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Dine For America at participating restaurants on Thursday, October 11th, 2001 to show your support and raise funds for the victims and families of the September 11th tragedies in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.
Dine For America restaurants and their employees will be contributing and collecting donations to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
100% of funds raised and collected that day will be sent directly to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
http://www.dineforamerica.com/index.html
On Thursday, October 11th, 2001, have everyone in the USA who will be driving a motor vehicle that day drive with their headlights on during daylight hours.
This will be the 30th day commemoration in honor of our fallen friends... desecrated by the terrorists' attacks on NYC , the Pentagon, and the highjacked plane that crashed in PA.
The purpose of driving with headlights on this day will:
1). Show our respect, friendship, and tribute to all of those
individuals
who lost their lives on that dreadful September 11, 2001 day.
2). Show our concern for the family members of those individuals.
3). Show those uncouth terrorists that the fabric of the USA is
stronger
than steel.
4). Show that we Americans have solidarity standing shoulder to
shoulder
against any terrorists' acts upon the USA.
The following is a rumor/hoax that will be circulating soon to make Americans paranoid about going to malls on Halloween. Just thought I would send it on before it gets sent to everyone. Also on this site it has all the hoaxes dealing with the 9-11 attacks.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blmall-terror.htm
From: The White House
To: Albert Gore
Dear Al:
We found some more votes. You won. When do you want to take over?
Sincerely,
George W. Bush
President Bush has made a call for American Kids to help Afghan Children
During his first prime time press conference, President George W. Bush made a call for all American children to send one dollar to be used to help the children of Afghanistan who are in dire need of food and medicine.
Parents, teachers, and children's group leaders have been asked to kelp the kids with this project. The $1 donations will be handled by the American Red Cross, but should be sent to the following address:
America's Fund for Afghan Children
C/O The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20509-1600
Q: What do Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and
General Custer have in common?
A: They all want to know where the hell those
Tomahawks are coming from!
Q: "How many members of the coalition does it
take to screw in a light bulb?"
A: "We are not prepared to comment on specific
numbers at this time."
Q: How do you play Iraqi bingo?
A: B-52...F-16...A-10.
Q: What is the Afghani national bird?
A: Duck.
Q: How is Osama Bin Laden like Fred Flintstone?
A: Both look out their windows and see Rubble.
Q: Why does the Afghani Navy have glass bottom
boats?
A: So they can see their Air Force.
From the Taliban TV Network:
MONDAYS:
8:00 - "Husseinfeld"
8:30 - "Mad About Everything"
9:00 - "Suddenly Sanctions"
9:30 - "The Brian Benben Bin Laden Show"
10:00 - "Allah McBeal"
TUESDAYS:
8:00 - "Wheel of Terror and Fortune"
8:30 - "The Price is Right If Usama Says Its Right"
9:00 - "Children Are Forbidden From Saying The Darndest Things"
9:30 - "Afganistans Wackiest Public Execution Bloopers"
10:00 - "Buffy The Yankee Imperialist Dog Slayer"
WEDNESDAYS:
8:00 - "U.S. Military Secrets Revealed"
8:30 - "When Northern Alliance Attack"
9:00 - "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pita Bread"
9:30 - "Just Shoot Everyone"
10:00 - "Veilwatch"
THURSDAYS:
8:00 - "Matima Loves Chachi"
8:30 - "M*U*S*T*A*S*H"
9:00 - "Veronicas Closet Full of Long, Black, Shapeless Dresses and
Veils"
9:30 - "My Two Baghdads"
10:00 - "Diagnosis: Heresy"
FRIDAYS:
8:00 - "Judge Laden"
8:30 - "Funniest Super 8 Home Movies"
9:00 - "Captured Northern Alliance Rebels Say the Darndest Things"
9:30 - "Achmeds Creek"
10:00 - "No-witness News"
Here are some very poignant observations from abroad....
Here is a reprint of an editorial from a Romanian Newspaper that was circulated by the US Forces Command Public Affairs Office. The language is occasionally awkward due to translation, but the meaning is unmistaken.
Below is an article, provided to us by the FORSCOM PAO, that tells the story of the American spirit as seen the eyes of reporter in Romania. It is indeed powerful and worth a read by all. Please share it with your teams thanks
Subject: Romanian Newspaper Editorial
FROM ROMANIA: RECOGNITION (AND ENVY) OF THE AMERICAN ETHOS AND ÉLAN!!
Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are.
Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!".
Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert.
I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests.
I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human?
Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy.
What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion.
Only freedom can work such miracles!
People in New York and DC are going to be having to hit foodbanks hard. There will be a need in NY for the soup. Below is an easy way to help....
Campbell's is donating a can of soup to area foodbanks just by clicking on a football helmet at their website. Now, I know there are some pretty diehard football fans out there so let's see which team gets the most support and help some hungry people, too! It's quick, easy, and can be done once a day.
Just click go to this web address http://www.chunky.com/click_for_cans.asp then click on your favorite team's helmet Campbells donates a can of soup. That is it!
"What would you die for - and, what would you kill for?"
Questions like these, asked in university ethics, public policy, or globalization classes, seemed purely academic in the days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
They proved not to be, of course. On that fateful day, Americans learned that the idea of self-sacrifice was anything but theoretical to 19 terrorists willing to kill themselves to attack the United States.
Yet "self-sacrifice" - whether it means dying in battle or doing without butter - is also deeply embedded in American history and culture. It's a concept getting more attention on campus these days, and one likely to be essential to any successful war on terrorism.
Carolyn Marvin, a professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania, has long grappled with the interlinked concepts of patriotism, nationalism, religion, and sacrifice. She is co-author with David Ingle of the 1999 book "Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag" (Cambridge University Press).
US success in its "war on terrorism" depends largely on how unified the nation remains during a long fight, Dr. Marvin says. And that unity depends on how deeply Americans from all walks of life are willing to sacrifice. "The argument that the American public is not prepared to lose even one casualty is not true at all," Marvin says. "It's what they're prepared to lose them for that counts."
Franklin Roosevelt called for all Americans to sacrifice in World War II, following the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese. And they did. Rich and poor sent young men to fight, and many to die, in battle with the forces of Hitler and Tojo.
In that case, Marvin says, the threat was clear, and personal sacrifice was widely shared. Nearly every American community and family planted victory gardens, rationed gasoline and food, or lost sons. Unity was sustained throughout.
No war since has enjoyed such broad-based support among Americans. In the Vietnam War and others - including the Gulf War, where sacrifice by the public was uneven or minimal - national unity waned quickly, she notes.
Whether the "war on terrorism" rises to the level of a Pearl Harbor in the national consciousness remains to be seen, Marvin says. A few commentators have recently argued that President Bush is not capitalizing on current unity by calling for more public sacrifice for the war effort - for example, pushing energy conservation to make the US less dependent on Mideast oil. Dr. Marvin agrees - but points out that the amorphous war on terror handicaps Mr. Bush. Even if he did make a call for enlistment, she asks, "where would they go to fight?"
Still, the country has taken some steps toward a sense of self-sacrifice, Marvin says. The televised impact of more than 5,000 lives lost to terrorism permeated the national psyche. As a result, many Americans - college students among them - are for the first time dusting off and deeply pondering the idea of sacrificing self for country.
"The strongest feeling [about the terrorist attacks] was over the deaths of thousands of people," she says. "That feeling is not likely to be maintained over a very long period of time without a more definite sacrificial commitment by the general public."
Despite broad support for military action today, the question remains whether rich and poor, white and black will feel that defeating terrorism is worth losing their lives or their children's.
One indicator: In a Sept. 27 poll at Harvard University, 69 percent of Harvard students said the US should take military action. Only 38 percent however, were willing to serve in the armed forces and attack those responsible.
"We know Americans are maybe going to pay more taxes, maybe more insurance, maybe be inconvenienced at airports," Marvin says. "But that's very different from asking Americans to send sons and daughters to war."
Still, she argues, sacrifice is an essential part of American nationalism that, in critical times, becomes a sort of national religion. Like the cross to Christianity, the flag becomes the nation's sacred symbol. And it makes possible even the sacrifice of loved ones for a higher goal, she says.
Signs of partial public willingness to sacrifice can be seen in the people lining up to give blood, and in the American flags flapping on automobile antennas nationwide. "The root meaning of the flag is the sacrificed body, the sacrificed soldier," Marvin says. "Any poll of third graders will show that they know this, too.... Most kids will say: 'The red stripes are the blood [of] the people that died for freedom.' "
The flag has many other meanings as well, she acknowledges. The "popular flag," for instance, is "parsed" or cut into pieces and used in things like the National Football League logo, flag clothing, bunting, and product logos galore. But flying behind it all, she says, is the "sacred flag" used to drape caskets at military funerals.
Will the genuine national outpouring for the families of the dead become the animus that galvanizes most Americans?
It depends on who fights, Marvin says. Those without college deferments did most of the fighting in Vietnam. During the Gulf War, Americans were glued to their TVs - at first. "They watched until it became clear there were not going to be a lot of American casualties - and then they turned it off." The "war on terrorism" could be quickly forgotten, too. Except for the indelible memory of planes crashing into buildings.
"The recent attacks were a big tragedy," Marvin says. "But many Americans are still not sure it is worth sacrificing their children's lives. If we have other big attacks - maybe then."
FEMA is a wonderful resource for safety and disasater preparedness. Call 1-800 or write to them today!
http://www.fema.gov/kids/pubs.htm