Archive for the ‘Remembrance’ Category

There will be a plethora of articles today about the events surrounding 09/11/2001, the day radical Islam declared war on the civilised world. Un:dhimmi contributor Star takes a more personal approach here, looking through the eyes of two people who were there:

A few weeks ago, I took a class in making silver jewelry from precious metal clay.  I was on my way to the studio to finish up some rings that I had made for my daughters and I and had to detour a bit because there was a 3-alarm fire in a shop at the opposite end of the shopping center from the studio.  No big deal, right?  So as I was sitting there working on my rings, I heard a lady who was in the shop say that she just didn’t want to go outside.  I told her that it was alright because the fire was quite a distance away from us and it was completely under control.

She looked at me with haunted eyes and said “I was in Tower One on September 11th.”

Wow.  You could have heard a pin drop and I just stammered and told her I was so sorry.  I asked a few questions, and in the process I learned that she was on the 51st floor and walked down in high heels after Rick Rescorla got them moving.  She walked home across the Brooklyn Bridge.  It took fifteen hours in high heels.  She said that she got home, and the next morning, got up, packed her car and said she was heading to her mother’s home where people were normal.  Her husband followed later that week and they got transfers from their jobs and moved.

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This picture above really shows the desperation more than any other.  I can’t really imagine how many people were killed on 9-11.  I challenge you to simply read each of their names in remembrance.  When you’re done, I believe you will have a more accurate picture of just what the terrorists stole from our country on 9-11.  And why we will NEVER forget.

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To read the story of any of the victims of the 9-11 Terrorist attacks, click on their name.
If there is an asterisk after their name, you will find a picture of the person at the link.

World Trade Center
Gordon McCannel Aamoth, 32, New York, N.Y.*
Maria Rose Abad, 49, Syosset, N.Y.*
Edelmiro (Ed) Abad, 54, New York, N.Y.*
Andrew Anthony Abate, 37, Melville, N.Y.*
Vincent Abate, 40, New York, N.Y.*
Laurence Christopher Abel, 37*
William F. Abrahamson, 58, Cortland Manor, N.Y.*
Richard Anthony Aceto, 42, Wantagh, N.Y.*
Erica Van Acker, 62, New York, N.Y.*
Heinrich B. Ackermann, 38, New York, N.Y.*
Paul Andrew Acquaviva, 29, Glen Rock, N.J.*
Donald L. Adams, 28, Chatham, N.J.*
Shannon Lewis Adams, 25, New York, N.Y.*
Stephen Adams, 51, New York, N.Y.*
Patrick Adams, 60, New York, N.Y.*
Ignatius Adanga, 62, New York, N.Y.*
Christy A. Addamo, 28, New Hyde Park, N.Y.*
Terence E. Adderley, 22, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.*
Sophia B. Addo, 36, New York, N.Y.*

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RAF personnel on parade: Proud members of one of the world's finest Air Forces do not have to take lectures from anti-British Muslim taxi drivers

In practice, it almost always refers to Pakistani Muslims (who tend to dominate crime reports among this group and are significantly overrepresented in the UK prison population); much to the chagrin of other ‘Asians’ who, rightly, feel fraudulently and falsely associated:

AN inquiry is underway after an RAF serviceman was refused a cab by an Asian taxi driver in Sheffield who objected to his uniform.

The 24-year-old serviceman who had been at a family wedding ceremony in his RAF “blues” was turned away from the black cab by the driver who apparently became aggressive. Read the rest of this entry »

They fought against tyrrany, in order that we wouldn't have to: British WW1 veterans and heroes (l-r) Henry Allingham, Harry Patch and Bill Stone, who all died peacefully last year. RIP, gentlemen.

The Dead Heroes

Flame out, you glorious skies,
Welcome our brave,
Kiss their exultant eyes;
Give what they gave.

Flash mailèd seraphim,
Your burning spears;
New days to outflame their dim
Heroic years.

Thrills their baptismal tread
The bright proud air;
The embattled plumes outspread
Burn upwards there.

Flame out, flame out, O Song!
Star ring to star,
Strong as our hurt is strong
Our children are.

Their blood is England’s heart;
By their dead hands
It is, their noble part
That England stands.

England—Time gave them thee;
They gave back this
To win Eternity
And claim God’s kiss.

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

Dedicated to the dead of all nations, who fell fighting for our liberty in the Great Wars.

NB: Video above is in playlist format – each of the three parts will play in sequence automatically

The 9th of November is usually set aside as a date of remembrance for victims of Kristallnacht, an organized anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany and Austria that is often seen as a prelude to the Holocaust. But most are unaware that it wasn’t the only one.

A lesson for those who think Muslim Jew hatred began in 1948:

The details are quite well known to western audiences; using the assassination of a German diplomat in France by a Polish Jew as cover for a “spontaneous” uprising against the Jews, the Nazi paramilitary Sturmabteilung as well as normal citizens initiated one of the worst peacetime atrocities against the Jews in German history.

Synagogues were burnt down, Jewish homes and businesses were looted, and a significant number of Jews were murdered or arrested in preparation for deportation to camps. Read the rest of this entry »