comment re: 9.11 A Day of Remembrance ..for the Victims ..and our enemies

From: janusz Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009

 

Bob- How unusual for non-Poles actually to know enough history to acknowledge the historical event at Austria.

A couple of side-lights: the engineers who were helping the Turks mine under the walls of Vienna were French.

The Poles were repaid for their act of salvation by having the country divided among its neighbors, including the Austrians.

The Empress of Austria, however, was reported to have shed tears as she groped for more and more territory carved out of her savior country.

Frank Janusz (whose ancestors most likely participated in the battle.)

Sep 11, 2009 10:55:17 AM, rharrold@harrold.org wrote:

9.11 - A Remembrance ..the Victims and our enemies

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American Minute for September 11th:

     "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended," spoke President Bush, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, after Islamic terrorists hijacked passenger jets, flying two into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one which crashed in Pennsylvania. That evening President Bush stated: "Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. Pictures of planes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger." President Bush continued: "America was targeted...because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world...I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve...I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: 'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with me.'" On September 13, 2001, President Bush stated: "Scripture says: 'Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.' I call on every American...to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance...In the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, 'One Nation Under God.'"

     In 1683, over 138,000 Muslim Ottoman Turks surrounded Vienna, Austria. For two months they starved the 11,000 Hapsburg-Austrian defenders. Sultan Mehmed IV sent a message to Austrian King, Leopold I: "Await us in your residence...so we can decapitate you." Secretly, Polish King Jan Sobieski, gathered 81,000 Polish, Austrian and German troops and on SEPTEMBER 11, 1683, led a surprise attack causing the Turks to flee in confusion. Upon entering the abandonded Turkish tents, they found bags of beans - coffee beans - revealing how Turks could fight day and night. Shortly thereafter, Polish General Kulczycki opened one of Vienna's first coffeehouses and coffee quickly spread across Europe. Whereas the Pope and European leaders hailed Jan Sobieski as the "Savior of Western Civilization," the humiliated Muslim army beheaded their general, Mustafa Pasha, and sent his head back to Sultan Mehmed IV in a velvet bag. President Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his 1916 book, Fear God and Take Your Own Part: "From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact it...could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna Theodore Roosevelt, "Fear God and Take Your Own Part (NY: George H. Doran Company, 1916), page 196-197. President George W. Bush, statements issued from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, 1:30pm EDT, & later that evening in a national address from the Oval Office. Sept. 11th. www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010913-7.html The date, Sept. 11, 1777. The Continental Congress was being forced to evacuate Philadelphia, as the British had just won the Battle of Brandywine, forcing Washington's 10,000 troops to retreat. In addition to this desperate situation, Congress was made aware that there was a shortage of Bibles due to the interruption of trade with the King's printers in England. Congress voted to import Bibles from Scotland or Holland into different parts of the Union, stating: "The use of the Bible is so universal and its importance so great...it was resolved accordingly to direct said Committee of Commerce to import 20,000 copies of the Bible." Congress, Continental. Sept. 11, 1777. Robert Flood, The Rebirth of America Philadelphia: Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986), p. 39. Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905), book 146, Vol. VIII, pp. 731-735. Journal of the American Congress, 1774-1788 (Washington: 1823), Vol. II, pp. 261-262. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 96. Benjamin Franklin Morris, The Christian Life & Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (Philadelphia, PA: G.W. Childs, 1864), pp. 215-216. Gary DeMar, America's Christian History: The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Publishers, Inc., 1993), pp. 47-48. D.P. Diffine, Ph.D., One Nation Under God - How Close a Separation? (Searcy, AR: Harding University, Belden Center for Private Enterprise Education, 6th ed, 1992), p. 2.

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