Posted on 09/10/2004 7:18:58 PM PDT by Cacique
On September 11, 2001 our nation was attacked. Like many New Yorkers Steve Golding lost a friend in the World Trace Center attack. He created a flash video that became one of the most watched videos on the internet. I was webmaster for WABC radio host Steve Malzberg at the time and contacted Steve Golding to see if we could run the video from our website. It was the most requested video that we had on the site. It is appropriate that on this anniversary I link to it again so that we can be reminded what this anniversary is all about. Why our friends, neighbors and relatives who serve in our armed forces are sacrificing their lives. It must also serve as a reminder why we must mnake the right choice on November 2, 2004. Too many of my fellow New Yorkers have forgotten or at least they have become complacent, thinking we can negotiate with evil. We cannot. I am linking to the video so that we can remind ourselves of that day and also so that some newbies to this site who have never seen it may have the opportunity to view it. You can view the video by clicking on the link below, a new window will pop up. It is a large file (7 megs) so please be patient.
Steve Golding is also a member of Rolling Thunder and the webmaster of http://www.powforum.org
After the attack and during the recovery a memorial light was put in place. Two powerful spotlights facing the sky where the towers stood. The following shots were taken by me from pier 58 in Brooklyn on April 13, 2002 one day before the lights were switched off. It was also my 50th birthday.
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I just remember how my life, and my family's life changed forever - even though none of us were there, we all were forever changed.
http://johnkerryquestionfairy.blogspot.com/2001/09/rock-from-which-we-are-cut.html
My daughter would later turn away from her scholarships and would choose to join the Air Force, and my husband would pursue the Coast Guard Reserve. But no change has affected me so much as to watch my young son grow up in this world for which he was created, to wonder what his life will be like if we do not win this war...
We have to win this war.
Chuckle. I might have written the same...
Glad to see you here.
It is wonderful that you shared it with us here. I think many can relate.
THE LADY
I wonder what she thought.
As she stood there, strong and tall.
She couldn't turn away,
She was forced to watch it all.
Did she long to offer comfort
As her country bled?
With her arm forever frozen
High above her head.
She could not shield her eyes
She could not hide her face
She just stared across the water
Keeping Freedom's place.
The smell of smoke and terror
Somehow reduced her size
So small within the harbor
But still we recognized...
How dignified and beautiful
On a day so many died
I wonder what she thought,
And I know she must have cried.
Author Unknown
You are welcome. We can't forget.
Yes, I know. It will never be any easier either. :(
Beautiful, rintense. Thank You.
Of all the ones I bookmarked this one is the last one that it still working. (It might be the one you gave)
http://www.pentagonattack911.com/wtc.htm
I've cried gallons over this one. I cried today when I went to memorial service and I'll cry tomorrow as we preform our family's ritual of replacing the American flag that flies in front of house with a new one.
That is beautiful, Julie. Thank you.
Thank you
and thank you! :D
Are there any tv specials tomorrow at all??? Any memory at all??
The day that broke our hearts.
You mentioned Todd Beamer, I was just looking up flight 93.
He said to his wife. " I don't think we're going to get out of this thing. I'm going to have to go out on faith."
Each and every one a hero.
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