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LET'S NOT LET ANYONE REDEFINE THIS DAY.... September 11th is Patriot Day From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lead a moment of silence on the South Lawn with White House staff and families of victims of 9/11. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and White House staff on September 11, 2009.In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the 2,993 casualties in the September 11, 2001, attacks. Most Americans refer to the day as "Nine-Eleven (9/11)," "September 11th," or some variation thereof....

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The White House on Thursday released the following proclamation from President Obama regarding Pariot Day and National Day of Remembrance and Service. "Through the twisted steel of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the scarred walls of the Pentagon, and the smoky wreckage in a field in southwest Pennsylvania, the patriotism and resiliency of the American people shone brightly on September 11, 2001. We stood as one people, united in our common humanity and shared sorrow. We grieved for those who perished and remembered what brought us together as Americans. Today, we honor...

I’ve been reading about the planned Sept. 11 National Day of Service. I certainly do not have an issue with service, but if my memory serves right – and it does today – we already have a national day of service… Martin Luther King Day. There has been a bit of a kerfuffle about Democrats selecting Sept. 11 as a national day of service. The event – with more at Serve.gov – been discussed over at Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs and Gateway Pundit, but I’m wondering what this development means for the Martin Luther King national day of volunteer service?

I looked for something relating to 9/11/01 on the many calendars in my home. Only one rememberd it was Patriot day.

BUSH 7, TERRORISTS 0September 10, 2008 Morose that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on American soil for seven long years, liberals were ecstatic when Hurricane Gustav was headed toward New Orleans during the Republican National Convention last week. The networks gave the hurricane plenty of breaking-news coverage -- but unfortunately it was Hurricane Katrina from 2005 they were covering. On Keith Olbermann's Aug. 29 show on MSNBC, Michael Moore said the possibility of a Category 3 hurricane hitting the United States "is proof that there is a God in heaven." Olbermann responded: "A supremely good point." Actually, Olbermann said...

Morose that there hasn't been another terrorist attack on American soil for seven long years, liberals were ecstatic when Hurricane Gustav was headed toward New Orleans during the Republican National Convention last week. The networks gave the hurricane plenty of breaking-news coverage -- but unfortunately it was Hurricane Katrina from 2005 they were covering. On Keith Olbermann's Aug. 29 show on MSNBC, Michael Moore said the possibility of a Category 3 hurricane hitting the United States "is proof that there is a God in heaven." Olbermann responded: "A supremely good point." Actually, Olbermann said that a few minutes later to...

A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America September 11, 2001, was etched into America's memory when 19 terrorists attacked us with barbarity unequaled in our history. On Patriot Day, we cherish the memory of the thousands of innocent victims lost, extend our thoughts and prayers to their families, and honor the heroic men and women who risked and sacrificed their lives so others might survive. Since 9/11, we have recognized the threat posed by terrorists to the safety of the American people and worked to protect our homeland by fighting terrorists abroad. We are confronting terrorism...

Likewise, those 9/11 families should know that, if you want your child's death that morning to have meaning, what matters is not whether you hound Boeing into admitting liability but whether you insist that the movement that murdered your daughter is hunted down and the sustaining ideological virus that led thousands of others to dance up and down in the streets cheering her death is expunged from the earth. In his pugnacious new book, Norman Podhoretz calls for redesignating this conflict as World War IV. Certainly, it would have been easier politically to frame the Iraq campaign as being a...

Why we should remember 9/11 By JAY AMBROSE Scripps Howard News Service Thursday, September 06, 2007 Let's quit making a big deal out of 9/11, some are saying as the sixth anniversary rolls around, and maybe you disagree as I do, but hold your arguments. A recent event speaks louder than our words could. It occurred in Germany, where police arrested three Islamic-fascists who had cruelty up their sleeves. They had their own recognition of 9/11 planned, but no reading of the names of the 3,000 who died in that day's attacks, no families joining to pray for the victims,...

Please join us in this FLY THE FLAG campaign and PLEASE forward this [as an] email immediately to everyone in your address book asking them to also forward it. We have a little less than two weeks and counting to get the word out all across this great land and into every community in the United States of America. If you forward this email to least 11 people and each of those people do the same...you get the idea. THE PROGRAM IS THIS: On Tuesday, September 11th, 2007, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office, and...

August 20, 2007 The White House said Monday that Gen. David Petraeus likely will testify before Congress on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A spokesman for President Bush, Gordon Johndroe, reiterated that Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, would testify in open hearings. They will answer lawmakers’ questions about the situation in Iraq, the success of the troop surge and the next steps to be taken. The highly anticipated report from Petraeus and Crocker is seen as a potential turning point in America’s involvement in Iraq....

(English-language translation) As part of the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the American and Puerto Rican flags will fly at half-staff in all public buildings, as ordered in a memorandum released by [Secretary of State and] Acting Governor Fernando Bonilla. "As a sign of the Puerto Rican people's solidarity, tomorrow, Monday, September 11, the government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico joins in an act of rememberance of the victims of 9/11," the Secretary of State said yesterday in a release. Bonilla pointed out that this gesture is in response to a proclamation by...

Four years have passed since our country was brutally attacked on a quiet September morning. On that day, thousands of innocent lives were taken from us. The victims and the families who lost loved ones remain in the hearts and prayers of our Nation. We also remember the courage of the firefighters, police officers, emergency rescue personnel, and scores of private citizens who showed us the true meaning of heroism and demonstrated our resolve to the world. The mission that began on September 11, 2001, continues. Today, we see the virtue of the September 11th heroes embodied in our military...

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary September 7, 2006 Patriot Day, 2006 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America On the fifth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, we recall the fire and horror at the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field. America will always remember the thousands of innocent lives taken by the enemies of freedom that morning. In the face of these unspeakable attacks, we were reminded that the great strength of America is found in the hearts and souls of our citizens....

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- For nearly 40 years, this quaint city overlooking the Pacific has united around its annual Patriots' Day Parade, a celebration of school marching bands, charities, civic groups and military personnel. The small-town tradition, though, has become an unlikely battlefield in the national debate over illegal immigration. The nonprofit group that runs the parade recently rejected a float sponsored by the Minuteman Project, a self-styled border patrol run by illegal immigration opponent Jim Gilchrist. Now, his group is threatening legal action on free-speech and discrimination grounds and has gone to the airwaves to criticize the city...

Earlier this week we discussed the 9/11 Anniversary and one writer mentioned that Google had not placed a logo or identifying symbol on their opening page. I wrote an e-mail and received a reply. I just sent an e-mail in return reminding them that I will not forgot to look next year to see what they have "come up with", and as far as "hurt feelings" of the international commuity, I thought Google was still a U.S. corporation. In addition there were lives from other nations lost in that tragedy. A logo needn't be their "only answer" in opting to...

The Talk Shows Sunday, September 11th, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen; Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Sen. David Vitter, R-La.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Ivor van Heerden, director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center; historian John M. Barry. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore; Sens Landrieu, and Susan Collins, R-Maine. THIS WEEK (ABC): Adm. Allen; Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.; the Dalai Lama. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Honore; Vitter; Rep. Nancy Pelosi,...

Google has no September 11th remembrance icon. But you can bet they'll have a U.N. icon on October 24th. If Google wasn't such a great search engine I wouldn't use them. But unfortunately, they are.

      Chaplain’s Corner – September 11 2005 The Following Testimony is from Mr. Paul Brady: He is one of our 9-11 Survivors! I would be honored to bear witness to God's Mercy and Love as an entry on the Pentagon Chaplain's Web Site per your offer. Respectfully, Paul I feel like the "Ancient Mariner" in Coleridge's poem but I want to share my account of God's mercy, love and providence on that second "Day of Infamy" in our country's history. I have been describing the situation surrounding my escape from death from 9-11-01 and believe that my...

Yes, it's from Hurricane Ivan, but it fits on this day. What I have started calling Patriot Day.It is a day that we should mourn and remember the terrible death and destruction. But also a day where we should stand defiant against the enemies of freedom. Where we should all stand tall and proud as Americans.A day where we can tell our children that our way of life is worth living for. That freedom is not free, but worth the high price that we all pay for it.This is a day when we should honor the memories of the 3,000...

Remarks as delivered by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Arlington National Cemetery, Thursday, September 11, 2003. GEN. MYERS: Well, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Wolfowitz, Secretary Armitage, Secretaries Roche, Johnson and Brownlee, fellow members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I'd like to offer a special welcome to the families, friends and coworkers of those who lost their lives in the Pentagon on September 11th of 2001. And I think I see a number of crew members here from American Airlines, and it's great to have you here as well. Patriots Day is a day...

The legacy of 9/11 is anger; American anger with the world In the country where I have spent the past nine months trying to blend in, today is Patriot Day. By federal mandate there will be flag-waving and pride, commemoration and sorrow, in every city across the United States. Sounds a bit Soviet, doesn’t it? Not over there, in the country where it happened. Not for most people. For tens of millions of Americans 9/11 remains raw in ways we can only imagine, and Patriot Day sounds just about right. Two years after the throat-slitters’ apocalypse the rest of the...

AT THE DIRECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH PUBLIC LAW 107-89, THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES WILL BE FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF ON PATRIOT DAY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2003, TO HONOR THE INNOCENT VICTIMS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES AS A RESULT OF THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. 2. THE FLAG WILL BE FLOWN AT HALF-STAFF ON ALL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, AND NAVAL VESSELS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD.

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- With the two-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon less than a week away, President Bush has issued two presidential proclamations regarding September 11. The first proclamation states that September 11, 2003 will be observed as a national day of prayer and remembrance. The second proclamation names September 11, 2003 as Patriot Day. President Bush urges the American people to hold remembrance services and candlelight vigils on behalf of the victims of September 11. Additionally, flags across the United States and Puerto Rico will be flown at half-staff and a moment...

WASHINGTON - Wait till next year. President Bush will lead the national remembrance on the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks - far away from Ground Zero. Bush will spend the day in Washington and send his No. 2, Vice President Cheney, to Thursday's memorial service on the hallowed World Trade Center site. The downgrade went down poorly with some victims' families. Bush will attend services at historic St. John's Episcopal Church for the victims of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 at the twin towers, at the Pentagon and in the Pennsylvania field where the fourth hijacked jet crashed....

How can Americans best remember the events of 9-11-01 on it's anniversary? What did Americans do right after those catastrophic events in communities across the U.S.? Strangers gathered in public places, including many highway overpasses and bridges waving flags and banners of unity and pride. No government agency sanctioned those events and no one was told to be patriotic. What better wayt to pay tribute to those who died than to capture that same spirit of 9/11, what some have called grassroots patriotism. In that tradition the LAFAYETTE FLAG BRIGADE of Lafayette, CA. will be remembering 9/11 with an OVERPASS...

Patriot Day is a good name to remind us By Ken Goodall On September 5th President George W. Bush proclaimed that September 11th from this day forward would be recognized as Patriot Day. According to the president’s proclamation "On this first observance of Patriot Day, we remember and honor those who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. We will not forget the events of that terrible morning nor will we forget how Americans responded in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in the skies over Pennsylvania with heroism and selflessness; with compassion and courage; and with...

On September 5th President George W. Bush proclaimed that September 11th from this day forward would be recognized as Patriot Day. According to the President's proclamation "On this first observance of Patriot Day, we remember and honor those who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. We will not forget the events of that terrible morning nor will we forget how Americans responded in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in the skies over Pennsylvania with heroism and selflessness; with compassion and courage; and with prayer and hope. We will always remember our collective obligation to ensure...

               September 11th -- A Day America Must Never Forget By JohnHuang2 It was early September 11, 2001 -- just another beautiful, sparkling summer morning in America. From Florida's comely, sandy beaches, across the Carolina Smoky Mountains, to sensual Mt. Rainer in Washington State, it was just another typical, uneventful workaday. The roads and highways bustling with rush-hour traffic, factories humming right along, tireless shopkeepers, vendors and farmers were busy as ever. The imperturbable, mundane serenity augured not a clue of the nightmare to come. The clock strikes 8:46 a.m. EST. Suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, a colossal, titanic explosion...

               September 11th -- A Day America Must Never Forget By JohnHuang2 It was early September 11, 2001 -- just another beautiful, sparkling summer morning in America. From Florida's comely, sandy beaches, across the Carolina Smoky Mountains, to sensual Mt. Rainer in Washington State, it was just another typical, uneventful workaday. The roads and highways bustling with rush-hour traffic, factories humming right along, tireless shopkeepers, vendors and farmers were busy as ever. The imperturbable, mundane serenity augured not a clue of the nightmare to come. The clock strikes 8:46 a.m. EST. Suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, a colossal, titanic explosion...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  President Bush issued a formal proclamation Wednesday designating Sept. 11 as Patriot Day in honor of those who perished in the terrorist attacks.</p> <p>"I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities, including remembrance services and candlelight vigils," the proclamation said.</p>