9-11, "Have you Forgotten?"

[Sparrowhawk]

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<font size="6"><b>Have You Forgotten</font><P>

I haven't forgotten, andI'm still angry and hungry to set things right.</b>

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I hear people saying
We don’t need this war
But I say there’s some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn’t get to keep them by backing down
Now they say we don’t realize the mess we’re getting in
Before you start to preaching let me ask you this my friend

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

They took all the footage off my TV
They said it’s too disturbing for you and me
It’ll just breed anger, it’s what the experts say
If it was up to me I’d show it everyday
Some say this country’s just out looking for a fight
Well after 9-11 man I’d have to say that’s right

Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

I’ve been there with the soldiers who’ve gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember just what they’re fighting for

Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Yeah some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
Yeah all those loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don’t you tell me not to worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire and her people blown away

Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had people still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn’t worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten? Oh
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[Devildogg4ever]

This song says it all! I respect and thank Darryl Worley, I wish we had more entertainers to stand up for American! We will never forget!!

[thedrifter]

We Will Never Forget.......

Thanks Cook

I'm adding a few of the other threads that some folks, have made.......

Sempers,

Roger

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=45588#post45588


http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9576

[Lock-n-Load]

:marine: I never will forget 11Sept01...why should I...WAR was declared against radical/extremist Muslims...I recall the American mindset after 7Dec41 [Pearl Harbor Day]...that dastardly attack by the Japs ...GALVANIZED...all of America for unconditional surrender; not so, with the fallout of the demise of the twin towers....sure most feel sad, but do you think of avenging it....I doubt it....the Untied States of America is at splitends, politically and individually...everyone is back to work...living as large as possible...kids are getting fatter, addicted to vices and dumbing down at a record pace...it is not at all liken to the virulent mood of WW2 Americans...WW2 was the last WAR that scared us, even though past Presidents put us in harm's way like: Korea-Vietnam for openers, no one really cared other than the participants [families and such]...no siree, I hear no engrossing WAR talk or war/posture now for 9/11...we are at WAR ....to ALL Americans,do you live that?? Semper Fidelis :marine:

[thedrifter]

The Spirit of Freedom forged in Steel
Submitted by: Marine Forces Reserve
Story Identification Number: 200391181747
Story by Cpl. Ryan J. Skaggs



MARINE FORCES RESERVE, New Orleans(Sept. 11, 2003) -- The memories of the September 11th tragedies of 2001 took on a new shape Sept. 9 at Amite Foundry and Machine Inc., in Amite, La. Molted

Steel from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center site was resurrected to become the leading piece of the USS New York Landing Platform Dock (LPD) 21, the fifth of 12 new San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships to be built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems for the Navy-Marine Corps Team.

"This piece of steel has been washed by the tears of Americans and hardened by the millions of prayers around the world," said Dr. Philip A. Dur, president, Northrop Grumman. "It is our hope that we can bring strength and victory to this steel and to the whole of LPD-21 USS New York."

The structural steel, which came in a beam approximately 20 feet long and weighing between 20 and 30 tons, was extricated from the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island where the World Trade Center wreckage was dumped. It is believed to have been part of the south tower, the second to be hit by a jetliner hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, but the first to collapse.

The steel was trucked south to Amite, La., where it was chopped and sized to fit in a cauldron, then heated to 2,850 degrees Fahrenheit and melted down. The molten steel was cast in the mold of a bow-stem, the foremost section of the hull on the water line that slices through the water.

"The spirit and traditions of service and sacrifice that have made our nation great have been rekindled in the ashes of the World Trade Center and will be poured strong and resolute in the steel we pour here today," said U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Philip Balisle, commander, Naval Sea Systems Command.

The USS New York, the fifth ship in more than a 200 year legacy to share its title, earned its namesake during a ceremony held Sept. 7, 2002, aboard the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York Harbor by the Honorable Gordon England, former Secretary of the Navy. It is named in honor of the state, the city and the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.

"This new class of ships will project American power to the far corners of the Earth and support the cause of freedom well into the 21st Century," said England. "USS New York will play an important role in our Navy's future and will be a fitting tribute to the people of the Empire State."

The 684-foot-long ship is capable of carrying a Navy crew of 363 and 699 Marines. The ship will be used to transport and land Marines, their equipment and supplies by embarked air cushions, conventional landing craft or amphibious vehicles. It will be augmented by helicopters or vertical take off and landing aircraft in amphibious assault special operations or expeditionary warfare missions. The USS New York is scheduled for active duty in 2007.

"Whenever this ship sails, the spirit and memory of the men and women who lost their lives that day, will go with it," said the Honorable Hansford T. Johnson, acting Secretary of the Navy. "The USS New York will not be a monument of tragedy. It will be a symbol of our strength and ability to rebuild and come back stronger than ever."


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Steel resurrected from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center Site was trucked south to Amite Foundry and Machine Inc., in Amite, La., where it was melted and cast in the mold of a bow-stem, the foremost section of the hull on the water line that slices through the water. The bow-stem being created here is for the USS New York Landing Transport Dock (LPD) 21, the fifth of 12 San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships to be built for the Navy-Marine Corps Team. The USS New York is named in honor of the state, the city and the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
Photo by: Cpl. Ryan J. Skaggs



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This is a bow-stem for one of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships. Steel resurrected from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center Site was trucked south to Amite Foundry and Machine Inc., in Amite, La., where it was melted and cast in the mold of a bow-stem, the foremost section of the hull on the water line that slices through the water.
Photo by: Cpl. Ryan J. Skaggs


Sempers,

Roger
:marine:

[Rat Patrol]

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September 11, 2003
With Memories and Hope, Nation Marks Sept. 11 Attacks
By KIRK SEMPLE


Two years after terrorists transformed four airplanes into missiles and killed more than 3,000 people, the country began a day of ceremonies and ritual this morning, remembering the victims yet also looking forward with hope for a safer, more peaceful world.

The gaping, 16-acre hole of ground zero, where the World Trade Center towers stood and 2,792 people died, filled with families of the victims for a subdued three-hour ceremony that began at 8:38 a.m. and included four moments of silence: two at the exact moments the planes struck the towers, and two when the towers collapsed.

At 8:46 a.m., the time at which the first plane blew a hole in the north tower, the skies above New York - blue and cloudless, eerily similar to Sept. 11, 2001 - filled with the peal of bells.

``Today, again, we are a city that mourns,'' Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York told the family members at ground zero. ``We come here to honor those that we lost and to remember this day with sorrow. But we also remember with pride, and from that comes our resolve to go forward. Our faces and hopes turn toward the future.''

In a tribute that was both a memorial to the past and a gesture toward the future, children and young adults related to people who died at the site recited a roll call of the dead. ``It is in them that the spirit of New York lives, carrying both our deepest memories and the bright, bright promise of tomorrow,'' Mr. Bloomberg said.

Standing in pairs at two lecterns, the relatives read a list of the victims, sometimes breaking down in tears. The litany of names was interspersed with moments of silence framed by song and poetry.

Gov. George E. Pataki of New York read from ``I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great,'' by the British poet Sir Stephen Spender. It speaks of:

The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while toward the sun,
And left the vivid signed with their honour.

Many of the hundreds of family members who attended the ceremony carried yellow roses and yellow carnations as they proceeded somberly down a ramp into the pit. At the end of the ceremony, some planted the flowers in the dense, parched earth.

``I am here to complete my healing,'' said Beverly Epps, 45, who attended the ceremony this morning in honor of her 29-year-old brother, Christopher, an accountant at Marsh & McLennan who died in the attacks. ``I need the peace, to say goodbye.''

In Washington this morning, President Bush attended a service at St. John's Church and observed a moment of silence at the White House at 8:46 a.m.

``We remember lives lost,'' Mr. Bush said outside St. John's Church, near the White House. ``We remember the heroic deeds. We remember the compassion and the decency of our fellow citizens on that terrible day.''

The president's schedule today is markedly more subdued than his recognition of the first anniversary when he attended memorial events at all three crash sites.

The Defense Department, which lost scores of employees when a plane slammed into the Pentagon, held a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and the dedication of a stained-glass window at the Pentagon Chapel.

``Let this day always be a reminder to our nation, to the world, why we fight in freedom's cause and why we must fight and win this global war on terrorism,'' Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said at the cemetery, where he dedicated a burial marker to honor the 184 people who died in the Pentagon attack.

In Shanksville, Pa., an observance was held at a chapel near the field where United Flight 93 crashed, and church bells sounded just after 10 a.m., the time the airplane was reported down. The bells were rung 40 times, once for every crew member and passenger who died.

Elsewhere in the nation, rituals of mourning and peace were planned. Twisted steel extracted from the ruins of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and now on display in other states would provide the centerpiece for ceremonies throughout the country.

In Toledo, Ohio, a flight of white doves was to be released following the reading of victims' names. At Boston's Logan International Airport, where two of the hijacked planes took off, there was a moment of silence to remember the victims.

The day was also commemorated throughout the world in formal pronouncements and simple ceremonies. In London, relatives of the 67 Britons who died in the attacks attended the opening of a commemorative garden. Several heads of state - including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines and Prime Minister John Howard of Australia - recognized the anniversary in statements today.

Minister JosÀe MarÀia Aznar of Spain expressed his nation's solidarity with the United States, saying, ``The terrorist attacks of September 11 were an attack on the people of the United States, on civilization and on all of those who share the values and the principles of freedom and democracy.''

The observances come amid the backdrop of postwar troubles in Iraq, where American troops find themselves mired in an occupation opposed by a surging guerrilla resistance; American troops also remain in Afghanistan trying to suppress remnants of the Taliban.

And though today's ceremonies commemorated events that are slowly receding into the past, the United States and its allies remain on alert for further terrorist attacks. The State Department renewed this anxiety today in a worldwide advisory that Al Qaeda may be planning attacks possibly involving chemical or biological agents.

``With the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks upon us, we are seeing increasing indications that Al Qaeda is preparing to strike U.S. interests abroad,'' the State Department said in an advisory it called a ``worldwide caution.''

On Wednesday, the broadcast of a videotape showing Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, served as a reminder that their Qaeda network is still operating. In the tape, Mr. Zawahiri exhorted Iraqi resistance fighters to ``bury'' American troops in Iraq.

But despite the State Department warning and the new videotape of Mr. bin Laden, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said today there was no need to raise the nation's terror-alert level. ``In so many ways across the board, around the country, we are much, much safer,'' Mr. Ridge said in an interview on ``The Early Show'' on CBS.

In the ceremony this morning in Arlington, Va., Secretary Rumsfeld, did not mention either the advisory or the videotape, but he warned, ``If we do not fight the terrorists over there in Iraq, in Afghanistan and across the world, then we will have to face them here and many more innocent men men, women and children, as well as the patriots defending them, will perish.''

Still, the day was principally one of remembrance and hope.

Two heart attacks had prevented Lillian Tetreault, 71, from attending other memorial ceremonies at ground zero, but today she came to remember her daughter, Renee Tetreault Newell, 37, who had been a passenger on one of the planes that slammed into the towers.

``God has given me the strength to be here this time,'' said Ms. Tetreault, who clutched a bouquet of yellow roses. ``He knows I have to be here. I feel at peace here.''

Music graced the occasion, including a rendition of ``Amazing Grace'' by bagpipers and a drummer. The Brooklyn Youth Chorus sang the national anthem.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani drew from the oeuvre of Winston Churchill, the master of wartime oratory. ``Repair the waste,'' he said, quoting Mr. Churchill. ``Rebuild the ruins. Heal the wounds. Crown the victors. Comfort the broken and broken-hearted. There is the battle we have won to fight. There is the victory we have now to win. Let us go forward together.''

Indeed, the future now hovers over the site as much as the past. Consensus on what the site will look like remains elusive as developers and architects, politicians and investors, mourners and civic groups scrum over the master redevelopment plans. But eventually something will rise from the hole, and the scene this morning left no doubt that the world's collective memory will form the foundation of whatever is built.


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/national/11CND-ATTA.html

[Sparrowhawk]

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NEVER forget


A firefighter reads the names of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks written on a memorial that reads "Never Forget" Sept. 11 at Ground Zero in New York City. The names of the nearly 2,800 victims were read by 200 surviving children and family members at a second-anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center site.

[Sparrowhawk]

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President Bush and his wife, Laura, observed a moment of silence at the White House today at 8:46 a.m., marking the moment American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, two years ago today.

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Commuters in Grand Central Terminal in New York observed a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m.

[Sparrowhawk]

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An army of mourners


U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division reflect during a memorial service Sept. 11 in Tikrit, Iraq. More than 150 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division attended the service.

[Sparrowhawk]

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Hearing the names of each one
Witnesses stand at the edge of the World Trade Center site in New York on Sept. 11 as children read the names of the 2,792 people who died there two years before.


A little girl made my eyes water...

The daughter of a man killed at the twin towers, made my eyes water when she said,

"Daddy, I miss you," then she read off his name.

[Sparrowhawk]

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Signs of loss
A woman holds a sign as she and others wait to enter the site of the World Trade Center towers Sept. 11 in New York. Bells rang across the city, and moments of silence were observed to remember the 2,792 people killed two years before when hijacked planes destroyed the 110-story twin towers.

[Sparrowhawk]

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A firefighter consoles a child in front of a sign that reads, "I Love You Daddy," at Ground Zero, where family members of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks gathered to commemorate the second anniversary of the attacks.

Sempers Marines

Cook

[thedrifter]

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As the sun sets on the temporary memorial to United Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pa., on Thursday Sept. 11, 2003, visitors gather around a giant Flight 93 flag in a moment of silence in memory of the 40 crew members and passengers lost when the Boeing 757 slammed into this western Pennsylavania field on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

[thedrifter]

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Thu Sep 11, 8:26 PM ET

Lights from the former World Trade Center site can be seen on both sides of the Statue of Liberty from Bayone, N.J., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

[thedrifter]

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United States Army soldiers stand in front of the Stars and Stripes flag during a commemoration for the victims of attacks on New York's World Trade Center and Washington's Pentagon (news - web sites) two years ago, at a former palace in Baghdad of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) September 11, 2003. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

[thedrifter]

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British police officers walk together carrying the American and British flags as they arrive at the 'ground zero' site of the World Trade Center disaster where family members and friends of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks gathered for a ceremony marking the two year anniversary of the attacks in New York, September 11, 2003. REUTERS/Mike Segar

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Roseville, Minn., police Sgt. Randy Johnson, is framed through a wreath as he rings the bell for each police officer killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack, during a memorial service in Roseville Central Park on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003. (AP Photo/Jim Mone).

[thedrifter]

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Jennifer Jenkins sits wrapped in a United States flag as familes of victims of the collapse of the World Trade Center sit near a pool of water during the second anniversary ceremonies for the collapsed buildings in New York, September 11, 2003. Familes of victims of the collapse of the World Trade Center were allowed down to two pools of water placed on the ground where the buildings once stood. Jenkins' father Joseph died in the collapse of the towers. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

[thedrifter]

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A New York City firefighter tosses a pink rose onto a pile of flowers left by family members and friends of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at the 'ground zero' site of the Trade Center disaster during a ceremony marking the two year anniversary of the attacks, September 11, 2003. REUTERS/Mike Segar

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A US flag that flew at the World Trade Center is carried off a stage by officers representing police and firefighters at Ground Zero during commemorations of the 2nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks(AFP/Stan Hondan)

[thedrifter]

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Ron Rosati paints a U.S. flag Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, in Hudson, Ohio, in remembrance of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Molly Corfman)

[arzach]

Thru all that's happened since 11Sept01...The way the President has directed the fight, and STILL there are citizens, selfish citizens of our Country, that seek to undermine and topple President Bush. I admit, I didn't care for him when elected, I gave him credit for assembling a fine cabinet..all bright minds. Then after 9/11 I really admired his re-action and continued actions...he is NOT going to let 9/11 happen again.

It's time the country woke up and presents a united front to these buttwipes that are trying to destroy us...the more devisive we are, the more they think they will overpower us.


Semper Fidelis
Rick

[prmama]

"How are you all doing? The proud warriors of Baker Company wanted to do something to pay tribute to our fallen comrades. So since we are part of the only Marine Infantry Battalion left in Iraq the one way that we could think of doing that is by taking a picture of Baker Company saying the way we feel. It would be awesome if you could find a way to share this with our fellow countrymen. I was wondering if there was any way to get this into your papers to let the world know that "WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN" and are proud to serve our country."

Semper Fi
1stSgt Dave Jobe