''The best way we can honor the memory of those we lost on 9/11 is to find homes in the W.T.C. Memorial and in cities and towns around the nation for the hundreds of artifacts we've carefully preserved over the years,'' said the Port Authority's executive director, Christopher O. Ward. The Port Authority hopes to generate more interest in the steel with new advertisements in police, fire and municipal trade magazines. There are 1,800 to 2,000 pieces, half of them very large, which are available for carting away, at the recipient's expense. This does not include about 200 pieces, among them the most familiar and iconic, that have been claimed by the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.These words on the Winslow Plaque...
REMEMBRANCE GARDEN
These two steel beams from the World Trade Center
entrusted to the citizens of Winslow
By the City of New York,
along with this flag that was flown at the Pentagon;
stand as the centerpiece of our Remembrance Garden.
The words 'United We Stand" remind the world
that we will not fear terrorism.
We hereby dedicate this Garden to Northern Arizona's
Promise that
"WE WILL NEVER FORGET"
How often do we remember that world-changing day way back in 2001? How often do we feel the same sense of 'togetherness' we all seemed to have, for at least a few months?
How often can you recall Barack Hussein Obama saying "America is a GREAT NATION, Americans are a GREAT PEOPLE"? He doesn't seem to be proud of America, BHO; every time he sets foot outside the country he's apologizing to somebody for something.
Well, whether Barack Hussein Obama agrees or not, America IS a GREAT NATION, and her people ARE a GREAT PEOPLE. Otherwise we wouldn't have been blessed with such a successful run.
When we worked together, there wasn't a problem that we couldn't solve.
Is that over? Is America now on the skids, falling, soon to be overwhelmed in the Globalism that's promulgated by our current leadership? Are we to be forever splintered, and doomed to lose this Republic, falling into some kind of Global Collectivism event horizon?
How much longer do we have to fly our flag? Proudly? As a Great Nation?
Will we ever have a President again say that America is a Great Nation, that her people are among the finest in the world?
I don't think the current president and his entourage has it in'em.
First off, if you think that President Obama doesn't hold his nation in high esteem, you haven't LISTENED to him. He's the one telling kids they can be anything, telling adults that we can work together to overcome partisan rancor (still playing nice with the Republicans who fling feces at him,) and the one saying that we can become a smarter, slimmer, more energy-efficient, technologically-advanced nation.
ReplyDeleteWhat was George Bush's vision for America? Support my fucking wars and go shopping, you fat clods! Everything's perfect as is!
Weak. I'll take Obama's challenging vision over Bush's coddling any day of the week.
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This need for "exceptionalism" always baffles me. What makes everything in America automatically better than every other nation on the planet? If France has better trains and a higher literacy race, what makes our trains and our illiterates better?
Is it just some kind of God-given magic? Does it apply to everyone? When a Mexican jumps the fence and sets up roost in Tuscon, is he automatically better? What makes your typical fat, harried, chain-smoking, sports-watching, Wal-mart-shopping Nashville slob so fucking special?
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Every 9-11, i stop and think... "Jeez... we were brutally attacked, started two misguided wars in response, have wasted trillions of dollars on them, and we still never found the guy responsible. However, we did kill several hundred thousand mostly-innocent people in the process."
I want a President who has the balls to admit to himself, and to the world, that Bush's reign was a disastrous failure. To do otherwise is to blatantly ignore reality, and we all know what Saint Rand would say about that.
You conservatives are nothing if not insecure. I imagine that you all grew up with at least one coddling parent, who told you over and over that you were the smartest, toughest, prettiest child of them all, never mind what those meanies on the playground say. That's the only way i can see you developing this bizarre need for American exceptionalism.