9.11.07

[kathykd2005]

What a beautiful tribute. Tomorrow is always such a difficult day, especially teaching high school students in NYC.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

What a beautiful tribute. Tomorrow is always such a difficult day, especially teaching high school students in NYC.

Thank you.
The very core of it or the start of it I wrote on a wall at Ground Zero just before the 1ST anniversary.
Most of the rest was added on prior to the 2ND.

[AlphaSigOU]

Signal 5-5-5-5 Box 8089.

In memory of the 343 who gave their lives that others may live.

Signal 5-5-5-5 is only sounded to mark the death of a firefighter in New York City. Box 8089 was the FDNY call box for the World Trade Center.

[ZTAMich]

The Times had a piece last week about the zip code for the World Trade Center and how it conitnues on. It's archived already, but I thought I would add a link here to a blog that posted it. 10048

Never exactly sure how the little ones in our Elem. School will be tomorrow...some parents keep them home. Some of the older ones remember, some just know a few details. We're all told to discuss it a little if one of them brings it up.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by AlphaSigOU

Signal 5-5-5-5 Box 8089.

In memory of the 343 who gave their lives that others may live.

Signal 5-5-5-5 is only sounded to mark the death of a firefighter in New York City. Box 8089 was the FDNY call box for the World Trade Center.

A bit of FDNY and NYC history:
Between 1865 and 1992, 752 men and women died in the line of duty.
On 9.11.01 343 joined their Brothers and Sisters.
Tonight I did what I have done for the past several years; looked at the names and faces behind those numbers.
As well as the faces of the rest of the uniform forces who also gave their lives for others:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/fdny/media/tribute/tribute.html
http://www.nysfop.org/wtc/nypdvideo.html
http://www.nysfop.org/wtc/papdvideo.html
http://www.nysfop.org/wtc/fopvideo.html

[jon1856]

Many of us have read our local papers and magazines and seen our local Editorial and Op-Ed pages. In one way or another, they are designed to
provoke thought and/or interest about local or nation news and events.

The following links are what the world Op-Ed cartoonist have drawn over the past several years about the event of and following 9.11.01

Some of very powerful and full of emotion. Some maybe thought of as over the top political.

Many are just thought provoking.

And there are a few down right clinkers.

One thing I saw was that there was a general shift in message presented.

I see it as a combination of both the "Editorial" POV and society POV.

http://cagle.com/news/9-11Remembered/main.asp

http://cagle.com/news/9-11Anniversary/main.asp

http://cagle.com/news/9-11Anniversary2003/main.asp

http://cagle.com/news/9115years/

http://cagle.com/news/911Anniversary07/

[jon1856]

My girlfriend took her lunch hour to walk down to ground zero on 9.11
She she saw something or rather someone who stood out:
A 20 something guy, sitting on curb, holding a shirt very tightly, closely to his body. He was in uncontrollable tears. Why was he there? Who did he lose? Father? Mother? Sister or Brother? A Friend? Or was this his first trip
to ground zero and he was just releasing 6 years of emotions?

Could be any or all of the above. Or something else.
Just shows you what goes on besides what goes on during the planned
ceremony.