Revisiting Comments 25 Years After 9/11/01 - Part 6

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An entire generation exists now who were born after 9/11/01; when 2,997 people were killed, across three locations. Remembrances for family and community reinforce the value of life.

Secretary Rumsfeld's Remarks at Pentagon Memorial | PBS News 10/11/01

In the last century, this building existed to oppose two totalitarian regimes that sought to oppress and to rule other nations. And it is no exaggeration of historical judgment to say that without this building and those who work here, those two regimes would not have been stopped or thwarted in their oppression of countless millions. But just as those regimes sought to rule and oppress, others in this century seek to do the same by corrupting a noble religion.

Our president has been right to see the similarity and to say that the fault, the evil is the same: It is the will to power, the urge to dominion over others to the point of oppressing them, even to taking thousands of innocent lives or more, and that this oppression makes the terrorist a believer not in the theology of God, but the theology of self and in the whispered words of temptation, "ye shall be as gods."..............

To the families and friends of our fallen colleagues and comrades, we extend our deepest sympathy, our condolences and those of the American people. We pray that God will give some share of the peace that now belongs to those we lost, to those who knew and loved them in life. But as we grieve together, we are also thankful. Thankful for their lives, thankful for the time we had them with us and proud, too, as proud as they were that they lived their lives as Americans.

We are mindful, too, and resolute that their deaths, like their lives, shall have meaning. That the birthright of human freedom, a birthright that was theirs as Americans and for which they died, will always be ours and our children's and through our efforts and our example one day the birthright of every man, woman and child on earth."


Flight 93 National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) was created to honor the actions of the passengers and crew of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001

As visitors approach the Visitor Center they are drawn through sheer walls along the walkway that ends at the overlook. The Visitor Center walls represent the agricultural and industrial heritage of the surrounding area. The new Visitor Center was dedicated on September 10, 2015 and you can watch it being built in this time-lapse video courtesy of EarthCam.— at Flight 93 National Memorial.

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