We have "borrowed" many of these images and sounds from other sites, too numerous to mention, and we would like to extend our thanks to those sites for allowing the sharing of these. The images do remain the copyright of the original publishers, hopefully, under the sad circumstances they will allow us to share these with you all. If anyone does hold the copyright to any of the material used, and objects to it's use we will remove it as soon as possible once notified of such a request. Please email us to confirm your interest.

We would like to thank both national, and international media for the considerable empathy they have shown in covering these events, and whilst we are eager to give the originators of all the images and texts that we have included praise for their content this has not been possible in the majority of cases, if you know of any originators we will include them as soon as possible.  We would also like to thank Associated Press who hold the rights to many of the pictures.

We ask you to be patient whilst the pages load as there are many images, some of which are quite large.

If you have any additional material or information for this site we would welcome it, and will include it if possible at the earliest opportunity. We are not now limited to available space thanks to the tremendous support from Lycos/Tripod, and our supporters in California.

You will note that throughout this website there are no page "hit" counters, nor do we have a "guest book" as we feel that this is neither the time, nor the place to either add extra items, or to satisfy ourselves of the popularity of the site. However figures from the hosts at Tripod show that we are constantly receiving over 500 hits per day on our main tribute websites. These figures have little changed over the past several months having peaked at over 10,000 per day in the immediate days surrounding the first anniversary of the tragedy.

 

January 10th, 2004....decided to make this a dual purpose website, paying tribute to those who have lost their lives in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in addition to those lost in the attacks of September 11th, 2001......all of whom are indeed USAHeroes...

 

November 30th, 2003...work continues, but slowly as our main objective at this time is to continue with daily updates and development of our Operation Iraqi Freedom website

 

August 10th, 2003...more pages added, we are still establishing that our facts are as upto date as possible

 

March 20th, 2003...Continued page builds and research

 

January 15th, 2003...Work resumed on page building and research into personal details of the victims and heroes, launch date now subject to change depending on progress and because of the lack of details available.

 

November 20th, 2002...Unfortunately work suspended owing to health issues, proposed launch date postponed until Easter of 2003, owing to post-surgery recovery time and the physical lack of ability to work at the computer for extended periods.

 

October 1st, 2002...Research started into the individuals concerned and attempting to locate photographs and details, with the intention of being able to launch the site at Christmas 2002.

 

September 11th, 2002...Initial work started on this website including basic build.

 

August 8th, 2002...the domains of our original tribute site and this one, along with additional ones for future use registered.

 

July 4th, 2002......The original thought of building a website that pays tribute to the individuals involved, including, where possible, their photograph, and some short details of them.