Specialization is for Insects.
With the many different views during and after the attacks on the World Trade Center, I truly thought I had seen every angle, view, video, etc. However, recently I was made aware of a much different view of the attacks on the World Trade Center: From The International Space Station:
Amazing that it looks so very small from up there and yet is one of the worst disasters in world history.
On September 11, 2001, Madeleine Cunningham was employed as an auditor with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Â Their offices were located on the 86th and 87th floors of the south tower of World Trade Center 2. Thirty-nine of her co-workers perished on that terrifying day and she could have been one of them, however Madeleine had bittersweet fortune of not being in the office. This is just one of so many stories that happened on that historically tragic day.
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Osama bin Laden is Dead
Just a few hours ago President Obama went on TV to tell the world that the US finally got Osama bin Laden.
After a 10 year hunt spanning two Presidents, Obama is finally able to lay claim to the death of America’s public enemy number one. The predictions about how this will change things have already begun.
People are already speculating that:
Whether or not hunting down bin Laden will really have these effects is yet to be seen…
As nations, the USA and Russia have often found themselves on different sides of various socio-political philosophies. And at times, an uneasy peace seems to exist between the two greatest nuclear powers the world has ever known. But despite all obstacles, the people of Russia reached out to Americans with a gesture of hope and kindness when President Putin dedicated an extraordinary monument as a gift in honor of those who perished in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
“To The Struggle Against World Terrorism” is a 100 foot high, bronze sculpture conceived of by Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli. Zurab is the President of the Russian Academy of Arts and Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (among other things).
I suppose that only a man in a position such as this wields the necessary power to convince a government and it’s people to get behind a gift of this magnitude. Its certainly akin to the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France.
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This week’s Links of the Week theme is… pictures.
Six years have passed. Say what you will about the war in Iraq, George Bush, or religion. America was attacked. The last time this happened was Pearl Harbor. The result – the USA demonstrated it’s political will and military might.
That makes the US 2 for 2. Two attacks on US soil = two foreign military powers and their allies utterly destroyed.
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Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is credited with saying, after the attack on Pearl Harbor,
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the re-awakening of a sleeping giant.
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