Remembering the youngest victims of 9/11

[Lizbee]

those Poor Children there lives where cut short my thoughts and prayers are with the family so sad

 

[DISUNC]

 

[disney1990]

Thank you for the names and pictures. It still brings tears to my eyes.

I know they were talking our the Pentagon memorial. They decided to arrange the names on the benches in birth order -- from the youngest who was 3 (I think) to the oldest 70+.

All the benches are arranged so that the point at the Pentagon in the same direction as the plane came in.

 

[beachblanket]

Yesterday marked the unveiling of the first major 9/11 memorial containing the names of some of the young victims mentioned here.

Each of the five children who were aboard American Flight 77 -- Dana Falkenberg, Zoe Falkenberg, Bernard Brown, Asia Cotton and Rodney Dickens -- has their name inscribed on a individual bench at the new Pentagon 9/11 memorial.

The site lists the age of each victim and arranges the benches from youngest to oldest, so Dana Falkenberg is the first name that visitors see.

I can only imagine how striking it for many of them to be immediately confronted with the fact the victims on that doomed plane included a three year old.

 

[beachblanket]

I also think about all of the little children who lost one - or both - of their parents that day.. And the babies born after that never were held by their daddies..

Here is one of the latter yesterday: Cazzandra Peterson, whose was born months after her father William died in WTC tower 1, with her mother Robin as she tosses a rose into the reflecting pool at ground zero.

 

[akhenaten]

Yesterday marked the unveiling of the first major 9/11 memorial containing the names of some of the young victims mentioned here.

Each of the five children who were aboard American Flight 175 -- David Brandhorst, Dana Falkenberg, Zoe Falkenberg, Bernard Brown, Asia Cotton and Rodney Dickens -- has their name inscribed on a individual bench at the new Pentagon 9/11 memorial.

The site lists the age of each victim and arranges the benches from youngest to oldest, so David Brandhorst and Dana Falkenberg are the first names that visitors see.

I can only imagine how striking it for many of them to be immediately confronted with the fact the victims on that doomed plane included three year olds.

Perhaps you could edit the above post..the information seems to be incorrect...flight 175 went into the WTC and 77 into the pentagon

and you have the children listed incorrectly... david brandhorts was murdered in NYC.... I believe he will be memorialized there...

 

[poohluvrs]

dear god this is heartwrenching
god bless those angels

9/11 never forget

 

[beachblanket]

Perhaps you could edit the above post..the information seems to be incorrect...flight 175 went into the WTC and 77 into the pentagon

All of the above was stated correctly at the beginning of this thread - when I added the update this morning I unintentionally mixed up one of the passengers on United 175, listing him as being on American 77.

To correct things, the murdered children on American 77 who have benches at the Pentagon don't include David Brandhorst. He was on United 175, which hit the south tower in New York.

As for plans for David to be listed in a formal major memorial in New York, while that will be wonderful, given how slowly things are moving there it maybe decades before that happens. Originally, the 9/11 memorial there was supposed to be open by the tenth anniversary in 2011. Just last week, the Port Authority of New York stated there is no way the memorial will be finished by then -- and in fact offered no new timetable.

Bottom line: the armwrestle between greed and bureaucracy that has hamstrung the building of a 9/11 memorial in NYC is not only mind-boggling, but unconscionable - and likely has every radical Muslim fundamentalist on earth cheering.

 

[akhenaten]

All of the above was stated correctly at the beginning of this thread - when I added the update this morning I untentionally mixed up one of the passengers on United 175, listing him as being on American 77.

To correct things, the murdered children on American 77 who have benches at the Pentagon don't include David Brandhorst. He was on United 175, which hit the south tower in New York.

As for plans for David to be listed in a formal major memorial in New York, while that will be wonderful, given how slowly things are moving there it maybe decades before that happens. Originally, the 9/11 memorial there was supposed to be open by the tenth anniversary in 2011. Just last week, the Port Authority of New York stated there is no way the memorial will be finished by then -- and in fact offered no new timetable.

Bottom line: the armwrestle between greed and bureaucracy that has hamstrung the building of a 9/11 memorial in NYC is not only mind-boggling, but unconscionable - and likely has every radical Muslim fundamentalist on earth cheering.

please..don't politicize a special thread you started...

The WTC is an extremely large site and will take a long time to rebuild...
those lost will be properly memorialized with a permanent site.....
and I for one would prefer it be done properly and in due time... I hope it is sooner rather than later...but it sends no signals to fundamentalists... in either case..

NYC is my backyard and the reaction of new yorkers and americans to the terror of that day sent a clear message about the substance of our people to those who hate us.....

 

[beachblanket]

The WTC is an extremely large site and will take a long time to rebuild...
those lost will be properly memorialized with a permanent site.....
and I for one would prefer it be done properly and in due time... I hope it is sooner rather than later...but it sends no signals to fundamentalists... in either case..

NYC is my backyard and the reaction of new yorkers and americans to the terror of that day sent a clear message about the substance of our people to those who hate us.....

I fully appreciate the complexity of the WTC rebuild and the intent wasn't to politicize. It was more commentary on contemporary culture.

I'm saying that because "politicizing" would imply there's an opposition universe out there of people who think everything surrounding the development of the NYC 9/11 memorial is being perfectly managed and is right on track.

That's a complete fantasy - no one is happy with the slow, pained progress of the project (albeit the Port Authority of NYC is in the unfortunate position of having to make repeated excuses for it). I travel frequently to NYC and have close friends there. None of those locals are happy at all with how the process relative to the memorial has been or is being managed. Not one.

And I can understand why - they have now for seven long years faced a sad tale of squabbling stakeholders all pushing for the dominance of their particular agenda. The concerns of those involved appear to be less in "doing it patiently and right" and more in maximizing leaseholder profits, pacifying various lobbies (as example one being the "first responders," a group that seems to think the memorial needs to primarly be their private shrine), etc., etc.

9/11 as a crisis showed NYC at it's absolute best - courageous, aligned and resilient. It is sad that the next chapter -- the re-construction of the WTC and the building of the memorial -- which could have been a second "Manhattan Project" -- is going down in history instead as a plodding period marred by lack of accountability and petty competing fiefdoms.

Commentary: Seven years after 9/11, why no memorial?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/11/mcgovern.groundzero/index.html

New York's 9/11 memorial plagued by delays
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-memorialsep11,0,4561393.story

 

[akhenaten]

I fully appreciate the complexity of the WTC rebuild and the intent wasn't to politicize. It was more commentary on contemporary culture.

I'm saying that because "politicizing" would imply there's an opposition universe out there of people who think everything surrounding the development of the NYC 9/11 memorial is being perfectly managed and is right on track.

That's a complete fantasy - no one is happy with the slow, pained progress of the project (albeit the Port Authority of NYC is in the unfortunate position of having to make repeated excuses for it). I travel frequently to NYC and have close friends there. None of those locals are happy at all with how the process relative to the memorial has been or is being managed. Not one.

And I can understand why - they have now for seven long years faced a sad tale of squabbling stakeholders all pushing for the dominance of their particular agenda. The concerns of those involved appear to be less in "doing it patiently and right" and more in maximizing leaseholder profits, pacifying various lobbies (as example one being the "first responders," a group that seems to think the memorial needs to primarly be their private shrine), etc., etc.

9/11 as a crisis showed NYC at it's absolute best - courageous, aligned and resilient. It is sad that the next chapter -- the re-construction of the WTC and the building of the memorial -- which could have been a second "Manhattan Project" -- is going down in history instead as a plodding period marred by lack of accountability and petty competing fiefdoms.

Commentary: Seven years after 9/11, why no memorial?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/11/mcgovern.groundzero/index.html

New York's 9/11 memorial plagued by delays
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-memorialsep11,0,4561393.story

i believe it would be more appropriate to disuss this further on a separate thread...

 

[PaulaSue]

 

[daisy2]

WOW....it really hits home when you put the pictures of these beautiful children with a name. I know it's been 7 years but it still feels like it happend today. God Bless all who lost their lives on 9/11

 

[CandyMandy]

On this sad anniversary, this is one old thread that needs to be re-opened. There are some things we just must never forget, such as these children.

 

[It'sWDW4me]

On this sad anniversary, this is one old thread that needs to be re-opened. There are some things we just must never forget, such as these children.

Thank you for bumping this old thread.

11 years later and I still get goosebumps and the tears just flow.

So sad to think that those 11 year olds would be 22 now.... maybe in college... maybe married... so horribly sad

 

[CandyMandy]

Thank you for bumping this old thread.

11 years later and I still get goosebumps and the tears just flow.

So sad to think that those 11 year olds would be 22 now.... maybe in college... maybe married... so horribly sad

Here's another picture of Zoe and Dana Falkenberg (the children mentioned at the beginning of the thread.).

They would be in high school now.

 

[SondraC]

This made the tears flow. One photo in particular, Rodney Dickens. His eyes just have a haunting look to me. I can't imagine their final moments...or their families just to go on after.

 

[CandyMandy]

Here is the youngest victim, Christine Hanson, who was only 2 1/2 when she died along with her parents Peter and Sue on United 175.

She would be in Junior High/Middle School now.

 

[4nana]

Still heartbreaking....God Bless these lil innocent angels whose lives were robbed, their parents, families, friends.

 

[Shutterbug]

This just goes to show that terrorists do not care whose blood they spill.