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casey rigerman retweeted
They fold it thirteen times. 🇺🇸
Not to make it smaller.
To make it mean something.
The first fold is life.
The second is the life that does not end.
The third is the veteran — the one who gave years so the rest of us could keep ours. 🎖️
The fourth is trust.
A nation handing its weaker hours to people willing to be strong.
The fifth is the country they swore to.
The sixth is the heart. ❤️
Where the oath lives when the cameras are gone.
The seventh is the uniform.
Every branch. Every name.
The eighth is the valley.
The dark they walked into so morning could still find us.
The ninth is the mother.
The first person who ever taught them what it meant to
protect someone.
The tenth is the father
who watched a child leave and learned how long a driveway can feel.
The eleventh is the ancient seal.
The twelfth is forever. ✨
Then the last fold.
Stars on top. ⭐
No stripe left showing.
Only the field they fought under.
A triangle like the old hats of Washington’s men.
A quiet reminder: In God We Trust.
They tuck the last edge in
so nothing is left unfinished.
Then they place it in a family’s hands.
Not as fabric.
As a life, folded until it can be held.
Thirteen folds.
One triangle.
The last thing a family receives.
On behalf of the President,
the services,
and a grateful nation —
please accept this flag. 🙏
casey rigerman retweeted
2 days post 9/11, HM Queen Elizabeth II ordered the playing of the Star Spangled Banner during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.
This marked the first ever time a foreign anthem was played during the ceremony. Today, The King has ordered the same. Never forget 🇬🇧🇺🇸
casey rigerman retweeted
Today, among thousands of people crossing the Mackinac Bridge, I watched two firefighters in full gear running that bridge carrying flags.✨🇺🇸✨
And something about it hit me differently.
Carrying the weight of their gear, carrying those flags and carrying something much bigger than either.
A reminder, there are people who willingly carry heavy things so the rest of us don't have to.
It honestly did something to my heart.
We get so caught up in arguing,
complaining, judging, and worrying about things that won't matter someday.
casey rigerman retweeted
The 9/11 Memorial "Tear Drop" sit's directly across from NYC, in Bayonne New Jersey, just the other side of the Statue of Liberty, yet we hear nothing about it.
This beautiful, 100 ft tall monument was gifted to the people of the United States, by the people of Russia in 2006, in memory of all those who lost their lives on that fateful day, September 11, 2001.
The breaking in the cracked façade forms the shape of the two towers.
The giant suspended tear drop signifies the tears of the entire world that day.
Maybe it's something that needs to be known, starting today.
casey rigerman retweeted
🇺🇸 The Little Chapel That Stood
The day after the towers fell, a priest named Lyndon Harris walked down Broadway toward St. Paul’s Chapel. He had already decided it was gone. When he saw the spire, he wept.
He opened the door. Ash on the floor. The chandeliers still up. Not one window broken.
A sycamore in the northwest corner of the churchyard had caught debris, including a steel beam from the North Tower. The tree was damaged. The chapel was not.
Workers off the pile started using the porch to sit down and wash. On September 15 the Seamen’s Church Institute showed up with food and lit a grill on the sidewalk.
After that the doors stayed open. For nine months.
Cots in the pews. Eighty asleep at a time, helmets for pillows. Boots and belts marked the wood. Podiatrists set up in George Washington’s pew, the one he used after the inauguration in 1789. Massage tables in the aisle. Musicians played seven hundred times for whoever happened to be in the room.
Half a million meals were served before they closed the doors. Socks, boots, eye drops, cigarettes. Schoolchildren’s letters on the walls. The iron fence outside vanished under photographs, unit patches, teddy bears, and names.
They shut the relief operation down in early June 2002. They still ring the Bell of Hope every September 11.
St. Paul’s went up in 1766. It lived through the fire that burned Trinity in 1776. Oldest public building still in use in the city.
casey rigerman retweeted
September 11th reminds us of what we lost. September 12th reminds us of who we were.
For a brief moment, Americans put differences aside. We checked on our neighbors, helped strangers, honored our first responders, flew our flags, and stood together as one nation.
The next two days will be hard. Remember 9/12.
Never forget.
casey rigerman retweeted
🇺🇸 September 14, 2001. Ground Zero.
President Bush climbed onto a wrecked fire truck with a retired FDNY man named Bob Beckwith and a bullhorn.
A worker in the pile yelled that he could not hear him.
Bush: “I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”
Video from National Archives
casey rigerman retweeted
Twenty-five years later, we still remember the lives lost, the families forever changed, and the heroes who ran toward danger when America needed them most.
The skyline changed. The memory never will.
We remember. We honor. We will never forget. 🇺🇸❤️
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From Karl Streed -
I BET YOU DIDN'Y KNOW ABOUT THIS: AFTER FLIGHT 77 HIT THE PENTAGON ON 9/11, THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED.
A daycare facility inside the Pentagon had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do.
There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants who would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.
Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "Well, here we are, on our own."
About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow.
Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers.
The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac .
Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the Old West.
Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off.
Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children.
The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there.” There wasn't a dry eye in the room.
The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted; could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon.
It's the military, not the politicians that ensures our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It's the military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.
If you care to offer the smallest token of recognition and appreciation for the military, please pass this on and pray for our men and women, who have served and are currently serving our country, and honor the memory of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice!
God Bless The USA!
Never forget!!!
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The account of 40 Marines rushing to evacuate Pentagon daycare children in cribs and form a protective perimeter like covered wagons on 9/11 is a debunked fictional story that first circulated years later.
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