Next we’ll see 9/11 greeting cards, 9/11 store sales, and 9/11 carols:

Police in Peabody, Massachusetts, could be getting holiday pay on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in what may be a first-of-its-kind contract provision.

A proposed new contract between the city and the police union would make the anniversary a paid holiday. The proposed contract still needs budgetary approval from the city council.

Officers would receive an extra 25 percent pay for working September 11.

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The USS Arlington joins the exclusive group of Navy ships who carry a payload of 9/11 memorabilia .  But unlike her sister ship, the USS New York (who is made from Ground Zero steel), the USS Arlington displays steel from the Pentagon.

Twisted chunks of steel torn from the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, will be displayed aboard a new Navy ship named after Arlington County, Va.

The rusted fragments will be displayed in a Lucite box on the quarterdeck of the USS Arlington, a symbolic reminder for those aboard of the terrorist attacks on Virginia and New York.

“This will be very tangible to the young people on the ship,” said Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., who yesterday attended a small ceremony at the Pentagon where the Secretary of the Navy presented the fragments to Arlington County officials.

“This will give them the history of why it was named” the USS Arlington “and why we do the things we do,” he added.

The 80-person ceremony took place barely an hour after 60,000 people attended an outdoor unveiling of the Pentagon’s new Sept. 11 memorial.

A third San Antonio-class ship, the USS Somerset, joines the fleet of 9/11 ships by carrying a name which honors the passengers of United Flight 93 who died in Sommerset County, Pennsylvania.

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…the 9/11 conspiracy theories are still giving me a migraine.

The problem with these sorts of accusations is that it releases responsibility of the deaths from al-Qaeda and moves it into hands of the American people.

Never forget.

[video] Egyptian Researcher Muhammad Al-Said Idris: The American Response to 9/11 Proves that the Official Version of Events Is False

Al-Rafidein TV (Iraq) - September 8, 2008

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It’s the token phrase we all love to mutter… Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:

New data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of 9/11 suggest that as many as 70,000 people may have developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the terrorist attacks.

The estimate, released Wednesday by New York City’s Department of Health, is based on an analysis of the health of 71,437 people who enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry. They agreed to be tracked for up to 20 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and the study was based on answers they volunteered about their health two and three years after the attack.

Of the estimated 400,000 people believed to have been heavily exposed to pollution from the disaster, data suggests that 35,000 to 70,000 people developed PTSD and 3,800 to 12,600 may have developed asthma, city health officials said.

They include rescue and recovery workers, lower Manhattan residents, area workers, commuters and passers-by.

Overall, half of the respondents said they had been in the dust cloud from the collapsing towers; 70 percent witnessed a traumatic sight, such as a plane hitting the tower or falling bodies; and 13 percent sustained an injury that day.

It’s strange because 9/11 was also the catalyst to our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.  What do the studies say about the troops in the Middle East:

Nearly one in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is currently suffering from depression or stress disorders, according to the latest and most comprehensive study of current and former military service members, released today.

Less than half of those 300,000 veterans have received care for depression or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to the study, signaling significant problems with the U.S. mental healthcare system.

The study shows that the stress disorders may be more prevalent and lasting than previously known. Although the Army has conducted annual evaluations of troops deployed in Iraq, the new study, conducted by the Rand Corp. and funded by the California Community Foundation, is the first to try and assess the mental health of the 1.65 million service members that have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Fuck the Colbert Nation.  We’re now the PTSD Nation.

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Ms. Missive:  This is my favorite part:

Interviewer: “Are homosexuals on your agenda?”

Yahya Saade: “My agenda is about the freedom of any human being. My agenda is about personal liberties. We should respect and accept one another, despite all our differences.

[...]

Interviewer: “Are you for or against the 9/11 attacks on America?”

Saade: “What would you like me to say - for or against?”

Interviewer: “Tell me, are you for or against? Tell me the truth, without embellishing it - what you say when you are with your friends.”

Saade: “I am for them [the attacks on 9/11].”

Interviewer: “Why?”

Saade: “Because in my view, they constituted a very loud cry, which raised a very important question within American and European society

Ms. Missive:  Let the contradictions roll on.

Source: MEMRI TV

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