Posted on 09/11/2009 7:59:49 PM PDT by goodnesswins
LET'S NOT LET ANYONE REDEFINE THIS DAY....
September 11th is Patriot Day
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President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lead a moment of silence on the South Lawn with White House staff and families of victims of 9/11.
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and White House staff on September 11, 2009.In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the 2,993 casualties in the September 11, 2001, attacks. Most Americans refer to the day as "Nine-Eleven (9/11)," "September 11th," or some variation thereof.
U.S. House of Representatives Joint Resolution 71 was approved by a vote of 407-0 on October 25, 2001. It requested that the President designate September 11 of each year as "Patriot Day." President George W. Bush signed the resolution into law on December 18, 2001 (as Public Law 107-89). It is a discretionary day of remembrance.
Initially, the day was called the Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims Of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001.
On September 4, 2002, President Bush used his authority created by the resolution and proclaimed September 11, 2002 as Patriot Day.
On this day, the President directs that the American flag be flown at half-staff at individual American homes, at the White House, and on all U.S. government buildings and establishments, home and abroad. The President also asks Americans to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time), the time of the first plane crash on September 11, 2001.
That’s exactly right! Screw the “State”.
God bless the United States of America!
You took the words right out of my mouth!
NEVER SURRENDER! NEVER STOP DEFENDING FREEDOM! ONE NATION UNDER GOD; IN JESUS’ NAME!
Unbelievably, my youngest son had to go down to the office at school today and ask the principal why that so far there hadn’t been any mention made of what today was.
She didn’t seem to get it, until he got a little heated with her, it was 9-11 PATRIOT DAY.
They had a moment of silence at 10 o’clock.
The woman is a good woman, but in this little burg, 9-11 really had no impact on most people and she’s a product of the burg.
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