Would You Lie with Me and Just Forget the World?

Like just about everyone on earth, I look forward to the weekend. I'm hoping for this one in particular for a double dollop of uneventfulness (or uneventitude? I'm never sure which).

I brought my wife to our local hospital's emergency room yesterday at late morning, for a sharp pain in her chest, right around where she had similar pain in June of 2015 which turned out to be a heart attack.

While the staff ran tests of all manner and origin, I unpacked all the worst-case scenarios I keep tucked up inside. That way, no matter how awful their medical report might prove to be, and it really wasn't in hindsight, I've already imagined infinitely worse.

As good fortune and excellent healthcare insurance (Attn: GOP, Clean-up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, bigly) would have it, she was allowed to go home with the promise to behave herself. 

About three hours after we'd returned home I realized I was still shivering from the fear of a loss I am powerless to prevent. We're married forty years next month and the thrills never stop though I'd be lying if I said a bit of a break would be kinda nice for both of us.

-bill kenny

Reaching Beyond Merriam-Webster

How a reality TV star has redefined acceptable dissent: 

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say,
‘Get that son of a (expletive) off the field right now. Out. He’s fired. He’s fired!'”

"If you look, there were people protesting, very quietly, the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee."

"Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom-and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech." (Benjamin Franklin)
-bill kenny

I Read the News Today

One of the dilemmas of these far-too modern times might be reduced to the simple question, "just because we can do a thing, should we?" It's timeless and has always haunted us. 

I'm sure Milli Vanilli would have faced it after Girl You Know It's True if they hadn't gotten tripped up by Rose Mary Woods' tape deck. (Alas, poor Maxell, I knew him well). Everything in moderation, to include moderation, is a wonderful thought to live by. Too bad too few do.

That said, I'm sure we could have had far more letters than just 26 in our alphabet but someone, someplace said 'two dozen plus two is just peachy' and spared us the turmoil of the Dano-Norwegian Alphabet, with its Ø also known as the "not an O letter," to say nothing of the Æ (and quite frankly the less said, the better).

So it's with some trepidation I read news reports of Twitter doubling the character count. I do appreciate the idea of testing the concept with a selected group of users before offering wide-scale deployment. I hope I can be forgiven for praying that NOT among the double capacity testers is someone who has caused me to wonder about his testes and their size especially in the last eight months. 

As Little Marco shared with us once upon a time and long ago, he already has tiny hands. Trying to type 280 characters could mean a tweet that denigrates Colin Kaepernick, while simultaneously insulting Senator John McCain, disparaging three governors and two (or more) foreign leaders and nominating Steve Bannon for a B'nai B'rith award all in one swell foop. 

All of which could cause, I hope,  something other than those itty-bitty hands to catch on fire.  

-bill kenny

How To Save a Life

I am reasonably aware that I am given to bouts of attempted humor and that I often type with my tongue pressed firmly against my cheek which means on a day where I am being serious I risk not being appreciated either for the effort or the alarm I'm trying to sound.

All I can do is hope today will be otherwise but that's on you; all I can do is try. Here goes: With all due respect to the stream of media stories on the arguments and concerns about health care going on right now in our nation's capital we have more than a plate full of concerns about health care and mortality right here in our own backyard. 

It was shortly after Labor Day when The Bulletin had a headline and a Ryan Blessing story that caught me up short, "19 Overdose Deaths in 2017 Has Norwich Officials Seeking Answers." 

Let's face it, we've been reading news stories and watching TV reports on the growing number of drug overdose and opioid deaths in our country for so long, it's hard to keep track of when the reports began. Even as the numbers grow alarmingly larger every year, still it seems to many of us to be a problem for someone else, somewhere else. 

Not anymore. We're not talking about a mysterious virus, automobile accidents, or even pianos (and other objects) falling out of windows and landing on people. We're talking about accidental suicides, and if one is considered a tragedy what should we call are so many? A trend? A disease? How about a plague?

Ryan's report mentions "The medical examiner’s office projects 1,078 accidental drug intoxication deaths in Connecticut for all of 2017, up from 917 last year and 357 in 2012. The office reports 539 such deaths from the start of the year through June."  Go back and look at the numbers in that sentence again and help me understand the numbers it mentions. 

A company with 1,078 employees would be one of the top five largest employers in this state, that same number, 1,078, is larger than the entire Lebanon School District. I would like to think if one or the other disappeared tomorrow we'd all notice, but I am the first to concede and confess that while I knew that 19 people here in Norwich had died of drug overdoses, it hadn't really registered with me. 

But in a city with just about 40,000 people, 19 deaths through June means most of us know someone in Norwich who has a friend or a family member whose life has been shattered by a drug overdose. Here, where we live, where we've brought up our families and made our homes. Here is where we are supposed to be safe from harm.

Drug and opioid overdoses is a nationwide issue that many are calling a national emergency requiring massive amounts of federal and state dollars to combat, but here, at home is where we can make a difference and where many public and private agencies are united in combating. 

Norwich's newest initiative is Norwich Unhooked, which also includes social media outreaches on Facebook, and Instagram. It's a coalition of human services, youth and family services, schools, law enforcement, faith based organizations, parents/caregivers, youth and young adults, healthcare providers and community support services intended to connect individuals and families with information, support, and services for substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment. 

There cannot be enough helping hands to successfully combat the catastrophe of drug and opioid overdoses so instead of wringing yours in despair reach out to Angela Duhaime, the coordinator at (860) 823-3782 Ext 3481 and find out how to save a life.
-bill kenny 

#TakeTheKnee

The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam

And I mean every word of it

Alabama's gotten me so upset

Tennessee made me lose my rest

And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

Alabama's gotten me so upset

Tennessee made me lose my rest

And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

Can't you see it

Can't you feel it

It's all in the air

I can't stand the pressure much longer

Somebody say a prayer

Alabama's gotten me so upset

Tennessee made me lose my rest

And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

This is a show tune

But the show hasn't been written for it, yet

Hound dogs on my trail

School children sitting in jail

Black cat cross my path

I think every day's gonna be my last

Lord have mercy on this land of mine

We all gonna get it in due time

I don't belong here

I don't belong there

I've even stopped believing in prayer

Don't tell me

I tell you

Me and my people just about due

I've been there so I know

They keep on saying "Go slow!"

But that's just the trouble

"do it slow"

Washing the windows

"do it slow"

Picking the cotton

"do it slow"

You're just plain rotten

"do it slow"

You're too damn lazy

"do it slow"

The thinking's crazy

"do it slow"

Where am I going

What am I doing

I don't know

I don't know

Just try to do your very best

Stand up be counted with all the rest

For everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

I made you thought I was kiddin'

Picket lines

School boy cots

They try to say it's a communist plot

All I want is equality

for my sister my brother my people and me

Yes you lied to me all these years

You told me to wash and clean my ears

And talk real fine just like a lady

And you'd stop calling me Sister Sadie

Oh but this whole country is full of lies

You're all gonna die and die like flies

I don't trust you any more

You keep on saying "Go slow!"

"Go slow!"

But that's just the trouble

"do it slow"

Desegregation

"do it slow"

Mass participation

"do it slow"

Reunification

"do it slow"

Do things gradually

"do it slow"

But bring more tragedy

"do it slow"

Why don't you see it

Why don't you feel it

I don't know

I don't know

You don't have to live next to me

Just give me my equality

Everybody knows about Mississippi

Everybody knows about Alabama

Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam

That's it!

-bill kenny

Funny the Way It Is

We are enjoying a run of summer days, in terms of heat and beautiful, blue skies, here in New England even though the calendar says autumn has begun. And it has, as I look at the trees and see more color and bare limbs this week than I saw last week.

I'm off from work, again, today, which should cheer immensely those with whom I share the workspace, so that I can join my wy wife and our daughter as we head north to near Springfield, to see neither Bart nor Honest Abe, but to be a part of what I have taken to calling New England's Largest Vowel Movement, The Big E.  

It's a state fair with everything that such a term entails and so much more. They deep-fry the most amazing things and, more amazing than that is they sell them to others to eat and they do. This year, in honor of my earlier adventures of the weekend, I'll wear my Superhero medal because there are, I suspect, people who have not yet seen it, despite my incessant self-aggrandizement efforts. I'll be bringing a ballpoint pen of course because I always have one and because I expect to be signing autographs. Or not.

I am enjoying our lovely weather only slightly troubled by the knowledge of the awful and horrible weather and its aftermath that millions if not tens of millions of other people are enduring. As a matter of fact, as I understand the TV meteorologists, one of the consequences of those killing rains and winds there is the lovely weather we are having here. 

It's a little disconcerting to me how we can accept our interconnectivity no matter where in the world we are when we look up to the skies but are unable/unwilling to see any of it across the globe when we look into one another's faces and hearts. 
-bill kenny

Hunter Ellis Is My Pace Setter

I have a membership at our local Planet Fitness (the basic one since I have a difficult time imagining myself dropping in at another one someplace else) that I use on weekday mornings. Right after I get up at half-past three, I don my gym clothes, sorry it's 2017, work-out togs, and head out for an hour on the treadmill. I go so early to trick my brain as I'm not fully awake because otherwise, I'd never agree to spend an hour at a time on a treadmill. 

Some wags have suggested in light of the distance from my house to the center I would add great health value to my sessions if I ran to the center and then, after finishing, ran back home. My response is usually some sarcastic variant of an anatomically difficult suggestion, even for a yoga-master (as opposed to a Jagermeister) to accomplish. (I know, you drink it for the 56 herbs; who doesn't, right?)

I use that hour to catch up on everything that's happened in the world from the time I dropped off to sleep the evening before usually while watching the PBS NewsHour. I use a treadmill where I can toggle between CNN and the CBS Overnight News on the big screens hanging on the far wall as I'm someone who needs to see as well as hear (on headphones) TV news as these days so much of it is driven by visuals as opposed to editorial/reportorial word count. 

The next screen over is Faux Gnus which, not surprisingly I never watch. When you refuse to listen to a different point of view, you're a bigot. When I do it, I'm principled. see? I am aware of the concept of irony, I just like being made an example of it. 

Overnight TV that doesn't just run infomercials is a strange beast indeed. There's a lot of 'we can get you out of debt with the IRS' ads and George Foreman is always on, not hawking his grill (which someone told me was first pitched to Hulk Hogan to sell and he took a  pass), but about a company that works with inventors. 

My current favorite is Hunter Ellis whom I had to Google to learn he was once (or maybe more than once) on some season of Survivor one of the thousands of hours of 'reality shows' produced for what must be the rest of the nation who are all more easily amused than I as I hate all of that stuff. Hunter does a celebrity endorsement for the Atomic Beam Lantern that causes a more elevated heart rate than I would have if I could run at 100 mph on the treadmill. He has, to read his biography, kept himself employed rather nicely but he doesn't have a Facebook page or not one I could find, even using the Atomic Beam Lantern. 

In the future said Andy Warhol once in a very distant past, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. That's why I stopped wearing a watch because I think that might be my best shortcut to being famous forever, or maybe just infamous.
-bill kenny   

 

Why Can't This Happen on a Workday?

Except that I'm in a fundraiser to combat breast cancer, this might have been all the reason I would have needed today to consider sleeping in this morning. As near as I can determine no Mayans were harmed, or consulted for that matter, in the making of that video.

And while we're on the subject of video-making, dear "Unsealed," spare me the mealy-mouthed disclaimer that's nothing more than a lame effort to try to hedge your bet on the date of the end of the world. Is you or is you ain't my girl? Not to put too fine a point on this, Horatio, but I got library books to return....or do I, huh?  

And this Unsealed guy is supposed to be a Christian numerologist (an endangered species I suspect), which I guess could be along the lines of an East Side Manhattan delicatessen offering "kosher ham?" Or not. Pay no attention to that mustard stain on my shirt and I won't count to ten. Makes us even though I think you are odd. 

Far be it from me to rain on your The Earth Is Going Out of Business Sale! but seriously? I suppose I should be happy if this happens at some point today since I'm kinda on the hook to mow the lawn (I hope) for the last time this season tomorrow after we drive home (unless I don't have to drive because the Earth is in flames). And if I do have to break out the mower, I'll be slathering on the sunscreen, and now the Nibiru-screen?   

Does anyone have recipes for green bananas? Hurry up, I'm asking for a friend.
-bill kenny

This Time Tomorrow

Tomorrow our daughter, Michelle, and I will again become momentary members of Sue's Crew IX (this time) in support of the YMCA of Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge and South Amboy (New Jersey) Janice Garbolino 5 K Run/Walk in Edison, New Jersey. You have probably already guessed which event I'm hoping to do, even if I do it badly.

My brother, Adam and his wife, Margaret and members of their family have been involved in this event for almost a decade (actually, VIII years but who's counting) for sadly familiar reasons that we can only hope someday will only be a memory as we work to make cancer history. As was the case last year (when this photo was taken) I am very much in it for the tee-shirt when should I finish.

Suze Crew VIII (2016)/Photo courtesy of Sarah Lyn Thomas

Having made this trip from Connecticut any number of time, I can tell you it's quite a drive for us, and we're not the only travelers nor I suspect was ours anywhere near the longest journey, but it's well worth it for the cause and for the people involved in it.

To be proven again on the morrow

There's a long way yet to go in the battle against breast cancer and all that's been made so far is a very good start. But we've come a long way and it's been a long ride. We've come a long way to be here tonight.
-bill kenny  

Time Passages

It was twenty-six years ago this past Tuesday I worked my last day as an employee of the US Air Force (civilian type) in Europe. I tell myself I still haven't decided if I'm angry or sad about how the end happened and why, but I lie. That I still mark the anniversary should tell me what I don't want to know.

I didn't lose my job, it sort of lost me. Historically, in less time than it takes to explain the appeal of totalitarianism to Eastern Europeans, that appeal evaporated into thin air and where there had been two Germanys for four and a half decades, there was suddenly only one. 

As a card carrying grey eminence of the NATO occupation forces, and with Exchange and Commissary privileges to prove it (not forgetting my Mainz-Kastel Audio -Video Club Frequent Shopper Membership), I was part of the 'everything must go!' overhead the United States Armed Forces parted with in their Getting Out of Europe sale. 

In dribs and drabs over the course of a couple of years, many of those with whom I had worked, in and out of uniform, found themselves in the same place and space-where the road and the sky collide with very little time to think once much less twice.

I was considering all of that (and the role a pair of talentless right bastard career Air Force officers both of them, Captain Mary and Colonel Tom, played in engineering my exit) while watching the images of the President speaking to the United Nations and the now united Germany's ambassador to the UN trying to sort out, as are so many others around the globe, exactly whom it is some of us elected to be President. 

Western Europe which Amercian armed forces saved twice in the last century is doing just fine without us, it seems to me, as both we and they struggle to maintain both our equilibrium in a slippery slope of a new world order as well as the candow, courage and communications that marked so many decades of our relationships with one another.

It amazes and heartens me to watch from a distance. If I'd known then what would happen to my life now and that of my family, I don't think I'd have changed a thing for my family or the world in whcih we lived, despite or because of that knowledge. We are the sum of everyone we've ever known and the journey so far has been as educational as it has been inspirational and entertaining. 

Sometimes this story each of us is writing can be a bit tricky as farewell often becomes goodbye and at other times, it's yet another hello.
-bill kenny 

As Wild Ideas Go....

My last original thought died of loneliness, so I hang on to any glimmer of an idea which crosses or crawls over my front lobes very tightly with both hands (which makes typing difficult). Humor me, or try. 

Like lots and lots of people across the region, I was unpleasantly surprised when Benny's announced it was closing all of its stores. It was sad, though admittedly to a certain extent not altogether unexpected news. 

The rate and pace of change in our lives continues to accelerate so much that I wonder what we'll look like by the end of this sentence, much less the end of the decade. I thought about ordering a black armband from Amazon to wear in mourning of the passing of another brick and mortar retailer but then realized maybe that particular purchasing habit was at the root of the problem.

I've been told experience is what you get when you didn't get what you want and we have certainly had a lot of experience with disappointments of all manner around here but, just sayin' (and stay with me on this), what if the closing of the Norwich Benny's could prove to be the opening of that Community Center we've taken a kajillion surveys about since surveys were invented that always tells us that's what we say we need here in Norwich (when we mean we'd like to have).

I know what you're thinking (actually I have no idea, but that's a great way to transition from one paragraph to another and vamp for time) but I'm not kidding. I've been in the store far more times than I can remember (as have you, right?) and it's a large space in what I think is a pretty nice location for a community center (based on my seconds of experience as a planner).

The building is next door to a passive recreation area (I didn't mean Gorin's; I meant on the other side) with a large parking area for cars, and on a bus route for those without cars. It's down the street (four-minute walk or so) from the Norwichtown Green and across the street from the Norwichtown Commons. 

My point in putting the building into play this way is we fall in love around here with complex and complicated planning for facilities and activities that never get to Square One so we devote all of our energy to pursuing mirages. Yes, I know the building is on the property tax rolls but in this daydream, I'm not concerned about that. 

Let's pretend the store is empty and pretty soon we won't be pretending. How many tremendously good ideas to put that empty space can we develop, how many children, youth and family activities can we house there? What would we need to build inside that space and what will any or all of that cost? I have no idea and don't pretend to, though all of those are excellent questions.

My part of this was in asking "what happens if we do?", and with the strike of a few keys on a computer keyboard, my part is already done. I got this started and since life is a relay, pick it up and carry it forward. If you want something either you find a way or make an excuse. Your choice.
-bill kenny      

    

One Serving of Comeuppance Coming Up

Schadenfreude is German for rejoicing at the misfortune of others. I find it amusing how people with no grasp of foreign languages despite that varsity letter from Glossolalia University (go "Rabid Wombats"!) still know the word and the concept of schadenfreude. 

Except when it comes to General Michael Flynn. No matter what happens to that piece of trash, it's not enough, as far as I'm concerned and none of that emotion has anything to do with schadenfreude. 

Admittedly, I'm talking about Old Testament level vengeance here, that's what I want to be meted out. And not so much because of that imbecile Sean Spicer's efforts for normalization seen most recently on the Emmy's on Sunday evening, but because of this news item.  

Spicer is/was the empty-header prattler and liar at the press podium in the White House, when he wasn't arguing about why dippin'dots wasn't actually ice cream (and you thought I was making that up, didn't you?). 

Flynn is the most angry General officer to ever inject himself into a national political campaign and a hateful, baleful, excrement-stuffed piece of skin who fit in perfectly with the Trump National Zoo of Aggrieved Imbeciles and Overly Entitled Morons.

And now what's this I see, a begging bowl? Donate to the little bastard's fund-raiser? HA!
I wouldn't give him the skin off my ....teeth. Lock him up.
-bill kenny 

The Rosebuds Have Been Gathered

Yesterday marked the last summer weekend of 2017, which comes as a shock, I suspect, to millions of the nation's schoolchildren who've been back to the academic grindstone for weeks now and are already looking forward to the Thanksgiving break.

Back when I was a wee slip of a lad, summers seemed to go on forever. We used to spring out of bed to better get a head start on doing absolutely nothing until late in the afternoon when, with a little luck, a marathon baseball game would break out on the dirt field up the street from the Girard's house. 

No one kept score and nobody cared who won or lost. Players would come and go for hours, heading home for dinner or to go shopping with Mom and then return hours later sometimes having to be on the other team. 

Usually what we did, depending on how good the player returning really was might be that he would have to wait to rejoin the game until another player showed up to balance him out. Mid-inning trades were also not unknown. The games went on until the daylight was dying or, more correctly, had died and then Mr. Girard would back his car out of the carport and turn the headlights on to wash over the field so we could wrap it finally (until tomorrow when it began again).

We did this for years until someone bought the lot and built a house on it. We all hated the people who moved into that house. And, much later, when the house burned down, I felt a twinge of guilt even though I had nothing to do with what happened-the power of wishing and its consequences, I guess.

As I got older the summers got shorter and when our Pat and Mike were smaller it was fun to watch the cycle begin again with them. We're a few weeks away from the 'leaf peeping' that everyone associates with New England weekends in the fall. But for me, it's already too late. I hate autumn-I can smell the scent of all things dying even before they actually do and I'm left with memories of the summer to get me through the winter into the following spring. Enjoy what you have, while you have it.
-bill kenny

Cursive! Foiled Again!

I don't lead a large life. I've learned to savor and celebrate the small things and enjoy what I have when I have it because sometimes while you look for better and bigger, what you already have disappears. 

Yesterday morning struggling to wash my hair in the shower I lost my grip on the shampoo bottle. I tend to use those 3-in-1 shampoos with wash, conditioner and body soap(? because I'm lazy and lousy at fractions so I can never get a bottle of shampoo AND a bottle of conditioner to run out at the same time (and I eye suspiciously anyone who can).

It's only 3-in-1 because they don't make much-more-manyer because if they did I'd be buying that instead. A shampoo that also checks the sports scores, adds the right amount of cream to my coffee (it's easy for our son Patrick who drinks it black), checks the tire pressure on that right rear one that's been giving me trouble...You get the idea. 

Anyway, the bottle is almost empty and picking it up in the shower I thought perhaps I'd just undo the top of the new shampoo bottle, that comes with a pump, and add them together. The shower is on and beating down on me while I'm holding the two bottles, old and new, in my hands when I suddenly realize, they are not the same products! 

I've purchased a completely different kind of 3-in-1 shampoo which absolutely amazed me. How could this have happened (pretending that I pay that kind of attention to any aspect of my life much less to the brand of shampoo I purchase), I discover both have one syllable names and both labels have the name spelled in  what an acquaintance from the UK calls, 'joined together letters,' or what we call in these parts, cursive writing.

Fair's fair, I guess. I'm a product of the A. N. Palmer method of handwriting, and grateful for it, though to read my scribblings you'd never guess it. I'm a little chagrined to admit this but I had another point I wanted to make about shampoo in general I think but I can't read my own note. Something about petard, which is weird because I don't watch a lot Star Trek.

-bill kenny

Elect a Clown, Expect a Circus

If you're within driving distance of our nation's Capitol, you might wish to get on your bad motor scooter and ride as today is the day some of us have waited for (I'm guessing) an entire year to get here, the 2017 Juggalo March on Washington. 

I appreciate the way the link outlines a rather full day for those so inclined. If you're going, be not deterred that during this, of all years, your appearance and participation in this annual pilgrimage does not seem to be out of place or unusual, because of course, it's not. 

I'm having my doubts about Our New Normal and confess that I've grown tired of winning.
-bill kenny  

I'm Hoping to Win a Gucci Shoetree

If you come to visit, don't think me inhospitable when I ask you to not park in front of the house. First of all, there's a fire hydrant and you shouldn't need a second of all and yet, I persist. The truth of the matter is I'm keeping a spot free for the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol Van to park. 

I'm too old to remember which giveaway/magazine sales pitch Dick Clark and/or Ed McMahon used to work with and that point is moot since they've both shuffled off their mortal coil leaving one of us to get the big bouquet of roses, the sky-filling assortment of colored balloons and that Giant Check. 

You might get mail from them trumpeting whatever approaching giveaway deadline they've invented now. Not me, brother; snail mail solicitations went out with high button shoes, though not high top sneakers (I have no idea why). This is the 21st Century, John Alden. I get emails from them by the bushel barrel. If I had four extra sets of eyes I couldn't read all the correspondence I get from them. They sure do want me to win, bless their hearts. 

I'm getting persnickety, though. I never watched the videos in the first place and now I'm no longer playing all the slot machine games they offer either, be it Wild West, Under the Sea or whatever else is shaking. Nor do I play the poker (?) games. Nevertheless, I have (and I just looked this up to be accurate) 5,121,900 points and "Sapphire" status. Savor that for a minute and look at your own life's accomplishments, Ozymandias. 

As you've probably guessed I also have zero idea what any of that stuff means or what to do with it but I am as pleased as punch to list that as my accomplishment. I might add it to my Linked-In profile but it might make others in my network jealous. 

A number of months ago, I purchased a magazine (at a considerable discount from the cover price) for diabetics, because I was afraid I wasn't doing it right. It's a fine magazine and it's improved my life immeasurably, I assume (I'm still here). The really long thing they next sent me a month or so after the first issue of the magazine and that I shipped back immediately because I didn't know what it was and more importantly (at least to me) I didn't order it, not so much. 

I have no idea how many millions await me (I'm hoping more than I can count because, and don't tell my wife, this is a major part of our retirement plan), but I really wanna believe the big day will be soon and I will be the gluckspilz who is all smiles as I endorse the back of that six-foot long check. 

The only inconvenience I fear is that I'll actually have to go in to the bank to deposit it since the check won't fit into the deposit slot at the drive through not that I wanna risk scratching any of the new cars I've also won and as none of the banks around here are located near marinas, using any of the newly-won power boats or yachts is also not going to work out.
-bill kenny   

Motivations and Behaviors

One of the ways I know the summer's over, no matter what the calendar is still counting down, is I'm back to driving to work in the dark (again). That's my final clue to the seasonal changes and as I've gotten older, it bothers me more and more though I'm unsure why that is the rest of the year.

I've given some serious thought to just coming in to work later (and, then to compensate, going home earlier) but I'm such a thorn and vexation for the people for whom I work when I actually do show up now that I figured elevating the annoyance and friction factor might not be the career-enhancer at this stage in my life for which I've been searching. 

Coming in yesterday morning, a pick up truck driving with only parking lights on (hint: they're called parking lights for a reason. Not even in France, with their yellow headlights ("les phares jaunes") rather than white like everyone else, is it legal to drive with parking lights) blew by me on Route 12, as if I were standing still. Trust me on this one, and I'm treading carefully as I don't want to upset law-enforcement members, I was NOT standing still.

He roared past me in the dark (it's always a 'he', isn't it? Never a 'she.'Do guys do that because we'd find it too humiliating to imagine a woman zipping by? What about Danica Patrick? Just asking) leading me to speculate, somewhat unkindly, about his parentage and intelligence, among other things. We are, as a species, heavily determined by our behaviors and motivations. The latter drives the former, no pun intended but it gets tricky. 

When all you have is the behavior, because we cannot see/know the motivation, we can come to a conclusion that is very logical based on our observations but, can be completely wrong. Thus, I occupied my thoughts for a few minutes speculating as is frequently the case, that Speed Racer, is/was a casino visitor who'd lost his way in the woods and wilds of Eastern Connecticut and was in a hurry to get to a friendly felt table where he could lose his wages even faster than he drove. 

I just assumed I'd encountered another 'tourista!' as I refer to them derisively, and left it at that until I reached the Hebrew Society Cemetery out by the former Norwich Hospital Property where the flashing red and blue lights cast a disquieting pall across the roadway. And as I drew nearer, I could see a smaller car, nose down, both doors open and off the road for the most part, with a scattering of glass on the highway itself, surrounded by police, fire and rescue vehicles.

This car, in all likelihood, was an actual 'tourista' who, in this case, encountered, unluckily for both, a deer trying to cross the roadway. Not as many flashing lights as the big payout slot machine at one of the nearby casinos, perhaps, but bright enough to see the damage and to hope it looked worse than it was. I knew because this happens so often, this won't even make the newspaper.

And then I saw Speed Racer, parked on the side, reflective vest on, helping direct what passed for traffic by the dawn's early light. He was volunteer fireman or rescue. He wasn't speeding towards a hot slot machine but to help a fellow traveler on the Big Blue Marble. I felt so small it was a good job just seeing over the steering wheel as he waved me by. Nothing to see here, indeed. 
-bill kenny

Let the Dreamers Wake the Nation

It's a trick of the calendar I know, but in this week following the Remembrance of September 11th, we have opportunities locally to both celebrate the brave men and women of our local and state fire departments as well as ourselves, but first things first.

Starting Friday, and lasting through the weekend, the Taftville Volunteer Fire Department Company #2 hosts the 134th Annual Connecticut State Firefighters Association convention at Kelly Middle School. 

The department itself is celebrating its centennial and certainly didn't look its age when I was there last Saturday as their Chief Tim Jencks (pro tip: don't call him 'sir) hosted sixty or more of us on a walking tour of the Village of Taftville and Ponemah Mills as a preview of events coming soon in Walktober and as a warm-up for this weekend's celebrations hosted by the Taftville Fire Department. 

You can check the calendar of events here but one of the highlights has to be the parade of more than 400 pieces of equipment from fire departments all across Connecticut and more than 3000 participants starting Sunday at noon from Riverview Drive in Lisbon which will make its way through Taftville, and end at Wequonnoc School (I'm hoping for at least 101 Dalmatians but will enjoy as many as show up). 

On a more somber note, on both Saturday and Sunday, will be the 9/11 Never Forget Mobile Exhibit, a high-tech, 53-foot tractor-trailer that opens into a 1,000-square-foot exhibit about the events and heroism of Sept. 11, 2001. The exhibit is a touring outreach of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Siller was a Brooklyn, NY, firefighter who sacrificed his life for others at the World Trade CenterTowers. 

I doubt any of us will ever forget the hate and horror of  9/11 in New York, at the Pentagon or in a Shanksville, Pennsylvania field. I'd like to think the heroism and humanity shown by so many that day will continue to inspire us to show compassion and understanding towards one another as well as empathy for ideas and ideals like (and sometimes very much unlike) our own, and to display the courage of our convictions in living as bravely as those who died that day.

And next Tuesday afternoon, the 19th, we can do just that in Howard T. Brown Park beginning at five at the Norwich Rotary Club's fifth Annual Celebrate Diversity event. 

There'll be entertainment, arts and crafts, and (of course) food from more than a dozen different countries that each of us once called home that we can share with one another here where we all live now, in Norwich, Connecticut.So many people in the same device with hopes, hearts, and dreams for ourselves and our families. Each of us has a tale of how we can to be here, and Tuesday is the perfect time to tell one another those stories.
-bill kenny

A Break in the Battle

I'm keeping an eye out for friends and family in the path of liberal media hoaxes across the southern portion of our country and hoping that the trickle of "I Am Safe" messages popping up on social media I've been seeing soon turns more into a torrent and that everyone, everywhere, is safe and sound.

Quite frankly I have pretty much an empty head in terms of opinions and perspectives on the world around us at this moment. I am, like so many these days, one who is frequently mistaken but never in doubt. The most amazing thing about that is that realization doesn't seem to humble me at all. Not so much 'bloodied but unbowed' as 'too stupid and too full of himself to stand down' so I keep on like the Energizer Bunny on meth. 

Except at some point, all energy, even that manic kind is exhausted and expended and I have to struggle to catch my breath physically (something in my (much) younger days I never needed to do) as well as metaphorically before launching myself back into the lockstep lemming march that we have decided is our brave new world. 

But today, I just want to sit and enjoy the happy happenstance of a rediscovery that but for one moment, either way, yesterday evening might not have happened at all. And then I start to smile and unwind just a little bit and await tomorrow.
-bill kenny     

Blackest Day on the Calendar

I wrote this years ago in an effort to make sense of the unfathomable horror of the darkest day on the calendar in my lifetime. It's been sixteen years since The Hurt that Never Heals and each of us alive on 9/11/01 is alone today with memories of what was and what will never be again. 

Who we are now is no longer who we were then even for those not yet born when the horror happened. Such is the nature and pace of time. Everything is always old and always new, for some. Even today, or more especially today. 

"And the world changed that day, forever some will say; when New York had her heart broke."

World Trade Center Victims (not including plane crews and passengers)

Gordon M. Aamoth, Jr., Edelmiro Abad, Maria Rose Abad, Andrew Anthony Abate, Vincent Abate, Laurence Christopher Abel, William F. Abrahamson, Richard Anthony Aceto, Jesus Acevedo Rescand,Heinrich Bernhard Ackermann, Paul Acquaviva, Donald LaRoy Adams, Patrick Adams, Shannon Lewis Adams, Stephen George Adams, Ignatius Udo Adanga, Christy A. Addamo, Terence E. Adderley, Jr., Sophia Buruwad Addo, Lee Allan Adler, Daniel Thomas Afflitto, Emmanuel Akwasi Afuakwah, Alok Agarwal, Mukul Kumar Agarwala, Joseph Agnello, David Scott Agnes, Brian G. Ahearn, Jeremiah Joseph Ahern, Joanne Marie Ahladiotis, Shabbir Ahmed, Terrance Andre Aiken, Godwin Ajala, Gertrude M. Alagero, Andrew Alameno, Margaret Ann Alario, Gary M. Albero, Jon Leslie Albert, Peter Alderman, Jacquelyn Delaine Aldridge, David D. Alger, Sarah Ali-Escarcega, Ernest Alikakos, Edward L. Allegretto, Eric Allen, Joseph Ryan Allen, Richard Dennis Allen, Richard Lanard Allen, Christopher E. Allingham,Janet M. Alonso, Arturo Alva-Moreno, Anthony Alvarado, Antonio Javier Alvarez, Victoria Alvarez-Brito,Telmo E. Alvear, Cesar Amoranto Alviar, Tariq Amanullah, Angelo Amaranto, James M. Amato, Joseph Amatuccio, Christopher Charles Amoroso, Kazuhiro Anai, Calixto Anaya, Jr., Joseph Anchundia, Kermit Charles Anderson, Yvette Constance Anderson, John Andreacchio, Michael Rourke Andrews, Jean Ann Andrucki, Siew-Nya Ang, Joseph Angelini, Jr., Joseph Angelini, Sr., Laura Angilletta, Doreen J. Angrisani, Lorraine Antigua, Peter Paul Apollo, Faustino Apostol, Jr., Frank Thomas Aquilino, Patrick Michael Aranyos, David Arce, Michael George Arczynski, Louis Arena, Adam P. Arias, Michael Armstrong, Jack Charles Aron, Joshua Aron, Richard Avery Aronow, Japhet Jesse Aryee, Patrick Asante, Carl Asaro, Michael Asciak, Michael Edward Asher, Janice Marie Ashley, Thomas J. Ashton, Manuel O. Asitimbay, Gregg Arthur Atlas, Gerald T. Atwood, James Audiffred, Louis Frank Aversano, Jr., Ezra Aviles, Sandy Ayala, Arlene T. Babakitis, Eustace P. Bacchus, John J. Badagliacca, Jane Ellen Baeszler, Robert J. Baierwalter, Andrew J. Bailey, Brett T. Bailey, Tatyana Bakalinskaya, Michael S. Baksh, Sharon M. Balkcom, Michael Andrew Bane, Katherine Bantis, Gerard Baptiste, Walter Baran, Gerard A. Barbara, Paul Vincent Barbaro, James William Barbella, Ivan Kyrillos F. Barbosa, Victor Daniel Barbosa, Colleen Ann Barkow, David Michael Barkway, Matthew Barnes, Sheila Patricia Barnes, Evan J. Baron, Renee Barrett-Arjune, Nathaly Barrios La Cruz, Arthur Thaddeus Barry, Diane G. Barry, Maurice Vincent Barry, Scott D. Bart, Carlton W. Bartels, Guy Barzv, Inna B. Basina, Alysia Basmajian, Kenneth William Basnicki,Steven Bates, Paul James Battaglia, Walter David Bauer, Jr., Marlyn Capito Bautista, Jasper Baxter, Michele Beale, Paul Frederick Beatini, Jane S. Beatty, Lawrence Ira Beck, Manette Marie Beckles, Carl John Bedigian, Michael Earnest Beekman, Maria A. Behr, Yelena Belilovsky, Nina Patrice Bell, Debbie Bellows, Stephen Elliot Belson, Paul M. Benedetti, Denise Lenore Benedetto, Maria Bengochea,Bryan Craig Bennett, Eric L. Bennett, Oliver Duncan Bennett, Margaret L. Benson, Dominick J. Berardi, James Patrick Berger, Steven Howard Berger, John P. Bergin, Alvin Bergsohn, Daniel Bergstein, Michael J. Berkeley, Donna M. Bernaerts, David W. Bernard, William Bernstein, David M. Berray, David S. Berry, Joseph J. Berry, William Reed Bethke, Timothy Betterly, Edward Frank Beyea, Paul Beyer, Anil Tahilram Bharvaney, Bella J. Bhukhan, Shimmy D. Biegeleisen, Peter Alexander Bielfeld, William G. Biggart, Brian Bilcher, Carl Vincent Bini, Gary Eugene Bird. Joshua David Birnbaum, George John Bishop, Jeffrey Donald Bittner, Albert Balewa Blackman, Jr., Christopher Joseph Blackwell, Susan Leigh Blair, Harry Blanding, Jr., Janice Lee Blaney, Craig Michael Blass, Rita Blau, Richard Middleton Blood, Jr., Michael Andrew Boccardi, John P. Bocchi, Michael Leopoldo Bocchino, Susan M. Bochino, Bruce D. Boehm, Mary Catherine Boffa, Nicholas Andrew Bogdan, Darren Christopher Bohan, Lawrence Francis Boisseau,Vincent M. Boland, Jr., Alan Bondarenko, Andre Bonheur, Jr., Colin Arthur Bonnett, Frank Bonomo, Yvonne Lucia Bonomo, Genieve Bonsignore, Seaon Booker, Sherry Ann Bordeaux, Krystine Bordenabe, Martin Boryczewski, Richard Edward Bosco, John H. Boulton, Francisco Eligio Bourdier, Thomas Harold Bowden, Jr., Kimberly S. Bowers, Veronique Nicole Bowers, Larry Bowman, Shawn Edward Bowman, Jr.,Kevin L. Bowser, Gary R. Box, Gennady Boyarsky, Pamela Boyce, Michael Boyle, Alfred Braca, Kevin Bracken, David Brian Brady, Alexander Braginsky, Nicholas W. Brandemarti, Michelle Renee Bratton, Patrice Braut, Lydia E. Bravo, Ronald Michael Breitweiser, Edward A. Brennan III, Francis Henry Brennan, Michael E. Brennan, Peter Brennan, Thomas M. Brennan, Daniel J. Brethel, Gary Lee Bright, Jonathan Briley, Mark A. Brisman, Paul Gary Bristow, Mark Francis Broderick, Herman Charles Broghammer, Keith A. Broomfield, Ethel Brown, Janice Juloise Brown, Lloyd Stanford Brown, Patrick J. Brown, Bettina Browne, Mark Bruce, Richard George Bruehert, Andrew Brunn, Vincent Brunton, Ronald Paul Bucca, Brandon J. Buchanan, Gregory Joseph Buck, Dennis Buckley, Nancy Clare Bueche, Patrick Joseph Buhse, John Edwards Bulaga, Jr., Stephen Bunin, Matthew J. Burke, Thomas Daniel Burke, William Francis Burke, Jr., Donald J. Burns, Kathleen Anne Burns, Keith James Burns, John Patrick Burnside, Irina Buslo, Milton G. Bustillo, Thomas M. Butler, Patrick Byrne, Timothy G. Byrne, Jesus Neptali Cabezas, Lillian Caceres, Brian Joseph Cachia, Steven Dennis Cafiero, Jr., Richard M. Caggiano, Cecile Marella Caguicla, Michael John Cahill, Scott Walter Cahill, Thomas Joseph Cahill, George Cain,Salvatore B. Calabro, Joseph Calandrillo, Philip V. Calcagno, Edward Calderon, Kenneth Marcus Caldwell, Dominick Enrico Calia, Felix Calixte, Frank Callahan, Liam Callahan, Luigi Calvi, Roko Camaj, Michael F. Cammarata, David Otey Campbell, Geoffrey Thomas Campbell, Jill Marie Campbell, Robert Arthur Campbell, Sandra Patricia Campbell, Sean Thomas Canavan, John A. Candela, Vincent Cangelosi, Stephen J. Cangialosi, Lisa Bella Cannava, Brian Cannizzaro, Michael Canty, Louis Anthony Caporicci, Jonathan Neff Cappello, James Christopher Cappers, Richard Michael Caproni, Jose Manuel Cardona, Dennis M. Carey, Steve Carey, Edward Carlino, Michael Scott Carlo, David G. Carlone, Rosemarie C. Carlson, Mark Stephen Carney, Joyce Ann Carpeneto, Ivhan Luis Carpio Bautista, Jeremy M. Carrington, Michael Carroll, Peter Carroll, James Joseph Carson, Jr., Marcia Cecil Carter, James Marcel Cartier, Vivian Casalduc, John Francis Casazza, Paul R. Cascio, Margarito Casillas, Thomas Anthony Casoria, William Otto Caspar, Alejandro Castano, Arcelia Castillo, Germaan Castillo Garcia,Leonard M. Castrianno, Jose Ramon Castro, Richard G. Catarelli, Christopher Sean Caton, Robert John Caufield, Mary Teresa Caulfield, Judson Cavalier, Michael Joseph Cawley, Jason David Cayne, Juan Armando Ceballos, Jason Michael Cefalu, Thomas Joseph Celic, Ana Mercedes Centeno, Joni Cesta, Jeffrey Marc Chairnoff, Swarna Chalasani, William Chalcoff, Eli Chalouh, Charles Lawrence Chan, Mandy Chang, Mark Lawrence Charette, Gregorio Manuel Chavez, Delrose E. Cheatham, Pedro Francisco Checo, Douglas MacMillan Cherry, Stephen Patrick Cherry, Vernon Paul Cherry, Nester Julio Chevalier, Swede Chevalier, Alexander H. Chiang, Dorothy J. Chiarchiaro, Luis Alfonso Chimbo, Robert Chin, Wing Wai Ching, Nicholas Paul Chiofalo, John Chipura, Peter A. Chirchirillo, Catherine Chirls, Kyung Hee Cho, Abul K. Chowdhury, Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury, Kirsten L. Christophe, Pamela Chu, Steven Chucknick, Wai Chung, Christopher Ciafardini, Alex F. Ciccone, Frances Ann Cilente, Elaine Cillo, Edna Cintron, Nestor Andre Cintron III, Robert Dominick Cirri, Juan Pablo Cisneros-Alvarez, Benjamin Keefe Clark, Eugene Clark, Gregory Alan Clark, Mannie Leroy Clark, Thomas R. Clark, Christopher Robert Clarke, Donna Marie Clarke, Michael J. Clarke, Suria Rachel Emma Clarke, Kevin Francis Cleary, James D. Cleere, Geoffrey W. Cloud, Susan Marie Clyne, Steven Coakley, Jeffrey Alan Coale, Patricia A. Cody, Daniel Michael Coffey, Jason M. Coffey, Florence G. Cohen, Kevin Sanford Cohen, Anthony Joseph Coladonato, Mark Joseph Colaio, Stephen Colaio, Christopher M. Colasanti, Kevin Nathaniel Colbert, Michel P. Colbert, Keith E. Coleman, Scott Thomas Coleman, Tarel Coleman, Liam Joseph Colhoun, Robert D. Colin, Robert J. Coll, Jean Collin, John Michael Collins, Michael L. Collins, Thomas J. Collins, Joseph Collison, Patricia Malia Colodner, Linda M. Colon, Sol E. Colon, Ronald Edward Comer, Sandra Jolane Conaty Brace, Jaime Concepcion, Albert Conde, Denease Conley, Susan P. Conlon, Margaret Mary Conner, Cynthia Marie Lise Connolly, John E. Connolly, Jr.,James Lee Connor, Jonathan M. Connors, Kevin Patrick Connors, Kevin F. Conroy, Jose Manuel Contreras-Fernandez, Brenda E. Conway, Dennis Michael Cook, Helen D. Cook, John A. Cooper, Joseph John Coppo, Jr.,Gerard J. Coppola, Joseph Albert Corbett, Alejandro Cordero, Robert Cordice, Ruben D. Correa, Danny A. Correa-Gutierrez, James J. Corrigan, Carlos Cortes, Kevin Cosgrove, Dolores Marie Costa, Digna Alexandra Costanza, Charles Gregory Costello, Jr., Michael S. Costello, Conrod K. Cottoy, Martin John Coughlan, John Gerard Coughlin, Timothy J. Coughlin, James E. Cove, Andre Cox, Frederick John Cox, James Raymond Coyle, Michele Coyle-Eulau, Anne Marie Cramer, Christopher S. Cramer, Denise Elizabeth Crant, James Leslie Crawford, Jr., Robert James Crawford, Joanne Mary Cregan, Lucy Crifasi, John A. Crisci, Daniel Hal Crisman, Dennis Cross, Kevin Raymond Crotty, Thomas G. Crotty, John Crowe, Welles Remy Crowther, Robert L. Cruikshank, John Robert Cruz, Grace Yu Cua, Kenneth John Cubas, Francisco Cruz Cubero, Richard J. Cudina, Neil James Cudmore, Thomas Patrick Cullen lll, Joyce Cummings, Brian Thomas Cummins, Michael Cunningham, Robert Curatolo, Laurence Damian Curia, Paul Dario Curioli, Beverly Curry, Michael S. Curtin, Gavin Cushny, John D’Allara, Vincent Gerard D’Amadeo, Jack D’Ambrosi, Mary D’Antonio, Edward A. D’Atri, Michael D. D’Auria, Michael Jude D’Esposito, Manuel John Da Mota, Caleb Arron Dack, Carlos S. DaCosta, Joao Alberto DaFonseca Aguiar, Jr., Thomas A. Damaskinos, Jeannine Marie Damiani-Jones, Patrick W. Danahy, Nana Danso, Vincent Danz, Dwight Donald Darcy, Elizabeth Ann Darling, Annette Andrea Dataram, Lawrence Davidson, Michael Allen Davidson, Scott Matthew Davidson, Titus Davidson, Niurka Davila, Clinton Davis, Wayne Terrial Davis, Anthony Richard Dawson, Calvin Dawson, Edward James Day, Jayceryll de Chavez, Jennifer De Jesus, Monique E. De Jesus, Nereida De Jesus, Emerita De La Pena, Azucena Maria de la Torre, David Paul De Rubbio, Jemal Legesse De Santis, Christian Louis De Simone, Melanie Louise De Vere, William Thomas Dean, Robert J. DeAngelis, Jr., Thomas Patrick DeAngelis, Tara E. Debek, Anna Marjia DeBin, James V. Deblase, Paul DeCola, Simon Marash Dedvukaj, Jason Defazio, David A. DeFeo, Manuel Del Valle, Jr., Donald Arthur Delapenha, Vito Joseph DeLeo, Danielle Anne Delie, Joseph A. Della Pietra, Andrea DellaBella, Palmina DelliGatti, Colleen Ann Deloughery, Francis Albert DeMartini, Anthony Demas, Martin N. DeMeo, Francis Deming, Carol K. Demitz, Kevin Dennis, Thomas F. Dennis, Jean DePalma, Jose Depena, Robert John Deraney, Michael DeRienzo, Edward DeSimone III, Andrew Desperito, Cindy Ann Deuel, Jerry DeVito, Robert P. Devitt, Jr., Dennis Lawrence Devlin, Gerard Dewan, Sulemanali Kassamali Dhanani, Patricia Florence Di Chiaro, Debra Ann Di Martino, Michael Louis Diagostino, Matthew Diaz, Nancy Diaz, Rafael Arturo Diaz, Michael A. Diaz-Piedra III, Judith Berquis Diaz-Sierra, Joseph Dermot Dickey, Jr., Lawrence Patrick Dickinson, Michael D. Diehl, John Difato, Vincent Difazio, Carl Anthony DiFranco, Donald Difranco, Stephen Patrick Dimino, William John Dimmling, Marisa DiNardo Schorpp, Christopher M. Dincuff, Jeffrey Mark Dingle, Anthony Dionisio, George DiPasquale, Joseph Dipilato, Douglas Frank DiStefano, Ramzi A. Doany, John Joseph Doherty, Melissa C. Doi, Brendan Dolan, Neil Matthew Dollard, James Joseph Domanico, Benilda Pascua Domingo, Carlos Dominguez, Jerome Mark Patrick Dominguez, Kevin W. Donnelly, Jacqueline Donovan, Stephen Scott Dorf, Thomas Dowd, Kevin Dowdell, Mary Yolanda Dowling, Raymond Mathew Downey, Frank Joseph Doyle, Joseph Michael Doyle, Stephen Patrick Driscoll, Mirna A. Duarte, Michelle Beale Duberry, Luke A. Dudek, Christopher Michael Duffy, Gerard Duffy, Michael Joseph Duffy, Thomas W. Duffy, Antoinette Duger, Sareve Dukat, Christopher Joseph Dunne, Richard Anthony Dunstan, Patrick Thomas Dwyer, Joseph Anthony Eacobacci, John Bruce Eagleson, Robert Douglas Eaton, Dean Phillip Eberling, Margaret Ruth Echtermann, Paul Robert Eckna, Constantine Economos, Dennis Michael Edwards, Michael Hardy Edwards, Christine Egan, Lisa Egan, Martin J. Egan, Jr., Michael Egan, Samantha Martin Egan, Carole Eggert, Lisa Caren Ehrlich, John Ernst Eichler, Eric Adam Eisenberg, Daphne Ferlinda Elder, Michael J. Elferis, Mark Joseph Ellis, Valerie Silver Ellis, Albert Alfy William Elmarry, Edgar Hendricks Emery, Jr., Doris Suk-Yuen Eng, Christopher Epps, Ulf Ramm Ericson, Erwin L. Erker, William John Erwin, Jose Espinal, Fanny Espinoza, Bridget Ann Esposito, Francis Esposito, Michael Esposito, William Esposito, Ruben Esquilin, Jr., Sadie Ette, Barbara G. Etzold, Eric Brian Evans, Robert Evans, Meredith Emily June Ewart, Catherine K. Fagan, Patricia Mary Fagan, Keith George Fairben, Sandra Fajardo-Smith, William F. Fallon, William Lawrence Fallon, Jr., Anthony J. Fallone, Jr., Dolores Brigitte Fanelli, John Joseph Fanning, Kathleen Anne Faragher, Thomas Farino, Nancy Carole Farley, Elizabeth Ann Farmer, Douglas Jon Farnum, John G. Farrell, John W. Farrell, Terrence Patrick Farrell, Joseph D. Farrelly, Thomas Patrick Farrelly, Syed Abdul Fatha, Christopher Edward Faughnan, Wendy R. Faulkner, Shannon Marie Fava, Bernard D. Favuzza, Robert Fazio, Jr., Ronald Carl Fazio, William Feehan, Francis Jude Feely, Garth Erin Feeney, Sean B. Fegan,Lee S. Fehling, Peter Adam Feidelberg, Alan D. Feinberg, Rosa Maria Feliciano, Edward Thomas Fergus, Jr., George Ferguson, Henry Fernandez, Judy Hazel Fernandez, Julio Fernandez, Elisa Giselle Ferraina, Anne Marie Sallerin Ferreira, Robert John Ferris, David Francis Ferrugio, Louis V. Fersini, Michael David Ferugio, Bradley James Fetchet, Jennifer Louise Fialko, Kristen Nicole Fiedel, Samuel Fields, Michael Bradley Finnegan, Timothy J. Finnerty, Michael Curtis Fiore, Stephen S R Fiorelli, Sr., Paul M. Fiori, John B. Fiorito, John R. Fischer, Andrew Fisher, Bennett Lawson Fisher, John Roger Fisher, Thomas J. Fisher, Lucy A. Fishman, Ryan D. Fitzgerald, Thomas James Fitzpatrick, Richard P. Fitzsimons, Salvatore Fiumefreddo, Christina Donovan Flannery, Eileen Flecha, Andre G. Fletcher, Carl M. Flickinger, John Joseph Florio, Joseph Walken Flounders, David Fodor, Michael N. Fodor, Stephen Mark Fogel, Thomas Foley, David J. Fontana, Chih Min Foo, Godwin Forde, Donald A. Foreman, Christopher Hugh Forsythe, Claudia Alicia Foster, Noel John Foster, Ana Fosteris, Robert Joseph Foti, Jeffrey Fox, Virginia Fox, Pauline Francis, Virgin Francis, Gary Jay Frank, Morton H. Frank, Peter Christopher Frank, Richard K. Fraser, Kevin J. Frawley, Clyde Frazier, Jr., Lillian Inez Frederick, Andrew Fredricks, Tamitha Freeman, Brett Owen Freiman, Peter L. Freund, Arlene Eva Fried, Alan Wayne Friedlander, Andrew Keith Friedman, Gregg J. Froehner, Peter Christian Fry, Clement A. Fumando, Steven Elliot Furman, Paul Furmato, Fredric Neal Gabler, Richard Samuel Federick Gabrielle, James Andrew Gadiel, Pamela Lee Gaff, Ervin Vincent Gailliard, Deanna Lynn Galante, Grace Catherine Galante, Anthony Edward Gallagher, Daniel James Gallagher, John Patrick Gallagher, Lourdes Galletti, Cono E. Gallo, Vincenzo Gallucci, Thomas E. Galvin, Giovanna Galletta Gambale, Thomas Gambino, Jr., Giann Franco Gamboa, Peter Ganci, Ladkat K. Ganesh, Claude Michael Gann, Osseni Garba, Charles William Garbarini, Ceasar Garcia, David Garcia, Juan Garcia, Marlyn Del Carmen Garcia, Christopher S. Gardner, Douglas Benjamin Gardner, Harvey J. Gardner III, Jeffrey Brian Gardner, Thomas Gardner, William Arthur Gardner, Francesco Garfi, Rocco Nino Gargano, James M. Gartenberg, Matthew David Garvey, Bruce Gary, Boyd Alan Gatton, Donald Richard Gavagan, Jr., Terence D. Gazzani, Gary Geidel, Paul Hamilton Geier, Julie M. Geis, Peter G. Gelinas, Steven Paul Geller, Howard G. Gelling, Peter Victor Genco, Jr., Steven Gregory Genovese, Alayne Gentul, Edward F. Geraghty, Suzanne Geraty, Ralph Gerhardt, Robert Gerlich, Denis P. Germain, Marina Romanovna Gertsberg, Susan M. Getzendanner, James G. Geyer, Joseph M. Giaccone, Vincent Francis Giammona, Debra Lynn Gibbon, James Andrew Giberson, Craig Neil Gibson, Ronnie E. Gies, Laura A. Giglio, Andrew Clive Gilbert, Timothy Paul Gilbert, Paul Stuart Gilbey, Paul John Gill, Mark Y. Gilles, Evan Gillette, Ronald Lawrence Gilligan, Rodney C. Gillis, Laura Gilly, John F. Ginley, Donna Marie Giordano, Jeffrey John Giordano, John Giordano, Steven A. Giorgetti, Martin Giovinazzo, Kum-Kum Girolamo, Salvatore Gitto, Cynthia Giugliano, Mon Gjonbalaj, Dianne Gladstone, Keith Glascoe, Thomas Irwin Glasser, Harry Glenn, Barry H. Glick, Steven Glick, John T. Gnazzo, William Robert Godshalk, Michael Gogliormella, Brian Fredric Goldberg, Jeffrey Grant Goldflam, Michelle Goldstein, Monica Goldstein, Steven Goldstein, Andrew H. Golkin, Dennis James Gomes, Enrique Antonio Gomez, Jose Bienvenido Gomez, Manuel Gomez, Jr., Wilder Alfredo Gomez, Jenine Nicole Gonzalez, Mauricio Gonzalez, Rosa Gonzalez, Calvin J. Gooding, Harry Goody, Kiran Reddy Gopu, Catherine C. Gorayeb, Kerene Gordon, Sebastian Gorki, Kieran Joseph Gorman, Thomas Edward Gorman, Michael Edward Gould, Yuji Goya, Jon Richard Grabowski, Christopher Michael Grady, Edwin J. Graf III, David Martin Graifman, Gilbert Franco Granados, Elvira Granitto, Winston Arthur Grant, Christopher S. Gray, James Michael Gray, Tara McCloud Gray, Linda Catherine Grayling, John M. Grazioso, Timothy George Grazioso, Derrick Auther Green, Wade B. Green, Elaine Myra Greenberg, Gayle R. Greene, James Arthur Greenleaf, Jr., Eileen Marsha Greenstein, Elizabeth Martin Gregg, Denise Gregory, Donald H. Gregory, Florence Moran Gregory, Pedro Grehan, John Michael Griffin,Tawanna Sherry Griffin, Joan Donna Griffith, Warren Grifka, Ramon Grijalvo, Joseph F. Grillo, David Joseph Grimner, Kenneth George Grouzalis, Joseph Grzelak, Matthew James Grzymalski, Robert Joseph Gschaar, Liming Gu, Jose Guadalupe, Cindy Yan Zhu Guan, Joel Guevara Gonzalez, Geoffrey E. Guja, Joseph Gullickson, Babita Girjamatie Guman, Douglas Brian Gurian, Janet Ruth Gustafson, Philip T. Guza, Barbara Guzzardo, Peter M. Gyulavary, Gary Robert Haag, Andrea Lyn Haberman, Barbara Mary Habib, Philip Haentzler, Nezam A. Hafiz, Karen Elizabeth Hagerty, Steven Michael Hagis, Mary Lou Hague, David Halderman, Maile Rachel Hale, Richard B. Hall, Vaswald George Hall, Robert J. Halligan, Vincent Gerard Halloran, James Douglas Halvorson, Mohammad Salman Hamdani, Felicia Hamilton, Robert Hamilton, Frederic K. Han, Christopher J. Hanley, Sean S. Hanley, Valerie Joan Hanna, Thomas Hannafin, Kevin James Hannaford, Michael Lawrence Hannan, Dana R Hannon, Vassilios G. Haramis, James A. Haran, Jeffrey Pike Hardy, Timothy John Hargrave, Daniel Edward Harlin, Frances Haros, Harvey Harrell, Stephen G. 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Song, Michael Charles Sorresse, Fabian Soto, Timothy Patrick Soulas, Gregory Spagnoletti, Donald F. Spampinato, Jr., Thomas Sparacio, John Anthony Spataro, Robert W. Spear, Jr.,Maynard S. Spence, Jr., George Edward Spencer III, Robert Andrew Spencer, Mary Rubina Sperando, Tina Spicer, Frank Spinelli, William E. Spitz, Joseph Spor, Jr., Klaus Johannes Sprockamp, Saranya Srinuan, Fitzroy St. Rose, Michael F. Stabile, Lawrence T. Stack, Timothy M. Stackpole, Richard James Stadelberger, Eric Stahlman, Gregory Stajk, Alexandru Liviu Stan, Corina Stan, Mary Domenica Stanley,Anthony Starita, Jeffrey Stark, Derek James Statkevicus, Craig William Staub, William V. Steckman, Eric Thomas Steen, William R. Steiner, Alexander Steinman, Andrew Stergiopoulos, Andrew Stern, Martha Stevens, Michael James Stewart, Richard H. Stewart, Jr., Sanford M. Stoller, Lonny Jay Stone, Jimmy Nevill Storey, Timothy Stout, Thomas Strada, James J. Straine, Jr., Edward W. Straub, George J. Strauch, Jr., Edward T. Strauss, Steven R. Strauss, Steven F. Strobert, Walwyn W. Stuart, Jr., Benjamin Suarez, David Scott Suarez, Ramon Suarez, Yoichi Sugiyama, William Christopher Sugra, Daniel Suhr,David Marc Sullins,Christopher P. Sullivan, Patrick Sullivan, Thomas Sullivan, Hilario Soriano Sumaya, Jr., James Joseph Suozzo, Colleen Supinski, Robert Sutcliffe, Seline Sutter, Claudia Suzette Sutton, John Francis Swaine, Kristine M. Swearson, Brian Edward Sweeney, Kenneth J. Swenson, Thomas Swift, Derek Ogilvie Sword, Kevin Thomas Szocik, Gina Sztejnberg, Norbert P. Szurkowski, Harry Taback, Joann Tabeek, Norma C. Taddei, Michael Taddonio, Keiichiro Takahashi, Keiji Takahashi, Phyllis Gail Talbot, Robert Talhami, Sean Patrick Tallon, Paul Talty, Maurita Tam,Rachel Tamares, Hector Tamayo, Michael Andrew Tamuccio, Kenichiro Tanaka, Rhondelle Cheri Tankard, Michael Anthony Tanner, Dennis Gerard Taormina, Jr., Kenneth Joseph Tarantino, Allan Tarasiewicz, Ronald Tartaro, Darryl Anthony Taylor, Donnie Brooks Taylor, Lorisa Ceylon Taylor, Michael Morgan Taylor, Paul A. Tegtmeier, Yeshauant Tembe, Anthony Tempesta, Dorothy Pearl Temple, Stanley Temple, David Tengelin, Brian John Terrenzi, Lisa M. Terry, Shell Tester, Goumatie T. Thackurdeen, Sumati Thakur, Harshad Sham Thatte, Thomas F. Theurkauf, Jr., Lesley Anne Thomas, Brian Thomas Thompson, Clive Thompson, Glenn Thompson, Nigel Bruce Thompson, Perry A. Thompson, Vanavah Alexei Thompson, William H. Thompson, Eric Raymond Thorpe, Nichola Angela Thorpe, Sal Edward Tieri, Jr., John P. Tierney, Mary Ellen Tiesi, William R. Tieste, Kenneth Francis Tietjen, Stephen Edward Tighe, Scott Charles Timmes, Michael E. Tinley, Jennifer M. Tino, Robert Frank Tipaldi, John James Tipping II, David Tirado, Hector Luis Tirado, Jr., Michelle Lee Titolo, John J. Tobin, Richard Todisco, Vladimir Tomasevic, Stephen Kevin Tompsett, Thomas Tong, Doris Torres, Luis Eduardo Torres, Amy Elizabeth Toyen, Christopher Michael Traina, Daniel Patrick Trant, Abdoul Karim Traore, Glenn J. Travers, Walter Philip Travers, Felicia Y. Traylor-Bass, Lisa L. Trerotola, Karamo Trerra, Michael Angel Trinidad, Francis Joseph Trombino, Gregory James Trost, William P. Tselepis, Zhanetta Valentinovna Tsoy, Michael Tucker, Lance Richard Tumulty, Ching Ping Tung, Simon James Turner, Donald Joseph Tuzio, Robert T. Twomey, Jennifer Tzemis, John G. Ueltzhoeffer, Tyler V. Ugolyn, Michael A. Uliano, Jonathan J. Uman, Anil Shivhari Umarkar, Allen V. Upton, Diane Marie Urban, John Damien Vaccacio, Bradley Hodges Vadas, Renuta Vaidea, William Valcarcel, Felix Antonio Vale, Ivan Vale, Benito Valentin, Santos Valentin, Jr., Carlton Francis Valvo II, Erica H. Van Acker, Kenneth W. Van Auken, Richard B. Van Hine, Daniel M. Van Laere, Edward Raymond Vanacore, Jon C. Vandevander, Barrett Vanvelzer, Edward Vanvelzer, Paul Herman Vanvelzer, Frederick Thomas Varacchi, Gopalakrishnan Varadhan, David Vargas, Scott C. Vasel, Azael Ismael Vasquez, Arcangel Vazquez, Santos Vazquez, Peter Anthony Vega,Sankara S. Velamuri, Jorge Velazquez, Lawrence G. Veling, Anthony Mark Ventura, David Vera, Loretta Ann Vero,Christopher James Vialonga, Matthew Gilbert Vianna, Robert Anthony Vicario, Celeste Torres Victoria, Joanna Vidal, John T. Vigiano II, Joseph Vincent Vigiano, Frank J. Vignola, Jr., Joseph Barry Vilardo, Sergio Villanueva, Chantal Vincelli, Melissa Vincent, Francine Ann Virgilio, Lawrence Virgilio, Joseph Gerard Visciano, Joshua S. Vitale, Maria Percoco Vola, Lynette D. Vosges, Garo H. Voskerijian, Alfred Vukosa, Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler, Gabriela Waisman, Courtney Wainsworth Walcott, Victor Wald, Benjamin James Walker, Glen Wall, Mitchel Scott Wallace, Peter Guyder Wallace, Robert Francis Wallace, Roy Michael Wallace, Jeanmarie Wallendorf, Matthew Blake Wallens, John Wallice, Jr., Barbara P. Walsh, James Henry Walsh, Jeffrey P. Walz, Ching Wang, Weibin Wang, Michael Warchola, Stephen Gordon Ward, James Arthur Waring, Brian G. Warner, Derrick Washington, Charles Waters, James Thomas Waters, Jr., Patrick J. Waters, Kenneth Thomas Watson, Michael Henry Waye, Todd Christopher WeaverWalter Edward Weaver, Nathaniel Webb, Dinah Webster, Joanne Flora Weil, Michael T. Weinberg, Steven Weinberg, Scott Jeffrey Weingard, Steven George Weinstein, Simon Weiser, David M. Weiss, David Thomas Weiss, Vincent Michael Wells, Timothy Matthew Welty, Christian Hans Rudolf Wemmers, Ssu-Hui Wen, Oleh D. Wengerchuk, Peter M. West, Whitfield West, Jr., Meredith Lynn Whalen, Eugene Whelan, Adam S. White, Edward James White III, James Patrick White, John Sylvester White, Kenneth Wilburn White, Jr., Leonard Anthony White, Malissa Y. White, Wayne White, Leanne Marie Whiteside, Mark P. Whitford, Michael T. Wholey, Mary Catherine Wieman, Jeffrey David Wiener, Wilham J. Wik, Alison Marie Wildman, Glenn E. Wilkenson, John C. Willett, Brian Patrick Williams Crossley, Richard Williams, Jr., David J. Williams, Deborah Lynn Williams, Kevin Michael Williams, Louie Anthony Williams, Louis Calvin Williams III, John P. Williamson, Donna Ann Wilson, William Wilson, David Harold Winton, Glenn J. Winuk, Thomas Francis Wise, Alan L. Wisniewski, Frank Thomas Wisniewski, David Wiswall, Sigrid Wiswe, Michael Wittenstein, Christopher W. Wodenshek, Martin P. Wohlforth, Katherine Susan Wolf, Jennifer Yen Wong, Siu Cheung Wong, Yin Ping Wong, Yuk Ping Wong, Brent James Woodall,James John Woods, Patrick J. Woods, Richard Herron Woodwell, David Terence Wooley, John Bentley Works, Martin Michael Wortley, Rodney James Wotton, William Wren, John Wayne Wright, Neil Robin Wright, Sandra Lee Wright, Jupiter Yambem, Suresh Yanamadala, Matthew David Yarnell, Myrna Yaskulka, Shakila Yasmin, Olabisi Shadie Layeni Yee, William Yemele, Edward P. York, Kevin Patrick York, Raymond R. York, Suzanne Youmans, Barrington Young, Jacqueline Young, Elkin Yuen, Joseph C. Zaccoli, Adel Agayby Zakhary, Arkady Zaltsman, Edwin J. Zambrana, Jr., Robert Alan Zampieri, Mark Zangrilli, Ira Zaslow, Kenneth Albert Zelman, Abraham J. Zelmanowitz, Martin Morales Zempoaltecatl, Zhe Zeng, Marc Scott Zeplin, Jie Yao Justin Zhao, Ivelin Ziminski, Michael Joseph Zinzi, Charles A. Zion, Julie Lynne Zipper, Salvatore Zisa, Prokopios Paul Zois, Joseph J. Zuccala, Andrew S. Zucker and Igor Zukelman.

Victims on American Flight 11

Anna Allison, David Lawrence Angell, Lynn Edwards Angell, Seima Aoyama, Barbara Jean Arestegui, Myra Joy Aronson, Christine Barbuto, Carolyn Beug, Kelly Ann Booms, Carol Marie Bouchard, Robin Lynne Kaplan, Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey, Jeffrey Dwayne Collman, Jeffrey W. Coombs, Tara Kathleen Creamer, Thelma Cuccinello, Patrick Currivan, Brian Paul Dale, David Dimeglio, Donald Americo Ditullio, Alberto Dominguez, Paige Marie Farley-Hackel, Alexander Milan Filipov, Carol Ann Flyzik, Paul J. Friedman, Karleton D.B. Fyfe, Peter Alan Gay, Linda M. George, Edmund Glazer, Lisa Reinhart Gordenstein, Andrew Peter Charles Curry Green, Peter Paul Hashem, Robert Jay Hayes, Edward R. Hennessy, Jr., John A. Hofer, Cora Hidalgo Holland, John Nicholas Humber, Jr., Waleed Joseph Iskandar, John Charles Jenkins, Charles Edward Jones, Barbara A. Keating, David P. Kovalcin,Judith Camilla Larocque, Natalie Janis Lasden, Daniel John Lee, Daniel M. Lewin, Sara Elizabeth Low,Susan A. Mackay, Karen Ann Martin, Thomas F. McGuinness, Jr., Christopher D. Mello, Jeffrey Peter Mladenik, Carlos Alberto Montoya, Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes, Laura Lee Morabito, Mildred Naiman, Laurie Ann Neira, Renee Lucille Newell, Kathleen Ann Nicosia, Jacqueline June Norton, Robert Grant Norton, John Ogonowski, Betty Ann Ong, Jane M. Orth, Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli, Berinthia B. Perkins,Sonia M. Puopolo, David E. Retik, Jean Destrehan Roger, Philip Martin Rosenzweig, Richard Barry Ross, Jessica Leigh Sachs, Rahma Salie, Heather Lee Smith, Dianne Bullis Snyder, Douglas Joel Stone, Xavier Suarez, Madeline Amy Sweeney, Michael Theodoridis, James Anthony Trentini, Mary Barbara Trentini, Pendyala Vamsikrishna, Mary Alice Wahlstrom, Kenneth Waldie, John Joseph Wenckus, Candace Lee Williams and Christopher Rudolph Zarba, Jr.

Victims on United Airlines Flight 175
Alona Abraham, Garnet Edward Bailey, Mark Lawrence Bavis, Graham Andrew Berkeley, Touri Bolourchi, Klaus Bothe, Daniel Raymond Brandhorst, David Reed Gamboa Brandhorst, John Brett Cahill, Christoffer Mikael Carstanjen, John J. Corcoran III, Dorothy Alma de Araujo, Ana Gloria Pocasangre Debarrera, Robert John Fangman, Lisa Anne Frost, Ronald Gamboa, Lynn Catherine Goodchild, Peter M. Goodrich, Douglas Alan Gowell, Francis Edward Grogan, Carl Max Hammond, Jr., Christine Lee Hanson, Peter Burton Hanson, Susan Kim Hanson, Gerald Francis Hardacre, Eric Hartono, James Edward Hayden, Herbert Wilson Homer, Michael Robert Horrocks, Robert Adrien Jalbert, Amy N. Jarret, Ralph Kershaw, Heinrich Kimmig, Amy R. King, Brian Kinney, Kathryn L. LaBorie, Robert G. Leblanc, Maclovio Lopez, Jr., Marianne Macfarlane, Alfred Gilles Marchand, Louis Mariani, Juliana McCourt, Ruth Magdaline McCourt, Wolfgang Peter Menzel, Shawn M. Nassaney, Marie Pappalardo, Patrick J. Quigley IV, Frederick Charles Rimmele III, James Roux, Jesus Sanchez, Victor J. Saracini, Mary Kathleen Shearer, Robert M. Shearer, Jane Louise Simpkin, Brian David Sweeney, Michael C. Tarrou, Alicia N. Titus, Timothy Ray Ward and William Michael Weems.

Victims at the Pentagon (Not including Flight 77)
USA – United States Army; USN – United States Navy
SPC Craig S. Amundson (USA), YN3 Melissa Rose Barnes (USN), MSG Max J. Beilke (USA, Retired), IT2 Kris Romeo Bishundat (USN), Carrie R. Blagburn, COL Canfield D. Boone (ARNG), Donna M. Bowen, Allen P. Boyle, ET3 Christopher L. Burford (USN), ET3 Daniel M. Caballero (USN), SFC Jose O. Calderon-Olmedo (USA), Angelene C. Carter, Sharon A. Carver, SFC John J. Chada (USA, Retired), Rosa Maria Chapa, Julian T. Cooper, LCDR Eric A. Cranford (USN), Ada M. Davis, CAPT Gerald F. DeConto (USN), LTC Jerry D. Dickerson (USA), IT1 Johnnie Doctor, Jr. (USN), CAPT Robert E. Dolan, Jr. (USN), CDR William H. Donovan (USN), CDR Patrick Dunn (USN), AG1 Edward T. Earhart (USN), LCDR Robert R. Elseth (USNR), SK3 Jamie L. Fallon (USN), Amelia V. Fields, Gerald P. Fisher, AG2 Matthew M. Flocco (USN), Sandra N. Foster, CAPT Lawrence D. Getzfred (USN), Cortez Ghee, Brenda C. Gibson, COL Ronald F. Golinski (USA, Retired), Diane Hale-McKinzy, Carolyn B. Halmon, Sheila M.S. Hein, ET1 Ronald J. Hemenway (USN), MAJ Wallace Cole Hogan, Jr. (USA), SSG Jimmie I. Holley (USA, Retired), Angela M. Houtz, Brady Kay Howell, Peggie M. Hurt, LTC Stephen N. Hyland, Jr. (USA), Lt Col Robert J. Hymel (USAF, Retired), SGM Lacey B. Ivory (USA), LTC Dennis M. Johnson (USA), Judith L. Jones, Brenda Kegler, LT Michael S. Lamana (USN), David W. Laychak, Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen, MAJ Stephen V. Long (USA), James T. Lynch, Jr., Terence M. Lynch, OS2 Nehamon Lyons IV (USN), Shelley A. Marshall, Teresa M. Martin, Ada L. Mason-Acker, LTC Dean E. Mattson (USA), LTG Timothy J. Maude (USA), Robert J. Maxwell, Molly L. McKenzie, Patricia E. Mickley, MAJ Ronald D. Milam (USA), Gerard P. Moran, Jr., Odessa V. Morris, ET1 Brian A. Moss (USN), Teddington H. Moy, LCDR Patrick J. Murphy (USNR), Khang Ngoc Nguyen, DM2 Michael A. Noeth (USN), Ruben S. Ornedo, Diana B. Padro, LT Jonas M. Panik (USNR), MAJ Clifford L. Patterson, Jr. (USA), LT Darin H. Pontell (USNR), Scott Powell, CAPT Jack D. Punches (USN, Retired), AW1 Joseph J. Pycior, Jr. (USN), Deborah A. Ramsaur, Rhonda Sue Rasmussen, IT1 Marsha D. Ratchford (USN), Martha M. Reszke, Cecelia E. (Lawson) Richard, Edward V. Rowenhorst, Judy Rowlett, SGM Robert E. Russell (USA, Retired), CW4 William R. Ruth (ARNG), Charles E. Sabin, Sr., Marjorie C. Salamone, COL David M. Scales (USA), CDR Robert A. Schlegel (USN), Janice M. Scott, LTC Michael L. Selves (USA, Retired), Marian H. Serva, CDR Dan F. Shanower (USN), Antionette M. Sherman, Diane M. Simmons, Cheryle D. Sincock, ITC Gregg H. Smallwood (USN), LTC Gary F. Smith (USA, Retired), Patricia J. Statz, Edna L. Stephens, SGM Larry L. Strickland (USA), LTC Kip P. Taylor (USA), Sandra C. Taylor, LTC Karl W. Teepe (USA, Retired), SGT Tamara C. Thurman (USA), LCDR Otis V. Tolbert (USN), SSG Willie Q. Troy (USA, Retired), LCDR Ronald J. Vauk (USNR), LTC Karen J. Wagner (USA), Meta L. (Fuller) Waller, SPC Chin Sun Pak Wells (USA), SSG Maudlyn A. White (USA), Sandra L. White, Ernest M. Willcher, LCDR David L. Williams (USN), MAJ Dwayne Williams (USA), RMC Marvin Roger Woods (USN, Retired), IT2 Kevin W. Yokum (USN), ITC Donald M. Young (USN), Edmond G. Young, Jr. and Lisa L. Young 

Victims on American Airlines Flight 77

Paul W. Ambrose, Yeneneh Betru, Mary Jane Booth, Bernard C. Brown II, CAPT Charles F. Burlingame III, USNR (Retired), Suzanne M. Calley, William E. Caswell, David M. Charlebois, Sarah M. Clark, Asia S. Cottom, James D. Debeuneure, Rodney Dickens, Eddie A. Dillard, LCDR Charles A. Droz III, USN (Retired), Barbara G. Edwards, Charles S. Falkenberg, Dana Falkenberg, Zoe Falkenberg, J. Joseph Ferguson, Darlene E. Flagg, RADM Wilson F. Flagg, USNR (Retired), 1st Lt Richard P. Gabriel, USMC (Retired), Ian J. Gray, Stanley R. Hall, Michele M. Heidenberger, Bryan C. Jack, Steven D. Jacoby, Ann C. Judge, Chandler R. Keller, Yvonne E. Kennedy, Norma Cruz Khan, Karen Ann Kincaid, Dong Chul Lee, Jennifer Lewis, Kenneth E. Lewis, Renee A. May, Dora Marie Menchaca, Christopher C. Newton, Barbara K. Olson, Ruben S. Ornedo, Robert Penninger, Robert R. Ploger III,Zandra F. Ploger, Lisa J. Raines, Todd H. Reuben, John P. Sammartino, George W. Simmons, Donald D. Simmons, Mari-Rae Sopper, Robert Speisman, Norma Lang Steuerle, Hilda E. Taylor, Leonard E. Taylor, Sandra D. Teague, Leslie A. Whittington, CAPT John D. Yamnicky, Sr., USN (Retired), Vicki Yancey, Shuyin Yang and Yuguag Zheng.

Victims on United Airlines Flight 93 

Christian Adams, Lorraine G. Bay, Todd Beamer, Alan Beaven, Mark K. Bingham, Deora Frances Bodley, Sandra W. Bradshaw, Marion Britton, Thomas E. Burnett Jr., William Cashman, Georgine Rose Corrigan, Patricia Cushing, Jason Dahl, Joseph Deluca, Patrick Driscoll, Edward Porter Felt, Jane C. Folger, Colleen Fraser, Andrew Garcia, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Wanda A. Green, Donald F. Greene, Linda Gronlund, Richard Guadagno, Leroy Homer, Jr., Toshiya Kuge, CeeCee Lyles, Hilda Marcin, Waleska Martinez, Nicole Miller, Louis J. Nacke, II, Donald Arthur Peterson, Jean Hoadley Peterson, Mark Rothenberg, Christine Snyder, John Talignani and Honor Elizabeth Wainio.

"I make my way through this darkness. I can't feel nothin' but this chain that binds me. Lost track of how far I've gone-how far I've gone and how high I've climbed. On my back's a sixty pound stone, on my shoulder a half mile of line. come on up for The Rising. Come on up! Lay your hands in mine. Come on up for The Rising. Come on up for The Rising Tonight."

-bill kenny