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Gov. Tim Kaine is proclaiming Sept. 11 as a day of service and remembrance in Virginia.
Kaine on Wednesday urged citizens to find a way to honor the lives lost in 2001 through volunteer work in their communities. Friday also marks the end of the summer phase of the national United We Serve initiative.
Virginia projects that need volunteers are listed on www.serve.gov. Volunteer needs range from helping seniors balance their checkbooks to school beautification projects.
Users also can find mentoring programs, animal, art and nature activities by keyword and ZIP code.
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How low can we go?
Really people? Another plot to destroy America by Obama and Gov Kaine? It day of volunteering and helping out in your community to honor those who die in the attacks and people actually believe that it's another solicalist plot by obama. Wow that's sad. Yeah great idea let's just make it a day off so we can get a day off from work and sit at home and do nothing instead of helping out where people need it.Is there anything Obama does that isn't solicalist? Grow up people!
To the ramparts!
Prepare to repel boarders! 9/11 was made a day of service by act of Congress, the Serve America Act, which passed the House by a 3 to 1 margin and the Senate by a 4 to 1 margin. This is not some nefarious plot by Pres Obama and Gov Kaine to send all of our children to re-education camps and turn them into little socialists. It's all about encouraging people to serve their communities. Why is that a bad thing?
9/11
Today is the day in which we pause to remember the tragic day which occurred 8 years ago. Probably everyone can remember what they were doing on that day, when the cowardly dogs of Islam slaughtered 3,000 Good,Hard Working Americans,including the 300 firefighters and policemen who gave their lives that others may live. That one single act changed all of our lives from that day forward. That attack was on the level of Pearl Harbor,launching a sneak attack. Now, 8 years later, Bin Laden still lives, and our men and women are dying in the hot dusty sands of Afghanistan & Iraq. We should all be grateful to our young men & women in the military, and to the Firefighters and Police Officers who put themselves in harm's way. As a Veteran,I salute You,and May God Bless each and every one of you,and may he keep the families of the 9/11 attack in the palm of his hand.
Hallowed Day
Am I the only one who sees the significance of declaring today a ‘day of service’? I’m surprised that Kaine didn’t add in that you should also harass your elected representatives today to support the public option of healthcare reform. Wait, I’m confusing two different radical groups who are both claiming today for their cause. I’ll check ACORN’s website to see where I’m confused.
I have a better name for today.
The defiance against terrorism day.
What is this service nonsense?
Day of Service is a National Disgrace
Nothing could do more to malign the valiant response of our military, first responders and citizens during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This administration is all about having people serve them instead of properly acknowledging who attacked us, why, and what we're doing to stop future attacks. Nothing but an unclever diversion, and you, Governor Kaine, are part of the problem. For the last eight years it's as if we never were attacked in most media. Why? The most often used excuse is that if they keep showing the video and images of the horrible events that day, children will think they're happening again. Typical left liberal action--hiding behind children rather than educating them about the realities we face in the world--there are evil people and evil forces we must confront, not ignore or paint with kinder, more gentler names.
Disgraceful Acts
HM, you ought to check out the Day of Service website. It really is disgraceful: picking up trash, reading to the elderly, feeding the homeless, working in a preschool, helping your shut-in neighbor with grocery shopping, helping disabled vets from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with physical therapy. How unAmerican! How socialist! I can see why you're angry. We ought to be out burning the Quran in the public square and picketing in front of mosques. We'll show those foreign devils what real Americans are all about.
Born Free? Maybe,
Staying free? You don't know much about that do you? That post was dead-on accurate. According to Obama we should turn this into a day of service, service to him, his plan for America, and the disgusting socialist state that it represents? NO THANK YOU!
If you want to perform a service to your fellow Americans, by all means, do so, and do it all year long. Don't, however, belittle and minimize the significance of the attacks on this nation and the upheaval that followed in its wake. Don't take away from the THOUSANDS of Americans that were killed in a single DAY by an avowed foe and suggest that that we shouldn't be angry.
If you're not angry, you're NOT paying attention. If you're not sick about this misguided and lame attempt to make something of this day that it should NEVER be, you're a sorry soul. If you're not still angry and hoping that we annihilate radical extremists whose sole purpose and mission in life is to destroy the West, then you are clearly no longer free, nor do you deserve to be. Please move. I'd suggest a government more to your liking like China, N. Korea, Cuba, et al.
Read My Lips
Turning 9/11 into a day of service was created by an act of Congress by an overwhelming majority of both parties. I'm plenty angry at the perpetrators of 9/11. I had a college classmate killed on the plane that was flown into the Pentagon and the office of a friend I'd known for 15 years and served with as a Marine was 20 feet from the point of impact. Thankfully he was not badly hurt. The best way we can honor those who were killed eight years ago is to do something for our community. If you want to get angry read the editorial in today's Miami Herald written by two Marine four-star generals, one the former Commandant and the other CENTCOM. How would you suggest we do on 9/11 as a nation to commemorate the events of that day? Talk is cheap.
PS
I've spent my entire adult life in government service, 24 years in the uniform of a United States Marine -- Vietnam to Gulf War I. What have you done for your country lately besides gripe?