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from:
http://www.jontzen.com/tribute.htm

http://www.jontzen.com/./media/mp_tribute_4.asx
the above link is to the song Heaven remixed for 9/11

May We Always Remember...

Never forget 9/11.

that song broke me down. is if available for myspace?

There is also a video with this song on youtube.com. It is posted on a thread in this forum. Very touching and yes we will never forget the brave men and women who gave up their lives that September day.

We can never forget..my husband lost 7 of his best friends, we think about them constantly.

It's really hard to believe it's been 5 years. I still remember the day all too well. It's still so sad to watch coverage from that day. It's also surreal to re-watch the early moments after the first plane hit and how confused everyone was, knowing how much worse it would get.

Incredibly sad video, especially the last few seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugwtPkMH2U

I love the way this guy writes. This was apparently written shortly after 9/11/01 but I just read it for the first time.



Do It Again, Lord
A Prayer for Troubled Times
by Max Lucado

DEAR LORD,

We’re still hoping we’ll wake up. We’re still hoping we’ll open a sleepy eye and think, What a horrible dream.

But we won’t, will we, Father? What we saw was not a dream. Planes did gouge towers. Flames did consume our fortress. People did perish. It was no dream, and, dear Father, we are sad.

There is a ballet dancer who will no longer dance and a doctor who will no longer heal. A church has lost her priest; a classroom is minus a teacher. Cora ran a food pantry. Paige was a counselor, and Dana, dearest Father, Dana was only three years old. (Who held her in those final moments?)

We are sad, Father. For as the innocent are buried, our innocence is buried as well. We thought we were safe. Perhaps we should have known better. But we didn’t.

And so we come to you. We don’t ask you for help; we beg you for it. We don’t request; we implore. We know what you can do. We’ve read the accounts. We’ve pondered the stories, and now we plead, “Do it again, Lord. Do it again.”

Remember Joseph? You rescued him from the pit. You can do the same for us. Do it again, Lord.

Remember the Hebrews in Egypt? You protected their children from the angel of death. We have children too, Lord. Do it again.

And Sarah? Remember her prayers? You heard them. Joshua? Remember his fears? You inspired him. The women at the tomb? You resurrected their hope. The doubts of Thomas? You took them away. Do it again, Lord. Do it again.

You changed Daniel from a captive into a king’s counselor. You took Peter the fisherman and made him Peter an apostle. Because of you, David went from leading sheep to leading armies. Do it again, Lord, for we need counselors today. We need apostles. We need leaders. Do it again, dear Lord.

Most of all, do again what you did at Calvary. What we saw here on that Tuesday, you saw there on that Friday. Innocence slaughtered. Goodness murdered. Mothers weeping. Evil dancing. Just as the ash fell on our children, the darkness fell on your Son. Just as our towers were shattered, the very Tower of Eternity was pierced.

And by dusk, heaven’s sweetest song was silent, buried behind a rock.

But you did not waver, O Lord. You did not waver. After your Son lay three days in a dark hole, you rolled the rock and rumbled the earth and turned the darkest Friday into the brightest Sunday. Do it again, Lord. Grant us a September Easter.

We thank you, dear Father, for these hours of unity. Disaster has done what discussions could not. Doctrinal fences have fallen. Republicans are standing with Democrats. Skin colors have been covered by the ash of burning buildings. We thank you for these hours of unity.

And we thank you for these hours of prayer. The Enemy sought to bring us to our knees and succeeded. He had no idea, however, that we would kneel before you. And he has no idea what you can do.

Let your mercy be upon our president, vice president, and their families. Grant to those who lead us wisdom beyond their years and experience. Have mercy upon the souls who have departed and the wounded who remain. Give us grace that we might forgive and faith that we might believe.

And look kindly upon your church. For two thousand years you’ve used her to heal a hurting world.

Do it again, Lord. Do it again.

Through Christ, amen.

We Will Never Forget...
God Bless America!

Carol Lin breaks the news on CNN: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9cUEcgQiEWk

Diane Sawyer breaks the news on ABC:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vx0P8JHHh6k

MSNBC will be running the Today Show tomorrow morning in realtime from that day starting at 8:30am ET. CNN will also replay it's coverage on Pipeline from then until Midnight ET.

I have a Fox News tape that shows Fox & Friends breaking in with the news and then the next 2 hours of coverage. I bought it on Ebay sometime after 9/11. It's amazing to see how fast David Asman mentions Osama bin laden...a few seconds after the attack.

I remember so many details about that day...like it was yesterday.


*Edited to correct David's last name to Asman.

Brent wrote:Incredibly sad video, especially the last few seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugwtPkMH2U

I wasn't prepare for that one. I have seen a lot of footage but I don't think I have actually heard the 9/11 tapes from someone who says their last words before dying. It really got to me.

I was not prepared for that one either! I thought i had seen and heard everything, until the link you provided Brent.

I can't imagine the family even hearing this one!

The Philadelphia Inquirer had an article this week about the aftermath of 9/11 (one of many) and at the beginning it had the last stanza of this poem;

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

-- W.H. Auden

Some may remember this poem from "Four Weddings and a Funeral". I thought it was such a beautiful poem, though heart breaking, but I never knew the name of it. I think that many of us, especially the families of the victims felt like this.

I can't believe it's 5 years already.

wxmann_91 wrote:I can't believe it's 5 years already.

5 years felt like yesterday.

southerngale wrote:I have a Fox News tape that shows Fox & Friends breaking in with the news and then the next 2 hours of coverage. I bought it on Ebay sometime after 9/11. It's amazing to see how fast David Asman mentions Osama bin laden...a few seconds after the attack.

I remember so many details about that day...like it was yesterday.


*Edited to correct David's last name to Asman.

And it wasn't David Asman. It was Jon Scott!
Now how did I mix up those two???