Do Not Stand and Weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there.
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that swiftly blow.
I am the diamond glint
on newly fallen snow.
I am the sunlight
on ripened grain.
I am the soft and gentle autumn rain.
When you wake from sleep in the early morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft, starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there.
I do not sleep
Author Unknown
This from President Bush:
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH,
President of the United States of America,
by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States,
do hereby proclaim Friday, September 14, 2001,
as a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance
for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks
on September 11, 2001.
I ask that the people of the United States
and places of worship
mark this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance
with noontime memorial services,
the ringing of bells at that hour,
and evening candlelight remembrance vigils
.
I encourage employers to permit their workers
time off during the lunch hour
to attend the noontime services
to pray for our land.
I invite the people of the world
who share our grief
to join us in these solemn observances.
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Thank you and God bless.
(Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010913-7.html)
http://www.nationalprideday.org
World Trade Center Facts:
Construction of the World Trade Center complex of seven buildings on 16-acres began August 5, 1966, by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). Original designs set the number of stories at 80 and it was later decided to make it the tallest building at 110 stories.
Architect: Minoru Yamasaki, Emery Roth and Sons
Consulting Engineer: John Skilling and Leslie Robertson of Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson
At a cost of $1.5 Billion, The World Trade Center Tower One (1,368 Feet) was completed in 1972 while Tower Two (1362 Feet) was completed on April 4, 1973 (ribbon cutting). They were destroyed September 11, 2001.
50,000 people worked in the World Trade Center, it was so large it had it's own zip code 10048 and it's own police precinct. There was a total of Nine Million Square Feet (more than in all of Downtown Miami) of office space inside.
American Airlines Flight 11
From Boston, Mass., crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. The airplane en route to Los Angeles contained 81 passengers, nine flight attendants and two pilots.
United Airlines Flight 175
From Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center. The airplane, en route to Los Angeles, carried 56 passengers, seven flight attendants and two pilots.
American Airlines Flight 77
From Washington's Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles, crashes into the Pentagon. Areas between 4th, 5th and 6th corridors are hit. The plane carried 58 passengers, four flight attendants and two pilots.
United Airlines Flight 93
From Newark to San Francisco crashes 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The plane was carrying 38 passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants.
On Monday we emailed jokes
On Tuesday we did not
On Monday we thought that we were secure
On Tuesday we learned better
On Monday we were talking about heroes as being athletes
On Tuesday we relearned who our heroes are
On Monday we were irritated that our rebate checks had not arrived
On Tuesday we gave money away to people we had never met
On Monday there were people fighting against praying in schools
On Tuesday you would have been hard pressed to find a school where someone was not praying
On Monday people argued with their kids about picking up their room
On Tuesday the same people could not get home fast enough to hug their kids
On Monday people were upset that they had to wait 6 minutes in a fast food drive through line
On Tuesday people didn't care about waiting up to 6 hours to give blood for the dying
On Monday we waved our flags signifying our cultural diversity
On Tuesday we waved only the American flag
On Monday there were people trying to separate each other by race, sex, color and creed
On Tuesday they were all holding hands
On Monday we men or women, black or white, old or young, rich or poor, gay or straight, Christian or non-Christian.
On Tuesday we were Americans
On Monday politicians argued about budget surpluses
On Tuesday grief stricken they sang 'God Bless America'
On Monday the President was going to Florida to read to children
On Tuesday he returned to Washington to protect our children
On Monday we had families
On Tuesday we had orphans
On Monday people went to work as usual
On Tuesday they died
On Monday people were fighting the 10 commandments on government property
On Tuesday the same people all said 'God help us all' while thinking 'Thou shall not kill'
It is sadly ironic how it takes horrific events to place things into perspective,
but it has.
The lessons learned this week,
the things we
have taken for granted,
the things that have been forgotten or
overlooked,
hopefully will never be forgotten again.
Editorial from a Romanian newspaper
Why are Americans so united?
They don't resemble one another
even if you paint them!
They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations.
Some of them are nearly extinct,
others are incompatible with one another,
and in matters of religious beliefs,
not even God can count how many they are.
Still, the American tragedy turned
three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart.
Nobody rushed to accuse the White House,
the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers.
Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts.
Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about.
The Americans volunteered to donate blood
and to give a helping hand.
After the first moments of panic,
they raised the flag on the smoking ruins,
putting on T-shirts, caps and ties
in the colours of the national flag.
They placed flags on buildings and cars
as if in every place and on every car
a minister or the president was passing.
On every occasion they started singing
their traditional song: "God Bless America!".
Silent as a rock,
I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday
once, twice, three times, on different tv channels.
There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro,
Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson,
Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood,
and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together.
The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir.
Actually, choir is not the word.
What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul.
What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell
could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds,
was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert.
I don't know how it happened
that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious!
It made you green with envy
because you weren't able to sing for your country
without running the risk of being considered
chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests.
I watched the live broadcast
and the rerun of its rerun for hours
listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair
without knowing who she was,
or of the Californian hockey player,
who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds of thousands of people.
How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human?
Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note,
the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes.
And with every phone call,
millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection
aimed at rewarding not a man or a family,
but a spirit which nothing can buy.
What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way?
Their land? Their galloping history?
Their economic power? Money?
I tried for hours to find an answer,
humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces.
I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion.
Only freedom can work such miracles!
God Bless the families and friends of those lost in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
God bless and keep all the firemen, police, steel workers, construction crews, military personel, and others who have worked so diligently in this time of crisis.
May peace return to this land once again--and may God Bless America!
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