I will be spending the day with my girlfriend and my daughter and her son! We are going to take the kids out for lunch!! Then start cleaning out clutter!! And then my daughter is going to a dance that night and my g/f and I will be well I am not sure what her and I will do!

This gave me chillis HOW SAD is this!!


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_re_us/plane_into_home9_11_widow

WASHINGTON – One of the victims of the Buffalo commuter plane crash, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country safer.

President Barack Obama, speaking in the White House's East Room, said Eckert "was an inspiration to me and to so many others, and I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead."

A week before her death, Eckert met with Obama at the White House as part of a group of 9/11 families and relatives of those killed in the bombing of the USS Cole, discussing how the new administration would handle terror suspects.

Eckert was flying to Buffalo Thursday night to celebrate what would have been her husband Sean Rooney's 58th birthday.

When he died in the World Trade Center, she became one of the most visible, tearful faces in the aftermath of the terror attacks.

Carol Ashley, whose daughter died at the World Trade Center, said the grim details of Eckert's death are particularly painful to Eckert's friends among 9/11 families.

"The fact that it was a plane crash, it was fire, it was reminiscent of 9/11 that way, that's just very difficult," said Ashley, a retired schoolteacher from Long Island.

She carried that grief to Congress as she tried to make the government do a better job protecting its citizens from terrorism.

Her husband worked at Aon Corp., a risk management firm, at the 98th floor of the south tower.

Eckert would cry when she told the story about how her husband — who was her high school sweetheart — called her on the morning of the attacks, and told her he loved her just before there was a loud explosion and nothing more.

She became part of a small group of Sept. 11 widows, mothers, and children who became amateur lobbyists, ultimately forcing lawmakers in 2004 to pass sweeping reforms of the U.S. intelligence apparatus.

They spent months walking the halls of Congress. All of the women were grieving, but Eckert seemed unable or uninterested in holding back her tears.

When it was over and they'd won passage of the intelligence reform law, Eckert vowed to quit her high-profile role "cold turkey." All she wanted, she said, was to go home, buy groceries, and return to something like a regular life.

"I did all of this for Sean's memory, I did it for him," she said, crying again. "There is a euphoria in knowing that we reached the top of the hill. ... I just wanted Sean to come home from work. Maybe now, someone else's Sean will get to come home."

Eckert was flying to her hometown Thursday night when the plane crashed on approach to the Buffalo airport.

After the 2001 attacks, she co-chaired the 9/11 Family Steering Committee, a group of activists devoted to exposing government failures that led up to the 2001 attacks, and fixing them.

She pushed for a 9/11 Commission. She pushed the Bush administration to provide more information to the commission. And when the commission's work was over, she pushed Congress to adopt their recommendations.

For Eckert, the public role was not easy.

One night after a long day at Congress, she found herself in the New York City train station, without a connecting train to her home in Stamford, Connecticut.

"We slept in the train station. We had no place else to go. That's when you look at yourself and say, 'What am I doing? How can we possibly get this done?'."

As Congress hemmed and hawed, Eckert vowed to sleep there, too, if it would get the law passed.

After the law passed, Eckert turned her energies to Habitat for Humanity, helping build homes for low-income families.

"I'm in shock, I just can't believe it," said Carie Lemack, whose mother died Sept. 11 on one of the hijacked planes. "Beverly had a can-do attitude about everything, and she never gave up."

aawwww I sorry sweetie! At least you haven't given up hope!!

I do have to agree there is nothing like a bunch of men in uniform!!

(but still not as sexy as my sharon! )

I WISH!!
nope it is the closest city to where we live that actually has a mall and Red Lobster!! Yuummmmm!! We ate too much but it was soooooooooo good!!

MASHED POTATOES!!! my comfort food!

WOW I love this thread Deb!!

to my mom....it took a thousand miles between us for us to become closer and I wouldn't change it for the world!
to Sharon an amazing mother!

And to me!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a mom!! My daughter is my gift from God (she was even born on Easter) the only child I will ever be able to have given birth too and the one that holds a large part of my heart!


OK so now I have a mom question...this is really geared towards single moms of divorce....I have been seperated/divorced for over a year and we still have issues. My daughter is very strong but VERY fearful of upsetting her dad. How do encourage them to not be so affraid without coming across pushy????

I love that I can actually call her at work...I mean I don't all the time but just sometimes in the morning and in the afternoon!
Anyways I called her to talk about some stuff and I told her about your fruit cup kiss and she says aaaawwwwwww

be so sad....he is by far the BEST boss I have ever had!! it would so suck!

Awesome I have a date too!! Have a great time now wheres my kiss?!

I just called her at work and she says if she could send you a Strawberry-pineapple chapstick kiss she would!!

The sun is shining and its supposed to get up to 50 today...we are supposed to get the white nasty stuff this weekend! other than that I am fabulous!! Went to dinner and Joplin last night with Sharon! We had a blast!!
Got any plans for the weekend?

Ok like you said "freedom of speech" thats why we can talk about it! And believe me these threads cover ALOT of topics!
I agree with so many of you. I make too much money according to the gov. to qualify for assist. on heating and electric and food. But I can't afford it! I work my 40+ work week and contribute to my community but nope they can't help me!! Its all a load of crap and when I heard this baby factories story I wanted to scream!! Dang I wish I had the money to get pregnant again...I would love it! I can't have anymore. My daughter is my gift from God and when she was born the doctor told me enjoy her all you can because you will not be able to have anymore! And this "lady" gets to have 14 at our expense! GRRRRRRRR

Morning Judy TGIF oh and Happy Friday the 13th

Morning Charles how is my fellow MO?

This is true!!
Yes we will...she isn't on here much anymore...I miss her here but I understand! She is really liking her new job, you can really see it is alot less stressful for her!!

And I agree with Nova...VERY sweet people on this thread and on this site!!

so to the few that post in here....where are you located? Are there places to meet like minding individuals or at least be open to your life and not feel like you are hated upon?



(just trying to get some convo goin!)

Welcome to the site shygirl!! Be active in the threads and you will meet some pretty amazing people here!!

My advice is don't give up....the best comes to those who wait!!!

(((((EARTH)))) I am well, how is your precious soul doing today?

wow this thread makes me sad.....RUN women RUN


sorry that was mean! RUN EVERYONE RUN!!

Thankyou Grammy....I am doing well!
Going crazy at work tho...things have slowed down so much I would about kill for a client!!!