As of now, there have been over a million hits on the Never Forget animated graphic, since I started counting!
The animation was originally inspired by an anonymously-produced PowerPoint slideshow making the rounds on the internet and via emails after 9/11. I gathered some of the graphics and produced the prototype of the graphic to display on my personal website. After refinements and improvements suggested by Damsel and others, it appears as it does today.
Last August, I made an offer to display the Never Forget Animated Graphic to anyone wishing to display it. This is the graphic seen in the right sidebar depicting the attacks on America by terrorists. The offer was only taken by a few sites at first, but since then, many more have begun displaying the animation. In fact, there are currently about 200 sites showing the graphic, and that number has been growing by about three a day. Sites in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK and Italy (maybe more) have it on their pages.
After appearing on a couple dozen websites, I looked at the bandwidth that it was consuming, and decided to close the offer for new websites since I am limited in bandwidth by my ISP. When I published my intent to close the offer, Wonder Woman from North American Patriot made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: her webmaster would host the graphic on a non-bandwidth-limited server! Of course, I accepted and am still very grateful for their generosity.
Damsel and I believe that the War on Terror is the most important issue before the American People and our Allies. The presence of this graphic on our site indicates our unwillingness to forget what happened and what still needs to be done. It makes us very proud to see our graphic on so many sites (getting 20,000 hits a day) and gives us comfort knowing there are so many like-minded people in the blogosphere willing to display the graphic.
Thanks to all who display it and thanks again to North American Patriot.
You can get the script to display the graphic on your website at the Never Forget page.
I have a question.
One of the captions says “Never Forget Who Did It.” How do you feel about telling people to never forget what Osama Bin Laden did, when the American government is ignoring him completely?
Stew – that’s a fair question. My purpose in including the who done it sequence is to depict their glee at our loss, the hatred of the West and the maniacal determination of an enemy that will not ever quit until it is destroyed.
We don’t know what covert operations may be underway in finding UBL – I’m not convinced that the Military and Special Forces are ‘ignoring’ him.
At any rate, the presence of the enemy in the graphic is an historical accuracy, regardless of the Government’s activities.
I like it the way it is.
Thanks for answering my question. You are right in telling people to never forget, it is a true shame what the President has done. And yes, the military are ignoring him, Bush has said so himself. Now as to covert ops, I doubt that America would ‘secretly’ remove him, being the most wanted man in America and all. His head on a pike would be worth a lot of votes, so I’d say if Bush had plans for him we’d know it.
Once again, you are right in wanting to remember.
Thanks again.