This speech is long but well worth the time:
Posted: September 15th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 9-11, Middle East | Tags: Congressman Louie Gohmert | 3 Comments »MMM readers are invited to submit their 9-11 memories in the comments of this post. If you would like your story published on the front page, start you comment with “Art, put this on the front page.”
MY 9/11 memory, by Charles Measley
It was a morning very similar to this as I sat in my six grade English class at
Holy Trinity School in Long Branch. When a teacher from across the hall came in
and instructed us to turn on the news, that there was some sort of accident in
New York City.
As we turned on CNN we saw a gaping hole on the side of a skyscraper as the
reporters struggled to understand how a pilot could make such a horrific mistake on a clear day like this. As we sat there and watch without warning we saw an airplane coming from behind and slamming into the next tower with a horrific fireball. At that moment the attitude of everyone change , the reporters said with certainty that this was no accident, but intentional.
Shortly after that my father came and picked me up early, he drove me down to the beach in West, a section of Long Branch. As we stood there on the sandy
beach with the crystal clear sky in front of us we could see the smoke billowing
from the city. In the back of my mind I was wondering if my mother, who worked in the city was okay.
We went back home and put on the news and watch as one tower fell, and then
another, and then a plane crashing into the Pentagon and then another plane
smashing into a field in Pennsylvania. Luckily that day my mother never made it in, she left late and got stuck in traffic on the parkway by Perth Amboy.
http://new.livestream.com/911Memorial/11thanniversary
Posted: September 11th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 9-11 | Comments Off on Live Coverage of the 9-11 memorial ceremony
The weather was wonderful on Sunday, much as it was on September 11, 2001.
As I gazed over to New York and noticed the Freedom Tower in the distance, I turned to my friend and said, “it is just not the same.”
Life will never be the same for those who lost husbands or wives, brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles, friends and lovers that day. Life will not be the same for those who fled lower Manhattan to physical safety but still bear the psychological and emotions scars.
Life will never be the same for the families of the first responders who perished that day, or have perished since or are still hanging on, due to poisonous air that guaranteed a slow death.
Life with never be the same for the young men and women who have served bravely in Afghanistan and Iraq, even if they came home unharmed physically. Life will never be the same for their families.
Life will never be the same for a nation that has traded freedom and privacy for security.
Posted: September 10th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 9-11 | Tags: 9-11 | 5 Comments »
News 12 televised the moving dedication of the Empty Sky Memorial of New Jersey residents who perished on September 11, 2001 this morning and early afternoon.
NJTV broadcast an episode of Sesame Street and a repeat of Caucus New Jersey.
Posted: September 10th, 2011 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 9-11, Empty Sky Memorial, NJ Media | Tags: Empty Sky Memorial, News12, NJTV | 1 Comment »Governor Chris Christie speaking about 9-11 during his press conference at the FEMA operations center in Neptune. Video by APP.com
Members of the Highlands Fire Department will be transporting a piece of the World Trade Center from JFK Airport to the World Trade Center site and then on to Highlands tomorrow, according to Councilwoman and former Fire Chief Rebecca Kane.
Kane said that the Port Authority approved the HFD’s application for a piece of the WTC to be permanently memorialized at their firehouse with a mural and lighting on June 27th.
The steel will arrive at Veteran’s Park in Highlands tomorrow, September 7, at approximately 6PM. Highlands will have a formal memorial service at the park on Sunday September 11 at 4:30PM.
Posted: September 6th, 2011 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 9-11, Highlands | Tags: 9-11, Highlands, Highlands Fire Department, Rebecca Kane | 8 Comments »By Grace Cangemi
Today is “Great Muslim Adventure Day” at Six Flags in Jackson. As Americans prepare to lower our flags to half staff in preparation for the remembrance of the victims murdered on September 11, 2001, all six flags at Great Adventure are welcoming only Muslims and those willing to “fellowship” with them into the park.
According to the gentleman manning the ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America) stand near the ticket booth, it is the end of Ramadan and “a day of celebration.”
To Patti Ryan-Miller, who, along with her 12 year old daughter and her 9 year old friend, was turned away for Muslim Day, it was “a slap in the teeth.”
“It’s really insensitive and terrible timing,” she said. “To make it worse, my daughter earned these passes doing community service for her religious education.”
Brian from Toms River, who I met with his 2 young daughters on their way out of the park told me that he didn’t have any opinion on Islam but that being turned away for not being Muslim “doesn’t help with September 11th being tomorrow.”
Six Flags just tipped the insensitivity scale. I’m sure that many parks have “fellowship days” for people of different faiths, but to close your facility to the public for a celebration of Islam on the eve of the largest mass murder in our nation’s history – an act committed by radical Muslims – is so unbelievable that I had to see for myself.
If a day out at Six Flags was supposed to be a “fellowship day,” holding it on September 10th didn’t make me feel any fellowship. Just the opposite. Where is the sensitivity to your fellow human beings, those of us, living so close to the site of so many of these deaths, who experienced such devastating loss at the hands of your brethren? Where is the condemnation for radicals who murder your fellow Americans? Where is the spirit of inclusion that would have you show non-Muslims that you really are a “religion of peace?”
As September 11th approaches, I have been increasingly angered that the lessons of that day are being passed over as more and more politicians and pundits have decided to use the occasion and the controversy surrounding it to tell Americans that we are “insensitive” and “discriminatory” toward Muslims and not to mourn the loss of the three thousand souls who perished on that beautiful Tuesday.
I’m not sensitive to Muslims who won’t let little kids who win awards for community service ride a roller coaster with them. I’m not sensitive to people who don’t recognize how important a day September 11th will always be to the Americans who lived through it. And I’m sure as hell not sensitive to anyone who won’t loudly and vocally condemn any piece of human detritus who would slaughter my friends and family in the name of their religious jihad.
When Danny Gallagher was in high school, our church youth group had a day at Great Adventure. The park was open to the public, although people from churches throughout the state had come to join together and spend the day. I’m sure there were some Muslims there. We wouldn’t have known because it didn’t matter as long as everyone was having fun at the park. Perhaps that’s why “Great Muslim Day” outraged me. This smart, bright young man would have been barred from Six Flags today. And he probably would have been good natured about it. That’s how Danny was. I’ll never know because he never came home after that Tuesday morning nine years ago.
If my sensitivity is all used up today, maybe it’s because it’s being spent on Danny’s family and all of those who lost loved ones at the hands of Islamic Jihadists. Maybe some of the folks leaving “Muslim Day” could try thinking about that this afternoon.
Come Join Scott Sipprelle as we rally in celebration of the American spirit and in remembrance of those who lost their lives on 9/11 and those they left behind.
September 11
3-4pm
Thompson Park, Monroe
We will meet at grove 3A off of Lakeview Dr. (adjacent to Manalapan Lake) Parking is located immediately before grove 3A.
We will sing Patriotic songs and Scott will address the crowd. All are welcome!
Directions to Thompson Park http://www.co.middlesex.nj.us/parksrecreation/thompson.asp
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