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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 The problem is that the Russian artist who created the work used an outdated list of names of those missing at...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.