We are dedicating this page to the friends and families of those killed or injured during the cowardly attack on an innocent American civilian population on 9/11/01; also to the rescue workers and volunteers who have given so much of themselves to help during this tragedy - some have given all.

I warn you gentlemen, I am not to be trifled with. To pull the tail of a lion is to open the mouth of trouble and reveal the teeth of revenge. 

~ Duke d'Escargot in "Start the Revolution Without Me" ~

Ruthi of Heart of Gold forwarded this tribute from her friend Tammy

Tribute Postcard

9/11/01
From Lois Tibbets 

Hit the buildings, Missed America . . . . 

An open letter to a terrorist. 

Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American bodies, to take out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed America. 

Why? Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn’t about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about military centers, America isn’t about a place, America isn’t even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part, like you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees that you’ll reach it, but you can sure try!) 

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany: “If you can not see my point, then feel my pain.” This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we don’t have to see your point. But you’re free to have one. We don’t have to listen to your speech. But you’re free to say one. Don’t know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don’t agree with each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We’re a collection of guys that don’t agree, called States. We united our individual states to protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it’s your country. 

If you’re free enough. 

Yeah, we’re fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That’s an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It’s unfortunate too, because people forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight like a cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground. Didn’t turn out like England thought it was going to, and it’s not going to turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you’re not the first bully on our shores, just the most recent. 

No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST and so far, only country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger. Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and we used ‘em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project. Told me once, that right up until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you something about American Resolve? 

So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some real estate, like the good old days. Unfortunately, we’re probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think they’re safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did, IIRC. Start sleeping with one eye open. 

There’s a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was. First thing they did when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that didn’t end up dead, ended up in prisons. It was a big PITA then (especially in south Florida), but you’re only the newest PITA, not the first. 

You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don’t live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit is what it’s called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won’t change it. Most of the time, it’s a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we’re crossed in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit. 

Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time. Sleep tight, if you can. 

We’re coming. 

Charles Brennan 

From Tracy of Jazzltubes

Air Line Passengers were stranded in various parts of the world when our air space was closed after the terrorist actions of Tuesday. Approximately 17,000 passengers were stranded in Newfoundland, Canada when international flights into the U.S. were diverted yesterday.  No doubt the Canadian Red Cross is helping there, and they can use your help. Red Cross Canada: http://www.redcross.ca

Lorelai from Jazzltubes forwarded sent to her by her Heart Sister

Friday, September 14, 2001, I spent my lunch hour at Daley Plaza joining thousands of Chicagoans of every race and creed praying together, hugging each other, and just being united as one. A solo singer started "God Bless America" and people opened up and sang with every fiber of their being. Everyone cried....men and women and children alike. We held hands, waved thousands of flags, shared our own private prayers for two minutes of silence while every Church bell in the city rang, every Shofars at Temples sounded, and Muezzin at Mosques called. Several people released balloons. Office buildings around the Plaza had flags in their windows and signs saying "United We Stand" and "God Bless America". Funny, but even Chicago's pigeons stood as sentries on the tops of our skyscrapers. God's littlest creatures looked down from above. We needed to be together today as one city...one country....one world.

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