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.
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Did this A number one arse just mock FDNY at the end of the tripe piece of garbage article?
I’ve HAD it with these liberal scumbag leftists MSM writers. Nothing but contempt from these loons. Makes you see red!
How quickly they have forgotten. What is wrong with these people? Feel like I’m in the twilight zone sometimes. Very strange, very sad, and very frustrating.
The ceremony was at Ground Zero, not Virginia Tech.
I’m surprized Bloomberg, et. al. didn’t quietly sneak these names in. After all, there is no reason not to build a mosque at GZ, and not to read these names would be “judgemental.”
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NEVER FORGET
View this awesome video tribute that every American should watch.
It is the most viewed of any 9/11 videos out there. It now resides at the Smithsonian Institute.
It was made by a New Yorker who lived through the attack, and you can order it at:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Be sure to read authors,”That Day” at http://www.frugalsites.net/911/InStevesOwnWords.htm
and ‘Anatomy of the Attack’ at:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/anatomy.htm
The video was put together by Steve Golding a survivor of the 911 attack who has since who passed away due a lung disease he contracted from his being caught in the attack on the World Trade Center.
So now Steve is also a victim of Islams declaration of war on America.
Steve’s family would like to keep his memory and the video alive on the net by offering sales of his video to keep his web site going.
There are two versions plus the Pentagon Tribute, with other Extras Included.
These videos are VERY inexpensive.
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