2996 Project - 700 names to go
- Posted by Beth on August 23rd, 2006 filed in Blogs, General, Islamofascism, Support this
Tags: September 11, 9/11, 2996, terrorism, WTC, Flight 93, Pentagon
There are only nineteen days left until September 11th, the five year anniversary.
On that day, tributes to the 2,996 victims of 9/11 will be published throughout the blogosphere as part of the 2996 project.
If you aren’t aware of the 2996 project, it is this:
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 hereSIGN UP 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.
That’s it–no politics, no ranting, just a memorial of one person. There’s plenty of information on the victims available on the internet, and it doesn’t have to be a book-length life story. Just share something about your person’s life with your readers. The victims deserve to be remembered as real human beings, not just one of a number.
PLEASE, if you haven’t signed up, do so HERE. If you have, please help recruit the last seven hundred.
Don’t have a blog but you still want to participate? Some people are hosting tributes from their blogless readers, and I will do that too. LET ME KNOW if you want to do it–as soon as possible, please! Those of us in Cotillion may be cross-posting our tributes there, and I’ll do the same for yours if that’s what we do.
(You can get the “I remember” button here.)
Cross-posted at Cotillion
Cotillion says:
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GodDivas says:
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Cake or Death says:
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