Pearl Harbor {Photograph taken on the boat, as we approached the Memorial, an iconic shot that includes, from left to right, the USS Missouri, where the Japanese surrendered, ending World War II, in the Pacific, the harbor control tower at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, which was built in 1925, and from where the…
Theodore Roosevelt Island “If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ Like so many memorials in Washington D. C., Theodore Roosevelt Island honors a man who served as president of the United States and manages to capture the enormity of the man, while highlighting…
“Remembrance Garden” We Will Never Forget There is a memorial at the Remembrance Garden, in Winslow, Arizona, that honors the memory of the events and the people impacted by the tragedy of 9-11. The plaque states: “These two steel beams from the World Trade Center, entrusted to the citizens of Winslow by the City of New…
Billy Graham Library Located at 4330 Westmont Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina, the Billy Graham Library far exceeded all of my expectations, and artfully managed to honor its namesake, while giving God all glory. The Library has the feel of a Presidential Library and Museum, and perhaps rightfully so, given the life of Reverend…
New York City Nine-Eleven Memorial and Museum Last autumn, we saw the New York City 9-11 Memorial and toured the Museum; the last of the three major memorials, which commemorate the attack on the United States, of September 11, 2001. Over the years, since the attack, we have made repeated pilgrimages to the…
Remembering Nine-Eleven Do Not Forget Colonel Donna J. Neary, USMCR (Ret) Liberty Rising – “God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to defend it . . .” ~ Daniel Webster, 1834 ~ Recently, I had someone ask me what my connection to the barbaric attacks of 9-11…
Peekskill “This memorial is dedicated to all whose lives were lost in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 Erected in memory of our fallen brother, Sam Oitice FDNY Ladder 4, Peekskill Engine 134 We shall never forget The chiefs, Officers and Members of the Peekskill Fire Department” The first 9-11 Memorial, which…
Shanksville 9-11 On a very cold winter day, we ventured to Shanksville Pennsylvania, the site where flight 93 crashed, on September 11, 2001. We had arrived in the area the night before, spending the evening in Somerset, from which the path to the site is clearly marked. It was a dreary kind of…
Pentagon 9-11 “We claim this ground in remembrance of the events of September 11, 2001. To honor the 184 people whose lives were lost, their families, and all who sacrifice that we may live in freedom. We will never forget.” We first visited the Pentagon Memorial, for those killed on 9-11 in…
Nine-Eleven Memorial Freeport, Maine I do not know why it surprised me, but it did. At the end of a quick trip to Freeport, Maine, as we were leaving town, driving down Main Street, these two steel beams, caught my eye, and we decided to stop and take a look. I was not expecting…
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