I just watched President Obama kick off his re-election campaign with the entire Congress as a backdrop. You have to give it to Obama, he is quite the showman. He may be short on substance and results but he certainly gives good theater.
NSBNews.net video / County Council Chairman Frank Bruno speaks exclusively with NSBNews.net on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Volusia County Councilman Frank Bruno and his wife, Mary, have a connection to 9/11: Her cousin ran for his life from the collapsing Twin Towers.
ORMOND BEACH -- 9/11/11: Can it be only 10 years ago that I was living in Palm Beach County when a friend called just after 8:30 AM and told me to turn on the television? I watched in horror as one trade tower burned and crumbled. And then the other one was being targeted by an airliner, moments away from destruction.
By STATE REP. DOROROTHY L. HUKILL PORT ORANGE -- Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks against the United States. We all can remember where we were or what we were doing when the news came in from New York on that fateful fall morning.
Soon after, we would learn of a larger plot against our nation, one that would also claim American lives in Pennsylvania and in Virginia, near our nation's capital.
It was a day of great national mourning for all the innocent lives that were lost. But it was also a day in which we recognized the great heroism and valor of true American heroes.
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES -- There are moments which stick in your mind, even when you wish they would go away. For the America of my youth, the most crushing of those moments was the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963. In those days, Jack Kennedy was everyone’s hero, the hope of the future, and virtually everyone over age 10 can remember where they were when they first learned that the President had been shot. For this generation that moment is 9/11.
Editor's Note: The following guest column was written exclusively for NSBNews.net
By PAT NORTHEY DELTONA -- 9/11/2001 changed us as a country and people. While it initially brought us together in the aftermath of the attack, we’ve since become a little less trusting and so much more polarized in our politics.
Perhaps as we reflect on the past 10 years and honor those who lost their lives in the attack, we will also remember that which made us such a great nation: our compassion, our courage, and a political will that has well served this country since we declared our independence in 1776.
9/11/2001 was a hateful monstrous day.
By DARLENE VANNEDGEWATER -- I am as touched by the events of 9/11 as everyone in this country is as I was that horrible day but I don’t think the survivors and families need to be reminded yearly with footage of that disaster and continuous news coverage.
They have never forgotten, most likely never will, but maybe the nightmares have started to diminish somewhat until they turn on a television or look at a newspaper before, during or right after 9/11 whatever year it may beat the time.
We should mark the disaster with the moment of silence of when the first plane hit the Twin Towers. Those people who were there that day should be remembered and they are in the hearts of all the citizens of this country. I personally do not want to watch people jumping from the burning towers or the towers falling ever again. That horrible sight will always be in my head. I don’t need to be reminded what happened that day 10 years ago. Does anyone?
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- New Smyrna Beach's Bob Tolley is a fixture at local government meetings in his role as citizen watchdog. He also writes an occasional blog for the internet news site.
The elder Tolley's remembrances and thoughts on 9/11 are presented here in a video on the eve of 9 // because of the impact of the terrorist attacks on the younger of his two sons, William, a firefighter, who had the grim task of removing bodies from Ground Zero that night.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- We all know the story of 9/11. It’s one of those few moments in our lives that we will remember as a “where I was" moment.
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OAK HILL The Volusia County Council unanimously approved an agreement Thursday with Oak Hill to contract out the city’s law enforcement services to the Sheriff’s Office. The contract covers a 13-month period, through September of next year.
