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Showing posts with label WTC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WTC. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

'Glenn Beck': Greg Gutfeld Wants to Build Gay Bar Next to 'Ground Zero' Mosque - Glenn Beck - FOXNews.com

'Glenn Beck': Greg Gutfeld Wants to Build Gay Bar Next to 'Ground Zero' Mosque - Glenn Beck - FOXNews.com


Sounds like a fine idea to me. It is certainly not as offensive as building a Mosque next to the WTC, which will be seen by the Muslim world as a monument to a great day in the Jihadist movement and will open on the 10th Anniversary of the attacks. I just can't wait until this Mosque is built and all those weaselly politicians are calling for its closure after the next attack is perpetrated by one of this Mosque's members.



And by the way why are we as taxpayers funding a trip for the Iman of this future mosque to visit the Middle East.

Is ground zero mosque imam best choice for diplomatic mission to Middle East?

The State Department plans to send Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam behind
the controversial ground zero mosque, to the Middle East as part of a public
diplomacy mission to explain how Islam is perceived in America. Critics are
complaining the imam is too 'radical' to represent the US.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Have we forgotten


TWO THOUSAND ONE, NINE ELEVEN (2001-911)
Two thousand one, nine eleven
Three thousand plus arrive in heaven

As they pass through the gate,
Thousands more appear in wait
A bearded man with stovepipe hat
Steps forward saying, "Let's sit, let's chat"

They settle down in seats of clouds
A man named Martin shouts out proud
"I have a dream!" and once he did
The Newcomer said, "Your dream still lives."

Groups of soldiers in blue and gray
Others in khaki, and green then say
"We're from Bull Run, Yorktown, the Maine"
The Newcomer said, "You died not in vain."

From a man on sticks one could hear
"The only thing we have to fear.
The Newcomer said, "We know the rest,
trust us sir, we've passed that test."

"Courage doesn't hide in caves
You can't bury freedom, in a grave,"
The Newcomers had heard this voice before
A distinct Yankees twang from Hyannis-port shores

A silence fell within the mist
Somehow the Newcomer knew that this
Meant time had come for her to say
What was in the hearts of the five thousand plus that day



"Back on Earth, we wrote reports,
Watched our children play in sports
Worked our gardens, sang our songs
Went to church and clipped coupons
We smiled, we laughed, we cried, we fought
Unlike you, great we're not"

The tall man in the stovepipe hat
Stood and said, "Don't talk like that!
Look at your country, look and see
You died for freedom, just like me"







Then, before them all appeared a scene
Of rubbled streets and twisted beams
Death, destruction, smoke and dust

And people working just 'cause they must

Hauling ash, lifting stones,
Knee deep in hell, but not alone
"Look! Blackman, Whiteman, Brownman, Yellowman
Side by side helping their fellow man!"

So said Martin, as he watched the scene
"Even from nightmares, can be born a dream."

Down below three firemen raised
The colors high into ashen haze
The soldiers above had seen it before
On Iwo Jima back in '45




The man on sticks studied everything closely
Then shared his perceptions on what he saw mostly
"I see pain, I see tears,
I see sorrow -- but I don't see fear."

"You left behind husbands and wives
Daughters and sons and so many lives
are suffering now because of this wrong
But look very closely. You're not really gone.

All of those people, even those who've never met you
All of their lives, they' ll never forget you
Don't you see what has happened?
Don't you see what you've done?
You've brought them together, together as one.

With that the man in the stovepipe hat said
"Take my hand," and from there he led
three thousand plus heroes, Newcomers to heaven
On this day, two thousand one, nine eleven

Author UNKNOWN

Mosque madness at Ground Zero - NYPOST.com

New mosque set to open on the 10th anniversary of the WTC attacks. While a mosque in of itself is not offensive the location and timing of the opening leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Just remember that a week ago four students in California were asked to remove their American flag shirts because it might offend Mexican students celebrating Cinco de Mayo, a holiday invented by the Corona and Dos Equis to sell more beer to Americans. My Grandparents would laugh at how we as a nation have been pussified and they would be right.

Mosque madness at Ground Zero - NYPOST.com

Friday, September 11, 2009

9/11 A Day For Reflection

Today is the 8th anniversay of the terrorists attacks which killed nearly 3,000 Americans and citizens of 90 other countries. I like so many Americans watched the WTC Towers fall on television and prayed for the safety of loved ones and friends. Please take a moment today to reflect upon the extraordinary acts of heroism and kindness that day and the days afterwards. Here are just a few examples:



Mychal Judge's death:
"Jesus, please end this right now!"

by John M. Kelley

The details of Father Mychal Judge's last hour and death reflect the great heroism and holiness of his entire life.

As Mychal rushed into the North Tower with firefighters, Mayor Rudy Giuliani called out, "Father Mike, pray for us!" Mychal responded, "I always do! I always pray for you!" These were his last public words -- his promise to always pray for us. (Giuliani: Mayor of America).

Other priests also came to the scene, but Mychal was the only priest to actually enter either WTC building. He continued to grant absolution and pray in the lobby as death rained all around him, until his own death.

When commanders gave orders to evacuate the building, he refused to abandon the hundreds of firefighters still trapped inside saying, "My work here is not finished." (Ford & Daly).

It was initially reported that Mychal died while anointing a fallen firefighter. But he actually died after anointing FF Daniel Suhr; he anointed Suhr on the plaza outside before he entered the building.

The Jules Naudet film shows Mychal praying anxiously in the lobby about half an hour before his death. He was probably saying the Rosary, as he often did at fires. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

At 9:50- 9:55 AM, Mychal climbed up to the mezzanine attempting to reach some injured firefighters. Seeing dozens of jumpers crashing onto the plaza outside, he cried out fervently and repeatedly,
"Jesus, please end this right now!
God, please end this!" (Daly).

Mychal Judge died while pleading with his Best Friend to miraculously intervene and put an end to the devastation.

Mychal was struck and killed at 9:59 AM when the South Tower collapse sent concrete and debris flying through the North Tower lobby at over 100mph.

The Coroner found, and his death certificate states, that Mychal Judge died of blunt force trauma to the head (Daly). The wound was visible on the back of his head. He was designated as Victim 0001 because his was the first body recovered from the scene.

God answered Mychal’s pleas, but not quite the way he asked. By a series of smaller miracles and good fortunes, most people did safely escape the towers that day, and tens of thousands of lives were saved.

And for those who didn't make it, God sent Father Mike to greet and guide them on the other side, where he continues to pray for all of us.

“The happiest man on earth”
Eulogy by Fr. Michael Duffy, OFM
at Mychal's funeral: 9/15/01
“Mychal passed through to the other side... to greet (the other firefighters) … He’s going to take them by the hand and say, 'Welcome, I want to take you to my Father.' And so, he can continue doing in death what he couldn’t finish in life”.

The Firefighters

http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/media/tribute/tribute.html

The Police

http://www.nleomf.com/911heroes/

Ordinary Men and Women

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/america.remembers/subsection.heroes.html

The Victims

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/lists/by-name/index.html