WIDOW WALKS HERO COP'S BODY OUT OF PIT

March 8, 2002 -- Helga Curtin walked her police officer husband's flag-draped body out of Ground Zero in front of a blue honor guard.

Sgt. Michael Curtin's body was found Wednesday night near that of Police Officer John Perry - in front of the wrecked Customs House, where the two were trapped when the World Trade Center's north tower fell Sept. 11.

Sitting here in the pre-dawn darkness of my home, a thousand miles from New York, I said a prayer for this fine man and his family. and snapped him one last salute. For all the talk that "this nation is finished," we are mot done as long as we raise up excellent people like this man, and his whole family.

Congressman Billybob

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The courage of the men and women, ordinary Americans, doing extraordinary things, will always exemplify the true spirit of America.

Cowards like Tom Daschle, and Bill Clinton are a side show circus compared to the great Americans who have given their lives to help others, or are now fighting on the front lines to protect American shores!

God bless all those extraordinary Americans!

Prayers also sent to Helga Curtin, and her late husband! I marvel their courage and strength!

>>..Cowards like Tom Daschle, and Bill Clinton are a side show circus compared to the great Americans who have given their lives to help others, or are now fighting on the front lines to protect American shores!..<<

Well said!!

The events of September 11 have awakened the American people. That's why President Bush has an 80% approval rating. That's why no one cares about Enron. That's why no one cares about what Daschle says.

These sideshow freaks may dominate the liberal media news and talk shows, but they do not dominate the hearts and minds of the American people.

Our hearts and minds are focused on our troops fighting for our very survival!

What a wonderful tribute to her fallen hero-husband.

I'm so glad they are still finding people, if only to give their families some closure.

Someone I know had her friend, a former co-worker found "intact" with his ID on him etc....The coroner remarked that it was unusual to find someone in this condition and easy to identify through wallet.

I remember when getting the call about him being found, being so happy - that gave pause to realizing that how much we have been changed, by these terrorist animals - feeling grateful that a 25yr old man's body was found.

The sad part of this story is that they theorize he had actually "made it out of the tower" only to be crushed to death seconds later by the collapse.

Never Forget.

"Never Forget."

Amen.

Too many Americans HAVE forgotten. The "Hate America" people are becoming more and more visible and vocal as time goes on. It has only been 6 months and already the tide is turning to those who wail and insist that we got what was coming to us and the war in Afghanistan is wrong.

I think the news media has an obligation to keep the scenes of 9/11 alive and in our faces day after day. I want to see stories about victims and survivors on a daily basis....not out of some morbid curiosity, but because it gives me comfort knowing that such stories might be making some "Hate America" people squirm and question their convictions.

God Bless us all....God Bless America!

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