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H 23°, L 9°With the memory of Sept. 11, 2001, still burning painfully in our memories and in our hearts, we understand that for today, justice does not exist, revenge will always be impossible and the price we pay for our freedom sometimes requires the ultimate sacrifice.
We are also reminded, today, that life is not fair, and that tragedy strikes good people and families — people and families who deserve something better from life. We are reminded that for thousands of Americans, living an honest, hardworking life does not protect anyone from that which is out of our control.
We are reminded of our own mortality, that we are all just visitors on this planet with a temporary visa, given the ability to make every day better than the last, and with a mandate requiring that each day we have the gift of breath, we must repay this gift with a gift of our own choosing, one constricted only by our own imaginations.
Five years later, with just our hearts and minds, we are still seeking the strength to comprehend our own disbelief that our world can be so cruel.
As we will every Sept. 11, we also think of all the young and old innocent lives taken from us tragically — with still so much more left to offer. And, we realize that every day we go about our lives thinking we are going to see our loved ones some time soon, we remember that many that day knew they were saying "I love you" for the last time, while many others never had the chance to make that last phone call.
Today, as we continue to search for symbols to honor those who honored us by giving their lives to save ours, we realize that no symbol could ever do justice to the heroes and victims of 9/11.
Today, as every Sept. 11 should be, is also about honoring the thousands of heroes of 9/11, in whatever way our hearts tell us we must honor them. For many people the best way to honor the tragedy of 9/11 is through selfless acts of kindness. For some, that will be collecting clothing for the needy, showing appreciation for local authorities with gifts of bakery, raising and donating money to their favorite charities, building homes or any of the other countless ways that volunteer opportunities provide. The website www.mygooddeed.org lists just a few of the good deeds pledged on behalf of the victims and heroes of 9/11.
Opportunities in Madison are plentiful. From the My Good Deed website I entered my zip code, 53703, which returned 38 volunteer opportunities within 20 miles. Opportunities, just to name a few, range from serving the elderly meals, signing up to be a Big Brother or Big Sister, participating in Habitat for Humanity, teaching English to non-native speakers, and teaching children and adults how to read.
Today, we also should remember the words of Alexis de Tocqueville, writing about the United States more than 150 years ago. "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and the genius of America … America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Sept. 11 reminds us that there is no better day than today to do something good for someone else. Tomorrow, and the rest of the year, our rage will be fierce and our resolve strong. Tomorrow, the memory of 9/11 demands that we do everything in our power to protect against another tragedy. Tomorrow, we will continue to fight with guns for our freedom, but today, we must act with our hearts.
Jason S. Ebin ([email protected]) is a third-year law student.
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The memory of 9/11 might still be “burning painfully in your heart”, but I’m pretty sure everyone else just uses 9/11 as a political cliche. The country was united, the whole world was behind us, and we were going to get that rat-bastard who did this to us… then we let him slide.
Our leaders decided Iraq was a better enemy to confront; besides, they had oil and maybe they could build a bomb just like Pakistan’s or Israel’s or India’s or China’s or Russia’s or North Korea’s or ours.
Don’t be scared, we’re Americans, and we get a fresh new start every election day.
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The memory of 9/11 might still be “burning painfully in your heart”, but I’m pretty sure Leftists will keep using 9/11 as an excuse to slander America. Patriotic Americans remain united today, despite Leftist slurs, and patriotic Americans are prepared to defeat the scourge of global terrorism… despite Leftists suffering from chronic Bush Derangement Syndrome. http://www.zombietime.com/hallofshame
Their Krystalnaght-style street riots (euphemistically called “anti-war protests”) began weeks after the 9/11 attacks— DURING the Afghan campaign, well before the Iraq War. Americans still recall CSPAN images of pasty-faced Leftists in mock chants of “Allahu Akbar” in view of our still smoldering Pentagon.
So, while brave American soldiers fight our Islamo-fascist enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, count on the traitorous Left to continue slinging rhetorical feces through the bars of their ideological cages.
On a positive note, patriotic Americans remain grateful that Leftists continue making election day such a clear choice for Americans— thus ensuring responsible Republican leadership in these times of national crisis.
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Right wing jerks and left wing jerks are simply evil! Long live Libertarians and true freedom!
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Thank you Ann Coulter.
It should be noted that the term fascist pertains to members of a specific country emboldened by nationalistic fervor, not religious zeal. If you want to completly redefine the word, that’s your business.
The vast majority of deaths in Iraq are not caused by “Islamo-fascists,” but by death squads that are divided along sectarian (Sunni & Shiite) lines. These are not radical Islamists united against the U.S. It is incumbent upon voters in the U.S. to be able to make this distiction, regardless of who you vote for in November. The conflict is more nuanced than the media blowhards on both sides would have you believe.
It’s true that there are terrorists in Iraq killing both American troops and Iraqi civilians, but, in truth, this is a much smaller problem than the near civil war that is escalating each day there.
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Anonymous at 12:16, your whole rant was a “still-smoldering” pile of “rhetorical feces.” Did you come up with one original idea on your own? Really, didn’t you read all those slogans and buzz-words on the bumper of some rusty Ford?
Do you actually believe 100% of the troops support the president? If the troops vote for someone else, are they not supporting themselves?
Anonymous at 12:16; stay your course, don’t cut and run, terrorists want to hurt you, islamo-fascists, Hitler, WMDs… See, I could be president too.
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“…thus ensuring responsible Republican leadership in these times of national crisis.”
LOL. yeah things are going just swell.
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My typing is dreadful. I wrote Dr.Barrett at your school but made a few errors in composition and perhaps is e:Mail address. My editing is truly awful. What I am presenting is a real explanation about the WTC in a nutshell (an infinite space according to Hamlet). Please understand how hateful I am. For your own sake read this.
The WTC attacks occurred on September 11th, 2001. They happened on that day because 9/11 is 911 the police emergency telephone number. It is not a coincidence. Yet no one has ever mentioned it. The cops/FBI in NJ/NYC are covering up for the media so they can suppress the truth. It is convenient for them and the media (radio/TV) and the Verizon (old Bell System). Suppressing the truth is to keep me/it out of newspaper and out of paper currency in a comprehensive manner.
I am harassed endlessly. I have my life threatened all the time. I believe my wife may have been killed/poisoned. I want her grave opened. Was denied the chance to put a monument on her grave for 16 years due to media and law enforcement meddling. My father was victimized in last days by the media/law enforcement/telephone company apparatus trying to frighten him to death to stop his heart to have me evicted from my home.
Show business trash live in my apartment building on the upper west side of Manhattan, in the area of Columbia University. They are filthy prevaricators.
I am on TV/radio. It is trashy/insulting stuff. It is to influence the naive public so I can be disgraced. The same for the telephone companies’ dialogs. The police blast out slanted crap all the time. Today, the police on their loud speakers said basically. They don’t give a fuck if the WTC was destroyed. Tough Shit. That is what they get. Naturally, I being a convict.
I am called homosexual. A traitor. An assassin. A person who never bathes with bad breathe while I am on network TV/radio and the telephone lines.
I am one of the reasons why the WTC was destroyed. I want something done about it instead of seeing show business scum cover up the truth for their high paying careers. There have been scandals in show business. The Quiz Scandals of the 1950s for one example. The government has investigated show business in the past. It is about time they all get laundered in a senate hearing that is not the typical staged pro-wrestling version. Show business fomented the attacks on the WTC because the top executives of show business in NYC were/are supposed to be arrested. It is so. Not only that it is clearly on video tape because they broadcasted the, well, plain shit. This is plausible/true. Far more than ThePowerHours.com ” In Plane Sight” which is just a cover up for the media/ Bell System telephone companies and law enforcement who are covering up for the formers. To allege that an American military aircraft destroyed the WTC is hyperbole. It has to be a PhotoShop/Final Cut production.
Show business is as corrupt to the rotten core as are their partners in crime the ol’ Bell System telephone companies/NYC/NJ police and FBI.
TV/radio/ and the telephone companies do not want the truth printed. They are counting on a corrupt press to bail them out. They do not want to pay me for the suffering I have endured for decades.
You have a professor there, Barrett. He may have good intentions but is naive. The media is a corrupt business enterprise. The separate explosions at the WTC could very well be a product of Final Cut/PhotoShop (software). As far as flying a jet passenger plane into the WTC, it is my opinion just about anyone could do it basically w/o the slightest training. There is a throttle, a stick, rudder, flaps, set the coordinates on auto pilot, get line of sight and clobber the tower.
I have to be a link to the JFK assassination in Dallas, Texas, November 1963. I have had an incredible amount of run-ins with the law/Secret Service over the Prez since I was 19 years old. I am 62 now. I was in the White House during Watergate, Nixon’s swan song. The Secret Service was in my home, September 1994 when I lived in BoroPark, Brooklyn.
Please, contact me. I have the tools to unravel the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and the WTC. Please do not put the filthy entertainment industry first before the truth. Larry Flint (Hustler) offered a million dollar reward for information regarding the Kennedy, JFK assassination and reigned on it with me, hypocrite bastard.
I am pissed to no end. I know I am under constant surveillance and shit all over the authorities and the media, telephone companies, police in front of every group of people I can find. A lot of people agree with my WTC presentations. My neighborhood is a area of fear.
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If 9/11 had really changed us, there'd be a 150-story building on the site of the World Trade Center today. It would have a classical memorial in the plaza with allegorical figures representing Sorrow and Resolve, and a fountain watched over by stern stone eagles. Instead there's a pit, and arguments over the usual muted dolorous abstraction approved by the National Association of Grief Counselors. The Empire State Building took 18 months to build. During the Depression. We could do that again, but we don't. And we don't seem interested in asking why.