Presidents Bush And Clinton Address Crowd At Flight 93 Memorial Dedication (VIDEO)

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Presidents Bush And Clinton Address Crowd At Flight 93 Memorial Dedication
by Frances Martel | 3:36 pm, September 10th, 2011



In a heartfelt tribute to the victims of Flight 93, Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton visited the field in Shanksville, PA, where passengers on that flight managed to get the plane to land, evading its ultimate destination. Both Presidents gave their perspectives in solemn addresses, President Bush reminded the audience that the event was a reminder for our nation to “serve the cause of freedom,” while President Clinton concluded that the heroes of that flight reminded us that “humanity is what matters most.”

President Bush reminded the audience of the intensity of the event, and the depth of our loss: “the most American lives lost on American soil since the Battle of Antietam.” While to many presently, the day may “feel like a part of a different era,” President Bush suggested that for those present, and for those who lost loved ones, “that day will never feel like history.”

“One of the lessons of September 11th is that evil is real, and so is courage,” President Bush concluded, “that love and sacrifice can triumph over evil and hatred.” It was a message also carried through by the previous speaker, President Clinton, who compared the fallen at Flight 93 with the Spartans defeated at Thermopylae and the soldiers at the Alamo– all of whom knew were going to die, and went through with their valiant efforts anyway. The key difference for President Clinton was that, “at the Alamo and Thermopylae, they were soldiers,” not civilians who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “I hope and pray to God that people still remember this,” he concluded, adding that, along with Speaker John Boehner, he would be helping put up the rest of the funding necessary for the memorial.

VIDEOS at LINK: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/presidents-bush-and-clinton-address-crowd-at-flight-93-memorial-dedication/

[tularetom]

1. That all sounds very noble and beneficent

But the fact is 9/11 ripped apart any semblance of unity that existed here in the USA and turned us into a nation of wussies.

For all the macho talk and bluster, we're so scared we beg our government to take our liberties away in order to make us safer. And we are not by any stretch united, we spend all our time blaming each other for 9/11 and the events that followed.

And this was all accomplished by the very politicians who are now crying big fucking crocodile tears about lessons of 9/11, with the assistance of an incompetent and corrupt press.

Excuse me if I don't get all teary eyed about this.

What we really need to learn from 9/11 is don't believe the bullshit you hear from the government and the media and think for yourself.

[Zen Democrat]

2. I learned that evil and courage are real during Watergate.

[bluestateguy]

3. Rememberance is fine. Political demagogy based on 9/11 is not.

I graciously decided to put the 2000 election (which I still believed was won by Al Gore) behind me after 9/11 and be as supportive of George W. Bush as I possibly could.

Bush broke that trust by using 9/11 in political campaigns in 2002 and 2004 and using 9/11 to launch a bullshit war in Iraq.