A Very Worthwhile Project You Can Still Join, We Need Your Help

In May of this year I was alerted to what I deemed a very worthwhile project asking bloggers like you and I to participate in an unusual and unique tribute to the victims of 9-11. The idea was to assign 2996 blogger volunteers an individual to pay tribute to on their blog this September 11th, thus creating a blogburst tribute to those victims that would be different and special from any other previous attempts that I am aware of.

I myself drew a man whom you will find directly left of this post in my sidebar named Eddie A Dillard, who died that day on flight 77 which hit the pentagon. At first I was apprehensive as to whether or not I would be able to pay ample tribute to this gentleman I knew nothing about in order to fill my role as a participant and debt of gratitude to he and the others that died that day.

Innocent Victims whom history will eventually identify as the 1st casualties & warriors of the Real Big One, WWIII. Not only did I find that it was very possible to do, I found myself developing a unique attachment to this individual and his family as I researched his fruitful life to create his tribute which you will find here on September 11th, 2006.

Please take the time to click over there and give this project some thought if you would. We would all greatly appreciate your participation if you should choose to join us.

We Thank You In Advance

Chicagoray

"2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.

On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.

We will honor them by remembering their lives, and not by remembering their murderers.

If you would like to help out, either by pledging to post a tribute on your own blog, or by offering your services to promote this cause, just leave a comment here and I’ll email you the name of a victim.

Then, on 9/11/2006, you will post a tribute to that victim on your blog.

But, and this is critical, the tributes should celebrate the lives of these people–kind of like a wake. Over the last 5 years we’ve heard the names of the killers, and all about the victim’s deaths. This is a chance to learn about and celebrate those who died. Forget the murderers, they don’t deserve to be remembered. But some people who died that day deserve to be remembered–2,996 people.

Thank you, D.Challener Roe"

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