A response to the handling of the Patraeus report from Scrappleface:
These sessions should have brought the nation together to focus on victory and to sound a warning to our enemies that we are united — committed to defend freedom and to defeat freedom’s opponents.
Instead we watched as career fund-raisers and clever lawyers used the opportunity […]
The cross has been taken down, but I remember the powerful emotions that I felt when I realized that the steel girders bent into shape had been snapped and twisted by an evil that could not be contained. A Goodness that was larger than that evil, made something beautiful in the wreckage.
God Bless America
Thanks […]
Cross-shaped beam moving from WTC site to nearby church
October 5, 2006, 8:17 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) _ Workers on Thursday morning began taking down the T-shaped steel beam known as the ground zero cross and prepared to transport it to a church three blocks away, where it will remain during the rebuilding process.
The 20-foot-tall, cross-shaped […]
Mark Steyn takes on the 9/11 memorials in another must read column.
Underneath was something headlined “Half a Decade Gone By, A Reporter Still Cannot Comprehend Why.” Well, in that case maybe you shouldn’t be in the reporting business. After half a decade, it’s not that hard to “comprehend”: Osama bin Laden issued a declaration of […]
September 11th, is a very special day for all of us. But I’ve been looking for something for years that would churn the same emotions in me that I felt that horrible day. Something that would stay in my gut long after Sept. 12, 13, 14, etc. Today, I found it. […]
Stephen James Lauria, 39, project manager for Marsh & McLennan, died in the WTC attack of September 11, 2001. Please read the very touching eulogy for him from February 12, 2002. Here’s one that tells you a lot about the kind of man he was:
Stephen was cheerful, loving, tolerant, helpful, compassionate and […]
Here’s one tribute to 9/11 worth reading.
Two thousand one, nine eleven
Three thousand plus arrive in heaven
As they pass through the gate,
Thousands more appear in wait
A bearded man with stovepipe hat
Steps forward saying, “Lets sit, lets chat”
They settle down in seats of clouds
A man named Martin shouts out proud
“I have a dream!” and once he did
The […]
I just watched two incredible specials on the National Geographic Channel, Inside 9/11:War on America and Inside 9/11:Zero Hour:
NGC presents an updated version
of its Emmy-nominated miniseries.
Inside 9/11 reveals a clearer picture of the events of that tragic day. New details from the past year have been incorporated into the special, including the trial […]
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
‘WTC’ casting error draws flak from African-Americans
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
By L.A. Johnson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A hero of another color in Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center” has some people again balking at the whitewashing of a black character in a Hollywood film. This time it’s the character of Marine Sgt. Thomas, one […]
WTC officials face admission-fee friction
NEW YORK - After wrestling with the costs and design of the Sept. 11 memorial, planners face another dilemma — whether to charge admission to the museum honoring those who died at the World Trade Center.
The rest of the story is HERE.
They have argued about location, cost, design, deadlines, building companies, […]