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PHILADELPHIA – Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush Administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa., in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Families of Flight 93 sent a letter earlier this month asking President George W. Bush to empower the Secretary of the Interior to take the land in dispute from a homeowner who had been in negotiations with the National Parks Service, said Patrick White, vice president of the families' organization. The group says ground must be broken early next year in time for...

It is difficult to screw up an appearance at Ground Zero on September 11th. You have to be either completely oblivious or completely indifferent. It is a signal feat of idiocy. And yet Barack Obama accomplished it. John McCain and Obama visited Ground Zero together. Obama and McCain entered the site. But while McCain took the time to shake hands with uniformed firefighters and a construction worker with an American flag helmet, Obama ignored them and stood around. But he wasn’t done yet. Both McCain and Obama brought roses to place on the makeshift 9/11 memorial. Obama casually tossed his...

<p>At least one of the VIPs who attended the dedication ceremony Thursday for the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial appears to be selling event memorabilia for hundreds, even thousands of dollars on eBay — to the horror of the Pentagon officials who organized the event.</p>

On ABC News's Political Punch blog, senior national correspondent Jake Tapper writes "Why Wasn't Michelle Obama at the 9/11 Ceremony?" Some readers have asked me why it was that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was without spouse at the 9/11 commemoration ceremony today in New York City. After all, they point out, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was accompanied by his wife Cindy. Where was Michelle? The Obama campaign responds that Michelle was back in Chicago with her daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, since this is the first week of school. The McCain kids, incidentally, have all graduated from high school...

Can't seem to find a quality image online anywhere. It's on the front page of the Des Moines register today.

stand waite with his corn cob pipe clenched in his teeth and his Dr. Suess Flag (it is really the South Carolina State Flag) held high walked a lonely, blustery post for several hours on December 15 a small knoll overlooking the Pentagon, a place that has become a grass-roots shrine to all that is good about our country. The DC Chapter’s Warlord had called a meet but the announcement had gone up late. kristinn informs me that this will be a standing gathering from 1400 to 1600 hours Saturday until Osama bin Laden’s head is on a pike. After ...

Al-Qaeda 'marks 9/11 with video' BBC News, UK - Sep 8, 2008 Zawahiri is thought to be in hiding on the Afghan-Pakistan border The Islamic militant network al-Qaeda, which claimed the 9/11 attacks, has issued a video to mark their seventh anniversary, an Arabic TV channel says. In the 90-minute tape obtained by Qatar's al-Jazeera TV, deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri denounces Iran and the "Crusader" threat to Islam. Zawahiri is last known to have appeared in an al-Qaeda video in April. Other al-Qaeda videos since the 9/11 attacks on America in 2001 featured the group's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Zawahiri...

9/11 -- WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN + WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER Every generation can recall an event that is collectively seared into the mind of a nation and its people. From the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 to the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 and now including that horrible day on Sept. 11, 2001, individuals can tell you where they were, what they were doing and the thoughts that were permanently etched into their minds on those days. The most mundane recollections became riveting stories of the human experience, designed to be filed...

A rendering of the memorial by Tina Reames. The City Council plans to construct a cast bronze war memorial honoring soldiers who've died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because the memorial would also include a visual connection to 9/11, the design—and the $300,000 price tag—are kindling controversy [Council Watch, “Easing Back In,” Aug. 14-20]. Five years after the U.S. invaded Iraq, 54 New Mexican soldiers have died in the conflicts overseas, according to the New Mexico Department of Veterans Services. The memorial is set to be completed by Memorial Day 2009 at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial grounds near Louisiana and...

(AP) President Bush is marking this 6th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks with a closed worship service followed by a public observance. Bush will lead a moment of silence on the south lawn of the White House at 8:46 a.m. eastern time, when the first plane struck the World Trade Center in New York. That observance follows a private service of prayer and remembrance at St. John's Episcopal Church, one block from the White House. Later this morning, the Christian band the Newsboys will take part in a 9/11 memorial service at the Pentagon. After the ceremony, the Newsboys...

The only local monument to a heroic flight attendant from San Francisco killed in the Sept. 11 attacks six years ago is a North Beach mural that vandals have defaced almost beyond recognition. Betty Ong, 45, who grew up in Chinatown and North Beach, was a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane hijacked by the terrorists. Just minutes before the plane smashed into the World Trade Center, she quietly contacted authorities and gave a detailed description of the hijackers. Ong is one of several Chinatown natives depicted in a 200-foot-long, 7-foot-tall mural dedicated to Chinese contributions...

A Minnesota man is upset over a memorial being built for those who died on United Flight 93. Tom Burnett Sr. said the proposed memorial is full of Islamic symbols and does not want his son’s name to be a part of it. His son, Tom Burnett Jr., died aboard flight 93 when it crashed in Pennsylvania. Tom Burnett Sr. said the memorial looks like a giant mosque with Islamic symbols such as a crescent shape around the point of impact that looks similar to the crescents featured on flags of heavily Islamic countries. The superintendent of the memorial said...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A traveling exhibit featuring a 4-ton steel beam that will be part of Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero kicked off a national tour Monday in the state where it was made. City and state officials signed the 37-foot beam and victims' family members wrote messages of remembrance on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. "People say that, after six years, it's time to move on. It's time to get back to normal. Well, there is no normal anymore," said Jason Viglione, 28, of New Jersey. He joined the Air Force after his...

ExclusiveChannel 7 to cut 9/11 memorial coverage By RICHARD HUFF and CORKY SIEMASZKO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSThursday, September 6th 2007, 6:46 PM   The city's top-rated TV station will slash its coverage of the Sept. 11 memorial ceremonies by dropping the most emotional part - the reading of the names of the victims. WABC-TV says it's running "Live with Regis & Kelly" instead, and will follow it up with "Rachael Ray" and "The View," while every other broadcast station in town will cover the ceremony start to finish.It marks the first time one of New York's local broadcast stations...

Rudy Giuliani will speak at the sixth anniversary commemoration the of the 9/11 attacks - bringing protests from his critics.........firefighter families charge that he is being allowed to exploit the event for political gain.

A fight is brewing in New York between some families of September 11 victims and the city over where to hold an annual memorial ceremony after officials said the World Trade Center site was an unsafe venue. The memorial has been held every year at Ground Zero but this year construction is taking place and city officials ruled it unsafe. They have relocated the ceremony to a nearby park.

-- This is a guest commentary on TakeBacktheMemorial.org. In part, it is a response to Mayor Bloomberg's recent comments about the names on the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero. While family members propose they be listed by affiliation, Bloomberg supports their random listing and a more minimalist approach, saying. "I've always been a believer in the less is more, particularly when it comes to things that are trying to encourage you to think."-- by Michael BurkeThe Mayor is right; the memorial belongs to all of America - and future generations. The first debt we owe at the WTC site is...

Along with the many inscriptions that have nothing to do with 9/11, Arizona’s 9/11 memorial commission wanted to include the names of the 19 9/11 hijackers on the memorial in Phoenix... What happened in Phoenix is what would have happened in New York had the International Freedom Center not been removed from the plans and what will happen at Ground Zero if activists sneak back onto hallowed ground. To be clear, we advocate these five things for Ground Zero...

Why wouldn’t they? There are no enemies in their cosmology (except Bush). Violence itself is the enemy. Which means the hijackers are victims too. Oh, and we also sort of deserved it because of our “total support of Israel.” And the Afghan civilians who were accidentally killed in a bombing run ten months later belong on the memorial because they’re all “part of the tragedy of war, terrorism, hatred, [and] mistrust of everyone else.” We’re going to lose. You know that, right? LINK<.b> to video: http://hotair.com/archives/2006/10/10/video-arizona-911-memorial-designers-wanted-to-commemorate-hijackers/

As pre-ordained, Mayor Bloomberg was voted in as chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation yesterday. While waiting for the inevitable, my mind wandered back to late last year and this. Following the 9/11 money (from a New York Daily News editorial, originally published on December 10, 2005) No one knew how much money the city was going to need and for what purposes. Sen. Chuck Schumer presented the best guess to Bush in the Oval Office, and the President said, "You got it." So programs were created, and grants, loans and tax incentives began arriving to meet immediate...

Instead of someone who actually cares about 9/11—its dead and living victims and heroes—and remembrance of the day America was attacked, someone with less interest, without the time, and with an obvious conflict of interest is about to be left in charge of the memorial and museum at Ground Zero. Mayor Bloomberg’s choosing culture over remembrance, arrogant indifference for human remains, sabotaging all prior fundraising for the memorial, and callous disregard for thousands of living victims of 9/11 renders him unfit to serve as the chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. More than five years after 9/11, a...

A September 11th memorial poses peculiar problems for the modern American university. In the typical college of today, the “intellectual” vogues are anti-Americanism and sympathy for America’s enemies. By contrast, patriotism and support for our national defense are embraced about as strongly on college campuses as are capitalism and Dick Cheney. Anything that portrays America as under attack by Islamic terrorists, as even the most purely apolitical 9/11 memorial inevitably will, challenges the university dogma. And so it is often left to students properly to mourn and remember that tragic day when its anniversary arrives. But what if students wanted...

A new state memorial honoring victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack has drawn criticism from a number of sources, including Republican gubernatorial candidate Len Munsil. Munsil claims some of the monument's inscriptions are anti-American. The Arizona 9-11 Memorial was unveiled earlier this month and was sponsored by numerous businesses including The Arizona Republic, Bank of America, Schaller Anderson Inc., McCarthy Building Cos., Bashas' Supermarkets and Grupo N Advertising. The monument was dedicated by Gov. Janet Napolitano on Sept. 11 of this year and is located across from the state Capitol in Phoenix. Munsil and some other conservative Republicans...

Inscriptions etched into Arizona’s Sept. 11 monument — meant to inspire and capture the horror of the terrorist attacks — sparked the beginnings of a political blog battle this week. *snip* One inscription states, “You don’t win battles of terrorism with more battles.� Another: “Congress questions why CIA and FBI didn’t prevent attacks.� And another reads, “Erroneous US air strike kills 46 Uruzgan civilians,� referring to a wedding reportedly hit by mistake in Afghanistan.

Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli presented "Grief Tear" to USA The "Grief Tear" Memorial to the victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks made by Russian artist and sculptor Zurab Tsereteli opened to state anthems of Russia and the USA in Bayonne, New Jersey, on September, 11. The "Grief Tear" Memorial, situated on the bank of the Hudson River, is a split 30-meter bronze plate with a giant tear made of titanium. The names of almost 3 thousand people killed on September, 11, 2001, are engraved on the monument. The memorial is the gift of Russian people, so Zurab Tsereteli and his colleagues...

Poland remembers 9/11 Poland marks the 5th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with solemn ceremonies in many towns and cities. Michal Kubicki reports 11/09.06 In Warsaw, the city’s acting mayor Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and the US ambassador Victor Ashe laid wreaths at the memorial in tribute to the six Poles who lost their lives in the attacks. They also opened an exhibition of two prominent photographers, from Poland and the United States, entitled ‘New York – before and after 9/11’. In Suwalki, northeastern Poland, the school friends and teachers of Lukasz Milewski, one of the victims, met at his...

At dusk on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, residents across the Tucson valley will be able to look up and see two pillars of light streaking toward the sky from "A" Mountain. The beams of light that will flank the red, white and blue "A" on the mountain are intended to mimic the "Tribute in Light" that occurs annually on Sept. 11 in Lower Manhattan. It was all supposed to be a secret until Monday night. "Our original goal was to turn on the lights and not tell anyone," said Tucson developer Jim Campbell, who...

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government showcases Mohammed Khatami, former president of Iran. Khatami gets the royal treatment although the U.S. State Department places Iran on the A-List as a state sponsor of terrorism. Another triumph for enemy propagandists. This week marks the fifth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist strikes on our nation. How best to honor the memories of the nearly 3000 fallen from those vicious attacks? Let's start with the lunacy emerging from distinguished Harvard University. The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States has stepped forward...

BAYONNE, N.J. (AP) - A 100-foot-tall sculpture being unveiled on Monday's fifth anniversary of 9-11 honors thousands of terrorist attack victims, and then some: Carved into the granite base are the names of more than 40 people who weren't killed on Sept. 11 after all. The majestic sculpture across the Hudson River from ground zero will feature 3,024 names of people once believed to have died in the 1993 and Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. The problem is that the Russian artist who created the work used an outdated list of names of those missing at...

D.C.: The customary noon Eucharist at Washington National Cathedral will be enhanced Saturday to remember the events of 9/11. The Rev. John Bryson Chane will offer the homily and the Rev. A. Theodore Eastman will celebrate Holy Eucharist in the Cathedral nave. Virginia Arlington : On Saturday at 9:30 a.m., Arlington County will pause to remember the lives lost at the Pentagon on 9/11 and to honor those who responded to the attack. The public is invited to attend the brief observance at Courthouse Plaza, 2100 Clarendon Blvd. On Saturday, as part of the national September Project, Arlington Public Library...

The names of the dead would be raised to the plaza from the pool level below, as many relatives have demanded. But thundering waterfalls would still cascade into those pools, at the bottom of two enormous voids marking the place where the twin towers stood. The reconceived World Trade Center memorial and museum, unveiled yesterday after weeks of anxious anticipation, tries to solve security problems, placate disaffected family members and, most of all, reduce the project cost from an estimated $672 million. A budget target of $500 million was set last month by Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael...

Leftists are still trying to degrade/usurp the New York City 9-11 Memorial. There is a short comment period for the public. Go Here to comment.

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2006 – In a solemn ceremony under sunny skies, the ground that nearly five years ago was the scene of a catastrophic attack was today dedicated to the memory of those who were killed. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks to the audience at the June 15 site dedication ceremony to mark the beginning of work on the Pentagon Memorial at the site where 184 innocent lives were lost when terrorist hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, USN  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image...

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2006 – A ceremony here today marking the start of construction for the Pentagon Memorial will provide "a reminder of why we all do what we do," the Joint Staff's deputy director for regional operations told Pentagon reporters yesterday. The dedication ceremony, set for 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, will honor those killed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, Army Brig. Gen. Carter Ham said during a Pentagon news briefing. "It's for those who were killed, and their families, that all of us privileged to wear the uniforms of our nation have pledged...

Some pics I took of the Flight 93 Memorial yesterday. I have the rest in panos that are way to big to post.

WOODBRIDGE, Virginia, May 10, 2006 – The people of Prince William County gathered here yesterday to dedicate a memorial that honors the 22 county residents who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Prince William County, Va., residents wait in line to see the Liberty Memorial, which was built to honor the 22 county residents who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The memorial''s dedication ceremony was May 9 in Woodbridge, Va. Photo by Sgt. Sara Wood, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. It took four years and many donors to fund and build the...

It's not your typical boy scout project, but then again, 15-year-old Joey Ricketts is not your typical boy scout. Joey has spent the better part of his life in the Scouts, and when it came time for his eagle scout project... Joey Ricketts, Boy Scout: "I know that a lot of people have done a lot for the World Trade Center and I know the Pentagon is from our state and so I thought it would be nice to do a monument to the Pentagon." But this is not just a project to Joey, it's something more personal. Joey's dad...

To All 9/11 Families, Friends and Supporters, On January 24, 2006 the LMDC Family Advisory Council (FAC) met with LMDC President Stephan Pryor and WTC Memorial Foundation President Gretchen Dykstra as well as several members of their staff. At this meeting numerous issues were discussed including: the proper listing of the Names; putting Artifacts like the sphere and tower facades at the street level of the WTC site; preserving the Footprint remnants at bedrock; moving the Memorial Museum above ground; and the security and safety of visitors to the site. LMDC President Pryor and his representatives were noncommittal in their...

Flight 93 Memorial ACTION ALERT: Stop the terrorist-memorial mosque! The Flight 93 Memorial Project just announced a pair of public meetings this Saturday at the Somerset County Courthouse where it promises “a major, exciting announcement,” with architect Paul Murdoch in attendance. The Project’s last public meeting was the unveiling back in September of Paul Murdoch’s winning Crescent of Embrace design, with its half-mile wide Mecca-oriented crescent. It is very likely that Saturday’s meeting is to announce that Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has given final approval to Murdoch’s design, based on the insignificant design changes announced in late...

Memory lapse Congress and U.S. taxpayers gave the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. $2.78 billion to redevelop the World Trade Center site, entrusting them with the duty of building a magnificent memorial to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. Just months before construction of the memorial is slated to begin, the LMDC is offering the American public a bargain basement version of Michael Arad's "Reflecting Absence." The LMDC's latest iteration of Arad's design is one that is 31% smaller than the original, and the central waterfalls - the most powerful design feature - will only operate nine months out of the...

... Perpetuating a Discredited WTC Urban Nostradamus Myth ___ Daniel Libeskind, who came up with the plan to bury and hide the 911 memorial in New York, has designed an above ground WTC memorial in Padua, Italy, which includes WTC ruins and in the process made a huge factual error based on an New Age urban myth. A press release on omnidecor notes the memorial built almost entirely in etched DecorFlou Clear glass and is in the shape of a 17-metre (55 feet high)book. The memorial is entitled “Memoria e Luce - World Trade Center Memorial” (Memory and Light) and...

You may recall that leftist groups have been attempting to usurp memorials being planned to remember, with honor and with reverence, the 3000 souls who perished at the murderous hands of Islamic terrorists on 9/11. The New York memorial was in the process of turning into a blame-America monstrosity that essentially blamed the victims for this despicable act at the World Trade Center. Fortunately, enough pressure was brought to bear by the families that Governor Pataki courageously called a halt to the unfolding design. Even worse, the architect commissioned to design the memorial planned to honor the victims of Flight...

On September 28, 2005, New York Governor George Pataki announced that he was removing the controversial proposed International Freedom Center (IFC) from the World Trade Center (WTC) Memorial. His announcement officially ended an important battle in America's 40-year-old culture war and signaled a stunning defeat for the far-Left. The IFC's founders had touted their “Freedom Center” as a “world-class place of education and engagement, helping people to understand, appreciate and advance freedom's narrative of hope.” As the gateway to the greater WTC Memorial it would seek to “educate, inspire and engage people around the world to consider freedom's promise, to...

Rocky Mountain News   To print this page, select File then Print from your browser URL: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4102007,00.html Rosen: Let's roll, sans crescentSeptember 23, 2005Thank you, Tom Tancredo. Your letter to the National Park Service was a catalyst to action. Last week, the Park Service announced that it would change the name and modify the design of a proposed memorial to the 40 passengers of United Flight 93 who were killed on Sept. 11, 2001. This was the airplane hijacked by al-Qaida Islamofascist terrorists intent on a target, perhaps the White House or the Capitol, in Washington, D.C. Learning via...

Mrs. Fierro stopped by the Shanksville (temporary) Flight 93 Memorial this past week while travelling from State College PA to the 'Burgh. The place was easy enough to find, and local folks were EXTREMELY polite and helpful in guiding us there. Such a nice difference from the "tolerant" 'Frisco Bay Area. The photos and video reflect the temporary Memorial, with a permanent one in the the works. Pray God they come up with a better permanent Memorial design than that abominable Red Crescent. The mood at the temporary Memorial was somber, but informal. Commercial/political displays are banned, though a few...

Throwing 'em a curve Every now and again we must surrender territory to a cause larger than ourselves. Last week, Ron McRae, a self-ordained minister who makes a hobby of lording his holiness over gays, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons, decided that the use of the term "Crescent of Embrace" to describe a single feature in a multi-faceted Flight 93 Memorial design was a tacit endorsement of Islam. In due course, Michelle Malkin, a right-wing commentator less familiar with the topography of Somerset County than with the direction of political winds, added her thoughts. She said the inclusion of a...

BAYONNE (NEW JERSEY), September 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a stone into the foundation of a monument to the victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist acts. The ceremony took place on Thursday in the town of Bayonne on the Hudson River. The stone bears a sign reading: “A gift from the Russian people. President Vladimir Putin. A monument will be erected here devoted to the fight against international terrorism. The work by sculptor Zurab Tsereteli”. The 30-meter high monument will be erected in front of lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center twins stood. The broken bronze...

A spokesman for the new design said that the panel wanted to avoid all controvery or symbols of Islamism in the new design, and so chose a happy, uplifting central feature, the folded table cloth from a family-style Italian bistro. "Everyone loves bistros," the spokesman said. "A lot of people think of Heaven as a nonstop family-style sharing of calamari and mussels in hot sauce, and we think this design symbolizes that. We're happy to have finally put this controversy behind us.

Some claim crescent is symbol of Islam Friday, September 16, 2005 By Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The architect of the Flight 93 memorial said he is willing to consider criticism about his design -- specifically that the use of a crescent-shaped pathway of red maple trees could be seen as a tribute to Islam that would honor the terrorists that crashed the plane. It appears to be a step back for Paul Murdoch, who just last week said he would be willing to change the name of that element, "Crescent of Embrace," to something else, but not the design...

    Discussions Discuss this column Tools Subscribe to this paper Larger / Smaller Text Kill the crescent By Dimitri VassilarosTRIBUNE-REVIEWFriday, September 16, 2005 The red crescent memorial -- chosen to honor the victims of Mideast terrorists who highjacked Flight 93 -- is an abomination. The proposed semicircle of red maple trees will be a "Crescent of Embrace" around the Shanksville, Pa., crash site of the plane whose passengers fought back when the 9/11 highjackers tried to turn it into a buzz bomb aimed at Washington, D.C. Allowing anything associated with terrorism to memorialize those heroic victims desecrates the...