The "cool" person of the week segment will return next week as we honor the memories of the victim's and heroes of 9/11.
If actions speak louder than elegy, it tells you where we are that the team coverage on the eve of the 6th anniversary of 9/11 alternated between General Petraeus' performance on Capitol Hill and Britney Spears' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Osama returned to prime time, only to be mocked for his "impotence" and apparent need for Grecian Formula. A New Jersey community that lost 100 people that day has had to delay expansion of its memorial because fundraising fell short. September 11 falls once again on a Tuesday, we are six years away from the fire, and wondering what that means.
There is much being made of a USA Today poll that shows that many people are forgetting about 9/11 and its aftermath. I think that is not the case, but the truth is we as humans, do move on after tragedies. I have lost all of my grandparents, and my parents, and as each of them died I thought I would too, but it didn't happen, and I moved on. I do not dwell on their deaths everyday, but they are in my thoughts on occasion, and I feel sad for a while, and then it is back to the present. I feel great grief for these families as their dear ones died without notice and in such a horrendous way, that I am sure it makes coping that much harder.
Perhaps some people will forget, but there are many of us who will live our lives, with their memories quietly in the background of our own lives, and we shall live for them, so they can be assured we remember them. God Bless and Rest In Peace!!
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Showing posts with label honor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label honor. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
University of Iowa's Bells To Toll For Fallen Soldiers
I was just reading a story on the Iowa Press-Citizen.com concerning the University of Iowa’s decision to ring the bell 59 times as a tribute to the number of Iowan’s that have died in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as honoring all who have died in past conflicts.
It will be rung at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, the 30th, which was the traditional Memorial Day from 1868 to 1971, until Congress passed the National Holiday Act, creating a three day weekend for federal holidays.
This decision was made after a Veteran’s group wrote a letter to the University Interim President approved the request and sent a letter to Governor Culver stating it would be an honor to show tribute to these fallen soldiers with the bell tolling.
I think this is wonderful as we owe these fallen heroes much more than a tolling bell, but I was happy to see this touching story. I know that tolling a bell does not take away the sorrow of the friends and family of these soldiers, but it does show that we honor them as well. I hope that the anti-war protestors will allow this to be a peaceful Memorial Day weekend all the way through to the tolling of the bells on wednesday, and allow these soldiers to be honored with the dignity and respect that they deserve. Then Thursday morning you should absolutely get right back to your protesting, for everyday you are trying to end the war before it is over, is another day you put a smile on Osama bin Laden’s face.
Have a safe Memorial Day weekend, with Respect and Honor to all who have died for our nation and to all our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, who are still in harm’s way throughout the world.
Bells to toll 59 times
It will be rung at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, the 30th, which was the traditional Memorial Day from 1868 to 1971, until Congress passed the National Holiday Act, creating a three day weekend for federal holidays.
This decision was made after a Veteran’s group wrote a letter to the University Interim President approved the request and sent a letter to Governor Culver stating it would be an honor to show tribute to these fallen soldiers with the bell tolling.
I think this is wonderful as we owe these fallen heroes much more than a tolling bell, but I was happy to see this touching story. I know that tolling a bell does not take away the sorrow of the friends and family of these soldiers, but it does show that we honor them as well. I hope that the anti-war protestors will allow this to be a peaceful Memorial Day weekend all the way through to the tolling of the bells on wednesday, and allow these soldiers to be honored with the dignity and respect that they deserve. Then Thursday morning you should absolutely get right back to your protesting, for everyday you are trying to end the war before it is over, is another day you put a smile on Osama bin Laden’s face.
Have a safe Memorial Day weekend, with Respect and Honor to all who have died for our nation and to all our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines, who are still in harm’s way throughout the world.
Bells to toll 59 times
Friday, May 18, 2007
Amnesty, Honor Fallen As Edwards Dishonors Them
Read this and be very afraid, your country is in jeopardy and our politicians are responsible.
Key US legislators clinched a deal with the White House Thursday on a sweeping immigration reform package that would bring 12 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows and bolster security along the US borders.
The pact, announced by a group of Democratic and Republican senators, would provide a path to permanent residency and citizenship for the vast majority of illegal workers, establish a merit-based points system for future immigrants, and set up a low-wage temporary worker program.
The bill would also provide 18,000 more Border Patrol agents, and scores of radar and camera towers on the US border with Mexico.
The measure, which emerged from exhaustive round-the-clock talks, is aimed at defusing a fiercely polarizing issue and fast-tracking reform before US political life is consumed by the 2008 congressional and presidential campaign cycle.
The bill still needs to be approved by the entire Senate, where debate is to begin Monday, and the House of Representatives. Approval in either chamber is still uncertain, though it has strong support from President George W. Bush.
Here we go again, another amnesty program and more supposed law enforcement that will come about. We have been fooled and lied to by politicians who see all these illegals as new voters for their parties and not as the criminals which they are. The Ridiculously Honored former President Ronald Reagan was easily led into giving amnesty to illegals on the promise that no more would come here. That really worked didn’t it.
We have 12 to 20 million illegals in this country and once they get the Z card; wow that is scary, now they have used up all the letters of the alphabet, so of course this will be the bill that will end any further illegal immigration and everyone else will respect the borders of our country. This Z card should have been named the Omega card for it will be the end of our country as the America that we know it. We shall see the end of Caucasians as the majority race and the illegals will become the controlling force in America.
I can understand why Senators like Reid and Kennedy would be for the bill, but why would Senators like Kyle of Arizona, say this is the best they can do. Well fine, if this is the best you can do, then do nothing. At least then you will not be taking a serious and deadly issue and making it worse, which is what you will be doing if you pass this legislation. I even understand President Bush’s support as he has always been weak on border enforcement, because his wife is a latino, but we should not allow him to give illegals, even those such as the men who were going to attack Fort Dix a pathway to citizenship.
What’s next, do we really get a card of options about which laws we can obey and which we can ignore, because I am sure there are a lot of real Americans who have laws which they don’t like and we could have blanket amnesty for them as well.
They could even have a “deadline” to break those laws before they receive amnesty, and if there are too many still breaking those laws, they could pass another scary bill with which to fix the defects in the previous bill. After all that is what they are trying to do right now.
Contact your Representatives and Senators and tell them to vote against this amnesty bill. We may not get a second chance to save our nation as our politicians, mostly Democrats, but also many Republicans are hell bent on destroying this nation and it is up to the citizenry to stop them from making it happen.
These are scary times and it should anger all of us that we are going to give law breakers the huge political advantage over us that is being proposed by our “representatives” in the government.
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A story this afternoon related that many of the gravestones of men who fought in earlier wars were being neglected and falling apart.
Thanks to a fundraiser sponsored by the Soldiers Monument Association of Cedar County slated for Sunday, James W. Bagley, a 1800’s lawyer and Civil War soldier’s gravestone and others like it may get the restoration they need.
Soldiers Monument Association of Cedar County’s president Sandy Harmel, 65, of Bennett, said the process of restoring the gravestones, as well as others in need of work throughout the county, began in 2001.
This is great, and a process for repairing and overseeing the war monuments and the gravestones of these men of past wars and conflicts should be set up all over the country. It is nice that in many areas of the country there are associations such as the Cedar County one, but it should be also be a state and federal responsibility to assist in taking care of these historical reminders of the price that has been paid to preserve and protect this nation.
This is particularly true when we have troops in harms way in many areas of the world. I know this is going to turn into another rant on the failure of certain politicians, ok , you made me say their names, Mullahs Reid and Pelosi, too provide much needed funds for our troops in Iraq and the dishonor they toward the young men and women who have and are dying for our nation. It is people like that who will undoubtedly not support any kind of association which might honor our fallen warriors by providing funds to keep the monuments and gravestones from deteriorating into the ground. They wish to wash our past away and make it out that we are the bad guys and the aggressors in every conflict in which we have participated.
We have Memorial Day fast approaching and it befitting these fallen warriors are appropriately honored.
It has come to my attention from a Fox news report among others that John Edwards, one of the Al-Qaida Democratic Party Presidential candidates, not the psychic from late night t.v., is trying to organize people to demonstrate against the war on Memorial Day. The protestors are told to demonstrate, have their photos taken and send them to Edwards campaign offices where they will be posted on his website.
I was wondering if Senator Edwards could possibly find any other way to dishonor the fallen warriors, but I am sure he will come up with something else in the coming weeks. My god, how can people like Senator Edwards, not have any respect for the families, or friends of these dead men and women, even if they do not have respect for the dead themselves. Everyone knows that your against the war Senator Edwards, so please just give it a rest for one damn day.
Please allow the families, friends and others who want to honor all of the fallen warriors from this and past conflicts one day not without being hated, harassed, shouted at, disrespected, and dishonored.
It has always amazed me that some of the most ferocious, hateful people I have ever seen are so called peace activists. Are you really mad at the people that are fighting and dying to protect your right to be morons or are you just mad that we do not live in a utopia where only your ideas and values exist. Personally I think it is the latter more so than the former. People who think that there can be a world completely at peace are obviously delusional and should be medicated or put away for their own good.
I would like peace too, but reality is that there has been conflict since the beginning of the universe, whether you are an atheist or a believer in a higher power, there has been conflicts, from one on one violence, as people tried to be the master of another, too nation’s, as they tried to rule their neighbors. Utopia is not even a dream, merely an illusion that can cause many more deaths than actually fighting a war, in particular if you are fighting real bad/evil guys such as Al-Qaida and their like minded terrorist buddies.
The Neville Chamberlains of yesterday are the “peace” activists of today and we must protect ourselves as much from them as we do the violent enemies that exist out there, waiting for us to drop our guard. 9/11 was not that long ago and yet we see people from the politicians to the Hollywood elite willing to misrepresent what happened so they can forget and move on. What a deadly thing forgetting may be for us. After all it took two attacks on the World Trade Centers to bring them down and our enemy is not anything if he is not patient and persistent.
May our luck hold, but don’t count on it. Have a nice day!!
Key US legislators clinched a deal with the White House Thursday on a sweeping immigration reform package that would bring 12 million illegal immigrants out of the shadows and bolster security along the US borders.
The pact, announced by a group of Democratic and Republican senators, would provide a path to permanent residency and citizenship for the vast majority of illegal workers, establish a merit-based points system for future immigrants, and set up a low-wage temporary worker program.
The bill would also provide 18,000 more Border Patrol agents, and scores of radar and camera towers on the US border with Mexico.
The measure, which emerged from exhaustive round-the-clock talks, is aimed at defusing a fiercely polarizing issue and fast-tracking reform before US political life is consumed by the 2008 congressional and presidential campaign cycle.
The bill still needs to be approved by the entire Senate, where debate is to begin Monday, and the House of Representatives. Approval in either chamber is still uncertain, though it has strong support from President George W. Bush.
Here we go again, another amnesty program and more supposed law enforcement that will come about. We have been fooled and lied to by politicians who see all these illegals as new voters for their parties and not as the criminals which they are. The Ridiculously Honored former President Ronald Reagan was easily led into giving amnesty to illegals on the promise that no more would come here. That really worked didn’t it.
We have 12 to 20 million illegals in this country and once they get the Z card; wow that is scary, now they have used up all the letters of the alphabet, so of course this will be the bill that will end any further illegal immigration and everyone else will respect the borders of our country. This Z card should have been named the Omega card for it will be the end of our country as the America that we know it. We shall see the end of Caucasians as the majority race and the illegals will become the controlling force in America.
I can understand why Senators like Reid and Kennedy would be for the bill, but why would Senators like Kyle of Arizona, say this is the best they can do. Well fine, if this is the best you can do, then do nothing. At least then you will not be taking a serious and deadly issue and making it worse, which is what you will be doing if you pass this legislation. I even understand President Bush’s support as he has always been weak on border enforcement, because his wife is a latino, but we should not allow him to give illegals, even those such as the men who were going to attack Fort Dix a pathway to citizenship.
What’s next, do we really get a card of options about which laws we can obey and which we can ignore, because I am sure there are a lot of real Americans who have laws which they don’t like and we could have blanket amnesty for them as well.
They could even have a “deadline” to break those laws before they receive amnesty, and if there are too many still breaking those laws, they could pass another scary bill with which to fix the defects in the previous bill. After all that is what they are trying to do right now.
Contact your Representatives and Senators and tell them to vote against this amnesty bill. We may not get a second chance to save our nation as our politicians, mostly Democrats, but also many Republicans are hell bent on destroying this nation and it is up to the citizenry to stop them from making it happen.
These are scary times and it should anger all of us that we are going to give law breakers the huge political advantage over us that is being proposed by our “representatives” in the government.
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A story this afternoon related that many of the gravestones of men who fought in earlier wars were being neglected and falling apart.
Thanks to a fundraiser sponsored by the Soldiers Monument Association of Cedar County slated for Sunday, James W. Bagley, a 1800’s lawyer and Civil War soldier’s gravestone and others like it may get the restoration they need.
Soldiers Monument Association of Cedar County’s president Sandy Harmel, 65, of Bennett, said the process of restoring the gravestones, as well as others in need of work throughout the county, began in 2001.
This is great, and a process for repairing and overseeing the war monuments and the gravestones of these men of past wars and conflicts should be set up all over the country. It is nice that in many areas of the country there are associations such as the Cedar County one, but it should be also be a state and federal responsibility to assist in taking care of these historical reminders of the price that has been paid to preserve and protect this nation.
This is particularly true when we have troops in harms way in many areas of the world. I know this is going to turn into another rant on the failure of certain politicians, ok , you made me say their names, Mullahs Reid and Pelosi, too provide much needed funds for our troops in Iraq and the dishonor they toward the young men and women who have and are dying for our nation. It is people like that who will undoubtedly not support any kind of association which might honor our fallen warriors by providing funds to keep the monuments and gravestones from deteriorating into the ground. They wish to wash our past away and make it out that we are the bad guys and the aggressors in every conflict in which we have participated.
We have Memorial Day fast approaching and it befitting these fallen warriors are appropriately honored.
It has come to my attention from a Fox news report among others that John Edwards, one of the Al-Qaida Democratic Party Presidential candidates, not the psychic from late night t.v., is trying to organize people to demonstrate against the war on Memorial Day. The protestors are told to demonstrate, have their photos taken and send them to Edwards campaign offices where they will be posted on his website.
I was wondering if Senator Edwards could possibly find any other way to dishonor the fallen warriors, but I am sure he will come up with something else in the coming weeks. My god, how can people like Senator Edwards, not have any respect for the families, or friends of these dead men and women, even if they do not have respect for the dead themselves. Everyone knows that your against the war Senator Edwards, so please just give it a rest for one damn day.
Please allow the families, friends and others who want to honor all of the fallen warriors from this and past conflicts one day not without being hated, harassed, shouted at, disrespected, and dishonored.
It has always amazed me that some of the most ferocious, hateful people I have ever seen are so called peace activists. Are you really mad at the people that are fighting and dying to protect your right to be morons or are you just mad that we do not live in a utopia where only your ideas and values exist. Personally I think it is the latter more so than the former. People who think that there can be a world completely at peace are obviously delusional and should be medicated or put away for their own good.
I would like peace too, but reality is that there has been conflict since the beginning of the universe, whether you are an atheist or a believer in a higher power, there has been conflicts, from one on one violence, as people tried to be the master of another, too nation’s, as they tried to rule their neighbors. Utopia is not even a dream, merely an illusion that can cause many more deaths than actually fighting a war, in particular if you are fighting real bad/evil guys such as Al-Qaida and their like minded terrorist buddies.
The Neville Chamberlains of yesterday are the “peace” activists of today and we must protect ourselves as much from them as we do the violent enemies that exist out there, waiting for us to drop our guard. 9/11 was not that long ago and yet we see people from the politicians to the Hollywood elite willing to misrepresent what happened so they can forget and move on. What a deadly thing forgetting may be for us. After all it took two attacks on the World Trade Centers to bring them down and our enemy is not anything if he is not patient and persistent.
May our luck hold, but don’t count on it. Have a nice day!!
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