Remembering a 9/11 the GOP wants you to forget: Community servants raced TO tragedy at WTC

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While the City fled in terror, true heroes struggled to get to where half a thousand of them ended up giving their lives trying to make the rest of us safe. Seven years later, the morning's crystal clear beauty was the metaphor of authentic American spirit. That spirit is there in the photo below, no matter what charred edifice is in the foreground, and it adrenalized the hundreds of first responders and volunteers in their final acts, acts of true heroic community service.

After seven paradoxical years, most Americans solemnly honored the service of both dead and surviving emergency responders on September 11th, 2008. But just one week before, that spirit was betrayed by desperate politicians attempting to tarnish an opponent, but, instead, trashed the fundamental backbone of an America which rushes to help those in need.

"What in God's name is a community organizer? I don't even know if that's a job."

Those words, uttered by Rudy Giuliani, spoke volumes about how the rich, the elite, and privileged view selfless actions that serve the greater good.

Rudy Giuliani was the RNC's anointed celebrity to get the base on-message with the McCain campaign's talking point, emotionally targetted for maximum impact to debut the party's savior, Sarah Palin. This was clearly an important job. The scornful glee with which the so-called America's Mayor, the mayor of 9/11 New York City, mocked community organizers was not lost to a crowd that couldn't get much whiter using bleach.

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People who seem to be the same size as you and me were real giants who could muster the strength to swim against the tide of their personal fears and the City-stream of refugees crushingly reinforcing the danger to their immediate futures. They were able to do so because their value was measured by what they would do for their community.

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How ironic that Mayor 911, Rudy Giuliani, and the rest of the RNC elites chose to mock the essence of the American spirit, to laugh at those who work for no pay, for little pay, but for believing in together we are stronger than each of us individually. How unbelievably sad it is for us that the leaders of the grand old party demean the work of church ladies, civic volunteers, community organizers who make sure our elderly do not freeze in winter, who get enough food, are driven to their doctors... how tragic for our country that this is the lesson of the RNC.

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I thought that the best way to honor the heroes of 9/11 is simply to present NIST's findings that first responders encountered. It is my hope that readers will process in their own minds, what it might be like to run up 30 flights of stairs carrying half again one's own body mass, for example. People like these are prepared for such things everyday.

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On the other side of hell, only bones of an icon remained for analysis by the battalion of brilliant public servants to understand how they might preventatively save lives of the next hundred heroes.

And, of course, the lives of less elite people, like you and me.

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Please never forget what they gave on that day, nor that many more continue to serve us everyday.

He survived I'm glad to say, not everyone I knew in NYC did that day. But he was/is an openly gay man that ran into danger and did all he could. I'm proud of him.

That's what I don't get, why the GOP didn't automatically lose year's race the night Giuliani, Palin, and Pataki represented the Party at the Party's convention and basically told such people "F--- OFF!"

It really should be common knowledge that the GOP only cares about the very wealthy. It never ceases to amaze me when anyone else supports them. I can't help but think, don't they realize they only screw themselves by supporting the GOP? I guess not though.

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A decade of control by the Bush faction leaves the GOP nothing without message, however, and its mastery of echo chamber was amply demonstrated by an "on message" discussion in a public radio program. On 9/11, a man now retired from a police career, Don Getty, gave his "I got the memo" review of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama for NPR (Does Race Matter in '08? The View From York Pa)in York, PA:

"She has more executive experience than he does. He was a community organizer. Nobody's ever told me what a community organizer is."

This brainless piffle was from a man who, in a town a little more than two hours from Ground Zero, was probably moved by the volunteer spirit which is at the heart of community organizing. It is that spirit which put so many of his fraternity into the smoking wreckage of New York's Twin Towers.
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