Remembering Earl Richard Shanahan

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Remembering Earl Richard Shanahan

Five years ago 2,996 innocent victims died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and United flight 93. Five years later 2,996 bloggers are remembering those victims. Each of those 2,996 bloggers is paying tribute to one of those 2,996 victims, assigned ad random.

Earl Richard Shanahan, 50, from Flushing, New York was a senior accountant at Marsh & McLennan, a company that lost 295 of its employees during the attack on WTC1. We have no picture of Earl, but I found this quote by one of his former colleagues:

Earl was one of the most unique, entertaining, fun-loving people anyone could know and I'm very fortunate to have known him as a boss, colleague, and friend. To this day I incorporate phrases he invented, sometimes unintentionally, called "Earlisms" into my vocabulary. They still make me laugh even after all these years.

This beautiful quilt in honor of Earl was made for the United in Memory project.

(Hat tip: LVB.net reader Publius)

published on Monday 11 September 2006 @ 00:22 CET - Share on Facebook

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Flex Flint

Monday 11 September 2006 @ 14:32 CET - #27062

Luc, that's a beautiful thing you did, brings tears to my eyes (again). I am convinced Mr. Shanahan's relatives will appreciate this as well.

May we never forget this tragedy. All the best, strength, and warmth to the friends and relatives of the victims.

Eric Luyten

Wednesday 13 September 2006 @ 13:36 CET - #27269

Wanted : 40,000 bloggers to commemorate the 40,000+
most prominent beneficiaries of "Operation Iraqi Freedom"

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

NicolasRaemdonck

Wednesday 13 September 2006 @ 17:32 CET - #27294

Well, Eric. I will honor these people with the same regard and I think that Luc and others also will honor the death of innocent people. It is not because there is a war in Iraq that 9/11 was justified.

Rick

Wednesday 13 September 2006 @ 19:56 CET - #27306

@ Eric Luyten

Where they all killed by G.I.'s?

I think the same logic applies as for the nukes on Hiroshima & Nagasaki: bodycounting is easyer than predicting how many human losses were avoided.

But it's 'human' to honour the dead in Iraq as well as the 9/11 victims.
Which reminds me of the whoops of delight coming from the arab countries allover he world on the aftermath of 9/11.

dries

Wednesday 13 September 2006 @ 20:15 CET - #27308

I have to say this is the sort of entry I would expect from Nancy Grace at CNN then from you, Luc. There are tributes aplenty for the 9/11 victims, so many in fact that their ubiquitous presence (especially in the US) almost cheapens the memory of the 9/11 victims.
And as Eric says -- what about those killed in Iraq? Are their lives less valuable? Looking at the commemorations surrounding 9/11 as opposed to the thousands of innocent murdered Iraqis, you'd almost think so.

Rick

Wednesday 13 September 2006 @ 22:04 CET - #27318

@Dries:

What about those killed in Europe and abroad: 6 million Jews, thousands of G.I.'s, French, even Germans?
Or Kurds in Iraq???
Or Iranians in the Iranian-Iraqi war?

Are their lives less valuable?

What's wrong with Luc making an entry à la Nancy Grace? Too CNN-alike for you perhaps? Too star sprangeld?
Or perhaps we, Europeans, should'nt show too much respect for Americans?

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse...

Outlaw Mike

Wednesday 13 September 2006 @ 23:43 CET - #27330

Hey Eric Luyten, WHERE THE FUCK were you when Saddam was slaughtering 180,000 Kurds??? HUH???? FUCKING HYPOCRITE!!!

Sorry Luc, sometimes I have to get things from my chest.

Eric Luyten

Thursday 14 September 2006 @ 10:12 CET - #27361

@Outlaw Mike:

Saddam, isn't that the bloke on the right hand side in this picture ?

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchi...

Rick

Thursday 14 September 2006 @ 12:35 CET - #27373

@ Eric Luyten:

So what?

Belgian royals went several times to visit Mobutu and vice-versa.
By the way, maybe you could help me find any informaion about the official journey late King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola made to Romania, to visit Ceaucescu.
Can't find any history-book in Belgium reporting that...

Outlaw Mike

Saturday 16 September 2006 @ 21:19 CET - #27586

Big deal Luyten. There's photos too of Stalin together with Churchill and Roosevelt. Following your logic, I suppose that makes the fight against Nazism less honourable? See also Rick's comment. You link to a 1983 photo, when Saddam seemed a valuable ally against Khomeini. He turned out not to be. As a former AI member (before AI got infested with moonbats) I can tell that I did not start to receive reports on Iraq's human rights abuses before 1985. Al-Anfaal dates from 1987-1988. Rummy would have been less eager to shake hands with SH then.

wouter

Friday 01 December 2006 @ 02:10 CET - #32608

Hundreds of thousands of people die every year by terrorism, wars and other violence. Some of those by direct or indirect actions of the Arrogant Empire and its naive footsoldiers and blind faith monkeys. And you have to keep wanking about what was probably the only time the US has gotten a taste of its own medecine in recent times?

The US (like many other countries) uses its economical strength as a weapon, hence its citizens should not be surprised if the centers of this economical oppression are targeted by consquential hatred based in part on its policies. You reap what you sow.

America's hands are as bloody as those of the (other) terrorists. And, more worryingly, most of its people are about as blind and uninquisitive as those of the countries it calls evil.

By the way, I know people who worked in the WTC at that time, please don't come with any emotional-higher-ground stories. I'm not impressed.

Outlaw Mike

Monday 04 December 2006 @ 21:04 CET - #32737

wouter-spam. Says it all.

traveller

Wednesday 06 December 2006 @ 20:48 CET - #32826

@ Wouter, Dries and Eric,

You probably think that Che, Mao and Joseph were saints. They were mass-murderers and cowards. But you can sit there behind your PC's and attack the same people who have gotten rid of those mass-murderers. Now they are again sticking their necks out for us, with mistakes and many, but you lot won't make mistakes, you are absolutely to corrupt to do anything else but cashing in like all red parasites.

maggie

Thursday 18 October 2007 @ 18:55 CET - #51640

That is a beuatiful quilt.WE made a quilt once in memory of lance my cousin who died in the trade centers on 9/11/01.

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