September 11 is:
Patriot DaySeptember 11 – 2001: The September 11 attacks occurred, as Islamist terrorists crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, and the ground at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes. It also was the deadliest incident for firefighters and for law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively.
Make Your Bed Day
No News is Good News Day
September 11, 1777- Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lost to British
American Navy defeated British in the Battle of Lake Champlain, NY during the War of 1812.
Birthday of William Sidney Porter (O’Henry) in 1862 , American short-story writer and journalist. Among his most famous stories are:
- “The Gift of the Magi”, about a young couple, Jim and Della, who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim’s watch; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della’s hair.
- “The Ransom of Red Chief” in which two men kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so bratty and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy’s father $250 to take him back.
In his book “Cabbages and Kings”, he coined the phrase “banana republic”.
Birthday of D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (September 11, 1885), English writer of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”.
On September 11, 1941, President FDR ordered any Axis ship found in American waters be shot at on sight.
Congress passed a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans on this date in 1959.
The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. in Sharon, Conn. on September 11, 1960, promulgated the Sharon Statement.
The Sharon Statement
Adopted by the Young Americans for Freedom Conference at Sharon, Conn.,
IN THIS TIME of moral and political crises, it is the responsibility of the youth of America to affirm certain eternal truths
WE, as young conservatives believe:
THAT foremost among the transcendent values is the individual’s use of his God-given free will, whence derives his right to be free from the restrictions of arbitrary force;
THAT liberty is indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom;
THAT the purpose of government is to protect those freedoms through the preservation of internal order, the provision of national defense, and the administration of justice;
THAT when government ventures beyond these rightful functions, it accumulates power, which tends to diminish order and liberty;
THAT the Constitution of the United States is the best arrangement yet devised for empowering government to fulfill its proper role, while restraining it from the concentration and abuse of power;
THAT the genius of the Constitution – the division of powers – is summed up in the clause that reserves primacy to the several states, or to the people in those spheres not specifically delegated to the Federal government;
THAT the market economy, allocating resources by the free play of supply and demand, is the single economic system compatible with the requirements of personal freedom and constitutional government, and that it is at the same time the most productive supplier of human needs;
THAT when government interferes with the work of the market economy, it tends to reduce the moral and physical strength of the nation, that when it takes from one to bestow on another, it diminishes the incentive of the first, the integrity of the second, and the moral autonomy of both;
THAT we will be free only so long as the national sovereignty of the United States is secure; that history shows periods of freedom are rare, and can exist only when free citizens concertedly defend their rights against all enemies…
THAT the forces of international Communism are, at present, the greatest single threat to these liberties;
THAT the United States should stress victory over, rather than coexistence with this menace; and
THAT American foreign policy must be judged by this criterion: does it serve the just interests of the United States?”