Posted on 09/11/2008 3:53:03 AM PDT by knighthawk
Thanks.
Vanacore, Edward Raymond
He was from m home town
I went to school with his older brother. His nephew was in my youngest pre-school class in September 2001. We have a tree planted for him on the town green.
As long as I live I will NEVER forget.
Roger that!
Lynch, Jr., Robert Henry
Age 44 - Cranford, NJ
I did not know Robert Lynch well. He taught a course I took every other year, and I remember him as a very bright, very personable man, who was always full of good stories and insights into his profession.
Robert Lynch was a facility manager for the Port Authority. A few weeks before, he had been promoted to the PA’s flagship property at the World Trade Center from his job at Kennedy Airport. It was a huge opportunity that he had been working toward for years. Not only was it a promotion with more pay and recognition, it also was closer to his home, which meant he could spend more time with his family.
I remember Robert Lynch as a no-nonsense facilities guy. The kind of guy who knew the technical stuff, but also knew the personal stuff that you need to manage large groups of people working on a complicated task. The Port Authority was right to give him that promotion. He was a very capable man.
When the first plane struck on 9/11, Robert Lynch got busy organizing his department and dispatching his mechanics to supervise the operation of the elevators and fire pump systems and to assist in the evacuation. The non-police employees of the Port Authority are often overlooked as heros on 9/11, but that is perhaps inevitable, given the many acts of heroism witnessed on that day. They stayed at their posts, and did all that they could. They saved countless lives.
After the first tower fell, Robert Lynch pulled his workers who remained alive out of the buildings. There was nothing more that they could do. After he had his remaining men safely out of the building, he was last seen going back into the remaining tower to search for any who might have been left behind, minutes before it fell.
Robert Lynch was one of the heroes of 9/11 you never heard about. Surely there are many, many more.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel
Since God is marching on.
The nineteenth century eloquence may be strange to some ears today, but this glorious song perfectly summarizes the righteousness and justice of our cause, and the steadfastness that will bring final victory.
I am heartsick at the killing and the grief, but let it continue until the last terrorist is dragged from his hole and killed; and until the last traitor is sentenced, and the last enabler reduced to poverty and disgrace.
I promise that I will NEVER forget!
LLS
...and lipstick upon his lips!
LLS
I did not know James Nelson. I met his family a few months after 9/11, because his daughter was in my daughter's Irish Dance class.
His wife, Rosanne, was a wonderful woman, working hard to raise her two daughters, but she was devastated by the loss of her husband. We helped where we could, and everybody was always on hand to talk to or comfort the family.
I still see Rosanne from time to time, around town. Her daughter is no longer taking dance, but you run into people, here and there. She and her daughters are doing well, and have gone on with their lives. As hard as that is, there is really no choice.
Kumpel, Kenneth Bruce
My cousin by marriage. He was a firefighter who ran to help his brothers on his day off. Survived by a wife and two sons, our family will never forget 9/11. May God please help the family of all the victims get through this day.
Andrea Lynn Haberman
Rest in Peace
I can remember the song being played during the service at the Washington National Cathedral with Bush sr and jr present. I knew when they played it we would go to war with terrorism and liberate the Afghani people from the evil that sheltered Osama:
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Dan Frederic Shanower
Lost at the Pentagon
Rest in Peace
I hadn’t even thought about it that way, but the Battle Hymn is a very fitting song for what we face today.
The enemy we face today is radical Islamic terror. Period. The problem is those who are also Muslim but don’t buy into that kind of Islamic behavior won’t help us sort them out. Until they do, our only choice is to do our best to separate them and deal with the bad ones.
Can you imagine the uproar that would come from Christians of every sect, denomination, type, etc. if anything even close to this worldwide assault was being done in the name of Christ?
I am reminded that each one of these names, though few of us reads each name, was someone alive with hopes and dreams and family and friends... I have a book of the Oklahoma City bombing which tells of the victims. A book of 9-11, even with just a paragraph for each victim, would be a thousand pages.
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