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Time Passes But They Should Not Be Forgotten

When tragedy strikes it can make the news and rally a nation together. For a moment in time we feel the loss and we have compassion for those that were directly impacted like family members and friends. Time passes and many tragedies join the history books and slowly fade from the backs of our minds as we carry on with our busy work week, struggle to make ends meet and take care of our loved ones. 9/11 is still very much in our minds and I think a part of that is because so much is still left unfinished, there are still so many to honor and help - The families, the Firemen, Police Men, medical staff, our troops over seas that risked their live and those that lost them. Please feel free to leave a memorial in the message box on this lens. Or create a good deed lens on a topic that means something to you for your favorite charity in honor of 9/11.



A Squidoo Activist challenge posted on Squidu forum by lensmaster comfortdoc:
My Good Deed Charity Challenge for 9/11 is a new challenge from the Squidoo Activists as a simple way to do a good deed in honor of 9/11.

Participating is simple.

1. Make a lens to benefit your favorite charity on 9/11.
2. Pledge to make a lens by 9/15. Add your pledge to the Duel module.
3. Use the new Donations Module so readers can donate to your favorite cause.
4. Add your charity lens to the My Good Deed plexo.
5. Vote on your favorite new charity lens.
6. Invite and encourage other lensmasters to make their own charity lens for 9/11.

The winning lens will be featured on the Squidoo Activist Blog during the week of Sept. 22nd.

ALL participants will have the satisfaction of knowing that their good deeds will make a difference to a charity on Squidoo.

Do a Good Deed. Make a Lens for Charity in honor of 9/11.

More about My Good Deed
My Good Deed is a non-profit public benefit corporation that was founded in 2002 to honor the victims, family members, and survivors of September 11, 2001. My Good Deed encourages everyone to pledge a good deed for 9/11 in memory of those lost September 11, 2001. They are working to turn 9/11 into a national day of service and compassion.

Memorials and Tributes

The memorial is a large metallic sculpture by German sculptor Fritz Koenig, currently displayed in Battery Park, that once stood in the middle of Austin Tobin Plaza, the area between the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. After being recovered from the rubble of the Twin Towers after the September 11, 2001 attacks, its fate was initially uncertain and it was dismantled into its components. Although it remained structurally intact, it had been visibly damaged by debris from the airliners that were crashed into the buildings and the collapsing skyscrapers themselves.

Six months after the attacks it was relocated to Battery Park on a temporary basis-without any repairs-and formally rededicated with an eternal flame as a memorial to the victims of 9/11. It has become a major tourist attraction, due partly to the fact that it survived the attacks with only dents and holes. It will be returned to its original home once the Freedom Tower project is completed.

Upon recovery from the rubble pile, where an airliner seat, a Bible and papers from the various offices in the World Trade Center were discovered within, it was dismantled and sent to storage near John F. Kennedy International Airport. Its uncovering had been widely covered in local news media in the New York metropolitan area, however, and as it was a memorable feature of the Twin Towers site there was much discussion about using it in a memorial, especially since it seemed to have come through the attacks relatively unscathed.

At first, Koenig opposed reinstalling The Sphere, considering it "a beautiful corpse."

The sculpture was eventually returned to Manhattan, and on March 11, 2002, six months to the day after the attacks, it was re-erected in Battery Park, several blocks away from where it once stood. Koenig himself supervised the work; it took four engineers and 15 ironworkers to create a new base. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani and other local officials spoke at a ceremony rededicating it as a memorial to the victims.

"It was a sculpture, now it's a monument," Koenig said, noting how the thin globe had mostly survived the cataclysm. "It now has a different beauty, one I could never imagine. It has its own life - different from the one I gave to it." 

A Memorial

Pentagon memorial unveiled as Sept 11 recalled

By Andrew Gray and Matt Spetalnick



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a somber ceremony outside the Pentagon,
President George W. Bush
on Thursday dedicated the first major September
11 memorial on the seventh anniversary of the attacks that killed
nearly 3,000 people.



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"Seven years ago at this hour a doomed airliner plunged from the
sky, split the rock and steel of this building and changed our world
forever," Bush said.


"The years that followed have seen justice delivered to evil men in
battles fought in distant lands."


To the accompaniment of choral music, military members in dress uniform
unveiled the 184 granite-and-steel benches in the memorial park that
represent each of the victims killed by the al
Qaeda attack on the Pentagon.


The ceremony was the last time that Bush, who steps down in January, will
lead the nation in recalling the attacks that prompted him to declare a global
war on terrorism that has defined his presidency.


"Since 9/11, our troops have taken the fight to the terrorists
abroad so we do not have to face them here at home," said Bush, joined
at the ceremony by former Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was in the Pentagon during the attack.


"Thanks to the brave men and women, and all those who work to keep
us safe, there has not been another attack on our soil in 2,557 days,"
he said to applause.


The memorial, by New York designers Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman, also
features maple trees and light pools in a park of gravel. The benches are
arranged according to the victims' ages.


The attack on the Pentagon took place at 9:37 a.m., when American
Airlines Flight 77 from Washington's
Dulles International Airport smashed into the walls of the U.S.
military headquarters.


The crash killed 125 people in the Pentagon, along with the plane's 59
passengers and crew and the five hijackers.


In a park near the site of the deadliest September
11 attacks, where more than 2,700 people were killed when New York's
World Trade Center was destroyed, relatives of the dead on Thursday held up
portraits of their loved ones.


Bagpipes and drums sounded from police and fire department bands.


A ramp with flags of the world led into the pit beneath the site, where a
circular reflecting pool
contained two squares representing the footprints of each of the twin
towers.


Republican presidential
candidate John McCain attended a ceremony in Shanksville, a town in
southwestern Pennsylvania where the fourth hijacked plane crashed into a
field, killing 40 passengers and crew and four hijackers.


McCain will fly to New York and join Democratic rival Barack
Obama for a visit to Ground Zero, where the two U.S. senators will
both lay wreaths but not give speeches, aides said.


Gordon Felt, brother of one Pennsylvania victims, said September
11 was at risk of fading from the memory of younger Americans.


"I was numbed by the realization that for a new generation of
children not affected directly by the loss of a loved one, 9/11 has become
part of history," he said at the memorial on a hilltop above the field
where the plane crashed. "The 9/11 of our young children is our
Gettysburg, our Pearl Harbor."

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  • ShowMeYourTatts Dec 10, 2010 @ 12:29 pm | delete
    This is a great tribute lens. Something that should not ever be forgotten. As we all get caught up in the events of our day to day lives, there has always got to be enough time in the day to remember those who innocently had their lives taken and for us to stand strong as a country to not allow this type of thing to reach our borders again.
  • d-artist Mar 13, 2010 @ 12:00 pm | delete
    great facts and information in this lens...5*...I will never forget! I have that day and image ingrained in my head forever...I can not watch anything to do with that day, it traumatized me so much, not even an old photo of the towers which I see you have it was too painful to view.
  • GregGiordano Sep 16, 2008 @ 2:07 pm | delete
    In New Port Richey, Florida we have had an annual 911 memorial event. The first memorial was held within weeks of the terrorist attacks. It has become an event that our community looks forward to each year. Each year a representative from One Day's Pay spoke about the importance of voluntering in honor of the victims. This year we learned that One Day's Pay has now become My Good Deed. Great job on bringing attention to this most program and the need for Americans to truly never forget how our lives were changed in 2001.
  • Christopher_Scott Sep 11, 2008 @ 8:06 pm | delete
    Thanks for shedding some light on one of the most memorable days in our country's history. Keep up the great work!
  • chefkeem Sep 11, 2008 @ 6:13 pm | delete
    5*s and a Squid Angel Blessing for this important lens.
  • ebay-grandma Sep 11, 2008 @ 5:19 pm | delete
    9/11 is a date that can not excape any of us. A touching reminder.
  • Frankster Sep 11, 2008 @ 4:56 pm | delete
    Thank you for putting together such an excellent lens. It's hard to believe that it happened and then again that, as one of your quotes said, it is now history to so many. 5 stars and a favorite. Bear hugs, Frankie

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