Bill Clinton - Battle of Thermopylae and the passengers on United 93

SHANKSVILLE, United States. Sept. 10 -- The United States on Saturday dedicated a new national memorial to commemorate the victims of United Airlines Flight 93 who were killed after the plane was hijacked in the 9/11 terrorist attacks ten years ago and crashed into fields of Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Former President Clinton makes a touching comparison between the 300 Spartan soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae, and the heroic passengers on United 93, who overthrew the hijackers and prevented the plane from reaching its intended target in Washington D.C.

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There has always been a special place in the common memory for people who deliberately, knowingly, certainly laid down their lives for other people to live.

President Bush is from Texas, and I sometimes think because I grew up in Arkansas that's the more important difference between us than our partisan differences.

But every child I grew up with was raised on a memory of the Alamo, the defining story of Texas. Why? Because those people knew they were going to die. But the time they bought and the casualties they inflicted in the cause of freedom allowed the whole idea of Texas to survive. And those who live there now to enjoy the life they do.

The first such great story I have been able to find that reminds me of all your loved ones, however, occurred almost 2,500 years ago. When the Greek king of Sparta facing a massive, massive Persian army took 300 of his finest soldiers to a narrow pass called Thermopylae. There were thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people. They all knew they were going to die. He told them that when they went. And the enemy said we're going to fill the air with so many arrows that it will be dark. And the Spartans said, fine, we will fight in the shade. And they all died.

But the casualties they took and the time they bought saved the people they loved. This is something different. For at the Alamo and at Thermopylae, they were soldiers, they knew what they had to do. Your loved ones just happen to be on a plane.

With almost no time to decide, they gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens.

They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing. And 2,500 years from now, I hope and pray to God that people will still remember this.

So, since I am no longer in office, I can do unpopular things.

I told the secretary of the interior, the head of your development program, that I was aghast to find out that we still need to raise $10 million to finish this place. And Speaker Boehner and I have already volunteered to do a bipartisan event in Washington.

Let's get this show on the road. Let's roll. Thank you and God bless you.

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[lawes84]

@MsChapman77 well said. I agree 100%.

[PhiloAmericana]

I have alot of respect for this man.

[b2tama]

Big Dawg. Who woulda thought that in 2011 we'd looking back, wishing this man was still in charge?

[JillAngie2]

@9timetravelers I think that Monica Lewinsky was a conspiracy to hide the Learjet crash in which some officials were killed that had been on their way to arrest Bill Clinton for treason! There is a Zionist conspiracy and has been for many years (hence Israel's connection with the USA) and it just so happens, Monica Lewinsky is Jewish!

[9timetravelers]

You want to give the American People a Job just like you gave Monica Lewinski a big Blow Job! REPEAL NAFTA You nasty pig!!!

[NipponReptilian]

The ceremoney for mocking victims by all the criminals!

[phitomex]

i thought it was great how president clinton added at the end "let's roll" which was the famous line said by the man on the united 93 flight which was overheard by his wife on the cell phone right before the passengers put their plan into action

[ENTERRAPTURE20]

DAMASCUS SYRIA–OLDEST CITY,NEVER BEEN DESTROYED(ISAIAH 17:1)ISRAEL DIVIDED(JOEL 4:1-4)JESUS SAID,HIS 2ND COMING,IF U SEE DMASCUS DSTROYED & SRAEL DVIDED.IF U THINK QUAKES R COMMON THN BELIEVE THESE 2 PROPHECIES,THESE R IN THE NEWS NOW.JOHN 12:25-26 ANYONE WHO LOVES THEIR LIFE WILL LOSE IT,WHLE ANYONE WHO HATES THEIR LIFE N THIS WORLD WILL KEEP IT FOR ETRNAL LIFE.26 WHOEVER SERVS ME MUST FOLLOW ME& WHRE I AM,MY SERVANT ALSO WILL BE.MY FATHER WILL HONOR THE ONE WHO SERVES ME.HELL IS REAL.REPENT!

[MsChapman77]

Slick Willy - A real criminal who need to be guillotined.

[Born2Flesh]

How do dead Americans get to heaven? ----> You have to dance like Israelis on 9/11. lol ...why make a big deal over sheep and goy anyhow? PARTY AT THE NEW WTC! lol