THERE WILL BE MUCH WRITTEN ABOUT THE COMMEMORATION OF THIS DAY BY PEOPLE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT AND ELOQUENT THAN I AM.HERE IS MY POOR CONTRIBUTION.PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS WITH THE REST OF US ABOUT HOW YOU’RE FEELING.
Everybody remembers where they were when they first heard the news that awful day.I was in the basement of a metal recycling plant picking up dirty uniforms and listening to Don&Roma on my little radio when the news broke about a plane hitting one of the towers.At first it was thought to be a small plane like the one that had struck a building in Dallas recently.When the news came of a second plane hitting the other tower it flushed over everyone that something was terribly wrong.
Some networks pulled their broadcasts that evening and one simply showed a single burning candle with soft music playing.We saw images of people,covered in dust fleeing for their lives.Some 200 jumped from the upper stories rather than be burned alive or asphyxiated.Firemen and policemen rushed into buildings to save people giving no thought to their own safety.
For a brief period of time the world stood with us.The press put their perpetual criticism of the president on hold for about two weeks before the criticism of how he reacted that day as he read to some young schoolchildren started.Through it all,President Bush showed himself to be a true leader in time of crisis.He was unsurprisingly given no credit for holding the country together during our darkest hour.
The pain was unbearable.
The heroes were unforgettable.
Bashing the president for not stopping it unforgivable.
PRESIDENTS BUSH AND CLINTON SPOKE AT THE FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL YESTERDAY.SEE IF YOU CAN MAKE IT THROUGH THIS VIDEO WITHOUT TEARING UP AND GETTING A KNOT IN YOUR STOMACH.I COULDN’T DO IT.
I HAVE NO PARTICULAR LOVE FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON,BUT I URGE YOU TO CLICK ON THIS LINK TO SEE HIS SPEECH YESTERDAY.HE TRANSCENDS PARTISAN POLITICS IN A WAY I DIDN’T THINK HE WAS CAPABLE OF.
http://www.breitbart.tv/bill-clintons-masterful-speech-at-flight-93-tribute/
THIS IS THE LARGEST FREE-STANDING FLAG IN THE WORLD
MEMORIAL SERVICE HEARS TRIBUTE FROM 9 YEAR OLD BOY TO THE 9/11 FIREMAN FATHER HE NEVER KNEW
WHILE THE FORMER PRESIDENTS WERE GIVING HEARTFELT SPEECHES AT THE FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL,THE CURRENT PRESIDENT WAS BAGGING GUMBO
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/obama-packages-gumbo-to-commemorate-9-11-2/
polination.blog 
I am just too emotional to add anything of substance to Pete’s Tribute, but I appreciate every word and every link.
The Islamic Student Assoc. at the University is having a blood drive this afternoon as their tribute. Say what you will, I appreciate their intentions. My daughter is just one pound over the minimum so she is giving blood for the first time right this minute and she is terrified, but says that it is nothing like the terror her fellow Americans felt 10 years ago, when she was a freshman in high school watching the news in class and sobbing with her English teacher.
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Kudos to your brave daughter. I bet she’ll get over the terrified thing.
Giving blood is no biggy and they’re so NICE to you.
I used to go as often as possible until I was the Very Grateful Recipient of 5 bags that saved my life. After that, my doc suggested my health was such that I ought not to be passing my blood on to others. But the regular donations in the years prior made me completely blase about needles.
It proved advantageous later on. When I gave birth to #1, the routine blood work showed I had sensitized to Rh. We later learned Dearest is homozygous for the dominant Rh+ gene, so all our kids are incompatible with my Rh- blood.
#2 was affected and sick at birth, so we decided to hang up our sneakers. God had other ideas and sent us our Miracle Baby, the illustrious Corporal K.
With my history, the first thing the doc did after the positive test was send my blood in for an Rh titer. We were only weeks along so mega dismay reigned when the results showed much higher antibody activity than what had inspired #2’s induced, two-weeks early birth.
Long story short (really!), Corporal K and I had 7 amniocenteses. Once my titer was that high, the only way they could track the baby’s condition was to test the amniotic fluid.
I already knew I was allergic to narcotics and very well could be facing a C-section, so was adamant that we use no anesthesia for the amnios. The place I went to apparently had rarely to never met anyone like me. They were agog. I just said, “Show me the needle.”
It’s a spinal tap needle … SCARY long, but they stick it into FLUID. The length doesn’t matter. The width does. I checked it out and decided it was no bigger than a blood donation needle. I had the amnios with no anesthesia, no fear. Just relaxed and concentrated on how it was good for the baby.
One time, a relative drove me cuz Dearest was preparing for his licensing exams. When the test was done, I came out chatting and laughing with the nurse. Our driver came over and said, “You can’t be done.”
“Why not?”
“The woman who came out ahead of you was in tears and could barely walk!”
“Yeah, well. 90% of it is in your head and I am not afraid of needles.”
RE: The miracle part – Rh disease is not only incurable, it is virtually untreatable. What happens is the mother’s immune system creates antibodies that squash the fetus’ red blood cells like bugs. The squished blood cells get processed and peed into the amniotic fluid, turning it yellow. The test they did was for Optical Density, or the yellowness of the fluid.
At 22 weeks, Corporal K’s fluid looked like dirty first morning urine. The specialist tried to downplay it, not to scare me. But I’d done my research. I knew what dirty yellow meant. So we stormed heaven. Two churches, one here and one in Japan where a friend of mine was missionary, took her on as their special prayer project.
The specialist told us only after she was born that the day we both saw that dirty yellow fluid, he had hoped the increases we saw in bilirubin (yellow) would level off, which might have gotten us to 35 weeks, when the baby would be seriously ill and need to come out for blood replacement therapy. What he feared was that it would continue to rise at the rate it had been going between the first and second amnios. In that case, we’d have been looking at intrauterine transfusions and a very sick premie.
What actually happened is that Corporal K RECOVERED from an incurable disease. Her bilirubin levels did not rise or level off. They dropped … and dropped … and dropped. I had a normal, uneventful, full-term labor and delivered a healthy little girl. The specialist was funny during the delivery, saying that being a sick baby specialist, he rarely got to do vaginal deliveries or celebrate with happy new parents!
I got to deliver in a nice birthing room and open champagne, take photos and call all those anxious pray-ers while they were wiping down and wrapping up our little miracle.
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Wow – that was an ordeal. I feel lucky now that all I needed was the shot of Rhogam.
My daughter said giving blood was a piece of cake after all. The anticipation was doing her in, but now she will do it again regularly.
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My 9/11 Prayer of Gratitude … my kids are nowhere near this place.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/09/11/bomb-at-us-base-in-afghanistan-wounds-77-americans/
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Amen.
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