Remembering that Day

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Remembering that Tuesday morning at 9:47 EDT on September 11, 2001

Pentagon 

These are the 184 victims killed in the Pentagon attack on 9-11. The youngest victim being 3, the oldest was 71. Included are the crew and passengers from American Airlines Flight 77. (NOT included are the scumbag terrorists onboard the flight)

1. Paul Wesley Ambrose
2. Craig S. Amundson
3. Melissa Rose Barnes
4. Max Beilke
5. Yemen Betru
6. Kris Romeo Bishundat
7. Carrie Blagburn
8. Canfield D. Boone
9. Mary Jane Booth
10. Donna Bowen
11. Allen Boyle
12. Bernard Brown
13. Christopher Lee Burford
14. Charles Burlingame
15. Daniel Martin Caballero
16. Jose Orlando Calderon
17. Suzanne Calley
18. Angelene C. Carter
19. Sharon S. Carver
20. William Caswell
21. John Chada
22. Rosemary Chapa
23. David Charlebois
24. Sarah M. Clark
25. Julian Cooper
26. Asia Cottom
27. Eric Allen Cranford
28. Ada Davis
29. James Debeuneure
30. Gerald F. DeConto
31. Rodney Dickens
32. Jerry D. Dickerson
33. Eddie Dillard
34. Johnnie Doctor Jr.
35. Cmdr. Robert Edward Dolan
36. William Howard Donovan Jr.
37. Charles Droz
38. Patrick Dunn
39. Edward Thomas Earhart
40. Barbara G. Edwards
41. Robert Randolph Elseth
42. Charles S. Falkenberg
43. Dana Falkenberg
44. Zoe Falkenberg
45. Jamie Lynn Fallon
46. James Joe Ferguson
47. Amelia Fields
48. Gerald P. Fisher
49. Darlene ‘Dee’ Flagg
50. Wilson ‘Bud’ Flagg
51. Matthew Flocco
52. Sandra Foster
53. Richard Gabriel
54. Capt. Lawrence D. Getzfred
55. Cortz Ghee
56. Brenda C. Gibson
57. Ron Golinski
58. Ian J. Gray
59. Diane Hale-McKinzy
60. Stanley Hall
61. Carolyn Halmon
62. Michelle Heidenberger
63. Sheila Hein
64. Ronald John Hemenway
65. Maj. Wallace C. Hogan Jr.
66. Jimmie Ira Holley
67. Angela Houtz
68. Brady Kay Howell
69. Peggie Hurt
70. Lt. Col. Stephen Neil Hyland Jr.
71. Robert Hymel
72. Sgt. Maj. Lacey Ivory
73. Bryan C. Jack
74. Steven D. ‘Jake’ Jacoby
75. Lt. Col. Dennis Johnson
76. Judith Jones
77. Ann Judge
78. Brenda Kegler
79. Chandler Keller
80. Yvonne Kennedy
81. Norma Khan
82. Karen A. Kincaid
83. Michael ‘Scott’ Lamana
84. David Laychak
85. Dong C. Lee
86. Jennifer Lewis
87. Kenneth Lewis
88. Samantha Lightbourn-Allen
89. Stephen Vernon Long
90. James T. Lynch
91. Terence Michael Lynch
92. Nehamon Lyons IV
93. Shelley Marshall
94. Teresa Martin
95. Ada Mason
96. Dean Mattson
97. Lt. Gen. Timothy Maude
98. Robert Maxwell
99. Renee A. May
100. Molly McKenzie
101. Dora Menchaca
102. Patricia E. (Patti) Mickley
103. Maj. Ronald D. Milam
104. Gerard P. ‘Jerry’ Moran
105. Odessa V. Morris
106. Brian Anthony Moss
107. Teddington Hamm Moy
108. Patrick Jude Murphy
109. Christopher C. Newton
110. Khang Nguyen
111. Michael Allen Noeth
112. Barbara K. Olson
113. Ruben Ornedo
114. Diana Padro
115. Chin Sun Pak
116. Jonas Martin Panik
117. Clifford Patterson
118. Robert Penniger
119. Robert R. Ploger III
120. Zandra Cooper Ploger
121. Lt. J.G. Darin H. Pontell
122. Scott Powell
123. Jack Punches
124. Joseph John Pycior Jr.
125. Lisa Raines
126. Deborah A. Ramsaur
127. Rhonda Sue Ridge Rasmussen
128. Marsha D. Ratchford
129. Martha Reszke
130. Todd Reuben
131. Cecelia E. Richard
132. Edward Veld Rowenhorst
133. Judy Rowlett
134. Robert E. Russell
135. William Ruth
136. Charles E. Sabin
137. Marjorie C. Salamone
138. John Sammartino
139. Lt. Col. Dave Scales
140. Cmdr. Robert A. Schlegel
141. Janice M. Scott
142. Michael L. Selves
143. Marian H. Serva
144. Cmdr. Daniel F. Shanower
145. Antionette Sherman
146. Diane Simmons
147. Don Simmons
148. George Simmons
149. Cheryle Sincock
150. Gregg Harold Smallwood
151. Lt. Col. Gary Smith
152. Mari-Rae Sopper
153. Robert Speisman
154. Pat Statz
155. Edna L. Stephens
156. Norma Lang Steuerle
157. Sgt. Maj. Larry Strickland
158. Hilda E. Taylor
159. Kip Paul Taylor
160. Leonard Taylor
161. Sandra Taylor
162. Sandra D. Teague
163. Karl W. Teepe
164. Sgt. Tamara Thurman
165. Otis Vincent Tolbert
166. Willie Q. Troy
167. Lt. Cmdr. Ronald J. Vauk
168. Karen J. Wagner
169. Meta Waller
170. Sandra White
171. Staff Sgt. Maudlyn White
172. Leslie A. Whittington
173. Ernest M. Willcher
174. David L. Williams
175. Maj. Dwayne Williams
176. Marvin Roger Woods
177. John D. Yamnicky Sr.
178. Vicki Yancey
179. Shuyin Yang
180. Kevin Wayne Yokum
181. Donald McArthur Young
182. Edmond Young
183. Lisa Young
184. Yuguang Zheng

Patriot and Grandparents Day plus Balance and Assisted Living Awareness Week

Sunday, September 11, 2011 will have many activities ongoing throughout the day with the first Sunday on the new NFL season; the winding down of the regular MLB season; the observance of 9/11 (aka Patriot Day); Grandparents Day; Balance Awareness Week; and the start of Assisted Living Week (11-17).

September 11^th, 9/11 and or Patriot Day

Media has a full package of programs, articles, special inserts in our Sunday paper.  There will be International, Federal, State, and community activities today in remembrance. Nearly all sporting events scheduled today will also in some way take a moment to reflect.

In addition to taking a moment for those who were injured or died that day, please take a couple moments to include our armed forces for their sacrifices.

Balance Awareness Week

Balance is easily taken for granted.  However, when the fragile vestibular organs of the inner ear are damaged by illness or injury, anyone can lose the ability to balance—not just physically, but the demands of school, work, family, and independent living. People of all ages and across all walks of life experience vestibular disorders.  Click here for a fact sheet that provides additional information. 

National Grandparents Day

In the years since Jimmy Carter first declared Grandparents Day a national holiday in 1978, we've been following his call to reflect on the impact grandparents have on our own lives — and on society. In that spirit, we'll help you celebrate the grand’s in your life with creative gifts, activities for the whole family, and more.

In that original proclamation, Carter wrote that because grandparents "are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations."

Today, though, an increasing number of grandparents have actually assumed daily responsibility for their grandchildren. According to AARP, 4.5 million children are being raised in households headed by grandparents. For those kids and millions of others, grandparents create special relationships and impart lessons that last a lifetime. As Carter wrote, "Grandparents are our continuing tie to the near-past, to the events and beliefs and experiences that so strongly affect our lives and the world around us." For more information, click here.

National Assisted Living Week

The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) established National Assisted Living Week® (NALW) in 1995 as a way to promote assisted living to the public. It provides a unique opportunity for residents, families, staff, volunteers, and the surrounding community to come together to celebrate and enjoy a variety of events that show the residents how much we care for and love them. Every year, numerous local newspapers and television stations cover NALW activities. NCAL identifies the theme and then produces a planning and product guide, a line of products with this year’s logo, and sample materials for the media.

Enjoy your day!

Trying to put 9/11 into Perspective

As I sit here reflecting on the past decade since that horrible Tuesday morning - wondering what we have accomplished in making the world a safer place for all mankind.

What is the metric we use to measure how well or poorly we have done?

Does an all voluntary military force really make a difference in how they are treated or cared for upon their return home (alive or dead)?

Was/are Iraq and Afghanistan really necessary and worth it?

Have we Americans really taken a positive leadership role in peace and brining to justice those responsible for the events leading to, the act and events thereafter?

How do we put 9/11 into perspective – minus all the emotions? 

I have watch and read countless stories, interviews, studies, and reviews during the past decade.  

I worry for my grandchildren and wonder what kind of life they will have - clearly not the one I spend the past five decades supporting.

Is it possible that America can right itself?

Find Something Beautiful

Lisa Beamer on Good Morning America - If you remember, she's the wife of Todd Beamer who said 'Let's Roll!' and helped take down the plane over Pennsylvania that was heading for Washington, DC back on 9/11.

She said it's the little things that she misses most about Todd, such as hearing the garage door open as he came home, and her children running to meet him. She's now the Mom of a beautiful little girl, Mary.

Lisa recalled this story:

"I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack.  About a week after his death, she shared some of her insight with a classroom of students.  As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in through the classroom windows and the class was nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the edge of her desk and sat down there.

With a gentle look of reflection on her face, she paused and said, ' Class is over, I would like to share with all of you, a thought that is unrelated to class, but which I feel is very important.  Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves.  None of us knows when this fantastic experience will end.  It can be taken away at any moment.

Perhaps this is the power's way of telling us that we must make the most out of every single day.  Her eyes, beginning to water, she went on, 'So I would like you all to make me a promise.  From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice.

It doesn't have to be something you see, it could be a scent, perhaps of freshly baked bread wafting out of someone's house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the way the morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground.  Please look for these things, and cherish them.  For, although it may sound trite to some, these things are the "stuff" of life.  The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy.  The things we often take for granted.

The class was completely quiet.  We all picked up our books and filed out of the room silently.  That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester.  Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an impression she made on all of us, and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all overlook.