IN MEMORIAM, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

One of my websites ^ | September 11, 2001 | Steve Golding and Cacique

[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's Video

 

 

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.

NYC 4-13-2002

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[NYC GOP Chick]

Very poignant. Thanks.

[KangarooJacqui]

Thankyou. I will be at the parade in Ipswich (town closest to RAAF Amberley, our largest Australian Airforce base) when they welcome home the Iraqui Aircraft controllers and other crew in October... to be followed by an Amberley Air Show.

The last Amberley Air Show was scheduled for October 2001, but as soon as those towers fell I knew it was all off.

As a member of an airforce family in an airforce town, I'll be there, and be giving my thanks to the many who have fought in both wars since 9/11...

[paul51]

We will never forget

[MarMema]

Thanks, we're going Russian this year. Handing out the water bottles in front of the Russian embassy with these signs.

(Russian and US flag) "Together Against Terrorism"

"Water for children, Extradition for chechen rebels"

"outhouses, spiderholes, Go Putin, Go Bush.

"They shoot children"

Anyone in Seattle, stop by for a free bottle of water at the Russian embassy. 2001 6th Street, Seattle.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I can't believe it's been three years.

[RJL]

Thanks, it's a keeper.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I FOUND IT!!!!!

World Trade Center Posted on 09/11/2001 5:52:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

[katnip]

So many of the links I saved for 09-11-01 are dead. Thanks for keeping the best one alive and posting it today.

I appreciated this article written by the editor of a Romanian newspaper regarding the attacks and find rereading it reenergizes me for our war on terror.

A n O d e t o A m e r i c a
Cintarea Americii



Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart.

Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colours of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!".

Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different tv channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests.

I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to sacrifice for their fellow humans? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy.

What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion.

Only freedom can work such miracles!

[Conservababe]

I am going to remember, mourn and cry, but I am not going to lower my flag to half staff, as my President has asked. I simply disagree with him.

I will fly my flag high tomorrow. If we lowered our flag on every anniversary that the USA was attacked, it would not fly high but very few days.

We are at war and we shall win.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Awakening a Sleeping Giant

NEVER forget!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Neither can I.

[admiralsn]

This picture always gives me chills. There is a REASON for the bright light in Heaven at the end of those beams!!

[Heart of Georgia]

Beautiful tribute.

After watching this video, the way I felt that day came flooding back. I have that same heavy knot in my stomach. I remember being stunned and horrified and angry at whoever did this to us.

I remember watching President Bush standing on that pile of steel and rubble, shouting to be heard, and the feeling of relief I had when he assured us that we were going after the murderers. I knew he wouldn't back down...and he hasn't!

I hope we never forget Thanks for the reminder.

Let's keep rollin'!!!

[Dr.Syn]

Please remember one of our best friends, Barbara Olsen. She was a great loss to this nation.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

A reminder that terror can never be appeased.

These bestial creatures will stop at nothing to achieve their objective, which is the elimination of Western civilization.

In toto.

We won't let it happen.

-Gerard Perry.

[Soaring Feather]

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!!!

[MistyCA]

It just never goes away....at least not far.

[MistyCA]

Thanks for sharing that, Spunky

[MistyCA]

The horror of the situation in Russia is overwhelming also. No child anywhere should have to be witness or victim of such treachery.