HISTORY - have we learned anything yet?

How 9/11 attacks reshaped U.S. privacy debate by Dean McCullagh

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Is your State Prepared? Are Your Schools?

 

There have been Disasters that devastated whole school districts.

 

HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS AND DISASTER PLAN RESOURCES

Dedicated to the men, women and children who lost their lives; all those who sacrificed their lives; And to all the Heroes that responded to the emergency.

HISTORY - have we learned anything yet?
Are Your Schools Prepared?

There have been Disasters that devastated whole school districts. It's the largest student resettlement in the nation's history. Historians said that those twin challenges surpassed anything that public education had experienced since its creation after the Civil War, including the San Francisco earthquake and the Chicago fire. Schools welcoming the displaced students must not only provide classrooms, teachers and textbooks, but under the terms of President Bush's education law must also almost immediately begin to raise their scholastic achievement unless some provisions of that law are waived.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07child.html

TEACH K-12 SCHOOLS HOW TO BECOME A HAM RADIO OPERATOR

Do you know a Ham Radio Operator?
Become a Lifeguard
Guard our Airwaves
YOU can save lives
Emergency Communication http://www.arrl.org
GUARD OUR AIRWAVES - SAVE LIVES - LEARN MORSE CODE- Become a lifeguard.

Building or Retrofitting schools to withstand natural disasters and terrorism Developing emergency preparedness plans, and using school buildings to shelter community members during emergencies.

School Dirctory

Security: You can't prevent disaster, you can only prepare for it and mange it when and after it happens. It will happen. The only secure computer is a dead computer. The only secure community in a hurricane zone is a dead community.

American Academy of Pediatrics
Children, Terrorism and Disasters

Building or Retrofitting schools to withstand natural disasters and terrorism Developing emergency preparedness plans, and using school buildings to shelter community members during emergencies.

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United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked on September 11, 2001 near Cleveland, Ohio. and crashed in south-western Pennsylvania. The hijackers can be heard twice mistakenly transmitting messages intended for the passengers over the Cleveland ARTCC frequency. Please note that this tape is not chronologically accurate; periods of dead air (silence) have been removed for brevity. This file is nearly 4Meg in size. This audio is Courtesy of Airdisaster.com You can also here it here.4) Several Tributes located in one place.

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4/9/03 Americans Liberate Bagdad - has been defeated, and the people celebrate their first night of freedom from Sadam Hussein after a decade of repression. CBS NEWS