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Monday, September 12, 2005On this tragic anniversay of a day forever engrained in our minds. Those pictures of people, completely innocent mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends, best friends, uncles, aunts, pregnant mothers (whose babies never even had any life in the world) jumping out of burning towers, the screaming, suffering, pain and devestation sent by the hands of the very worst of truly evil people. People who were set to commit suicide simply to murder innocent people including those as young as 8. Today I took the time to watch stories of those who had loved ones perish in the flames and rubble of terrorism for no reason. One story that hit close to home literally was the story of three women from Etobicoke (a section of mega Toronto) who now live in the ritzy historic area of the Kingsway in Toronto, each of whom lost their husbands in the World Trade Center in New York on that dreadful day. They had not only been from Etobicoke, and now lived only a couple houses from each other in the Kingsway, two of them whom had worked together professionally at Canadian financial firm BMO Nesbitt Burns and an Air Canada flight attendant. Their moving connection and story is here online in The Toronto Star, one of Toronto's 4 major newspapers and Canada's biggest newspaper: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1126389011735&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes In case this link doesn't work, go to the webpage below and punch in my login information for my account with the newspaper, here it is: Email: futuristic_intelligence@hotmail.com Password: VYVYVY Also on TV I watched lots of coverage of the Canadian memorials, many whom also went down to New York City to attend ceremoies there. In addition to giving my deepest respects to those families still suffering and my remembrance wishes I would like to give my remembrance to the the family and friends of the 25 Canadians who were killed, several from my hometown of Toronto. Here is a piece on one of the Etobicoke woman's personal story in addition to a list commemerating the 25 Canadian victims of the events of September 11, 2001 in The National Post, a major Toronto newspaper: http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=508083be-f233-46d3-b56e-34a7b775c97d Finally a beautifully done memorial movie for the victims of 9/11 that I have viewed many a occasion when pondering the worst terrorist attack on American soil and one of the worst on earth put to aptly appropriate music, Only Time by Irish Celtic & folk singer Enya is at: http://www.911digitalarchive.org/diganimbackup/americaattacked/index1.html It's absolutely heartbreaking to watch but one of the most moving memorials you will ever see on September 11th, a true masterpiece of a movie. Also on the same site the September 11th Digital Archive is a large collection of other memorial movies, clips and digital motages, its homepage is: http://www.911digitalarchive.org/ Everyone enjoy every drop of life, enjoy and treasure your friends and family both in Canada and the U.S. and across the world. We must continue to battle through the horrors of terrorism, that since 9/11 has continued yet including the October 2002 attacks in Bali,Indonesia where many Canadians were brutally murdererd and the senseless and tragic attacks in July in London. Four years later, we must never ever forget. It was not simply an event, it was an attack of the free world, one that cannot ever be forgiven or forgotten. Teague Neal blogged on 2:45 AM
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