the German technocracy,& you get automobiles.
You talk about the American technocracy, and you find men on the moon. Not once, but several times and safely home again. You talk about Scandals, & the Americans put theirs in the store window~ for everybody to look at. {Clinton}
Even their draft-dodgers are `not pursued and hounded. They are here on *our streets, and most of them, (unless they are breaking Canadian laws, getting American dollars from Ma & Pa at home` to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania & the New-York Central went broke, Nobody loaned them an old caboose. (Both are still broke.)
I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans `raced to the help other people-in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?__ I don't think there was *Outside help -even during the.. ~San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come`out of this thing with their FLAG~HIGH. And when they do, they are entitled -to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating `over-- their present troubles.
[I hope Canada is not one of those."]
Stand Proud America! [From a Reader]
This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that `ONE man realizes it.
I only wish that the rest of the world would, also. We seemed to be blamed for everything-- & don't get a -"Thank You" for the things We Do.
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I would hope that each of you would send this on- Show your appreciation- this message conveys !
I am just a single American that has read this- I am *Very Proud to Live here.. 'very proud'...
THANKS, ANTHONY VELEZIS SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
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| We may be down--for the moment--but we're by no means out, as the perpetrators of this outrage will soon learn to their sorrow. New York City has faced disasters in its past and overcome them; we will overcome this one as well. "The city will prevail. It prevails, no matter what,"
Shulman said at the meeting of a community
group last week. She spoke truer than she knew. We will prevail. We will survive. We're still here. |
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17-year old high school student Eliza Gauger's drawing of Mommy Liberty spread across the Internet in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the U.S. |
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I wonder what she thought
As she stood there, strong and tall.
She couldn't turn away,
She was forced to watch it all.
Did she long to offer comfort
As her country bled?
With her arm forever frozen
High above her head.
She could not shield her eyes
She could not hide her face
She just stared across the water
Keeping Freedom's place.
The smell of smoke and terror
Somehow reduced her size
So small within the harbor
But still we recognized...
How dignified and beautiful
On a day so many died
I wonder what she thought.
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CANADIAN PM PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR US --
''OUR CLOSEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD'' September 18, 2001
Weekend News Today reports: “The Canadian parliament postponed its normal business Monday to debate an emergency motion from the government deploring last week's terrorist attacks in the US and pledging full support for the US in its fight against terror. The debate, which needed the unanimous consent
of the House of Commons to proceed, was introduced by Prime Minister Jean Chretien who said this was not just an attack against the United States.
‘The world has been attacked,’ he declared. ‘The world must respond. Because we are at war against terrorism ... and Canada -- a nation founded on a belief in freedom, justice and tolerance -- will be part of that response.’ …”
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When you think the U.S. isn't thought well of all over the world, read this editorial from a Romanian Newspaper.
Why are Americans so united?
They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs,
not even God can count how many they are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about.
The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as
if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!". Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson,
Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul.
What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made
you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests. I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a
wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of
some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy. What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried
for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like common places. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion.
Only freedom can work such miracles !
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Nice Flash Screen and site
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God Bless America 
