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A collage of photos of NYC's WTC, the destruction of which changed the lives of nearly every person on the planet.

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I took these photos at Winslow, Arizona, at the World Trade Center Remembrance Memorial Garden. There's a big push to get more WTC steel sent to communities around the nation, to help our current Americans remember the heroes who fell, the firefighters and policemen, and also those who've since fallen in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

''The best way we can honor the memory of those we lost on 9/11 is to find homes in the W.T.C. Memorial and in cities and towns around the nation for the hundreds of artifacts we've carefully preserved over the years,'' said the Port Authority's executive director, Christopher O. Ward. The Port Authority hopes to generate more interest in the steel with new advertisements in police, fire and municipal trade magazines. There are 1,800 to 2,000 pieces, half of them very large, which are available for carting away, at the recipient's expense. This does not include about 200 pieces, among them the most familiar and iconic, that have been claimed by the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.

These words on the Winslow Plaque...

REMEMBRANCE GARDEN
These two steel beams from the World Trade Center
entrusted to the citizens of Winslow
By the City of New York,
along with this flag that was flown at the Pentagon;
stand as the centerpiece of our Remembrance Garden.
The words 'United We Stand" remind the world
that we will not fear terrorism.
We hereby dedicate this Garden to Northern Arizona's
Promise that
"WE WILL NEVER FORGET"

How often do we remember that world-changing day way back in 2001? How often do we feel the same sense of 'togetherness' we all seemed to have, for at least a few months?

How often can you recall Barack Hussein Obama saying "America is a GREAT NATION, Americans are a GREAT PEOPLE"? He doesn't seem to be proud of America, BHO; every time he sets foot outside the country he's apologizing to somebody for something.

Well, whether Barack Hussein Obama agrees or not, America IS a GREAT NATION, and her people ARE a GREAT PEOPLE. Otherwise we wouldn't have been blessed with such a successful run.

When we worked together, there wasn't a problem that we couldn't solve.

Is that over? Is America now on the skids, falling, soon to be overwhelmed in the Globalism that's promulgated by our current leadership? Are we to be forever splintered, and doomed to lose this Republic, falling into some kind of Global Collectivism event horizon?

How much longer do we have to fly our flag? Proudly? As a Great Nation?

Will we ever have a President again say that America is a Great Nation, that her people are among the finest in the world?

I don't think the current president and his entourage has it in'em.

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STACLU has a post listing the names of all those killed seven years ago, by the Islamic extremists.

Best memorial post I've seen on the web..at least, of those I see in my RSS reader.

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