9/11: Never Forget, Always Remember
(Image via Fear & Loathing)
“The war on terror is more than a military conflict — it is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century. And we’re only in its opening stages [...] It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st Century. And this is only the beginning.” The President reiterated: “We will stay. We will fight. And we will win in Iraq.”
What can be said that hasn’t already been written, on this blog and millions of others, all of us mourning the massacre that happened on this day, 5 years ago.
We pray that it’ll never happen again. And, collectively, we must do whatever it takes to defend against it; taking serious actions to prevent attacks, on our soil and elsewhere.
The fight against global terrorism is something that should unite all of us, those who live in freedom and believe in democracy, around the world. Unfortunately, competing interests and partisan politics usually prevents unification — until terror strikes at the door.
For one day, if only for one minute, may we all agree that the thousands of lives lost on September 11, 2001 shall remain one of the greatest tragedies — and greatest crimes — in our modern history. Never forget. Semper vigilo.*
God bless America!
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Poster exhibit of 9/11 victims via Moussaoui trial exhibits
(click photo twice for hi-res larger image)
Who are you remembering today?
Others remembering:
Michelle Malkin, HotAir, Gateway Pundit, The Anchoress, SisterToldjah, FloppingAces, Gina Cobb, Fausta, StopTheACLU, Wizbang, Atlas Shrugs (must see photos), Jawa Report, LaShawn Barber, Joust the Facts, Ed Driscoll, Outside The Beltway, Patterico, RightWing News, Amy Proctor
UPDATE:
AP: “Moments of silence mark 9/11 crashes”
Salena Zito: “Officials Remember The Day…”
AP: “On anniversary, Bush to tour 9/11 sites”
“President Bush is abandoning the quiet approach he has adopted in recent years to mark the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
On this, the tragedy’s fifth anniversary, he’ll take a grim but high-profile journey to weep with relatives of the fallen at each of the three scenes of devastation.”
And, fortunately, Democrats can’t accuse President Bush of doing it as a “re-election stunt.” But what’s Hillary up to?
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See 9/11 memorial photos: Here and here
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September 11th, 2006 at 6:29 am
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September 11th, 2006 at 7:18 am
Army Wife Reflects on 9/11…
One of the most striking contrasts between 2001 and 2006 is how Americans have distanced themselves from love of country. Watch some old 2001 footage of the aftermath of 9/11 and youll see American flags everywhere, shouts of God bless America! a…
September 11th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Today I honor the memory of David Gamboa-Brandhorst. He was 3 years old and a passenger on Flight 175 that crashed into the 2nd Tower. I knew one of his two dads, both of whom also shared his senseless death.
Never forget.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:43 am
Reflecting back on September 11th 2001…
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September 11th, 2006 at 10:19 am
The fight against global terrorism is something that should unite all of us, those who live in freedom and believe in democracy, around the world. Unfortunately, competing interests and partisan politics usually prevents unification — until terror strikes at the door.
I think it is a differance in the method of the fight not the fight its self.
But anyway. Go ndeanfaí Día tróchaire ar a ainm
September 11th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Go ndeanfaí Día tróchaire ar a ainm
May God have mercy on their souls?
He may, we won’t.
Besides, they don’t want mercy; they want 72 virgins.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Wonderful rememberance.
Today, I remember Paul Ortiz Jr. A bright, young(21)man with the whole world ahead of him.
That is before he was murdered.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:20 am
May God have mercy on their souls?
I was talking about the people who died in the twin towers.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
I linked you but cannot ping for some reason.
Excellent post
September 11th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
9/11/06…
As the news channels become the History Channel today focusing on a 5-year-old event, I have a request of the bloggers: put aside the partisanship for a day. Knock off the moonbat-wingnut crap for a day. No one cares….
September 11th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
You linked? But I cannot ping?
c’mon, Don, let’s not get personal. Just because you’re a real journalist and all…
*winks*
Thanks for tracking back!
September 11th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
Great post. G. B. America
September 11th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Where I was On 9/11…
I’ve resisted posting this story for several years now, since it seemed that where I was and what I was doing on September 11, 2001 is really immaterial in light of the terror and tragedy of that day. There was……
October 13th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
One thing that struck me as odd in the days after 9/11 was Bush saying “We will not tolerate conspiracy theories [regarding 9/11]“. Sure enough there have been some wacky conspiracy theories surrounding the events of that day. The most far-fetched and patently ridiculous one that I’ve ever heard goes like this: Nineteen hijackers who claimed to be devout Muslims but yet were so un-Muslim as to be getting drunk all the time, doing cocaine and frequenting strip clubs decided to hijack four airliners and fly them into buildings in the northeastern U.S., the area of the country that is the most thick with fighter bases. After leaving a Koran on a barstool at a strip bar after getting shitfaced drunk on the night before, then writing a suicide note/inspirational letter that sounded like it was written by someone with next to no knowledge of Islam, they went to bed and got up the next morning hung over and carried out their devious plan. Nevermind the fact that of the four “pilots” among them there was not a one that could handle a Cessna or a Piper Cub let alone fly a jumbo jet, and the one assigned the most difficult task of all, Hani Hanjour, was so laughably incompetent that he was the worst fake “pilot” of the bunch. Nevermind the fact that they received very rudimentary flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, making them more likely to have been C.I.A. assets than Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. So on to the airports. These “hijackers” somehow managed to board all four airliners with their tickets, yet not even ONE got his name on any of the flight manifests. So they hijack all four airliners and at this time passengers on United 93 start making a bunch of cell phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air to tell people what was going on. Nevermind the fact that cell phones wouldn’t work very well above 4,000 feet, and wouldn’t work at ALL above 8,000 feet. But the conspiracy theorists won’t let that fact get in the way of a good fantasy. That is one of the little things you “aren’t supposed to think about”. Nevermind that one of the callers called his mom and said his first and last name, more like he was reading from a list than calling his own mom. Anyway, when these airliners each deviated from their flight plan and didn’t respond to ground control, NORAD would any other time have followed standard operating procedure (and did NOT have to be told by F.A.A. that there were hijackings because they were watching the same events unfold on their own radar) which means fighter jets would be scrambled from the nearest base where they were available on standby within a few minutes, just like every other time when airliners stray off course. But of course on 9/11 this didn’t happen, not even close. Somehow these “hijackers” must have used magical powers to cause NORAD to stand down, as ridiculous as this sounds because total inaction from the most high-tech and professional Air Force in the world would be necessary to carry out their tasks. So on the most important day in its history the Air Force was totally worthless. Then they had to make one of the airliners look like a smaller plane, because unknown to them the Naudet brothers had a videocamera to capture the only known footage of the North Tower crash, and this footage shows something that is not at all like a jumbo jet, but didn’t have to bother with the South Tower jet disguising itself because that was the one we were “supposed to see”. Anyway, as for the Pentagon they had to have Hani Hanjour fly his airliner like it was a fighter plane, making a high G-force corkscrew turn that no real airliner can do, in making its descent to strike the Pentagon. But these “hijackers” wanted to make sure Rumsfeld survived so they went out of their way to hit the farthest point in the building from where Rumsfeld and the top brass are located. And this worked out rather well for the military personnel in the Pentagon, since the side that was hit was the part that was under renovation at the time with few military personnel present compared to construction workers. Still more fortuitous for the Pentagon, the side that was hit had just before 9/11 been structurally reinforced to prevent a large fire there from spreading elsewhere in the building. Awful nice of them to pick that part to hit, huh? Then the airliner vaporized itself into nothing but tiny unidentifiable pieces no bigger than a fist, unlike the crash of a real airliner when you will be able to see at least some identifiable parts, like crumpled wings, broken tail section etc. Why, Hani Hanjour the terrible pilot flew that airliner so good that even though he hit the Pentagon on the ground floor the engines didn’t even drag the ground!! Imagine that!! Though the airliner vaporized itself on impact it only made a tiny 16 foot hole in the building. Amazing. Meanwhile, though the planes hitting the Twin Towers caused fires small enough for the firefighters to be heard on their radios saying “We just need 2 hoses and we can knock this fire down” attesting to the small size of it, somehow they must have used magical powers from beyond the grave to make this morph into a raging inferno capable of making the steel on all forty-seven main support columns (not to mention the over 100 smaller support columns) soften and buckle, then all fail at once. Hmmm. Then still more magic was used to make the building totally defy physics as well as common sense in having the uppermost floors pass through the remainder of the building as quickly, meaning as effortlessly, as falling through air, a feat that without magic could only be done with explosives. Then exactly 30 minutes later the North Tower collapses in precisely the same freefall physics-defying manner. Incredible. Not to mention the fact that both collapsed at a uniform rate too, not slowing down, which also defies physics because as the uppermost floors crash into and through each successive floor beneath them they would shed more and more energy each time, thus slowing itself down. Common sense tells you this is not possible without either the hijackers’ magical powers or explosives. To emphasize their telekinetic prowess, later in the day they made a third building, WTC # 7, collapse also at freefall rate though no plane or any major debris hit it. Amazing guys these magical hijackers. But we know it had to be “Muslim hijackers” the conspiracy theorist will tell you because (now don’t laugh) one of their passports was “found” a couple days later near Ground Zero, miraculously “surviving” the fire that we were told incinerated planes, passengers and black boxes, and also “survived” the collapse of the building it was in. When common sense tells you if that were true then they should start making buildings and airliners out of heavy paper and plastic so as to be “indestructable” like that magic passport. The hijackers even used their magical powers to bring at least seven of their number back to life, to appear at american embassies outraged at being blamed for 9/11!! BBC reported on that and it is still online. Nevertheless, they also used magical powers to make the american government look like it was covering something up in the aftermath of this, what with the hasty removal of the steel debris and having it driven to ports in trucks with GPS locators on them, to be shipped overseas to China and India to be melted down. When common sense again tells you that this is paradoxical in that if the steel was so unimportant that they didn’t bother saving some for analysis but so important as to require GPS locators on the trucks with one driver losing his job because he stopped to get lunch. Hmmmm. Yes, this whole story smacks of the utmost idiocy and fantastical far-fetched lying, but it is amazingly enough what some people believe. Even now, five years later, the provably false fairy tale of the “nineteen hijackers” is heard repeated again and again, and is accepted without question by so many Americans. Which is itself a testament to the innate psychological cowardice of the American sheeple, i mean people, and their abject willingness to believe something, ANYTHING, no matter how ridiculous in order to avoid facing a scary uncomfortable truth. Time to wake up America.
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