In memory of MARY JANE (MJ) BOOTH…

I have decided to join the team of Project 2996 again. I did a post for Jason Dahl 2 years ago for this fine project. This year the person I am going to be posting on is Mary MJ Booth….

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Where was Michelle Obama on this 11th day of September 2008?????
Now I ask you, is this the action of someone who wishes to be First Lady? Is she still ashamed to be an American….and on such a somber day in American history? All the big players were out today in full force. Cindy McCain accompanied her Husband to the cermonies in NY but Michelle was……MIA.. Laura and Lynn in DC and Condi at the Pentagon not to mention Hilary was at ground zero…and Sarah was saying good bye to her American Soldier Son as he leaves for Iraq. These are REAL American Women with a heart that cries RED,WHITE & BLUE!!!!
Michelle,….SHAME ON YOU!

McCain, the Republican nominee, and Barack Obama, the Democrat, held roses at the trade center site and greeted a small group of victims’ families, firefighters and construction workers. They were accompanied by McCain’s wife, Cindy.

Shortly after 4 p.m., both men tossed the flowers into a reflecting pool and stood solemnly in silence for a moment. Then they walked to an honor guard of uniformed emergency responders nearby and shook their hands.

One fire officer attached a commemorative pin to the visitors’ lapels

About 10 minutes later, the four — Bloomberg, John and Cindy McCain, and Obama — walked up the ramp away from the site where the Twin Towers stood before hijackers flew planes into the skyscrapers in the worst terrorist attack on American soil.

At street level, McCain and Obama were greeted by a throng of Port Authority Police officers, many of whom said they’d lost friends and comrades. The candidates expressed their appreciation to the officers.

“Thank you, sir,” Obama said to one officer in the group. “Good to see you.”

“Thank you,” one of the officers said to McCain.

“No, thank you,” McCain said.

As the candidates prepared to go their separate ways after the brief joint appearance, they shook hands.

“See you soon,” McCain said to Obama.
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US President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn observe a moment of silence on the 7th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington during a ceremony on the South Lawn USA, 11 September 2008.
……….even C. Rice was seen.

Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, wipes her eye during the dedication of the September 11th Memorial at the Pentagon during the dedication of the September 11th Memorial at the Pentagon on the 7th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington in Washington, DC, USA, 11 September 2008

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. (R) speaks to New York Police Commissioner Raynond Kelly backstage during the ceremony marking the 7th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York, USA, on 11 September 2008.

………..and Sarah Palin was back in Alaska Thursday to see her son off to war.

A homecoming rally late Wednesday marked the first time the governor had been in the state since Republican presidential hopeful John McCain asked her to be his running mate on August 28.

links:
http://www. monstersandcritics. com/news/usa/features/article_1430247. php/In_photos_9_11_Seventh_Anniversary?page=14

http://afp. google. com/article/ALeqM5iGGMtLN4EmUAZ_MLeLszI2ahS8PA

http://afp. google. com/article/ALeqM5gXry9qXnmIF4uACxB-MBEGqkbf3w

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Check it out at Wikipedia.

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Thanks for the information thebronze. I always wondered about the details. You’ve given me enough to follow up with some research.

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Wisdom,

Most people have forgotten the assassination of Ahmed Shah Masoud. I remember it very well and believe it was intricately related to the events that happened a day or two later on 9/11. Masoud was killed on 9/9 in Afghanistan, but I think the news of it came out on the 10th here.

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[...] Wisdom [...]

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She was a middle aged French woman on the streets of Paris, and when the reporter asked her thoughts on what had happened that day, she said, “Today, we all suffer together. Today, we all cry together. Today, we all Americans.”

That is when I cried. With my wife and children sleeping quietly all around me, I cried.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Wisdom. In so many ways, 7 years doesn’t feel that long ago and that’s as it should be.

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