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Today the Navy christens the USS New York, an amphibious transport dock ship sporting a bow-stern forged from over 7 tons of steel salvaged from ground zero. The ship, which is now 70% complete and is the fifth of the NY pedigree, is 684 feet long and engineered to transport landing forces of up to 800 in amphibious warfare operations of the US Marine Corps.  Troops so deployed will surely feel the steel of the Twin Towers -- which couldn't have found a better second home -- beneath their boots as they disembark to defend our nation. And, as they...

WASHINGTON, March 1, 2008 – On what was described as a “fine Navy, Marine Corps day,” in New Orleans, Defense Department officials, servicemembers and distinguished guests gathered today to christen a tangible symbol of America’s mettle. “This is a special day for a magnificent ship that has a special place in the heart of every American,” Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said during the christening ceremony for USS New York. Everyone in the country, he said, has felt a special connection with New York since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “On the day the towers fell, all Americans...

Endure the ad.. Warms the heart. A ship made from the ruins of the World Trade Center......

A new U.S. Navy ship to be christened Saturday was built partly using steel from the 9/11 ruins of the World Trade Center. The company says on its Web site that the bow-stem of the ship, the seventh to be named "New York," includes 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center.

AMVETS National Commander John P. "J.P." Brown III announced today that AMVETS is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of those responsible for the Sept. 7, 2007 vandalism of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. According to the National Park Service, an unidentified substance stained 14 of the memorial's 140 panels. For more information, visit the AMVETS website.

Wedding Band From 9/11 Victim Brings Back Lost Spirit By SEAN KIRST   Mark Morabito, who lost his wife on Sept. 11, received her wedding ring back recently. It was found with some of her remains at the site of the crash last month. (Photo by Stephen D. Cannerelli)     SKANEATELES, N.Y. — Mark Morabito does not separate the original meaning of his wife's wedding ring from the way that it was lost. He accepts it all, joy and sorrow, whenever the ring bumps against his chest.Fourteen years ago he bought the ring from a friend, a diamond broker...

Security: Newly released books and films show a growing pop-culture bias against U.S. counterterror efforts. It's another sign the pendulum is swinging back to a 9/10 state of mind. Six years ago we were united as a nation against a common enemy — 300 million Americans resolved to defeat Islamic extremists. Even Hollywood was on board. But as the nightmare that befell our nation dims, we have turned our anger inward. Now the enemy is portrayed in pop culture as the government, the military and law enforcement — the very forces aligned to protect us from the Islamist enemy. The...

We've reached that anniversary of the worst terror attacks in our history when some Americans are starting to feel distant from the event and no longer overly interested in marking its importance. Six years with no attacks on our soil has helped some forget the horror of that day. A suggestion has been made that some have gotten Sept. 11 "fatigue." A Massachusetts nurse was quoted as saying: "I may sound callous, but doesn't grieving have a shelf life? We're very sorry and mournful that people died, but there are living people. Let's wind it down." Let's not. While marking...

Six years ago, I turned on my television and saw the sickening image of an airplane flying directly into the south tower of the World Trade Center. I did not know that at precisely that moment, somewhere in the skies over the Ohio-Kentucky border, my brother was fighting for his life in the cockpit of his commercial airliner. It would be another 35 minutes before his plane crashed into the Pentagon's west side. Though the term "9/11 family member" had not yet become part of the Sept. 11 lexicon, my first thought upon seeing the plane turn and slam into...

If you go to the link and scroll down to almost the bottom of the page, you'll find a link called "Remeber the Blood of Heroes" It's a moving, emotional video that is a must see for every red-blooded American. It lays out the reasons we must never forget what happened...and it shows just what the anti-Americans who cheered for the attacks are cheering for. And be sure to click on where it says to after the tribute is finished; it contains a stirring speech that speaks volumes about why we're at war and why we must win this war.

Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~General Raymond DavisInfo and photos from this website.             General Raymond G. Davis, who earned the Medal of Honor in Korea in 1950, retired from active duty March 31, 1972, after more than 33 years on active duty. His last assignment was as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps from...

This is the best footage I have ever seen of the World Trade Center attacks.

The pilgrims keep coming, seeking out the fragile 97-year-old woman in her tiny nursing home room filled with pictures and flowers. The attention tires Irena Sendler sometimes. She never sought credit for smuggling 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto anyway. Not for risking execution to save other people's children, or holding out under torture by the Nazis, or enduring decades as a nonperson under the communist regime that followed. She once dismissed her wartime deeds as merely ``the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory.'' ``I'm very tired - it's too much...

NEVER FORGET!   The Freeper Canteen remembers...Keith (Matt) MaupinMissing since April 9, 2004 Never forgotten.    MAUPIN, Keith "Matt" Name: Keith "Matt" Maupin Branch/Rank: U.S. Army Reserves / Pfc  Spec Sgt Unit: Army Reserves 724th Transportation Company, Bartonville, Ill Date of Birth/Age: 20 Home City of Record: Batavia, OH Date of Loss: April 9, 2004 Country of Loss: IraqOriginal Status: Duty Status Where-A-Bouts Unknown April 19, 2004  - ARMY Changes Status to MISSING CAPTURED Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground Other Personnel in Incident: Six other Kellogg, Brown & Root employees;  Thomas Hamill; Sgt. Elmer C. Kraus   Military Unveils New Effort To...

USS New York It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center . It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft. Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds  on Sept. 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total...

Dedication of New Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center Set for June 6, 2007 Sixty-three years after Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to turn the tide of World War II in Europe, a new visitor center at the Normandy American Cemetery in France will open in June 2007 to tell the story of the 9,387 Americans buried there and put the D-Day landings and follow-on battle in Europe in perspective as one of the greatest military achievements of all time. The $30 million visitor center will be dedicated and opened to the public on June 6, 2007 during...

An al-Qaida-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed," as protesters raged across the Muslim world to demand more of an apology from the pontiff for his remarks about Islam and violence. The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified. The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross"...

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Posted By:Melanie MorganPermalinkSacramento Union: Sacramentans Gather to Commemorate 9/11 Attacks NEWS: SPECIAL SECTION: REMEMBERING 9/11_____________________________________________________________ Sacramentans Gather to Commemorate 9/11 AttacksBy SacUnion Staff WriterPeople from throughout northern California converged at the west steps of the State Capitol Tuesday evening to commemorate the 5th year anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Billed as the largest 9/11 commemoration in the western United States, the event was part patriotic rally, part picnic in the park and part candlelight vigil. Music filled the air throughout much of the event.  At times the mood was bright as a sea of American...

Here are some links from the FR archives in observance of the fifth anniversary of 9/11/2001 - Threads list of several breaking news items - Latest Articles The first post reporting the attacks by OldEconomyBuyer - World Trade Center Posted on the first anniversary - Associated Press newswire - September 11, 2001 - Chronology of news alerts, bulletins and flashes

Prez & Laura mark solemn tributes at Ground Zero In every corner of every borough, young and old will gather today to remember. Many will listen as solemn church bells pierce the quiet of 8:46 a.m., the moment the first plane struck the north tower. Some will descend to the lowest level of Ground Zero and tearfully whisper their loved ones' names. And many will simply attend to the mundane details of their lives, pausing briefly to give thanks that they're able to go through ordinary routines on a day President Bush called a time for "renewing resolve." The ceremonies...

Click to view Youtube's 9-11 Tribute: New York Minute Never Forget

NEW YORK - "The Path to 9/11" will break your heart. It will leave you unnerved, even more than before. And angrier than ever. A five-hour miniseries that dramatizes a decade's worth of events leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, this film is plenty gripping. It doesn't forgo artistry for polemics.Even so, it drives home, step by step, a message any viewer can understand: The people in charge of keeping you safe failed the nation monumentally. Systemically. Shamefully. And continue to, five years after what should have been a terribly sufficient wake-up call.Then "The Path to 9/11"...

<p>I didn't hear if anyone was planning for a live thread of the film tonight. Just in case anyone wants to start early. Some in Australia already have seen part 1.</p>

NEW YORK — Ralph Geidel cannot remember a time when he wasn't obsessed with finding things that had been lost or discarded _ forgotten marbles on the playground, old coins, false teeth and silver jewelry at the beach. And he was good at it. This is why, on a warm, spring day, Geidel crouched on his knees on the roof of a lower Manhattan skyscraper, his face inches from a pile of gravel, looking for something precious. Looking for traces of his brother, and others killed at the World Trade Center. Gary Geidel was one of 11 members of an...

As the 5th anniversary of the cowardly and tragic attack on America approaches, let us look back and remember as if we were there. Many people were here on FR, reporting events with lightning speed, with unique insights, with analytical accuracy, with sadness, with anger. Here are some links to the "live" threads from 9/11/01 here on FR. For those of you who have never seen them, it is like watching a piece of history unfold before you, in the familiar style of FR. For those who have seen before but not in a long time, this will be a...

[In]-Justice in the name of Islam and Almighty Allah.....  We are at war with Normal IslamRemember 9/11/2001Do just get mad - Learn More about Islam Differences Between Islam & Christianity Testimony of a Former Muslim Holy War (Pt.1) Holy War (Pt.2) Women in Islam Jesus, Muhammad, God, Allah Revival Amidst (Islamic & Communistic) Persecution Islamic Persecution of Christians (Jihad & Slavery)     

How many times can you watch two hijacked planes explode into the World Trade Center? How often can you watch the Twin Towers fall How many times can you stand seeing scores of New Yorkers run in panic as the debris cloud swallows streets With the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks less than a month away, viewers need to steel themselves for a barrage of retrospectives, re-creations and endless replays of the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The majority will be earnest, respectful even. But at what point does remembrance cross over into ghoulishness? The unofficial...

Psalm 9-11: I will fear no evil By Jules Crittenden Boston Herald City Editor Sunday, August 13, 2006 - Updated: 09:09 AM EST Do you know anyone whose Sept. 11 fears have returned? Someone with a sick feeling and a tightening of the chest, bordering on panic? Someone distraught or perhaps just withdrawn and distracted in the past few days? What do you say to calm their fears? We drive each day on highways where the likelihood that a dumptruck will veer into our path far outstrips the possibility that we will find ourselves on an airplane targeted by terrorists....

New York City firemen and emergency personnel exposed to dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings experienced a decrease in lung function capability equal to 12 years of age-related decline during the year following the 9/11 disaster. The results of a large-scale study outlining this reduction appear in the first issue for August 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society. Gisela I. Banauch, M.D., of the Pulmonary Division at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, and eight associates analyzed the lung function test results of 12,079 New...

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...

Clifk link below, received this in an e-mail and although these are probably already somewhere on FR I couldn't easily find a link.   Photos taken from Brooklyn   http://camazotz.com/wtc/large/index.html

See for example this thread first. Today, on Memorial Day Let me join up with Ben Stein to say to those who served, and died and their loved ones, who cried We owe more than our words can repay!

I'm just trying to be a father Raise a daughter and a son Be a lover to their mother Everything to everyone Up and at 'em, bright and early I'm all business in my suit Yeah, I'm dressed up for success From my head down to my boots I don't do it for the money There's bills that I can't pay I don't do it for the glory I just do it anyway Providing for our future's my responsibility Yeah I'm real good under pressure Being all that I can be And I can't call in sick on Mondays...

there is a cavity in new york. my mind goes back to it like a tounge again and again. it stays in my life when i see old episodes of law and order and old movies like men in black when i see the incisors in all their glory standing like a mountain, breathing life into the setting. funny, it inspires different emotions now. there is a cavity in new york. i never noticed the presence as much before. it's like an old house you passed every day on the way to school. always grateful for the shade without even...

<p>It should be obvious, now, that the young man was a dreamer, a kid with a hole in his heart, searching, a boy trying on various costumes, poses and attitudes.</p> <p>He was looking for that place--perhaps you looked for it too, once--where he could exchange himself, and give himself up to a challenge demanding sterner stuff.</p> <p>It was about great absolutes, apparently, like it is with many intelligent kids, undisciplined, self-centered characters in their own movies, uncertain about what they might become in the future.</p> <p>Some seek to confront that ambiguity with order, finding it in the U.S. military.</p>

Just flashed on Fox, jury has a verdict, to be read at 4:30PM EST!

"United 93," Hollywood's real-time depiction of the hijacked airplane that never reached its target because the passengers fought back, opens Friday amid a wave of controversy and mixed feelings. Is it a stirring homage to the courage of the men and women who sacrificed their lives to thwart the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists, or a crass attempt to capitalize on their deaths? And is the viewing public ready to deal with the movie's emotional impact?

Posted: Thursday, 27 April 2006 7:29AM Construction Begins on Freedom Tower NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg will join Governor George Pataki and developer Larry Silverstein Thursday morning to welcome construction crews to ground zero. The Port Authority yesterday approved a deal that takes control of two towers -- including the iconic Freedom Tower -- from Silverstein, who also OK'd the agreement.Silverstein will still build the tower, but the Port Authority, which owns the site, will ultimately lease it and build a second tower there. The renegotiation of Silverstein's 99-year lease, signed six weeks before the trade center collapsed in 2001,...

Fellow FReepers, As the son of Joe Driscoll, passenger on Flight 93, I was invited to opening of the Tribeca Film Festival to view United 93. Unless you are 110% sure you can't take watching this movie - you have got to see this film. Universal Studios and Paul Greengrass absolutely nailed it. Even though the ending is no surprise this movie is gripping and powerful. There is no political statement - and by no means is this a politically correct tribute. It is rough, true and stark. Almost no one in the film is mentioned by name and nor...

"United 93" is a movie of firsts. It was made from the heart and not to make money, certainly. It’s a short movie but one that you never want to see end — not because the story is so appealing, but because you know what the end is, and you never want it to come. That must have been how the audience sitting in the balcony of the Ziegfeld Theater felt last night at the film’s premiere. When the 93-minute movie ended — in silence, not an explosion — the people in the balcony sobbed in a way I have...

When previews for "United 93" were shown in New York City moviehouses, the crowd whined, "Too soon!" But "United 93" is not arriving in theaters too soon. If anything, it is arriving too late. It has been almost five years since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and most Americans have fallen back to sleep. They've forgotten who our enemy is: extremist Islam. They've forgotten why the Patriot Act was enacted. They've forgotten why it was necessary to listen in on phone calls of Muslims in America to their friends overseas. They've forgotten why it is necessary that many Islamic charities...

Universal's new movie, "United 93," is about United Airlines Flight 93, hijacked on 9-11 by Islamic terrorists shortly after leaving Newark, N.J., for San Francisco. The terrorists intended to fly the plane to Washington, D.C., and crash it into the Capitol. Instead, the passengers fought back and forced the plane down in Pennsylvania, thereby saving the lives of any number of people on the ground in Washington and saving America from a devastating blow to its image. Incredibly there is some controversy about this film. Apparently many Americans are not "ready" to see a film about 9-11 "so soon" after...

Former federal terrorism investigators say a piece of luggage hastily checked in at the Portland, Maine, airport by a World Trade Center hijacker on the morning of Sept. 11 provided the Rosetta stone enabling FBI agents to swiftly unravel the mystery of who carried out the suicide attacks and what motivated them. A mix-up in Boston prevented the luggage from connecting with the plane that hijackers crashed into the north tower of the trade center. Seized by FBI agents at Boston's Logan Airport, investigators said, it contained Arab-language papers revealing the identities of all 19 hijackers involved in the four...

On April 28, Universal is set to release "United 93," a full-length feature film about the events surrounding the fateful flight crashed by passengers in a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. Previews in Los Angeles and New York have already drawn intense scrutiny and emotional reaction. Time reported that audience members in Hollywood shouted "Too soon!" as the trailer was screened; a New York theater actually pulled the trailer after audience complaints. The preview itself is straightforward. The first minute or so consists of typical flight commuting talk as passengers board flight 93 -- "unfortunately, it looks like...

Hamas praised the killing of thousands of Americans in the attacks of September 11, 2001, while saying Muslims could not have been involved... 'snip' * "Allah has answered our prayers," Dr. Atallah Abu Al-Subh wrote in an open letter titled "To America," which appeared September 13, 2001, in the Hamas mouthpiece Al-Risala. * "Every time Dick Cheney and his girlfriend Condoleezza Rice ... admonish us [and] gloat at our misfortune, they incite more [violence against us]! We stand in line and beg Allah to give you to drink from the cup of humiliation - and behold, heaven has answere. ......

The drumbeat continues from certain sectors of this country to make sure that the preview, the trailer for United 93, the new movie that opens on April 28th about the fourth hijacked airplane that did not hit its target, doesn't get shown. People are saying, "It's too soon. It's too soon, it offends me! It offends some people. It's too soon!" These are the same people that can't get enough of the Abu Ghraib photos, same people that can't get enough of the supposed torture and terror that was being committed at Club Gitmo. For all of you people out...

IT is one of the most chilling images to emerge from the horror that has become, simply, 9/11. Against the steel-and-glass background of the World Trade Center, a man falls headlong 1,300ft to the street below. While pictures of the Twin Towers billowing smoke and flames will remain the most enduring image of the terrorist attacks, this one man's dying moments somehow humanise the toll of New York's darkest day. And yet, as famous as the image is, the man's identity has remained a mystery. Until now. Five years after the horror of September 11, 2001, the falling man has...

At dawn on September 11, 2001 in Mount Vernon, New York, a man wakes, dresses, pulls black high-top trainers onto his feet, kisses his sleeping wife and heads to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. Meanwhile in Queens another man — a pastry chef at Windows on the World, the twin towers’ top-floor restaurant — puts on jeans, a blue checked shirt and a Casio watch handed to him by his wife. She drives him to the station, where he waves goodbye, disappearing down the subway steps. In New York City and its suburbs more than...