Dear friends !
When watching the ceremony at the Yankee stadium on sunday night our
time, I heard a song for the first time, that lyrics brought me to tears:
Lee Greenwood´s „God bless the U.S.A.“
I checked the internet and below copied the lyrics and information
about Lee. I will see if I get these albums over here.
Please send messages only to: mkw-detective@t-online.de, not as a response to the outgoing email adress.
*Keep five yards.
(*Means spread out so one round won't get us all.)
Greetings from Germany
Rolf G. Wilmink
„German by birth, american by heart, P.I. by profession“
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News from the 75th Inf Div veterans association:
From: Zstd@aol.com
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:26:23 EDT
RE: I co. 289 Inf. reg., 75 Div.
We have a new president as Parker has served his two terms. The new
president is, Harold Lindstrom
4105 75th. street
Des Monies. Iowa 5032
Thank you.
Ted E. Davies
zstd@aol.com
++ From the moderator:
Does anybody have president Lindstrom´s email adress ?
++ ++
I want you to know that I enjoy getting on line & reading about
the 75th. Makes me feel proud.
Ted E. Davies
4507 25 Ave.
Rock Island, ILL.
SERIAL # 16054511
I co. 289 Inf. reg., 75 Inf. Division
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:28:18 -0400
From: Don Shannehan <donshann@optonline.net>
Re: 75th Inf Div - special newsline no. 10 - America will Attack
Rolf,
I went on to your web site a year ago looking for information about
my dad who was in the "Seven Five", and since then have enjoyed all your
info. I have just returned form an outing in which a dentist reported to
our group, 5 of his patients, were on floors 95 thru 101. At our Sunday
Mass they read the names of 5 fanmiles from our town whose husbands did
not survive the first attack, Cantor Fitzgerald employees!
But after reporting the grim news, the resolve about being united in our
cause, willing to endure the coming sacrifices, shines above all. I think
this time we get "turned loose". In Viet-Nam. as a Marine, we kept saying
Hanoi is only a ride up the highway, let us do what we have been trained
to do, make Uncle Ho a part of the new Holiday Inn tennis court !!!
This time we should make this an American "jihad" !! Wal-Mart will be happy
when they open a bunch of new stores in Afghanistan and Iraq after we pave
over all that real estate!!
Semper Fi,
Don Shannehan Jr
Donald Shannehan, Sr, 75th Infantry. Hagen, Germany (picture from May
'45). He is still with us, but feeling the pain of Alzh. and Prk'sns for
past 4 years.
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:35:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: MARTIN E TURKINGTON <mturking@pacbell.net>
Re:75th Inf Div - special newsline no. 9 - America will Attack
the Media is still spewing the left wing line deteramental to the U.S.A.
They must change their tact and honor our country!
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From: Moosejackson1924@aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:46:06 EDT
>From Max Lucado
Something to think about...
IS THIS NORMAL?
Four thousand gathered for mid-day prayer in a downtown cathedral. A New York City church, filled and emptied six times last Tuesday. The owner of a Manhattan tennis shoe store threw open his doors and gave running shoes to those fleeing the towers. People stood in lines to give blood, in hospitals to treat the sick, in sanctuaries to pray for the wounded.
America was different this week. We wept for people we did not know. We sent money to families we've never seen. Talk-show hosts read Scriptures, journalists printed prayers. Our focus shifted from fashion hemlines and box scores to orphans and widows and the future of the world. We were different this week. Republicans stood next to Democrats. Catholics prayed with Jews. Skin color was covered by the ash of burning towers. This is a different country than it was a week ago.
We're not as self-centered as we were. We're not as self-reliant as
we were. Hands are out. Knees are bent. This is not normal.
And I have to ask the question, "Do we want to go back to normal?"
Are we being given a glimpse of a new way of life? Are we, as a nation,
being reminded that the enemy is not each other and the power is not in
ourselves and the future is not in our bank accounts? Could this
unselfish prayerfulness be the way God intended for us to live all along?
Maybe this, in his eyes, is the way we are called to live. And perhaps
the best response to this tragedy is to refuse to go back to normal. Perhaps
the best response is to follow the example of Tom Burnet. He was a passenger
of flight 93. Minutes before the plane crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania
he reached his wife by cell phone. "We're all going to die," he told
her, "but there are three of us who are going to do something about it."
We can do something about it as well. We can resolve to care more. We can
resolve to pray more. And we can resolve that, God being our helper, we'll
never go back to normal again.
Max Lucado
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From: Moosejackson1924@aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:29:54 EDT
Fw: Good quotes
Quotes from Army General H. Norman Schwarzkopf:
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do; the hard part is doing it.
Never lie, ever, it undermines your credibility.
It doesn’t take a hero to order men and women into battle; it takes a hero to be one of those men or women who go into battle.
Be known as an individual who can deliver, don’t wing it, no false bravado.
Always have a worst-case scenario prepared for every situation.
The better informed a soldier is, the better he fights.
I don’t fix blame, I fix problems.
Don’t win the war and lose the peace.
The easiest way to defeat the enemy is to distract him.
Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel in the US Army during the Spanish American war – “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best this is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Just last Monday, I sat in my conference room attempting to put the final touches on our Student Leadership 301 program. We decided to enhance the incredible experience of learning leadership from Churchill. We will take our students, after having the trip of a lifetime in London, down to Plymouth to study the faith of our founding fathers from the precise point that they set sail and then to cross the English Channel and travel the beaches of Normandy and France. Several times I was told that it would cost too much and that it would take too long. As I insisted, one of our event planners stated, “Well do we have to cover all 45 miles of beaches at Normandy?” to which I responded, “YES, because we’re attempting to train leaders who one day may have to land at their own generation’s Normandy.”
POWER QUOTE: “We must prepare this generation – it means to point in the right direction, to make complete and equip for battle. That’s why we’re sounding revelry for young leaders.” – Jay Strack
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A reminder about the unethicalness, UnAmericanness of engaging in group stereotyping: as U.S. Japanese were considered bastard children of our National Family during WWII, judge fellow Americans by their hearts rather than their ancestral/religious heritage.
>>Most Of US
Most of us Republicans are not Ted Bundy
Most of us Democrats are not John Wayne Gacy
Most of us Christians are not abortion clinic worker killers
Most of us Jews are not David Berkowitz
Most of us Catholics are not child-molesters
Most of us Muslims are not Osama bin Laden
Most of us Beatle lovers are not Mark Chapman
Nor Jodie
Foster fans John Hinckley, Junior
Most of us Congresspeople are not intern abusers
Most of us Environmentalists are not the Unabomber
Most of us Germans are not Hitler's Nazis
Most of us Marines are not Lee Harvey Oswald
Most of us Arabs are not Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
Most of us Whites are not Jeffrey Dahmer
Most of us Blacks are not Wayne Williams (Atlanta)
Most of us Canadians are not Bernardo & Holmolka
Most of us Hispanics are not the Night Stalker
Nor Italians
the Boston Strangler
Most of us Former Hippies are not Charles Manson
Most of us Boomers are not Norman John Collins ("Co-ed Killer" who
murdered
my high school class secretary among
unknown others)
Most of us Football players are not woman-beaters
Most of us Desert Storm Veterans are not Timothy McVeigh
And most
of us Angels are not Lucifer
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From: "J Puckett" <puckett5@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 20:27:49 -0500
From: "ralf.klodt" <ralf.klodt@planet-interkom.de>
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From: "Elmer Ake" <eaker@kemba.com>
RE: TERROR
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:08:21 -0400
Dear MKW
The one's that trained in WW2 will remember the strict security imposed
after Pearl Harbor.Our borders were sealed and all imports were screened.
The officals at that time knew what to do because they listened to others
that had gone down that road,Things were so secure that when a U boat landed
spies on Long Island they were caught within 24 hours.
Now with all the problems no one seems to know what to do.
In ww2 we all had chemical warfare trainging and all were issued gas
masks that were never used.I remember a class where we were informed about
bacterial weapons we had for emergency use in case needed.
Our government won't tell you this they don't want to offend our big
business.BUT OUR WONDERFUL BUSINESS EMPIRE.has slave labor factories in
countries that have no protection and Terrorists can pollute the products
with bacteria such as anthrax and can kill half our population in one week,The
only protection is for our government to ban all imports from these countries.This
won't be done because profit is the name of the game.
It's time to tell our political party's work for the people not the
business empire or get the hell out of our country.
The lack of security at the airports caused the tragedy last week.The
airlines couldn't care less how many died as long as it didn't interfere
with their proffits.They want 20 billion from the government for their
losses.
NO way" The heads of these airlines should be tried for the murder
they allowed in the name of profit.
ELMER AKE
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From: "carol bradley" <bradley_carol@hotmail.com>
Fwd: [Fwd: Religion's misguided missiles]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:14:12
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,552388,00.html
Religion's misguided missiles
Promise a young man that death is not the end and he will willingly
cause disaster
Special report: terrorism in the US
Richard Dawkins
Saturday September 15, 2001
The Guardian
A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.
That is precisely what a modern "smart missile" can do. Computer miniaturisation has advanced to the point where one of today's smart missiles could be programmed with an image of the Manhattan skyline together with instructions to home in on the north tower of the World Trade Centre. Smart missiles of this sophistication are possessed by the United States, as we learned in the Gulf war, but they are economically beyond ordinary terrorists and scientifically beyond theocratic governments. Might there be a cheaper and easier alternative?
In the second world war, before electronics became cheap and miniature, the psychologist BF Skinner did some research on pigeon-guided missiles. The pigeon was to sit in a tiny cockpit, having previously been trained to peck keys in such a way as to keep a designated target in the centre of a screen. In the missile, the target would be for real.
The principle worked, although it was never put into practice by the US authorities. Even factoring in the costs of training them, pigeons are cheaper and lighter than computers of comparable effectiveness. Their feats in Skinner's boxes suggest that a pigeon, after a regimen of training with colour slides, really could guide a missile to a distinctive landmark at the southern end of Manhattan island. The pigeon has no idea that it is guiding a missile. It just keeps on pecking at those two tall rectangles on the screen, from time to time a food reward drops out of the dispenser, and this goes on until... oblivion.
Pigeons may be cheap and disposable as on-board guidance systems, but there's no escaping the cost of the missile itself. And no such missile large enough to do much damage could penetrate US air space without being intercepted. What is needed is a missile that is not recognised for what it is until too late. Something like a large civilian airliner, carrying the innocuous markings of a well-known carrier and a great deal of fuel. That's the easy part. But how do you smuggle on board the necessary guidance system? You can hardly expect the pilots to surrender the left-hand seat to a pigeon or a computer.
How about using humans as on-board guidance systems, instead of pigeons? Humans are at least as numerous as pigeons, their brains are not significantly costlier than pigeon brains, and for many tasks they are actually superior. Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
The natural assumption that the hijacker ultimately values his own life too, and will act rationally to preserve it, leads air crews and ground staff to make calculated decisions that would not work with guidance modules lacking a sense of self-preservation. If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining. A rational pilot complies with the hijacker's wishes, gets the plane down on the ground, has hot food sent in for the passengers and leaves the negotiations to people trained to negotiate.
The problem with the human guidance system is precisely this. Unlike the pigeon version, it knows that a successful mission culminates in its own destruction. Could we develop a biological guidance system with the compliance and dispensability of a pigeon but with a man's resourcefulness and ability to infiltrate plausibly? What we need, in a nutshell, is a human who doesn't mind being blown up. He'd make the perfect on-board guidance system. But suicide enthusiasts are hard to find. Even terminal cancer patients might lose their nerve when the crash was actually looming.
Could we get some otherwise normal humans and somehow persuade them that they are not going to die as a consequence of flying a plane smack into a skyscraper? If only! Nobody is that stupid, but how about this - it's a long shot, but it just might work. Given that they are certainly going to die, couldn't we sucker them into believing that they are going to come to life again afterwards? Don't be daft! No, listen, it might work. Offer them a fast track to a Great Oasis in the Sky, cooled by everlasting fountains. Harps and wings wouldn't appeal to the sort of young men we need, so tell them there's a special martyr's reward of 72 virgin brides, guaranteed eager and exclusive.
Would they fall for it? Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.
It's a tall story, but worth a try. You'd have to get them young, though.
Feed them a complete and self-consistent background mythology to make
the big lie sound plausible when it comes. Give them a holy book and make
them learn it by heart. Do you know, I really think it might work. As luck
would have it, we have just the thing to hand: a ready-made system of mind-control
which has been honed over centuries, handed down through generations. Millions
of people have been brought up in it. It is called religion and, for reasons
which one day we may understand, most people fall for it (nowhere more
so than America itself, though the irony passes unnoticed). Now all we
need is to round up a few of these faith-heads and give them flying lessons.
Facetious? Trivialising an unspeakable evil? That is the exact opposite of my intention, which is deadly serious and prompted by deep grief and fierce anger. I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life. I don't mean devaluing the life of others (though it can do that too), but devaluing one's own life. Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
If death is final, a rational agent can be expected to value his life highly and be reluctant to risk it. This makes the world a safer place, just as a plane is safer if its hijacker wants to survive. At the other extreme, if a significant number of people convince themselves, or are convinced by their priests, that a martyr's death is equivalent to pressing the hyperspace button and zooming through a wormhole to another universe, it can make the world a very dangerous place. Especially if they also believe that that other universe is a paradisical escape from the tribulations of the real world. Top it off with sincerely believed, if ludicrous and degrading to women, sexual promises, and is it any wonder that naive and frustrated young men are clamouring to be selected for suicide missions?
There is no doubt that the afterlife-obsessed suicidal brain really is a weapon of immense power and danger. It is comparable to a smart missile, and its guidance system is in many respects superior to the most sophisticated electronic brain that money can buy. Yet to a cynical government, organisation, or priesthood, it is very very cheap.
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. "Mindless" may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from.
It came from religion. Religion is also, of course, the underlying source of the divisiveness in the Middle East which motivated the use of this deadly weapon in the first place. But that is another story and not my concern here. My concern here is with the weapon itself. To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
Richard Dawkins is professor of the public understanding of science, University of Oxford, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and Unweaving the Rainbow.
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From: "ralf.klodt" <ralf.klodt@planet-interkom.de>
RE: We The People
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:13:37 +0200
Howdy!
Do you remember the time when you have boarded a plane to fly somewhere
for the first time in your life? Wasn´t that a cool experience? Some
of you may fly a lot. Bored? Well, in these days flying can become an experience
again! Read the following story that came in today.
Bye!
Ralf Klodt
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We The People
The following is from a letter by a professional on her return flight
to D.C. this week.
"I just wanted to drop you all a note and let you know that I arrived
safe and sound into Dulles Airport tonight [9/15] at about 6:00. It was
an interesting flight.
The airport in Denver was almost spooky, it was so empty and quiet.
No one was in line for the security check point when I got there so that
went fairly quickly, just x-ray of my bags and then a chemical test to
be sure nothing explosive was on them. Then I waited 2 ½ hours to
board the plane.
What happened after we boarded was interesting and thought I would
share it with you.
The pilot/captain came on the loudspeaker after the doors were closed.
His speech went like this:
First I want to thank you for being brave enough to fly today. The
doors are now closed and we have no help from the outside for any problems
that might occur inside this plane. As you could tell when you checked
in, the government has made some changes to increase security in the airports.
They have not, however, made any rules about what happens after those
doors close. Until they do that, we have made our own rules and I want
to share them with you.
Once those doors close, we only have each other. The security has taken
care of a threat like guns with all of the increased scanning, etc.
Then we have the supposed bomb. If you have a bomb, there is no need
to tell me about it, or anyone else on this plane; you are already in control.
So, for this flight, there are no bombs that exist on this plane. Now,
the threats that are left are things like plastics, wood, knives, and other
weapons that can
be made or things like that which can be used as weapons.
Here is our plan and our rules. If someone or several people stand up
and say they are hijacking this plane, I want you all to stand up together.
Then take whatever you have available to you and throw it at them. Throw
it at their faces and heads so they will have to raise their hands to protect
themselves. The very best protection you have against knives are the pillows
and blankets. Whoever is close to these people should then try to get a
blanket over their head-then they won't be able to see. Once that is done,
get them down and keep them there. Do not let them up. I will then land
the plane at the closest place and we WILL take care of them. After all,
there are usually only a few of them and we are 200+ strong! We will not
allow them to take over this plane.
I find it interesting that the US Constitution begins with the words
"We, the people"-that's who we are, THE people and we will not be defeated.
With that, the passengers on the plane all began to applaud, people
had tears in their eyes, and we began the trip toward the runway.
The flight attendant then began the safety speech. One of the things
she said is that we are all so busy and live our lives at such a fast pace.
She asked that everyone turn to their neighbors on either side and introduce
themselves, tell each other something about your families and children,
show pictures, whatever. She said "for today, we consider you family. We
will treat you as such and ask that you do the same with us."
Throughout the flight we learned that for the crew, this was their
first flight since Tuesday's tragedies. It was a day that everyone leaned
on each other and together everyone was stronger than any one person alone.
It was quite an experience. You can imagine the feeling when that plane
touched down at Dulles and we heard "welcome to Washington Dulles Airport,
where the local time is 5:40".
Again, the cabin was filled with applause.
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Prayer service: 'We shall not be moved'
September 23, 2001 Posted: 5:30 PM EDT (2130 GMT)
By Porter Anderson, CNN
(CNN) -- One of several emotional high points in Sunday's "Prayer for America" service at New York's Yankee Stadium followed Bette Midler's singing of "Wind Beneath My Wings."
The singer and actress -- after finishing the song in the afternoon sunlight of the field and yelling "I love you, New York City" -- ran over to be closer to the audience, blowing kisses from a blue-carpeted runway to victims, family members, friends, colleagues and rescue workers of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11.
Earlier, tenor Placido Domingo's singing of "Ave Maria" had led to a similarly poignant moment. The hymn, it was announced by host Oprah Winfrey, is a favorite of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose arrival at the podium drew many members of the audience to their feet in applause.
"Now we understand much more clearly," Giuliani told the crowd, "why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom."
In the first large-scale and formally staged program offered in memory of those killed or missing and presumed dead in the terrorist assault on the twin towers, Giuliani once again praised the rescue and response personnel who converged on downtown Manhattan in an effort to save lives. They will, he said, "occupy a permanent and sacred place in our history and in our hearts."
Giuliani used the survival of St. Paul's Chapel -- built in pre-Revolutionary times and standing today not far from the World Trade Center site -- as an example of survival despite centuries of adversity. Describing the Great Seal of the United States represented in the chapel, the mayor reminded the crowd of its slogan -- "E pluribus unum," or "Out of many, one."
"St. Paul's Chapel stands -- without so much as a broken window," Giuliani said, terming this a "little miracle."
The Boys and Girls Choir of Harlem took the stage in "Lift Every Voice and Sing." The power and smart tempo of that hymn was followed by a graceful, melancholy singing of "We Shall Overcome" with its lyrics drawing hearty cheers: "We are not afraid. ... Deep in our hearts, we do believe that we are not afraid today. We shall live in peace."
The service, a short time later, was given over to an Adhan call to prayer from the Muezzin, Brother Abdul Wali Y. Shaheed. The haunting solo was translated by Sister Zaimah Sabree and Masjid Malcolm Shabazz of Harlem: "God is all-knowing and is well acquainted with all things. ... Be just. That is next to piety."
"We are Muslims, but we are Americans," said Imam Izak-El M. Pasha, a chaplain with the New York Police Department, at the conclusion of a meditation on the burdens felt by many Muslim Americans during the crisis.
The Presentation of Colors was led by United States Navy Adm. Robert Natter, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, with the New York City Inter-Agency Uniformed Color Guard and the Port Authority of New York and Jew Jersey Joint Military Guard. The national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," was sung by New York police officers Danny Rodriguez and Ann Marie Maloney and Sgt. Kim Royster.
Their rendition set off chants of "USA! USA!" in the stands among the victims, survivors, friends, family members and colleagues affected by the assault of 12 days ago.
At a few minutes after the 3 p.m. EDT scheduled start time of the service, former United States President Bill Clinton and his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, entered the stadium to adamant applause, with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Cardinal Edward Egan and Rabbi Arthur Schneier -- whose "prayer for the country" followed a Blowing of the Shofar, the ram's horn used to announce major events in Jewish life.
And the service got underway in earnest with the Amor-Artis Chorus and Orchestra performing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." During the familiar anthem, the dignitaries -- including ranking clergy of the Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Sikh and Hindu faiths -- took their positions on a large center-field podium.
Attendance at the stadium in the Bronx was strikingly short of capacity. Commentators pointed out that the weather was very good Sunday afternoon -- and that many friends and family members still may be too bereaved to attend the service comfortably.
Originally Central Park had been talked about as the proper place for Sunday's service. Giuliani, however, made the determination that the great park at the heart of Manhattan wasn't necessarily appropriate or secure enough for such a sensitive gathering.
A prelude to Sunday's "Prayer for America" service at Yankee Stadium had been led off with "Amazing Grace" played by New York Police Department bagpipers, many of them wiping tears between phrases of the music. Tenor Ronan Tynan followed the pipers, as did a gospel ensemble in an elegiac performance of "God Be With You 'Til We Meet Again."
"Our spirit is unbroken. In fact, it is stronger than ever." Actor James Earl Jones drew quick applause from the crowd as he opened the service. "Today we reaffirm our faith in the essential dignity of every individual," Jones said. "What we share as Americans and as human beings is far greater than what divides us."
Jones introduced the program's host, Winfrey, who told the crowd, "Every story we have heard pains us so much because we know that their stories are our stories. .... We shall not be moved."
Some stability is coming to the grim numbers -- if not to the wreckage in the World Trade Center site at which workers continue to probe the wreckage, in fast-fading hopes of finding survivors. Giuliani's figure has held for two days: His estimate is that some 6,333 people are missing and presumed dead.
New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik says the latest figures show 261 confirmed dead, 194 of whom have been identified, he said. Thirty-nine are members of the uniformed services, including 34 firefighters. The most recently offered tally of injured is 6,408.
The death toll at the Pentagon is 189 including the 64 people who died on American Airline Flight 77.
Earlier in the weekend, reflections and reactions to the attacks of September 11 were incorporated into more traditional programs. When the 51 Miss America contestants voted 34-to-17 to go forward with their show, the entertainment was revamped to include fund-raising appeals for the Sept. 11th Fund, a charity set up after the attacks.
A live telecast, "America: A Tribute to Heroes," was carried on Friday by at least 27 broadcast and cable media, with a lineup that included Mariah Carey, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Tom Cruise, Bruce Springsteen and Robert De Niro.
The Associated Press reports that this was the lowest-grossing weekend of the year for films, the top draw, Keanu Reeves' "Hardball," pulling $8.2 million in its second weekend. Total grosses of some $44.2 million were about 7 percent less than the same weekend's draw last year, and represented a 15-percent drop from the previous weekend.
"Let not one single life have passed in vain," Winfrey said at the close
of Sunday's service, before handing off to Archbishop Demetrious of the
Greek Orthodox Church of America for a benediction. "What really matters
is who you love and how you love."
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God Bless the U.S.A.
by Lee Greenwood
If tomorrow all the things were gone
I'd worked for all my life,
And I had to start again
with just my children and my wife,
I'd thank my lucky stars
to be living here today,
'Cause the flag still stands for freedom
and they can't take that away.
I'm proud to be an American
where at least I know I'm free,
And I won't forget the men
who died who gave that right to me,
And I gladly stand up next to you
and defend her still today,
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God Bless the U.S.A.
>From the lakes of Minnesota
to the hills of Tennessee,
Across the plains of Texas
from sea to shining sea.
>From Detroit down to Houston
and New York to L.A.,
There's pride in every American heart
and it's time we stand and say:
I'm proud to be an American
where at least I know I'm free,
And I won't forget the men who died
who gave that right to me,
And I gladly stand up next to you
and defend her still today,
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God Bless the U.S.A.
Lee Greenwood
American Patriot
Format : CD
Release Date : 04/21/1992
Label : Capitol Nashville Records
List Price : $11.97
Track Listing
1. Pledge Of Allegiance, The
2. America
3. God Bless The U. S. A.
4. This Land Is Your Land
5. Battle Hymn Of The Republic, The
6. God Bless America
7. Dixie
8. Great Defenders, The
9. America The Beautiful
10. Star Spangled Banner
God Bless The U.S.A., Lee Greenwood
record label
Curb Records
orig. release
1996
release date 07/02/1996
List Price - $5.97
Format(s): CD Cassette
Track Listing
1 Dixie Road
2 Hearts Arn't Made To Break (They're Made To Love)
3 Somebody's Gonna Love You
4 Ring On Her Finger, Time On Her Hands
5 I.O.U.
6 Touch And Go Crazy
7 Amazing Grace
8 O Holy Night
9 How Great Thou Art
10 God Bless The U.S.A.
Lee Greenwood : Biography
b. Melvin Lee Greenwood, 27 October 1942, Southgate, California, USA.
Because of his parents' divorce, Greenwood was brought up by his grandparents
in Sacramento, California, but he inherited their musical talent (his mother
played piano and his father woodwind). In his teens, he played in various
bands in Sacramento and Los Angeles and was even part of a dixieland jazz
band at Disneyland. He played saxophone for country star Del Reeves and
then formed his own band, Apollo, which found work in Las Vegas in 1962.
He turned down an opportunity to join the Young Rascals and for many years
he was arranging and playing music for bands in casinos (and working as
a blackjack dealer by day). The environment narrowed his vocal range and
he developed a husky-voiced approach to ballads similar to Kenny Rogers.
In 1979 his career took a major step forward when he was heard by Larry
McFaden of Mel Tillis' band, who became his manager. His first MCA single,
"It Turns Me Inside Out", was a US Top 20 country hit in 1981. This was
followed by several other hits including two number 1s, "Somebody's Gonna
Love You" and "Going, Going, Gone". His songs were also recorded by several
other performers including Kenny Rogers who found success with "A Love
Song". In 1984 he recorded an album with Barbara Mandrell and they made
the US country charts with "To Me" and he also recorded his own patriotic
song, "God Bless The USA", which won the Country Music Association's Song
Of The Year. His other number 1 country singles are "Dixie Road", "I Don't
Mind The Thorns (If You're The Rose)", "Don't Underestimate My Love For
You", "Hearts Aren't Made To Break (They're Made To Love)", and the sensual
"Mornin' Ride". He has won numerous country awards and a Grammy for Best
Vocal Performance, and is also known as the original performer of "The
Wind Beneath My Wings". He switched labels to Capitol Records, but this
was not enough to stop the decline of his career during the 90s. He subsequently
concentrated on performing at his own theater in Sevierville, Tennessee,
while continuing to release the occasional album of new material.
Music City News Country Male Artist of the Year 1985
Music City News Country Single of the Year
1985
CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
1984
Music City News Country Male Artist of the Year 1984
CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
1983
Grammy Best Male Country Vocal Performance
1983
Academy of Country Music Top Male Vocalist
1983
Lee Greenwood's durable "God Bless the U.S.A" returns strongly to the charts 17 years after ist release in 1984. The song, named song of the year in 1985 by the Country Music Association, lands at No. 16 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts this week. It was last on the country chart in 1991, during the Gulf War.
Faith Hill's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner," recorded live at
the 2000 Super Bowl, had not been previously released. Radio stations began
playing it from a recording of the Super Bowl telecast, and her record
label, Warner Bros., then made a single available to radio. It debuts at
No. 35 this week on Hot Country Singles & Tracks.
God Bless America
Melody - Irving Berlin
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:
God Bless America.
Land that I love
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
>From the mountains, to the prairies ,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home.
God Bless America,
Land that I love
Stand beside her,
And guide her,
Through the night
With the light from above,
>From the mountains,
To the prairies,
To the ocean,
White with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
The Star Spangled Banner
By Francis Scott Key
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
>From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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