Obama at 9/11 museum: Terrorism can't break us

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JENNIFER PELTZ

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama praised the new Sept. 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism and helpfulness that followed the attacks.

"It's an honor to join in your memories, to recall and to reflect, but above all to reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11 — love, compassion, sacrifice — and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation," he told an audience of victims' relatives, survivors, rescuers and recovery workers at the ground zero museum's dedication ceremony.

"Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us. Nothing can change who we are as Americans."

After viewing some of the exhibits, including a mangled fire truck and a memorial wall with photos of victims, the president touched on some of the many stories of courage amid the chaos: the passengers who stormed a hijacked plane's cockpit over a Pennsylvania field and first responders who rushed into the burning twin towers. He also honored military members "who have served with honor in more than a decade of war."

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President Barack Obama speaks at the dedication ceremony for the National September 11 Memorial Museum on Thursday, May 15, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/Mike Segar, Pool)

[2pooped2pop]

1. news for you prez

domestic terrorism in the form of the insane gop already has broken us.

[djean111]

2. We have met the enemy - and it is the 1%.

Lot more insidious, and wildly more successful, than terrorists.

[Plucketeer]

3. LOL !!!!

Get out much, Mr. Prez??? Terrorisim (and those who would use it to look up our assholes or any other place of suspicions) reigns.

[Maedhros]

4. "Nothing can change who we are as Americans?"

9/11 most definitely broke us, Mr. President.

Since 9/11, we have allowed our intelligence agencies to shred the Constitution at will because of "the terrorists."

We allow innocent women and children to be regularly blown up by our missiles because we have to kill "the terrorists."

We allow our President to designate citizens as "terrorists" and subsequently execute them without due process.

We detain "terrorists" indefinitely without charges. Hell we executed Bin Laden - a prisoner in our custody - without a trial because we were too afraid of "terrorists" to follow our own judicial process.

9/11 transformed America into a nation of cringing cowards willing to surrender our hard-won civil liberties in the name of protecting us from "terrorists." It's time we stopped doing that.

[Nihil]

13. Excellent post.

Shame that the bullshit (his speech) gets newpaper inches & TV loops whilst the truth (your one)
is only posted on a single thread of a discussion forum.

I appreciated it though.

[billhicks76]

5. 911 Lies

Already did

[PSPS]

6. What a fool. The "terrorists" clearly won.

Been to an airport lately? We are all terrorists now, apparently.

Remember when we weren't living in a police/surveillance state?

Remember when we had a 4th amendment, mister "constitutional scholar?"

Obummer.

[olddad56]

8. remember what it was like before the the Bush Crime family coup of 2000?

They were the real terrorists and 911 was an inside job.

[GliderGuider]

14. Your nation shattered on September 12 and has never healed.

Yes, they won.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. No, that's the job of DC

[KoKo]

9. I dunno...nice speech..but it hasn't been "Healing & Hope" but Death and Destruction, Dislocation

Loss of livlihood and misery to those we Invaded.

I guess that PBO is the Eternal Optimist that he could give this speech to us. But, then so much money has been made that for him to return to NYC..(doing so well for the 1%) on the backs of the rest of us is just more of the gaming of Donors for Hillary.

So all is GOOD in the USA....We have Revenged "9/11" with "Healing and Hope."

America is Doing Well from "Sea to Shining Sea" and the "Bells of Freedom Ring Out...all OVER OUR GLOBE" that we SURVIVED and DID GOOD for the Global EMPIRE.

Very Cool and Inspiring.

[Joe Magarac]

10. The memorial museum should have waited for the war to be over ...

But that would mean we'd never live to see it.

[KoKo]

11. Sadly...probably the truth of it...or so it seems. n/t

[MisterP]

12. stop supporting an-Nusra!