[Thanks to ForGod'sSake for the original graphic]
Posted on 04/20/2002 1:15:34 PM PDT by Jeff Head
The Petition to New York City regarding the Firefighter Memorial
protesting the originally proposed Ground Zero Flag Raising Statue and seeking that any future plans for a memorial be non-political and historically correct, has surpassed the 400,000 signature mark. It now stands at:
400,001 Signatures
We will keep this petition going until it is clear that future plans for the memorial are not politcally driven and are not revisionist. That being the case, please continue to point others towards the petition site at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/flgraise/
to sign and forward the petition on to all they know.
We are winning this fight since the original statue has been cancelled and other plans to date appear not to be political or revisionist.
In as much as the attention and notice has dropped way off due to the cancellation of the originally planned revisionist statue, and since the signature rate has fallen dramtically off ... this will be the last post regarding this subject ... short of new revisionist plans of course.
Here are the prior FR threads regarding this:
WTC Flag Raising Petition BREAKS 300,000 SIGNATURES!!! - 1,640 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition surpasses 250,000 signatures - 763 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition - First 120,000 signatures shipped to NYC - 76 posts
WTC Flag Raising & Memorial Petition Status - Surpasses 200,000 Signatures!!! - 315 posts
WTC Flag Raising & Memorial Petition Status - Surpasses 150,000 Signatures - 501 posts
UPDATE/STATUS/PLANS - WTC Flag Raising Petition - 127,500+ Signatures 422 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Surpasses 100,000 Signatures - PRESS RELEASE 486 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Breaks 75K Signatures 880 posts
FDNY inspired on-line petition blows by 64,000 signatures, 1 week 196 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition gathers over 40,000 Signatures in Four Days! 75 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Breaks 10,000 signatures in two days! 198 Posts
Online Petition: Depict the Flag Raising at Ground Zero of the WTC Attack as it Actually Occurred! 717 posts
I'm sure you don't charge those wonderful people in the military either!
Day 01 - = January 15 = *2,800-----Day 12 - Total = 101,600
Day 29 - Total = 204,400----Day 42 -- Total = 300,300
Day 96 - Total = 400,200--- Day 100, 4/25/02 - Total = 402,200
Week 01 = 64,400-----Week 02 = 51,400 Total = 115,800
Week 03 = 35,600-----Week 04 = 41,800 Total = 193,200
Week 05 = 64,700-----Week 06 = 42,400 Total = 300,300
Week 07 = 30,500-----Week 08 = 17,800 Total = 348,600
Week 09 = 15,000-----Week 10 = 11,800 Total = 375,400
Week 11 = 10,300-----Week 12 = *7,900 Total = 393,600
Week 13 = *4,100-----Week 14 = *3,500 Total = 401,200
Week 15 = *2,200-----Week 16 = *2,400 Total = 405,800
Week 17 - LET'S ROLL!!! into Mother's Day and give thanks to all the moms(and dads) for their service sons and daughters protecting US around the world!!!
A SCIENTIST walks into a drugstore and asks for acetylsalicylic acid. The druggist says, “Don’t you mean aspirin?” The scientist smiles ruefully and replies, Yeah, I never can remember the name.”
An into the weekend "Mother's Day" bump
The wealthy businessman says, "I am one of the smartest men in the world, and the world needs me, and he jumps."
The priest, starts to explain to the Boy Scout who interrupts and says..."Don't worry, father, one of the smartest men in the world just took my backpack."
When the Priest offers the Boy Scout his chute, the boy says, "Don't worry Father, the most important man in the world just jumped with my back pack" ... LOL!
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
We could never fly!
God knows exactly how much we can take and I truly believe He will never give us more than we can handle. If you are going through something tough, I encourage you to be strong and rejoice because God knows that you are strong and can handle the situation. Keep focused on the Master and you will always come forth victorious. Praise the Lord for His loving mercy that He gives to all, freely.
Read and meditate on these scriptures:
Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
1 Peter 5:6-7 "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you."
Psalm 27:1-2 "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell."
(Read all of Psalm 27)
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