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in reply to: Flags on the 48 Image Gallery #48769
Just a reminder here to have your batteries charged up for your digital cameras. Take lot of pics again this year!
in reply to: Thank you, Alphazone.com!!! #48921Make that 155 redirects which includes yesterday.
in reply to: Time for a press release #48860PRWeb approved it. Will be officially released on 9/6:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/9/prweb78919.php
Probably not the best day, being a Saturday, but it’ll be exactly one week out.
in reply to: Time for a press release #48859I also submitted the press release to http://prweb.com/
Here’s the final ‘official’ release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Hikers remember 9/11 in New Hampshire’s White MountainsWhite Mountains, NH – September 3, 2003 – The second annual “Flags on the 48”, A September 11th Memorial Hike, will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2003 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
The “Flags on the 48” event was established because of the horrific terrorist attack that took place on September 11, 2001. Three days after the attack, several regular posters on the AMC Hiker Journal on-line message forum banded together and planned a following day hike up Mount Liberty with the biggest flag they could acquire.
On September 15, 2001, six hikers met at the “White House” Trailhead armed with a 96 square foot American flag, 30 feet of PVC tubing, 100 feet of rope, 2 rolls of duct tape, and a mountain of pride and determination. At noon the flag was raised on the summit of Mount Liberty in a tribute to the thousands of innocent people who perished a few days earlier; a small gesture for such a gigantic loss.
The patriotic display received a tremendous amount of positive feedback, and a few weeks later a committee formed to establish a larger memorial for the one year anniversary. A Web site was established at http://flags.alpinezone.com and the “Flags on the 48” was born.
During the first “Flags on the 48” event on September 14, 2002, several hundred patriotic compassionate souls embarked on a journey to raise American flags on all of the summits of the 48 4,000+ foot mountains in New Hampshire. Although still a small gesture for such an incredible loss, the feedback from all of the participants as well as observers was overwhelming.
On September 13, 2003, we are continuing this memorial to unite the hiking community in a show of support to all of the families and communities who suffered tragic losses that day, and to all of the people who have died serving this great country to preserve our freedom.
One of the coordinators, Richard Kipphut, notes why some hikers participate in this memorial: “By demonstrating our steadfast unity as Americans and as hikers, we hope to express our unwavering support to the families and to the communities whose losses are beyond comprehension and whose sacrifices will forever remain in our hearts.”
For more information or to sign up to raise a flag on one of the 48 peaks, visit http://flags.alpinezone.com or E-mail flags03@alpinezone.com.
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in reply to: Time for a press release #48857How about:
Hikers remember 9/11 in New Hampshire’s White Mountains
That include all of the major keywords…
in reply to: Thank you, Alphazone.com!!! #48919@LOMU wrote:
I just went to that site. No more redirect. But it was cool of them to do it at all.
It’s not the main alphazone.com domain. It’s this URL:
http://www.flags.alphazone.com
It was a misprint in this article.
in reply to: Thank you, Alphazone.com!!! #48917I just checked the logs. On September 2 and 3 alone, there have been 98 redirects from the alphazone.com URL! That’s a pretty decent response!
in reply to: Time for a press release #48855@the8re wrote:
Hikers remember 9/11 in New Hampshire
This would probably be most effective, IMHO.
in reply to: Time for a press release #48853@Frodo wrote:
Greg,
Looks great, but that line was actually written by RJ. You should replace my name with his.
Done. Did I spell his last name correctly?
in reply to: Time for a press release #48851Okay. Web and PDF updated. Here it is:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
White Mountains, NH – September 3, 2003 – The second annual “Flags on the 48”, A September 11th Memorial Hike, will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2003 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
The “Flags on the 48” event was established because of the horrific terrorist attack that took place on September 11, 2001. Three days after the attack, several regular posters on the AMC Hiker Journal on-line message forum banded together and planned a following day hike up Mount Liberty with the biggest flag they could acquire.
On September 15, 2001, six hikers met at the “White House” Trailhead armed with a 96 square foot American flag, 30 feet of PVC tubing, 100 feet of rope, 2 rolls of duct tape, and a mountain of pride and determination. At noon the flag was raised on the summit of Mount Liberty in a tribute to the thousands of innocent people who perished a few days earlier; a small gesture for such a gigantic loss.
The patriotic display received a tremendous amount of positive feedback, and a few weeks later a committee formed to establish a larger memorial for the one year anniversary. A Web site was established at http://flags.alpinezone.com and the “Flags on the 48” was born.
During the first “Flags on the 48” event on September 14, 2002, several hundred patriotic compassionate souls embarked on a journey to raise American flags on all of the summits of the 48 4,000+ foot mountains in New Hampshire. Although still a small gesture for such an incredible loss, the feedback from all of the participants as well as observers was overwhelming.
On September 13, 2003, we are continuing this memorial to unite the hiking community in a show of support to all of the families and communities who suffered tragic losses that day, and to all of the people who have died serving this great country to preserve our freedom.
One of the coordinators, Richard Kipphut, notes why some hikers participate in this memorial: “By demonstrating our steadfast unity as Americans and as hikers, we hope to express our unwavering support to the families and to the communities whose losses are beyond comprehension and whose sacrifices will forever remain in our hearts.”
For more information or to sign up to raise a flag on one of the 48 peaks, visit http://flags.alpinezone.com or E-mail flags03@alpinezone.com.
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in reply to: Time for a press release #48849I made some minor modifications:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
White Mountains, NH – September 3, 2003 – The second annual “Flags on the 48”, A September 11th Memorial Hike, will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2003 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
The “Flags on the 48” event was established because of the horrific terrorist attack that took place on September 11, 2001. Three days later, several regular posters on the AMC Hiker Journal on-line message forum banded together and planned a following day hike up Mount Liberty with the biggest flag they could acquire.
On September 15, 2001, six hikers met at the “White House” Trailhead armed with a 96 square foot American flag, 30 feet of PVC tubing, 100 feet of rope, 2 rolls of duct tape, and a mountain of pride and determination. At noon the flag was raised on the summit of Mount Liberty in a tribute to the thousands of innocent people who perished a few days earlier; a small gesture for such a gigantic loss.
The patriotic display received a tremendous amount of positive feedback, and a few weeks later a committee formed to establish a larger memorial for the one year anniversary. A Web site was established at http://flags.alpinezone.com and the “Flags on the 48” was born.
During the first “Flags on the 48” event on September 14, 2002, several hundred patriotic compassionate souls embarked on a journey to raise American flags on all of the summits of the 48 4,000+ foot mountains in New Hampshire. Although still a small gesture for such an incredible loss, the feedback from all of the participants as well as observers was overwhelming.
On September 13, 2003, we are continuing this memorial to unite the hiking community in a show of support to all of the families and communities who suffered tragic losses that day, and to all of the people who have died serving this great country to preserve our freedom.
One of the coordinators, Bob Williams, notes why some hikers participate in this memorial: “By demonstrating our steadfast unity as Americans and as hikers, we hope to express our unwavering support to the families and to the communities whose losses are beyond comprehension and whose sacrifices will forever remain in our hearts.”
For more information or to sign up to raise a flag on one of the 48 peaks, visit http://flags.alpinezone.com or E-mail flags03@alpinezone.com.
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That quote at the end is an excerpt from the mission statement I believe initially written by Frodo. I made similar modification to the mission statement and the signage file. Thoughts?
in reply to: Time for a press release #48847@the8re wrote:
I believe that Frodo’s Statement (as it’s come to be know) will be developed into our press release. I’ll work on that tonight.
Hey Stephen! Let me know if you worked on this at all. I’m going to send out an announcement to the E-Newsletter subscribers.
in reply to: Thank you, Alphazone.com!!! #48915This is great news! Thanks Larry!
@the8re wrote:
P.S. Greg, perhaps you could post the HTML for the banner so that people can add it to their webpage? (Yeah, I know the View Source thing… but not EVERYONE is 100% savy…)
If anyone is interested in placing the “banner” on their Web site, here is the code:
To learn more about the annual September 11 memorial hike to raise the American Flag on all 48 New Hampshire 4000'ers,
see the Flags on the 48 Web site.
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