Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 11, 2018

Some came running

Into danger

Risk their lives

Helping strangers.

Mighty towers

Tumbled down

Many helpers

Never found.

Save us from the true believers

Hateful violence, vile deceivers.

Today ‘tis fitting to recall

Some came running, sacrificing all.

The towers fallen.

Many coming for rescue.

Always remember.

Good morning™, American Heroes!

We had our annual ceremony here at the Canadian Firefighters Memorial on Sunday. One of these times, I will attend.

And we have color back (yesterday’s strip, too) but I think I’d like this one better in black and white

Good morning™, survivors !

May we never forget 9-11 !

Good Morning New York!!!

God Bless!!!

18 years after the fact, still so sad, what can you say?

This is what ’Nuff Said means.

In pace requistat.

The heroes are the ones who run toward trouble!

Thank you

Fire fighters, police officers, and doctors/nurses will always be our heroes…

Never forget. I always love how we forget the 6,831 military members who died in the wars following September 11th.

The powers that be forgot the people who now have medical problems from rushing to the call when the towers were struck. Just as they do all others called to serve.

♥♥♥

As a child of the 50’s this tragedy gave me insight on the deep emotions my parents felt about Pearl Harbor.

These in the days when heaven was falling

the hour when earth’s foundation fled

followed their mercenary calling

took their pay and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended

they stood, and earth’s foundations stayed.

What God abandoned, these defended

and saved the sum of things for pay.- A. E. Housman

How many other strips besides DT have a 9-11 tribute? I have found only one so far, Birdbrains:

https://www.gocomics.com/birdbrains/2018/09/11

Nancy used to do one, but a new artist has taken over that comic.

We will never forget. We must defeat the terrorist. Failure is not an option.

I read about 45 comic strips every day. This is the only one that did a 9/11 tribute this year.

Thinking of a line from an Auden poem today, along the lines of “those to whom evil is done do evil in return.”

I am thankful for our First Responders. Never Forget.

Something I found:

https://imgur.com/LSKnheJ