Tuesday

All across America we remembered
and held tributes to the lives that were lost.

 Our Community Remembers

We Will Never Forget

"America was not built on fear.
America was built on courage, on imagination
 and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
Harry Truman

Rehearsal- some flags still wrapped.

Every year I always share the memory of this day to someone in the dark.

Especially youngsters. Inform and inspire whenever we can.

We all remember where we were the moment 

we first learned of this tragic event in America.

All the branches of armed forces join for this occasion.
On days where we spend it in remembrance of that fateful day
we open our hearts to meeting and kindness to others.
Me

While the 9/11 team are setting up for the evening we're blessed with about two hours of entertainment. 
This year I only brought my grand-daughter Karina and earlier her third grade class discussed what occurred that day 17 years ago.  

Many of the children attending enjoy conversing with the entertainment along with dancing and waving our American flag.

"You can always catch stars dancing

in the open moonlight.

They twinkle your away 
to the rhythm of your joyful heart.

Sometimes they dance with little movement 

as they may embrace one's heartache
 before melting away 
any frozen sculptures
of ones sadness."

"Oceans separate lands, not souls."
Munia Khan

"Music gives a soul to the universe 

wings to the mind 

and flight to the imagination

and life to everything."

Plato

America The Beautiful here.

"You should not honor men more than you do truth."
Plato

Best life possible

is always lived forward.

Of course there was dinner at the Bread and Pickle

right on Lake Harriet before the concert began.

"A cheerful mind can always see better 

than mindless eyes."

Munia Khan


"If we learn nothing more from this tragedy
we learn that life is short
and there is no time for hate."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
George Smith Patton

"The wind plays its own music."
Bert McCoy

It's been incredibly windy this week and it was hard to catch a photo without someone wearing a flag.

I had to share a couple of these windy captures.

"Peace if it ever exists,

will not be based on the fear of war,

but on the love of peace."

Herman Wouk

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
George Patton

"Better to fight for something
than to live for nothing."
George S. Patton


To all who serve
thanks for walking the walk.
Thank you for your service.