Obama at 9/11 museum: Terrorism can't break us
Source: AP-EXCITE
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK (AP) President Barack Obama praised the new Sept. 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism and helpfulness that followed the attacks.
"It's an honor to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, but above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11 love, compassion, sacrifice and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation," he told an audience of victims' relatives, survivors, rescuers and recovery workers at the ground zero museum's dedication ceremony.
"Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us. Nothing can change who we are as Americans."
After viewing some of the exhibits, including a mangled fire truck and a memorial wall with photos of victims, the president touched on some of the many stories of courage amid the chaos: the passengers who stormed a hijacked plane's cockpit over a Pennsylvania field and first responders who rushed into the burning twin towers. He also honored military members "who have served with honor in more than a decade of war."
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President Barack Obama speaks at the dedication ceremony for the National September 11 Memorial Museum on Thursday, May 15, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/Mike Segar, Pool)
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)domestic terrorism in the form of the insane gop already has broken us.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Lot more insidious, and wildly more successful, than terrorists.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Get out much, Mr. Prez??? Terrorisim (and those who would use it to look up our assholes or any other place of suspicions) reigns.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)9/11 most definitely broke us, Mr. President.
Since 9/11, we have allowed our intelligence agencies to shred the Constitution at will because of "the terrorists."
We allow innocent women and children to be regularly blown up by our missiles because we have to kill "the terrorists."
We allow our President to designate citizens as "terrorists" and subsequently execute them without due process.
We detain "terrorists" indefinitely without charges. Hell we executed Bin Laden - a prisoner in our custody - without a trial because we were too afraid of "terrorists" to follow our own judicial process.
9/11 transformed America into a nation of cringing cowards willing to surrender our hard-won civil liberties in the name of protecting us from "terrorists." It's time we stopped doing that.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Shame that the bullshit (his speech) gets newpaper inches & TV loops whilst the truth (your one)
is only posted on a single thread of a discussion forum.
I appreciated it though.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Already did
PSPS
(13,613 posts)Been to an airport lately? We are all terrorists now, apparently.
Remember when we weren't living in a police/surveillance state?
Remember when we had a 4th amendment, mister "constitutional scholar?"
Obummer.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)They were the real terrorists and 911 was an inside job.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Yes, they won.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Loss of livlihood and misery to those we Invaded.
I guess that PBO is the Eternal Optimist that he could give this speech to us. But, then so much money has been made that for him to return to NYC..(doing so well for the 1%) on the backs of the rest of us is just more of the gaming of Donors for Hillary.
So all is GOOD in the USA....We have Revenged "9/11" with "Healing and Hope."
America is Doing Well from "Sea to Shining Sea" and the "Bells of Freedom Ring Out...all OVER OUR GLOBE" that we SURVIVED and DID GOOD for the Global EMPIRE.
Very Cool and Inspiring.
Joe Magarac
(297 posts)But that would mean we'd never live to see it.