SEPTEMBER 11 - ROSE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

September 11^th "Rose Day of Remembrance"

"To remember lest we forget"

This is one section of the rose garden at the home of Thomas and Carol O'Neill, on Long Island, that was planted as a memorial to those who were lost on Sept. 11, 2001 - specifically those who perished at the offices of Sandler, O'Neill & Partners, LLP on the 104^th floor of Two World Trade Center. This beautiful garden is planted with David Austin Roses. At one end of the garden, in between the two rose beds is a tablet with this poem:

I give you this one thought to keep.

I am with you still, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the Diamond glint on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle Autumn rain.

When you waken in the mornings hush,

I am the swift, uplifting rush

Of quiet bird in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not think of me as gone.

I am with you still, in each new dawn.

A year after the catastrophic tragedy of September 11, 2001, the President of the American Rose Society, Dr. Thomas Cairns, at the ARS Fall National Convention in Cleveland requested that Sept. 11 each year be acknowledged as "Rose Day of Remembrance". It was voted unanimously.

Throughout history, we have given roses to show sympathy and share the grief of our love ones. In our darkest hours, the rose extends her beauty and provides comfort and solace to us. Always there, always comforting, always reassuring, always a symbol of life, liberty and freedom - our National Floral Emblem

Let us continue to give roses and plant roses in the spirit of freedom.

Copyright © 2009. By Rosalinda Morgan, "The Rose Lady". All rights reserved.. *

September 11^th "Rose Day of Remembrance"*

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