Live: Dedication to Shanksville Flight 93 National Memorial, attended by Biden, Bush, Clinton

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now on MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44466540#44466540


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/10/flight-93-shanksville-pa_n_956763.html
A somber ceremony honoring the heroism of the 40 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 on Sept. 11 has begun.

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Speakers at the dedication of the first phase of the $62 million Flight 93 National Memorial also include Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93. His brother Edward telephoned a friend to report the flight was being hijacked.

Sarah McLachlan was also set to sing during the ceremony before Biden unveils a wall with the names of those aboard the plane.


http://www.honorflight93.org/

[Divine Discontent]

1. the minister gave an absolutely wonderful prayer

http://www.cafepress.com/obamacountry

[Ineeda]

5. Love your slogan. So f'ing true. n/t

[nolabear]

2. Glad someone is threading this. It would be wonderful if

people would set aside anger and join in paying respect to those who died, and those who did not.

[nolabear]

3. Robert Pinsky now. Poetry is a powerful healer.

Souvenir of the Ancient World
by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
translated by Mark Strand


Clara strolled in the garden with the children.
The sky was green over the grass,
the water was golden under the bridges,
other elements were blue and rose and orange,
a policeman smiled, bicycles passed,
a girl stepped onto the lawn to catch a bird,
the whole world--Germany, China--
all was quiet around Clara.

The children looked at the sky: it was not forbidden.
Mouth, nose, eyes were open. There was no danger.
What Clara feared were the flu, the heat, the insects.
Clara feared missing the eleven o'clock trolley:
She waited for letters slow to arrive,
She couldn't always wear a new dress. But she strolled in the garden,
in the morning!
They had gardens, they had mornings in those days!


Incantation


Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It establishes the universal ideas in language,
And guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice
With capital letters, lie and oppression with small.
It puts what should be above things as they are,
Is an enemy of despair and a friend of hope.
It does not know Jew from Greek or slave from master,
Giving us the estate of the world to manage.
It saves austere and transparent phrases
From the filthy discord of tortured words.
It says that everything is new under the sun,
Opens the congealed fist of the past.
Beautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia
And poetry, her ally in the service of the good.
As late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth,
The news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit.
Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.

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4. thank you for the post nolabear

:hug:

[Ruby the Liberal]

12. This has been VERY moving.

:cry:

[MerryBlooms]

6. Much tougher to watch than I'd anticipated. :*( n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Indeed. n/t

[lunatica]

10. I'm crying now.

I didn't think it would still hurt so much.

[ChazII]

13. You are not alone.

Tissue box came out a few moments ago.:hug:

[cal04]

8. Thanking all the first responders

and all that helped with the memorial
and the families, this is the final resting place, it will be treated with proper care and respect


sarah mclachlan

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don’t let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smilin’ in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don’t let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I’m so tired but I can’t sleep
Standin’ on the edge of something much too deep
It’s funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can’t be heard

But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don’t let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I’m so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn’t let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don’t let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don’t let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories

[Swede]

9. K&R

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[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. 1:05. The first president to arrive at the fallen WTC is now speaking.

[sufrommich]

15. President Clinton has still got it. Great speech. nt

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16. Clinton and Boehner to host bipartisan event to raise

the remaining money needed to complete the memorial.

[nolabear]

17. Bill Clinton still has it. What a terrific and inclusive speech. That is what healing is about.

[cal04]

18. unveiling the wall with the names

of those aboard flight 93

[demtenjeep]

19. and the Idiot still doesn't know when to at least "look" somber

idiot probably thinks this is a great legacy to him

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20. Vice President Biden

now speaking

[ChazII]

22. Our Vice-President is

doing a beautiful job.

[cal04]

24. yes, he is

[Cleita]

21. Ugh, Bush.

The Coward-In-Chief shouldn't be getting any accolades for the gutless way he behaved on that day.

[demtenjeep]

23. Agreed, but Biden is too classy to say otherwise

This dedication is to those that lost their loved ones...not for the idiot