Thread: In Memory of 09-11-2001

Today is hardly a day for politics. Today is a day of remembrance and remorse.

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Thank you, FDNY.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank all of the first responders, those among us who put themselves between us and the Dark. The people like Joe Chandler, for example... a police officer who is just an ordinary man who might be called upon at any instant to perform heroic deeds for someone he doesn't know.

Thank you, all the firefighters. Thank you all the policemen. Thank you all the paramedics, the search and rescue volunteers, the civilians who offer aid and comfort to victims and rescue workers alike. Thank you to the normal people of flight 93 who looked deep inside themselves and saw heroes staring back at them. Thank you soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who serve us all, whether we agree with the politics that sent you to wherever you might be or not. Thank you for the extraordinary in all of us ordinary citizens.

-- Gary F.