God bless, and Happy Memorial Day :)

Loxodonta, I appreciate, too, your link to “Adagio for Strings.” It is one of my favorites for its poignancy, and the video accompanying the performance underscores the loss and yearning that words cannot describe.

“EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Nov. 2I, 1864. ” To MRS. BIXBY, BOSTON, MASS.

Dear Madam—I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which shall attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Is it me or are too many already forgetting ? ?

Watched “Band of Brothers” this weekend on the History
channel. Saw parts of it before but this time it seems
like the country is letting so many of those who gave so
much down.

Went to the Vietnam Memorial Wall to see my friend again. . . . I’m spent.

The principal told us over the pa to turn on our Tvs
The north tower was hit.

Kids freaked because their parents worked there/were there visiting/on their way to the wtc.

The firemen from our towns volunteered and left for manhattan

My family came home to so many voicemails wondering if my dad was ok cause he flew for AA out of laguardia. His buddy was flying that day, and his plane was targeted out of laguard. Thankfully the plane had a mechanical failure and never got to take off.

I’ll never forget the silence. It was everywhere. A still, trepidatious silence.

Never ever forget. I know I never will

America is still the best country in the world because of people like that.

Then the second plane hit.

It was all a blur after that. I vaguely remember running out for chicken at dinnertime, the incredibly long lines to give blood we decided could not be managed with a three-year-old boy’s patience, but it was all just a blur. A scary, sad, blur.

Part 2
http://blip.tv/file/1827836/

I will NEVER forget my friend’s call to me… “Barb, turn on your TV…a plane just hit the World Trade Center”.

annoyinglittletwerp on May 25, 2009 at 2:38 PM

I will NEVER forget waking up (in California) to the first reports about a “commuter plane” hitting the WTC. I was thinking a small plane, not a Boeing-727. After the second plane hit the commentary got more intense but they refused to call it terrorism, asking questions about the traffic control systems. Then as I was driving into work at a Navy Base, the third plane hit the Pentagon and all doubt was removed.

Most of the following days was a blur with the exceptions of shock when the WTC towers collapsed (it never even entered my mind that this was a possiblity) and surprise to find out my brother who lives in NYC had just moved into the area around the WTC (he was fine but out of his apartment for over two months).

Throughout it all I wanted the bastards who did this brought to justice. I’m not sure that is going to happen now that we have a terrorist-loving liar in the White House.

Thank you for this post.

a group of about 60 professors petitioned the White House, asking the first black U.S. president to break tradition and not memorialize military members from the Confederacy

Among those who signed petition is 1960s radical William Ayers.