Good morning. On the day after the anniversary of 9/11, it seems appropriate to begin this list by making…

Some day I will get up to Ground Zero and pay my respects to my friend Mike McGinty…

RIP Classmates. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Solidarity? America’s Muslims have such on-and-off mosque attendance statistics, it’s impossible to get a realistic count of how many of them there are in this country. Methinks a lot of other religious groups aren’t going to be happy about this jummah rally. “A Day of Islamic Unity,” the event is called. Well, I guess if Louis Farrakhan could preach from the same spot during the Million Man March nearly 14 years ago, so can these folks. They’re talking about reserving 500 buses and talking about 50,000 attendees, so this could be one big clump of folks who head for lunch at Union Station afterward.

The Star-Ledger in Newark came out with the story about all this on Thursday. The idea, according to organizers, is to celebrate Muslims already being an integral part of American society.

Well, if you can have giant menorahs on the White House lawn each December, you can have Muslims praying about one-quarter mile to the north. So if Islamic muezzins will chant out the “adhan,” the call to worship, to folks kneeling on prayer rugs on the west front lawn, does that make the Capitol dome a minaret?

- Julia Duin, religion editor

Give the guy a break. why he spent a full twenty minutes on Memorial Day giving a speech before heading for a golf course and workout. And remember how he treated our fallen wounded during the campaign? He had to work out instead of visiting a hospital, as I recall.

The Washington press corps should ask about some of the specifics of the attacks. Think you have heard Um, ahhh, oohmm, hmmm, before?

May the souls who died that day have mercy on Obama for his indifference to their suffering and mercy on me for my anger. I hope that they ask God for our forgiveness since they are so much closer to Him than either of us are ever likely to be.

All of ‘em died except him. Of course he was a total mess (you think you should have died with them vs. being spared of such a death vs. all your staff dead).

My sister and I thought at the time that he was gonna commit suicide when we watched his TV interviews. Thank God he didn’t, and got himself together and his company is up and running again.

On the 9th I wanted to sleep in then go sightseeing.

1-Silly but true. Big Brother was going on, and at the time one African American contestant along with the rest of the pack did not know, of course, about the attacks. CBS was wondering how to break it to them (esp. about this contestant), since her sister worked at one of the towers and family did not know at the time where she was/if she was alive or not. CBS were very tactful as in to let them know in a very mild way what happened so they were not gonna be shocked and leave at once, or to let that contestant out to look for her sister (still wondering about that one!)

2-I was vacay here on PA w/husband and then baby boy; did not live here in the country yet. Baby was w/inlaws, hubby and I were enjoying Cleveland, hotel, saw a ball game. Juan “Igor” Gonzalez was the VIP player of the evening. That was 9/10. On the 9th I wanted to sleep in then go sightseeing. Then I was awakened by either phone call or husband to turn to the TV and watch. We did not know what to do quickly but thought the best idea yet is to get to the baby. I remember looking at the TV, still groggy, asking my husband, “They got everybody out, did they?” :(

I swear I can’t remember the hotel, many ppl checking out of course, hotel staff DID NOT WAIVE US a fee for early checkout. We rumbled about it, but we just had to. Got call too by his aunt, had a hunch to get the hell outta downtown CLE and go to her office. When we left the hotel, it looked like time stood still. Almost everybody was motionless on the sidewalks watching the jumbotrons on the bldgs.

Then we found out another plane was missing, lost communication. Ppl calling hysterical on all radio stations, women crying, you get it. The info was, if you see an a/c out in the sky, call 911 immediately since all flights were diverted/landed/grounded. So there I was, husband driving as fast as he could and me looking up at the sky with cell phone in hand. Husband thought plane was gonna hit downtown Pittsburgh (!!!!!!) All malls, Rock & Roll Hall of fame, every business closed. We headed up to her office still she was shaken up as her staff too. They felt pretty safe there but basically doing next to nothing, watching TV.

She was very relieved to see us there, my sis was trying to get a hold of me b/c I was vacationing in PA. Rumors were that plane was heading to DC but was on PA area last seen. Cell phone communications were, you can imagine, barely worked if nothing, as well as regular phones. When she did, she screamed at me, “OF ALL STATES IN THE COUNTRY, IT HAD TO BE PENNSYLVANIA!” worried sick of us. I was calmly telling we were all accounted for, that we were lucky plane did not hit our in-law’s property (part of it as deserted as Shanksville).

We hit it off back to the house and our baby boy, by then we confirmed for sure about Shanksville PA (ex girlfriend of husband lives there) so I thought about that too.

After that, film after film, I just was a walking zombie absorbing everything in. Of course when Pentagon got hit we cuzzed like crazy and thought, “this means war!” and did not know really what was gonna happen then. Surprise, shock, hope that “everybody got out safe” in my stupor (remember I did not watch for a while TV so I did not see the ppl jumping off), then seriously alarmed, nervous, some relief when we hit both our destinations and saw our relatives, then scared and serious anger when everything sank in.

This is the best I can do; never forget where I was, and watch again and again footage of that day. Now I have to tell both kids, esp. my son, about that day. I’m sure they will hear some about it today.

THANKS FOR READING ME; SORRY FOR THE LENGTH! May all souls rest in peace.

That’s why their media has never shown the jumpers or many of the other painful images from that day. Because they desperately want Americans to forget that their own negligence resulted in the worst attacks on civilians on US soil in the country’s history.

Del Dolemonte on September 11, 2009 at 1:31 PM

And please keep in mind that there is absolutely no way to separate the politics from 9/11. Not as long as the Right uses 9/11 as a baseball bat, and not as long as the Left refuses to accept that they now have ownership of 9/11.

BradSchwartze on September 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM

You have it all wrong.

The 9/11 attacks were “owned” by the Democrats from the get-go, because they were planned and trained for on Bill Clinton’s watch, and the Democrats know it. In fact, they were supposed to happen on his watch.

That’s why their media has never shown the jumpers or many of the other painful images from that day. Because they desperately want Amrticans to forget that their own negligence resulted in the worst attacks on civilians on US soil in the country’s history.

God Bless every life so tragically cut short, God Bless all those who struggled to save so many, God Bless the workers who worked so tirelessly to clear the area and find the remains of loved ones lost, God Bless those who still suffer from that fateful day, and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

We need His blessings and guidance to help us through these troubed times……

Onward Forward and Upward!!

One of the many saddest memories for me, were the volunteers making a thousand stretchers for the anticipated victims to be transported to hospitals and none of them were used.

Blake on September 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM

I forgot about that.

Well, I’ve got to get going here. ctmom, I’m still in my PJ’s also.

Have a blessed day everyone.

God bless the U.S.A.

One thing hasn’t changed: I’m still mad. Mad at OBL, mad at the evil people out there who would condemn so many people to death because of their nationality and ideals, mad at the people who enable those people to operate. I am continually shocked and stunned every time I see video of the attacks on that day so long ago. There is only one major difference between me on 9/11/01 and 9/11/09. I can do something about it now.

Sleep tight, OBL, I’m looking for you.

For those with strong enough nerves, Atlas Shrugs has a series of excellent 9-11 posts.
I’ll fault no one who ‘passes’ on it, today.
Be warned, they’re not pulling ANY punches.
CPT. Charles on September 11, 2009 at 11:47 AM

I watched the video about the people who jumped from the towers.

It brought back all the rage I felt at the ISLAMIC Terrorists that did this.

Of course the SCM wouldn’t want to show this sort of thing – it might enrage people and steel their nerves against the Islamofascists – can’t have that, don’t you know.

Michael Savage has a referential subtext to what Leftists imply with that N word.

He was my childhood pastor and it was such a shock. He was listed as the first known victim of 9/11.

RIP, Fr. Mychal.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Barack Obama was driving to a state legislative hearing in Chicago when he heard the first sketchy reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center on his car radio. The 40-year-old state senator spent the afternoon in his law office watching “nightmare images” of destruction and grief unfold on TV.

Within days, he’d issued a statement about what the nation should do next.

Beyond the immediate needs to improve security and dismantle “organizations of destruction,” Obama wrote, lay the more difficult job of “understanding the sources of such madness.” He wrote of “a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers,” of “embittered children” around the world, of the seeds of discontent sown in poverty, ignorance and despair.

The nuanced musings of an obscure state senator, Obama’s statement never even made the big Chicago dailies.

Never made it to the blogosphere? Google doesn’t pull up Obama’s 2001 Statement.

Can HotAir & friends locate that text? There’s nothing more disgusting than being fed Yahoo News revisionism of selected “key words” filled in with current PC fabrication for what could prove to be a big fat WHOLE CLOTH EGYPTIAN SALE to plug The One in office.