A Day to REMEMBER...

Dance4One/Dan Getz, Blogger

Dallas, TX May 31, 2011

After writing this yesterday, I had every intention of also posting it yesterday, on Memorial Day.  However, due to technical difficulties (aka no immediate access to WI-FI and a VERY full day of planned activities at Lake Somerville), I chose to post this TODAY, the DAY AFTER Memorial Day.  And, as I rushed into Starbucks this morning and glanced at the Dallas Morning News’ front page with only a small mention of this holiday of REMEMBERANCE (hi-light section on left side), I believe it is quite appropriate that I did [post this TODAY]…as we all too often…Get up…resume our daily routine…and FORGET the significance of a day like YESTERDAY…

This piece was first posted on April 28, 2011 and before Dance4One began posting DAILY on May 2, 2011.  I felt it particularly appropriate to repost this as WE, as AMERICANS, celebrate OUR FREEDOM and COUNTRY that 1000’s and 1000’s of OUR Armed Forces and Civilians have unselfishly and sacrificially given their lives for.  As I stated in the article below, we must NEVER forget, become complacent or indifferent, or fail to be thankful for the ultimate sacrifice and blood of those who has been shed FOR US.  Heroes of the PAST…Heroes of the NOW…HEROES of the FUTURE…We salute YOU…We honor YOU…We thank YOU…We remember YOU…and VOW to NEVER, EVER forget YOU…THANK YOU for giving US what we could not achieve or experience without YOU…One Nation…Under God…with Liberty and Justice for ALL…IF we so choose to BELIEVE and LAY HOLD of AGAIN that which we have ALREADY been GIVEN and POSSES…as Individuals…and as one of the GREATEST NATIONS in POWER today.

Original Post of Apr 28, 2011 entitled, “A sIGnIfIcAnT dAtE hAs jUsT pAsSed US by wITh MoSt oF uS nOt reCaLlinG thE pRecisE sIgNiCaNcE, DaTe oR TiMe: 9:02 a.m. on 4-19-95. ReMeMbEr!”

To my new friend from New York…so u most likely remember 911 VERY WELL as I do April 19, 1995 at 9:02 a.m. I was there that tragic day…3 doors down in the Old Post Office Building working as a contractor for the US Bankruptcy Court…10+ buildings/parking garages collapsed as result of this horrendous terroristic act…My recent press release went out quite inadvertently on 4-19-11 and I finished my first photo essay at Channel 56 in Tyler on Easter Sunday Morning at 9:02 a.m.

We shall NEVER let your memories FADE or Diminish…the true victims go well beyond the 168 memorialized in Oklahoma City with 168 chairs and the pool of reflection…I am ashamed, but even I do not recall the exact number (or even year) of the lives that perished that fateful day on September 11th, but I do know the impact went well beyond the 1000′s that perished that day and the days that followed…

We MUST NEVER forget the sacrifice…not only of these, but of the MANY who have given their lives for OUR freedom…We MUST not continue in our complacency, ignorance, selfishness and ungratefulness…

Join me in PUSHING ourselves FORWARD…Embracing the Gifts INSIDE of us that NOBODY can “steal” except for US alone…Laying aside FEAR and FULLY EMBRACING COURAGE… just as these 1000′s and 1000′s have done, and the 100′s of 1000′s have done, are doing and ARE continuing to do ALL over the WORLD today…

America, we MUST remain the WORLD leader and POWER that we KNOW how to be and have done for a good part of 150 years…We MUST not be the bully we have become, but also not be tolerant of radicalism that infringes and cuts off the FREEDOM and LIVES that we HAVE. We CAN do this…we HAVE done this in years past, as well as do in SMALL degrees NOW…

Our GREATEST time to SHINE is NOW, America…But WE cannot change our COURSE unless the YOU”S rise up and make a CHOICE to shine NOW…So what are YOU going to do? Only YOU can decide and choose what YOU will do…So as Nike has stated, “JUST DO IT!”

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