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From the archives; the day America wept
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.
On the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we remember the nearly 3000 Americans who loss their lives in a cowardly terrorist attack. This is the cartoon I drew that morning... This is an excerpt from a speech I gave... On September 11th, a group of cowards attacked America. They tried to redefine what America is…. They died in vain. You see America isn’t just a structure of concrete and steel. It is built of stronger material. America is an idea. It is an idea conceived in freedom, nurtured in liberty, and delivered with justice. It lives in the hearts and minds of all Americans. It lives in the acts of courage displayed by firemen, policemen, heroes, AMERICANS, racing up the stairwells of the twin towers into danger to save fellow Americans. It lives in the heroic acts of husbands, friends, wives, passengers of United Flight 93, heroes, AMERICANS, putting themselves in peril to protect this great nation. It lives in the heroic acts of our military, our intelligence services, men and women, heroes, AMERICANS, who will put their lives in harm’s way to preserve our freedom, and to save fellow Americans. There is a high price for freedom. The terrorists have said that they would die for their cause. What they don’t realize is that Americans will die for their cause; the cause of Liberty and Justice will continue because America isn’t just a towering edifice on our landscape. America is an idea. It is a cause. It is our spirit. It is real and it is in each and every American, and no amount of explosives will bring it down. We have been challenged by the forces of evil. But it is not in the nature of America to run from adversity. This attack will only strengthen our resolve... Yes, Americans will risk their lives for a great cause, for the principles of liberty and justice for all, in the freedom and in the courage of our convictions, our nation will rise to the challenge... Because that is the spirit of America. It is the spirit of liberty, freedom and justice for all. We send prayers to those in God's warm embrace. May God Bless those who lives were taken, and comfort those who suffered from this great tragedy. And may God bless America. -m September 11, 2018 FOX NEWS
New York City firefighter: How September 11, a day of tragedy, can be a day of inspiration 17 years later By Tim Sullivan The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind New York's Empire State Building in this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo. “Tim, get to work,” my brother solemnly said over the phone. “It’s going to get worse.” I had received the call just as the first tower was struck, and we didn’t know all that was yet to come. Like so many other Americans on September 11, 2001, I had simply been getting ready for another day, eating breakfast and reading the newspaper. As I jumped in the car and began driving downtown as fast as possible, I called my wife Colleen, who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with our first child. I let her know that something was happening in Manhattan, I needed to be there, and I didn’t know when I’d be home again. Next I called my buddy Jeff, who my wife and I had asked to be the godfather of our unborn child. I told him too that I was headed into the city – and added I had a bad feeling firemen were going to lose their lives. If something would happen to me, he would have to care for Colleen and his godchild. By the time I arrived on scene, the North Tower had also collapsed. Over the next several days, we started the work of putting New York City back together. read more SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 BY SCOTT JOHNSON POWERLINEDARTMOUTH’S 9/11 Following 9/11 the New York Times ran Portraits of Grief profiling many of those lost in the 9/11 attacks. The Times attributes authorship of these artful profiles collectively to Kirk Johnson, N.R. Kleinfeld, David Barstow, Barbara Stewart, Jane Gross, Neela Banerjee, Constance L. Hays, Lynette Holloway, Janny Scott and Somini Sengupta. read more Published September 11, 2018 9/11 taught us an incredible lesson too many of us have since forgotten By Billy Hallowell | Fox News The horrific events of September 11, 2001, were singed into the minds of every American who watched in horror as the Twin Towers collapsed into ash and debris, turning New York City into the site of the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. read more Republican Is the New Punk
MATT LABASH THE WEEKLY STANDARD Sabo relaxing at home with his favorite Obama Drone, Gwyneth Paltrow, 2014 Image courtesy of Sabo September 10, 2018 at 4:30 AM Street artist Sabo may just be ‘some guy who lives in some dump,’ but he is taking on and taking down the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Meryl Streep. Los AngelesIt’s not much to look at from the outside, a dingy apartment building in a downwardly mobile stretch of burglar bars, psychics, and coin laundries. When asked the name of the neighborhood, one inhabitant classifies it as “no place in the middle of every place.” It’s not much better on the inside. The guy I have come to see answers the door of his cheerless one-bedroom shirtless, in camo shorts and Chucks, while pulling on a white polo in order to appear less feral. He’s not a down-on-his-luck porn producer, though he used to work in the industry. He’s not some middle-aged gangbanger, though he could pass for one: solidly built with his name tattooed on his knuckles and a branding-iron mark singed into his chest. He is Sabo, America’s preeminent right-wing guerrilla street artist. read more |
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