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Tag Archives: 9/11
Maine at War: September 2021
With 9/11’s 20th anniversary occurring in September, my Maine at War blog focused on comparisons with Fort Sumter and its aftermath. September 1, 2021: Efforts are under way to preserve a 5th Maine Battery site at Gettysburg The American Battlefield … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged 5th Maine Battery, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, 9/11, Abner R. Small, Brian Swartz, Bridgton Reporter, Charles Armory Clark, Charles W. Lowe, Enoch Knight, Flight 93, Fort Sumter, Foxcroft Academy, Frank S. Hesseltine, George O. Hall, Henry Fairbanks, Piscataquis Observer, R. H. Stanley, Republican Journal, Waterville, William H. Simpson
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9-11 and the Lessons of Antietam–10 years later
Ten years ago, on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I offered a remembrance of sorts about the magnitude of the day coupled with a cautionary reflection about our national tendency to forget events of such magnitude. To make my point, … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Ties to the War, YouTube
Tagged 9/11, 9/11 and Antietam, Acts of Violence Against America, Flight 93
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George Cain – FDNY Firefighter, Civil War Buff, and Hero
On that horrific September day in 2001, we lost nearly three thousand in New York City, Arlington, and Shanksville – businessmen and women, security guards, tourists, first responders, and countless others. Of these, 343 were firefighters of the Fire Department … Continue reading
Posted in Memory
Tagged 9/11, Civil War buff, New York, New York City, September 11 2001
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Remembering 9/11 and the Lesson of Antietam
As I first explained in 2012, the events of Sept. 17, 1862, and Sept. 11, 2001, have become inextricably linked in my mind. Both involved tremendous loss of life, and both left catastrophic scars on the American psyche. Both left … Continue reading
Lost Shoes: A Historical Perspective
Missing shoes. Symbols of a hurried movement or a panic. Symbols left behind when the person has vanished suddenly from the scene. In Civil War history, lost shoes are often associated with New Market’s battlefield even though it was not … Continue reading
Posted in Ties to the War
Tagged 9/11, Field of Lost Shoes, New Market Battlefield, Ties to the War
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Acts of violence against America
Acts of violence against America. That’s the context an exhibit panel challenged me to consider as I neared the end of the self-guided tour of the Sixth Floor Museum in the Texas Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Ties to the War
Tagged 9/11, Acts of Violence Against America, American Terrorist, Dealey Plaza, Doaksville, Ford's Theatre, H.S. Washburn, Jefferson Davis, JFK, JFK Assassination, Oklahoma City Bombing, Oklahoma City Combing Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Sixth Floor Museum, Stand Watie, The Vacant Chair, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant
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Commemorating the Anniversary of Antietam
“America will never forget what your loved ones did for all of us,” President Trump told audience members attending a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at Flight 93 National Memorial last week. The official White House video of the event ended with … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, National Park Service, Ties to the War
Tagged 9/11, Antietam, Donald Trump, Flight 93
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“Remembering 9/11 and the Lesson of Antietam”
It has become my custom on 9/11 to think back to a different day during a different September when America suffered an even more catastrophic loss of life. As I first explained in 2012, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and Sept. … Continue reading
9/11 and 9/17, Inexorably Linked: Remember
The events of 9/11/2001 and 9/17/1862 remain inextricably linked in my mind, tied together not only by the horror of what happen on those days but by national resolve to “Never forget.” Even as we build skyscraper-sized memorials to the dead … Continue reading
