'Freedom Walk' to Commemorate 9/11, Celebrate Freedom

[norml]

Charity : 'Freedom Walk' to Commemorate 9/11, Celebrate Freedom
Posted by Laura Linderman on 2005/8/10 11:53:00
By Steven Donald Smith
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2005 - The Defense Department today announced the first "America Supports You Freedom Walk" to honor the victims of 9/11 and America's military personnel, as well as to celebrate freedom.

The Freedom Walk will begin at 10 a.m. Sept. 11 in the Pentagon South parking lot, near the site where the airliner crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. The walk route will consist of a two-mile trek through Arlington National Cemetery, over the Potomac River, and will end by the reflecting pool on the National Mall, where a free concert featuring country music star Clint Black will take place.

"I am proud and honored to be part of the America Supports You Freedom Walk to honor the victims of 9/11 and to support our men and women in uniform," Black said.



Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made the announcement today at the Pentagon.

"Every year since the Sept. 11 attacks, Americans have commemorated that anniversary. This year the Department of Defense will initiate an American Supports You Freedom Walk. The walk will begin at the Pentagon and end at the National Mall. It will include many of the major monuments in Washington, D.C., reminding participants of the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation that have so successfully defended our freedoms," Rumsfeld said.


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http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2014

[Theres-a]

1. Turdstock featuring Clint Bleak

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1690216&mesg_id=1690715

[gman16]

2. From now on

We should refer to this as the Pentagons 911 celebration concert.
Re-frame it for what it is.

[eissa]

6. Exactly, plus

hang a banner along their path that says "Thank Heaven for 9-11" It basically sums up the attitude of this administration.

BTW, welcome to DU :hi:

[MrBenchley]

3. America Supports You Freedom Walk?

What a dorky name...and what is it we're supposed to be celebrating?

[norml]

7. Sept. 11 party a travesty

Opinion | 8/11/2005
Sept. 11 party a travesty
By Joshua Huck
Article Tools: Page 1 of 1


Checking the news this morning, I happened to read an article which raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Incensed and incredulous, I scanned each line with steadily rising disgust. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and poking myself with a fork I had handy, I thought, "surely this is a joke."

Unfortunately, I was wrong.

In a scene that seems to have been taken directly out of Trey Parker's and Matt Stone's political satire "Team America," The New York Daily News reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a rather surprising announcement on Tuesday. To "commemorate" the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon is planning both a country music concert on the National Mall featuring Clint Black and an "America Supports You Freedom Walk."

Clint Black, as Salon.com notes, is the voice behind the jingoistic "I Raq and Roll," a song that connects Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11, tucked in between couplets of jingoistic chest-beating.

Intended to boost support for America's troops in Iraq (and transparently enough, the Bush administration's unpopular policies), the planned festivities should instead boost America's anger against a blatant attempt to manipulate our opinions through our emotions. In order to reinforce the false, but aggravatingly popular belief that Saddam Hussein and the Iraq War are somehow linked to that morning in September, the Bush administration is exploiting both the tragedy of thousands of innocent deaths here at home, and our country's capacity to empathize with our fallen comrades abroad.


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http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2005/08/11/Opinion/Sept-11.Party.A.Travesty-966523.shtml

[Booster]

8. This young man really gets it. The article is a must read because

it tells the truth. Spread it far and wide. The hubris of this administration if out of control.

[MrBenchley]

9. And they're going to screen the participants...

It's "freedom" the way Faux Noise is "fair and balanced"....

[wli]

4. it's a Machtergreifungstagfest

Right on the anniversary of the self-coup.

[spuddonna]

5. Very nice...

Seizure of power day celebration... Yeah, but when does the military parade and troop review for the Dear Leader happen?

[MsTryska]

10. why bother walking?

they'll never get good chickenhawk turnout that way.



they should have a Freedom Convoy with tons of gigantic SUVs festooned with ribbons rolling out.