Posted on 09/12/2010 4:55:36 PM PDT by Libloather
The Circus Comes to Ground Zero
On his way to the ceremony commemorating the victims of the worst attack on American soil, volunteer firefighter Sean Noonan sensed something different on the streets surrounding Ground Zero. He’s come to the former site of the World Trade Center for the past nine years to hear the name of his friend, New York City fireman Paul A. Tegtmeier, read aloud among the rest of the 9/11 victims. Before the ceremony this year, someone in a McDonalds tried to hand him a pin in support of the so-called “Ground Zero mosque,” Noonan scoffed.
Also sensing the impending chaos was Jeanie Evans, whose fireman brother Bobby went to work at his lower Manhattan firehouse nine years ago and came out of the rubble in more than one piece. Evans, 36, came to her ninth 9/11 memorial ceremony wearing a navy blue Engine 33 T-shirt and a laminated collage of Bobby photos around her neck. At 10:28 Saturday morning – the time in 2001 when the North Tower collapsed – she and other family members laid flowers inside the fences that guard the Ground Zero site. There was a call for a moment of silence. The tears came next, in uncontrollable bursts. “You don’t even know you have it in you,” she recalled later, before heading off for a get-together at Bobby’s old firehouse while crowds gathered for the half-dozen planned protests.
To be sure, distractions on the day of remembrance are nothing new: past anniversaries of 9/11 have seen scuffles involving the conspiracy-minded “Truthers” and groups of pamphlet-wielding evangelists. But by early afternoon in 2010, family members wearing white ribbons were outnumbered on the downtown streets.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
To quote a famous New Yorker cartoon...how about never? Is never good for you?
I’ll go out on a limb and predict that none of these “fellow Americans” lost a loved one on 9/11.
how long have we been hearing about rosa parks?
Brilliant & well said!
Geez, we still have troops in Afghanistan, what’s wrong with this guy?
Ryan Tracy should be ostracized from the reporting community.
Looks as if the magazine knows its readership pretty well.
If the above line was actually published by newsweak, the author should be clubbed like a baby seal. Seriously, any writer callus enough to write this garbage deserves to be physically harmed. It also explains why whoever bought newsweak for $1 was ripped off.
Mark
Mohamed Atta (Egyptian)
Waleed al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
Abdulaziz al-Omari (Saudi Arabian)
Satam al-Suqami (Saudi Arabian)
Marwan al-Shehhi (United Arab Emirates)
Fayez Banihammad (United Arab Emirates)
Mohand al-Shehri (Saudi Arabian)
Hamza al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian)
Ahmed al-Ghamdi (Saudi)
Hani Hanjour (Saudi Arabian)
Khalid al-Mihdhar (Saudi Arabian)
Majed Moqed (Saudi Arabian)
Nawaf al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
Salem al-Hazmi (Saudi Arabian)
Ziad Jarrah (Lebanese)
Ahmed al-Haznawi (Saudi Arabian)
Ahmed al-Nami (Saudi Arabian)
Saeed al-Ghamdi (Saudi Arabian)
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Time to start a boycott Newsweek on FB and email.
In more than one piece ? Who wrote this piece of sh!t article ?!
I had a similar reaction to yours... I'd take it one step further though... It's the author that's a POS! That "fireman brother Bobby" didn't just go "to work at his lower Manhattan firehouse nine years ago," but he ran into a burning building to rescue people.
Seriously, the author needs to have the crap beaten out of him or her.
I'm not saying the author doesn't have the right to write this sort of crap. But he or she should have to suffer the consequences of being a major league a$$h0le!
Mark
I’m tired of the slavery issue. Seriously
Brilliant response!!!
What a great idea! Let's go for it - A National Day of Memorial... cool.
Check out this comment under the article...
Imaginica.com
This whole issue is about sensitivities regardless of how it is being played by politicians. I am a Muslim and I believe this location should NOT be used as a mosque. Not all muslims are insensitive. Read this blog post http://silentconscience.blogspot.com/
Sunday, September 12, 2010
New York Mosque Should only be a community center, ‘not’ a mosque: A Muslim’s point of view.
I'm rapidly getting to the point where if I knew who the author of this insensitive, despise-America tripe was, I would bring them their own personal 9/11.
And I promise you I would not grieve them on THAT anniversary.
RyanTracyWorld
.@mxjustinbond If straight “supporters” would be more vigilant about their “support”, perhaps we wouldn’t feel this way?
9:13 AM Jul 7th via web in reply to mxjustinbond
@SarahPalinUSA Fuck OFF
1:31 PM Dec 4th, 2009 via web .
http://twitter.com/ryantracyworld
http://twitter.com/ryanjtracy?max_id=22549941903&page=2&twttr=true
RyanTracyWorld
.@mxjustinbond If straight “supporters” would be more vigilant about their “support”, perhaps we wouldn’t feel this way?
9:13 AM Jul 7th via web in reply to mxjustinbond
@SarahPalinUSA Fuck OFF
1:31 PM Dec 4th, 2009 via web .
http://twitter.com/ryantracyworld
http://twitter.com/ryanjtracy?max_id=22549941903&page=2&twttr=true
People who would say things like that deserve to be Islams next victions then perhaps they would learn.
Where did you find these comments? I went to respond and they were not in this article’s comments.
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