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TAPS.... For 9/11 Victims

Discussion in 'Roll of Honor & Memories - All Other Conflicts' started by 36thID, Sep 11, 2012.

  1. 36thID

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    May the fallen rest in peace, for they fell for their country. And may the terrorists rot in hell. :poppy:
     
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    God bless those who died, especially the first responders who died trying to save those trapped in the Towers and those on Flight 93 who defended their country with snack carts, coffee pots and their bare hands. God bless them all.
     
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    Nothing to add!
     
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    I'd like to show something I am Very Proud to have.
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    Last year on Sept 11, the Flag the soldier is raising at the Pentagon is the same flag he carried with him in Iraq. We had mailed it to him in 2007 (he carried it along with one his Brother had sent), and raised it over the US Embassy in Baghdad while there. He handed it back to us in 2008. Last year he offered to raise our Flag at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2011 the 10 year anniversary. That in itself would be more than enough.
    When we received the flag back a letter with the above flag stated that as our Flag was unfurled atop the staff the gentleman to the left walked up to Wayne and said " Look at your watch and notice the time". It was 9:38 am.
     
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    Volga Boatman Dishonorably Discharged

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    Indeed.

    And the sheer drama aboard flight 93 was patriotism personified. Those people could have sat back and trusted their luck, but to do so was to leave their deaths in the hands of somebodyelse. It was truly inspiring to have them attempt to take back command of their own lives. Who knows how many lives these ordinary passengers saved.

    Something that has always stck in my craw was the very targeting of the Capitol Dome itself. That building was completed and opened by none other than Abraham Lincoln himself. It represented the desire of his administration to get on with the business of running the country, in the midst of the worst conflict Americans have ever been involved in. It's completion marked a moment in American history that free thinking human beings should be proud of. Lincolns administration is, still, the ONLY popularly elected government that has held an election in the middle of a civil war. Many of the soldiers who were to die in the Eastern theater in the following months of the Civil War voted for Lincoln, knowing full well that the war would continue. They could have voted to end it all, as the Copperheads wanted to do. George Maclellan was all for compromising with the South.

    I don't think those bastard terrorists aiming for the "Dome" that moring had any idea of the true significance of the building. To them, it was just another 'symbol' of American "satanism".

    Perhaps if they knew the real circumstances of it's construction and completeion they might have scratched it from their list.

    The Dome was, is, and always will be, a symbol of sacrifice in the name of FREEDOM.

    And those brave people on Flight 93 stood up for just that, 20,000 feet above, and many miles away from help. Like the Minutemen of Old, they were ready, and willing, to DO something.

    Flight 93 will be remembered long after the names of it's four highjackers have been consigned to the rubbish heap of history, where they truly belong. Martyrs? NO.....misguided fools, and tools of other people, unlike the passengers, who stood up for their own freedom, on the spot, and ready in a minute.

    United Airline should be able to list Flight 93 as a battle honour.
     
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