THE ATTACK ON AMERICA MEMORIAL SITE
ALWAYS REMEMBER - NEVER FORGET!
Posted on 09/11/2009 10:04:16 AM PDT by diefree
Remembering is sacred. Yet Congress has created a National Day of Service and Remembrance to remember 9/11, an act that has shifted the emphasis from memory to activism. Painting park benches or tutoring in schools is not a worthwhile tribute to those lost on 9/11.
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Hear! Hear!
To add more nausea:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336136/posts
The Van Jones legacy.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Odd Lincoln didn't say we should practice ACORN style community service or prance around like a bunch of brown shirts saluting dear leader either.
Community Service will prevent another 9-11?....
King Obama!,.... YOU SIR, ARE FULL OF CRAP!
We have a moron in chief, who most in military despise.
It won’t stand. Obama is a fool and I pray that God in His own perfect timing will unmask him for the usurper and criminal that he is.
He’s all about “Audacity” alright.
The audacity to insult a nation, her heroes and victims families and a day of memoriam to put a shine on HIMSELF and ACORN-style activism.
I already put in thousands of “days of service” for this country.
It’s amazing that almost no one knows about Green the Block. Isn’t MLK day the National Day of Service anyway?
>> New National Day of Service is no way to honor the 9/11 dead
And neither is it a way to honor those who gave their lives and time selflessly, voluntarily, and without the opportunistic command of authority.
It won’t take and it won’t last.....there are still real Americans here....
Post links to the “Green The Block” thread where appropriate here on FR. Threads are moving quickly this week.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336136/posts
The national Day of Service is the formal title of The National Day of Corvee Labor. The serfs show fealty to the lord by providing free labor for his project.
Corvee labor is sweat tax
Screw Hussein. We’re doing the “Walk For Freedom” from the Reagan Library. Just got a recorded call from Simi Valley Police saying there’ll be a low jet fly-by over us to kick off the event. (So we can be prepared in case pets freak out, etc.)
National day of service my a**. I don’t server the government they serve the citizens of the USA. Down with this treasonous dictator.
What exactly does commemorating an attack against American civilians who were beginning their work day at their places of employment have to do with “investing in clean energy?” Not a blessed thing.
Obama’s theme for this day, like almost everything else that emanates from him and the Democratic Party and is dutifully retransmitted by the mainstream media, is about what they want for America and nothing else.
At the funeral mass for Sen. Kennedy, the very first petition (normally, it would be for the Church, the sick, or, especially at a funeral, the souls of the deceased and what we Catholics refer to as “the faithful departed”.) The memorial service for Sen. Wellstone was 80% campaign rally, 10% political event, and 10% to celebrate the life of the deceased.
Even when the dead are their own, the Democrats place their political agenda ahead of everything including honoring the dead. And the mainstream media dutifully supports their efforts.
Go to Obama’s serve.gov and see what others are doing on this day. According to the Heritage Foundation, “In Oklahoma students will pull weeds, plant flowers, paint benches, and plant a tree. In Minnesota, 100 volunteers will assemble Energy Efficiency Outreach Bags. And in South Carolina AmeriCorps members will serve in a variety of projects, including garden beautification, food and clothing collections, and working with homeless and hungry people.”
None of that has even the faintest connection to what happened eight years ago on 9-11.
Leave it to Obama and the Democrats to find new and creative ways to desecrate the memory of those who died on 9-11, and especially the 343 firefighters and paramedics and 60 police officers who perished while bringing others to safety. It is an absolute disgrace to, on this day, diminish their ultimate sacrifice by featuring those who “assemble Energy Efficiency Outreach Bags” (whatever that is) or beautify gardens.
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