Wild Bill for America - Kenny Hates Israel

Bill answers a letter from Kenny, a man who thinks Israel is evil and is responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

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PJTV Trifecta - The End of America As We Know It: Why Barack Obama Should Resign Immediately

The filmmaker behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film that some blame for the Middle East riots, was taken into custody. Is this the end of the First Amendment as we know it? Find out on this Trifecta.

"I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
Barack Obama
Cairo Speech

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The 102 Minutes That Changed America

For 102 minutes on September 11, 2001, the world looked on in horror as terrorists flew hijacked passenger planes into New York City's mighty twin towers, destroying the iconic buildings and killing more than 2,700 people. Watch unfiltered videos from nine New Yorkers who witnessed the day that changed America.

Documentary Length 37:51

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NYFD - Brothers on Holy Ground 9-11 Documentary

This a an award winning documentary from the FDNY perspective. It was shot in and around the site and fire houses shortly after the towers fell. This video was inspired by a retired NY fire fighter who was able to talk to his brother fire fighters like no one else could.

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911 Heroes - Boatlift - Largest Sea Evacuation in World History

The captains and crew of the fleet of boats who rescued so many on 9/11 came together with no idea what they would be getting into and no idea whether Manhattan would be attacked again - let alone their very own boats. All they knew were that desperate people were in need of help and they couldn’t turn their backs on them, even if that meant putting their own lives at risk.

The New York Waterway, the Coast Guard, ferries, tug boats, private boats, party boats, small professional diving boats, and more ferried hundreds of thousands of people to Staten Island, Brooklyn, upper Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens in less than nine hours. Their crews are typical (in every best sense of the word) New Yorkers and ordinary civilians who came together after a distress call came in from the U.S. Coast Guard in New York.

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Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten?

They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
Well, after 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right

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Alan Jackson - Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning

Alan Jackson wrote this song shortly after the World Trade Center tragedy on 9/11/2001. One of the most poignant songs written about that dreadful event. I put this video together many years after the event, but even so the images of that day are still burned into my memory forever, and I'm sure the same is true for almost everybody.

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Anne from PA - BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience

Much has been written and said about September 11, 2001, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, but one story much less known is the one about the band of boats that came together to rescue nearly 500,000 New Yorkers from the World Trade Center site on the day the towers collapsed.

It was the largest boatlift ever to have happened – greater than the one at Dunkirk during World War II. Yet somehow a story of such large scale became lost in all the rubble. But a new 10-minute documentary called Boatlift by Eddie Rosenstein captures the boat evacuations that happened on 9/11.

American Exceptionalism has little if anything to do with the Humans that make up our citizenry, because Americans come from almost every ethnic group found in the World.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

This 'IS' American Exceptionalism!

"Though our president has labeled Americans as soft, I believe our people have toughed it out the best they can." Rick Perry

Anne from PA

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Boatlifters: The unknown story of 9/11 By: Katharine Herrup

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The Motto of the United States is 'E Pluribus Unum'.

E Pluribus Unum describes an action: Many uniting into one. An accurate translation of the motto is "Out of many, one".

We ARE the American People and WE WILL SURVIVE Barack Obama!

Remember Who WE Are!

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Heroes of the United States

Everyone has a Hero inside themselves, you just have to let that Hero come out.

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Anne from PA - Will God say to me, "Well done, my good and faithful servant?"

Miracles abound all around us. Miracles don't have to be feeding thousands from a few baskets of loaves and fishes, or turning water into wine, or the many miracles described in the Bible.

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November 2011, Anne writes,

I don't know if it's the incomprehensible, overwhelming evil that was behind 9-11, or the magnitude of the death and destruction, but ten years later, looking at a picture of the twin towers, or looking at a picture of where the twin towers used to be, most times gives me a lump in my throat, and more often than not a tear in my eye.

I have also experienced a situation similar to Peter Scheibner's. In the mid 60s, while working for American Airlines, I was supposed to be on a plane (commuter carrier) that crashed on take off. All passengers aboard were killed. I was not on board simply because when asked, I agreed to work a shift for a co-worker; a day in the middle of my four day weekend off. Many of the thoughts and emotions Peter Scheibner expressed, I recall thinking and feeling many years ago. Even after more than forty years, I remember those thoughts and emotions when I board a plane in potentially icing conditions.

Through the years there have been other times that God has saved my life through nothing less than a miracle. Instances where people would say it was "luck" or "coincidence." These instances were neither "luck" nor "coincidence," but rather miracles. God's hand.

And my experience this past week, being precisely where God needed me to be, in spite of the fact that I'd rather had not been there, that caused me to be taken by ambulance to Hospital of Univ. of Pennsylvania, which is a world class cardiac facility. And to learn that while I was being prepped for pacemaker implant surgery, my already critically weakened electrical cardio-impulses were rapidly deteriorating, and the surgeons kept me alive while they inserted the pacemaker and the pacemaker started to do what pacemakers do... keep people alive.

The events in my life this past week, as well as watching Peter Scheibner's heart felt video, have given me pause to stop and consider, among other things, the miracles in my life.

The Hebrews have no equivalent word for "coincidence." Life does not happen randomly, and people and situations in our lives are not random. There are reasons, and they are God's reasons.

I recalled again a poster my daughter used to have in her room when she was a teenager. The poster was of a young girl skiing down the moguls, with skis, feet, polls, and hands in every possible direction, and a look of abject terror on the young girl's face. Across the top of the poster it said, "I DON'T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES" and across the bottom it said, "I DEPEND ON MIRACLES."

And so do we all depend on God's miracles, whether or not we realize or want to admit it.

I also thought of what I believe to be one of the most profound lines I've ever heard in any movie... "Out of Africa," when Streep's character, Baroness Karen Blixen, said, "God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road." Perhaps that's God's way of inviting us to trust in Him in all things.

Another thing that came to mind was something I learned many years ago from a Dr. Epstein who is an extraordinarily gifted pediatric surgeon. Dr. Epstein cares for, and operates on only those children with catastrophic medical problems that other pediatric surgeons won't touch. When asked how he dealt with caring for and operating on these innocent little children who have the worst of the worst medical problems... and did he ever ask "why." Dr. Epstein said, "Yes. I used to ask why. And then I realized that it was okay to ask why as long as you don't demand an answer." Dr. Epstein went on to say that he was very aware that we may never get some answers as long as we're in this life, but we just need to accept that, and do what we're called to do.

Miracles abound all around us. Miracles don't have to be feeding thousands from a few baskets of loaves and fishes, or turning water into wine, or the many miracles described in the Bible.

Miracles are often the everyday things that happen in our lives, that put us precisely where we need to be, and exactly when we need to be there. Miracles are often the people in our lives who comfort us, and enable us to keep going forward without being too discouraged. Miracles are those who keep us in their prayers, without being asked. But the greatest of miracles is that God send His only son to die for us and our sins.

We are living in times that probably, to a person, we never thought we'd experience. We are surrounded by evil and we are being called to prayer and fighting back against the evil.

Peter Scheibner's "Life Objectives" gave me more to think and pray about. Will God say to me, "Well done, my good and faithful servant?"

Anne from PA

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Austin Hill - A Sadly Secularized 9/11

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York may think himself high-minded and practical. But he has acquiesced to some of the most unfortunate and destructive forces in our country.

As I write this, nobody has any idea, really, how the ten year anniversary of “9-11” will transpire. Hopefully the day will come, and go, without any civil unrest or – God forbid – terrorism.

Hopefully Americans will remember, and reflect. No doubt millions of us will pray, both within houses of worship and privately within our own minds.

But this we do know: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made it clear that clergy have been forbidden from participating in the city’s official 9-11 commemorative ceremony. The city that was ten years ago and is still today regarded as the epicenter of a huge American tragedy, will commemorate the event with a purely secular, irreligious ceremony, devoid of any official representations of any particular religious traditions.

From a historical standpoint, a secularized commemoration would seem to miss some of the essence of what happened on September 11, 2001 and in the days and weeks that followed. It is, after all, a matter of record that many houses of worship provided safe harbor to displaced victims of the tragedy, and that clergy men and women rushed to provide counsel and sustenance.

Bloomberg’s ban also seems to ignore the reality that the first certified fatality in the 9-11 disaster was, in fact, a clergyman. After learning of the attacks, Father Mychal Judge, a Catholic Priest and beloved Chaplain to the Fire Department of New York rushed to the scene to meet then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

At Mayor Giuliani’s request, Father Mychal began praying aloud for the city and the victims. At the moment that he was struck in the head with debris and killed, eyewitnesses noted that Father Mychal had cried out repeatedly "Jesus, please end this right now! God, please end this!"

But that was ten years ago. Today there’s a new Mayor in town, and he has taken a decidedly different approach. And Mayor Bloomberg’s clergy ban is unfortunate, for at least a few different reasons.

For one, Bloomberg’s ban exemplifies a flawed conceptualization of “tolerance,” and “diversity.” While his motivations have not been made clear, presumably Mayor Bloomberg’s ban is intended to protect certain religious groups that might not participate in the ceremony, from being “infringed upon” by those other religious groups that might otherwise be represented by clergy at the event. It is a logic that says “for the sake of diversity of religious traditions, we won’t acknowledge any religious traditions at all.”

Faulty as this view is, it is nonetheless nearly impossible to get most Liberal Americans to think any differently. Not long ago Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was the Attorney General of Arizona and banned all “holiday decorations” – Christmas ornaments, menorah candles, and so forth – from her offices, for the very same “tolerant” reasons.

Bloomberg’s ban also strikes a blow at human freedom. Whereas in the American tradition one has a God-given right to speak their mind and to express themselves, and government’s role is to safeguard that right, in the contemporary Liberal mindset such freedoms are problems to be managed and mitigated by government. “America is a far more diverse and pluralistic country today than it was at the time the U.S. Constitution was written,” Liberals will remind us. “What was intended by the Founders of our country does not, and cannot apply today.”

In the end, Bloomberg’s ban is painfully intolerant and assumes the worst about his country and the city he serves. It says that Americans can’t handle their freedom appropriately, and must have less of it.

It may also say something painful about the Islamic world, and a level of intolerance there. Might Mayor Bloomberg have mandated his ban so as to appease those involved in some of his personal business ventures in the Middle East? If so, why would people in the Middle East object to American clergy praying publicly?

The ten year anniversary of 9-11 will hopefully be meaningful and peaceable. But the intolerance entailed in such flawed ideas of “diversity” will remain – and should be reversed.

Austin Hill

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Austin Hill is an emerging American voice, addressing culture-defining questions through books, talk radio, web, speaking, and interviews. His recent books "White House Confidential" and his new title "The Virtues Of Capitalism" show his range from whit-infused writer to thought-provoking expert on the intersection of philosophy, religion, politics & culture. Hill helps to make the complex seem simple when exploring capitalism, socialism, and other "Isms".

He is an editorial contributor to national publications such as U.S. News & World Report, a columnist with TownHall.com, and is a popular expert-host on radio from leading stations in Washington DC, Chicago, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and nationally with networks such as Fox NewsTalk Radio.  He hosts the "Austin Hill Show" weekday mornings at Fresno, California's Talk Radio 105-9 KMJ-FM,  and weekday afternoons at Boise, Idaho's Newstalk 580 K I D O radio.

Hill holds a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and a Master's Degree in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University in California.

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