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September 11, 2001 |
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| Never Forget |
| “As a reporter, I had to cover a couple of funerals for firefighters. These men were strangers to me, but I cried for them as if they were my own brothers. I was not alone, either. Everybody did. We pulled together out of pride in and gratitude for those brave men, who died trying to save people they didn't even know. A priest I know gave some of them absolution before they ran into the burning towers. He says you could see in their eyes that they knew they were going to die. But in they went, because that's what men do. That's what New Yorkers do. That's what Americans do. We don't run away.” - by Rod Dreher, NRO Senior Writer |
| “Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are. This is what our enemies hate and have attacked. And this is why we will prevail. ...the political parties in both houses of Congress have shown a remarkable unity, and I’m deeply grateful. A terrorist attack designed to tear us apart has instead bound us together as a nation.” - George W. Bush, Sept. 15, 2001 |
| "We have the power to conquer any nation, but we don't. We have the power to enslave any people, but we don't. We have the power to loot any nation of its natural resources, but we don't. Instead, America sends her young men and women to war to defend the weak. She sends her resources to help feed the poor. And she offers a hand to any nation that seeks friendship and peace." - Ronald Reagan |
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| "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." - Abraham Lincoln |
| "We are the ally of the U.S. not because they are powerful, but because we share their values. I am not surprised by anti-Americanism; but it is a foolish indulgence… For all their faults and all nations have them, the U.S. are a force for good; they have liberal and democratic traditions of which any nation can be proud… I sometimes think it is a good rule of thumb to ask of a country: are people trying to get into it or out of it? It’s not a bad guide to what sort of country it is.” - Tony Blair, Jan 7, 2003 |
| "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "When the moment to fight arrives, whether it is in a barroom or in a war, the thing to do is to hit your opponent the first punch and hit him as hard as possible. But we were a great and noble power, and the Japanese relied on our nobility and kept men talking to us while they prepared to hit." - Ernest Hemingway |
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln |
| "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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For a while
after
9/11, so many Americans were displaying their pride
by wearing those small American flag pins. Friends, relatives, co-workers, neighbors,
store clerks, police officers, newscasters, politicians, etc.
It was beautiful! But now you don't see them that often.
What happened? Please begin wearing yours again.
If you lost it, get another one. There aren't as many American flag
pins in the stores as there were before so if you can't find one, I've got
extras. Send me a
self-addressed stamped envelope and I'll be more than happy to send you
one as a gift. |
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"...realize that America has never retaliated for
9/11 in anything like the way it could have. ...AMERICA
could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot.
That it didn't is a sign of strength...When
the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving Palestinians
were dancing in the street
(WAV).
America watched all of that--and America
didn't push the button. We
should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation in the
world...America
could have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe... I love America, yet America is hated...Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be, rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever had and we should start remembering that. Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil?...To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein! Remember... remember... September 11th. One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against America. No, do more than remember: NEVER FORGET!!!" - by Tony Parsons, UK Daily Mirror... September 11, 2002 (a year after) |
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"It isn't the critic who counts, nor the person who points out how the strong stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and the sweat and the blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows great enthusiasm, great devotion and spends himself at a worthy cause; who, at the best in the end, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt |
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"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish then to live as slaves." - Winston Churchill |
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value." - Cicero |
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