Laura Bush To Speak At Flight 93 Ceremony On 9/11 Anniverary

PITTSBURGH — Former first lady Laura Bush will speak at an event marking the ninth anniversary of the crash of Flight 93 in western Pennsylvania during the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The National Park Foundation made the announcement Friday, a day before a joint meeting of the Flight 93 Memorial Task Force and the Flight 93 Federal Advisory Commission. Bush says she's honored to speak at the site and that we "must never forget the brave sacrifice of these extraordinary men and women."

Flight 93 was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when hijackers took it over on Sept. 11, 2001. It crashed in a field near Shanksville, killing everyone aboard.

Construction on a permanent memorial to the victims is under way. The memorial's first phase is expected to be dedicated in time for the 10th anniversary of the crash in 2011.

Comments

[my2pesos]

01:45 AM on 08/09/2010

Maybe she should comment on how they blocked the bill to help the 911 responders...

[stevethetruck]

11:51 PM on 08/08/2010

How nice, the bushes celebrating an anniversary. I totally understand 911 was w's pet project.

[prodemlib]

11:49 PM on 08/08/2010

is it my imagination, or does she always look just a little......high?

[alto2]

11:15 PM on 08/08/2010

This is an affront. The attacks came because her husband and his advisors ignored excellent intelligence reports warning of the imminence of the threat, and hints as to the form it might take. No one remotely connected with that administration could say anything I want to hear about the events of that day.

[Unrepentantliberal]

09:57 PM on 08/08/2010

Will she talk about how her husband spent months of vacation on the 'ranch' clearing brush while terrorists plotted the World Trade Center attack? Will she comment on his reaction to the PDB, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike US?"

They should of found some one more appropriate.

[SoCalNick]

08:58 PM on 08/08/2010

I have thought about this long and hard.

It is in very poor taste for her to be there Period.

That is all

[Takebackourmoney]

02:30 PM on 08/08/2010

How she explain to the people how and why the GOP struck down the bill to help the responders.

[jwoww]

07:11 PM on 08/08/2010

SPIN SPIN SPIN Ask Nancy why she wanted a 2/3 majority for this bill when they had 250+ in the bank.

[regularguynyc]

10:00 PM on 08/08/2010

well said!

[jazabelz]

10:24 AM on 08/09/2010

Because of the ridiculous amendments the Republicans were going to tack on to this legislation to make the Democrats look bad for that portion of it! So you can spin, spin, spin all you want, but the Republicans are using issues like first responders, fire fighters, police, etc. just to try to regain their political power. They could care less who gets hurt along the way.

[rgateman]

12:33 PM on 08/08/2010

Well it's a good thing these blind folks are going to hear more impossibilities about whatever happened out there! Laura will have to convince the unconvinced that Flight 93 crash at that spot and pieces of the plane and engines bounced up to 10 miles away and that's why all the pieces got gathered up in secrecy in just a day. It wasn't Georgie that had it shot it was Dickie-doo she might tell them but I doubt this trained liar will have any truth to disseminate.

[jazabelz]

10:25 AM on 08/09/2010

Interesting -- is this what happened to the plan that hit the Pentagon too?

[rgateman]

10:51 AM on 08/09/2010

Nope! That plane was entirely sucked into the hole in the empty part of the Pentagon and the impact entirely vaporized the whole plane including the wings and tail and engines and everything AND all videos of that event were confiscated by the 'authorities also too! It was truly a day that defied physics dontcha know!

[larmarch5]

11:50 AM on 08/08/2010

National Parks Foundation raises MONEY for various National Parks initiatives. http://www.nationalparks.org/
Laura Bush will tap into a large donor base.
They don't have their total board members list updated.
Their new board members:
Alfred E. Baldwin
Orange County, CA
Mr. Baldwin is President of Village Development

Vin Cipolla
New York, NY
Mr. Cipolla is recognized for his business and civic entrepreneurship. He has served on fifteen non-profit Boards, eight corporate Boards and is a six-time corporate CEO, most recently with Fidelity

Jay I. Kislak
Miami, FL
Mr. Kislak is Founder and Chairman of the J. I. Kislak Mortgage Corporation. Today, The Kislak Organization has extensive operations in real estate and financial services.

Ann R. Klee
Weston, CT
Ms. Klee is a Vice President at General Electric where she leads the company’s global environmental, health and safety programs.

John L. Nau, III
Houston, TX
Mr. Nau is President and Chief Executive Officer of Silver Eagle Distributors, L.P., the nation’s largest distributor of Anheuser-Busch products. Since 1995, Nau has served as Chairman of the Texas Historical Commission (THC).

Charles Peck
Denver, CO and Sunriver, OR
Charles Peck is President and Chief Operating Officer of Destination Hotels & Resorts

John Seiter
Pasadena, CA
Mr. Seiter was formerly a Director of The Capital Group Companies until he retired in 2006

Neil Mulholland is the President and CEO of the National Parks Foundation

[afgail]

11:18 AM on 08/08/2010

Would that Laura Bush was more like Nancy Reagan. Nancy pushed back when she saw that others in his administration were damaging Reagan's presidency and by extension the country. Laura did nothing but try and keep George sober. Not nearly enough. She bears a lot of the guilt for the Bush/Cheney war crimes.

[pottedferne]

02:44 PM on 08/08/2010

she got her switch out in the second term.......reummey got replaced with Gates and Condi stopped flying on AF1.........

[olivia]

10:36 AM on 08/08/2010

Will she explain why Bush let this happen on his watch, despite being explicitly warned in a written document that it was being planned?

He probably didn't even read the memo - too busy thinking about what was coming on the lunch menu.

[kareemachan]

12:04 PM on 08/08/2010

...or flying down to his "ranch" in Texas.

[stevethetruck]

11:52 PM on 08/08/2010

OH, HE READ IT. THAT'S WHERE HE GOT THE IDEA FOR 911. Fooled us.

[allidoiswin]

10:36 AM on 08/08/2010

At least she has a heart. I can't blame her for decisions her Husband has made, She's a nice woman who married the wrong man.

[olivia]

10:40 AM on 08/08/2010

A HEART????????????????????????????????

Name one thing she did to prevent the destruction and suffering Bush heaped on this country and the world.

[olivia]

10:41 AM on 08/08/2010

You can certainly blame her for the decisions her husband made. She stood by him. She didn't work like the rest of us did to try to prevent the horrible things Bush did to the nation. She just sat there in her castle and ate bon bons and got plastic surgery. She's more like her mother-in-law, just better trained to speak softly and stick to scripts.

[nana4g]

10:54 AM on 08/08/2010

More like her mother-in-law, I think not. Her MIL was known for speaking her mind to her family, at least, and she confronted her son "W" on all of his "religiosity". Of course, the son was not like his father, either. Sadly, all of those kids took a back seat to the career of their father and just throwing money at kids for their obligatory educations in the obligatory institutions will not make for a successful, healthy adult. The sons are nothing to speak of, with the exception of Jeb, and I dislike his politics of late. The family has been personally subsidized financially by the Saudi Royal Family for years.

[nana4g]

10:59 AM on 08/08/2010

All told, however, these two women were the least influential First Ladies in my memory, with Laura seemingly passive and lazy. She went to lunch a lot, buffed up herself in the WH gym, and pretty much just lived her own life, doing what she wanted to do, which was just take care of herself. She just endured, it seems, the only way she knew how, and, in all fairness, after the first 6 years of a free pass that her husband was given, it would have been pointless to put herself out there, but, she wasted a lot of time and opportunity and need of others in those first 6 years.

[olivia]

10:35 AM on 08/08/2010

So she's still willing to be used by the neocons in their effort to control the Middle East to make money.

Every time she comes out with some lame comment and the world fawns over her because it isn't in Karl Rove's scripts, remember this: The only thing she accomplished as First Lady was to help soft-sell Bush's wars. Oh, and she suggested kids should read (we really needed her to tell everyone this at a few luncheons because the reason some kids don't read is because kids don't ever hear that, right?).

[Takebackourmoney]

10:32 AM on 08/08/2010

How much will it cost the taxpayer for this plane ride and security details.

[olivia]

10:35 AM on 08/08/2010

I wonder how much it cost for the Bush twins to go to South America without their parents? I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh whining about that, at the time.

[pasko]

02:07 PM on 08/08/2010

is she taking 40 of her closest friends?

[Takebackourmoney]

02:27 PM on 08/08/2010

Why are you asking that question.

[nogornc]

09:57 AM on 08/08/2010

Is she going to read from My Pet Goat?