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| This page is dedicated as a memorial to anyone who lost a loved one in the terrorist attack, anyone who lost a friend, relative, lover, family member, or someone they just smiled at or said hi to once. This page is dedicated to all Americans of every race, religion, color, state, city, and territory. This page is dedicated to anyone who feels the horrific loss of life even if they did not know anyone killed or missing in the attack. |
| God bless America, land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with the light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam, God Bless America, my home sweet home. |
| "The price we pay for freedom is eternal vigilance." -Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America |
| "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. "But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America |
| O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose sterm impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self the country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! |
| "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States Of America |
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| "GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH" - PATRICK HENRY, AMERICAN PATRIOT |
| ."These are the times that try men's souls" - Patrick Henry |
| Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twighlight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof to the night that our flag was still there. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, O're the towering sweep, As it fitfully blows now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the moring's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream: Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, that the havoc of war and the battles confusion a home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wiped out thier foul footsteps pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave. And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh! Thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand between thier loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest victory and peace, may the heaaven rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause is just, And this be our motto: "In God is Our Trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. |