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“I won’t ever look in that direction again if the towers aren’t rebuilt. There’ll be nothing there to see.” — Daniel Stadnyckyj | Metro New Yorkers
Click on the image above to watch the unforgettable “Attack 911.” It may well be the absolute best of the tributes to those who were murdered on 9/11/2001.
“The collapse of the Twin Towers was an enormous propaganda victory for our enemies. Our failure to rebuild them will make it permanent.” – Mac Johnson | Journalists & Media
“Dirge Without Music”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Crowned with lilies and with laurel they go: but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains - but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
This poignant message was sent in by a strong supporter who grew up in the New York area:
“My husband and I were married on 9/11/2004. We originally didn’t think of it as an option; we thought it might be construed as disrespectful. The more we thought about it, the more we liked the idea of taking the day back. The whole point of the attack was to make us fearful and full of doubt; to make us back away from living the lives we wanted, so Ray and I decided that was a great reason TO get married on 9/11. We had a moment of respectful silence during the ceremony, and proceeded to have a beautiful wedding. Those who died that day didn’t get to go back to their families and live their lives, but we can continue on and celebrate the life and freedoms that the terrorists took away from others. Every 9/11 is bittersweet; I love my husband with all my heart yet we also are forced to reflect on the often fleeting nature of life, and how a moment can change it forever.
“I see rebuilding the Towers as similar to our decision to get married on September 11. You don’t want to forget, you want to respect; you don’t want their death to have been in vain, for their sacrifice to only mean that we cower and try to spend the remainder of OUR lives trying not to offend. What the terrorists hate, we love - freedom of speech and religion, commerce, finance, culture, man’s achievement and capabilities, the bustle of capitalism, the discourse of divergent ideas - and they destroyed the Towers because they were symbols of those things. So to do anything less than try to rebuild is to say, you are correct; all those things are wrong.
“That’s why with all my heart I want you to succeed. I pray for your success, and wish for good luck, good fortune for you.” — Hanya Poczynok | Bellevue, WA
