September 11, 2006

Since it seems it's a given to commemorate 9/11, as the attacks are now referenced, I thought I'd share this one - from ShaBot, a comic strip about an Orthodox Jewish man and his animatronic friend. The strip is called ShaBot6000 and the artist/writer is Ben Baruch. His strip is usually an off beat commentary on an Orthodox Jewish life. This one makes sense in its own offbeat way. Shalom.

Today marks the five year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

A gift of wood is traditional for a fifth year wedding anniversary.

For America, the gift is freedom.

To all those who lost friends, loved ones or just mourn the loss of so many at one time, in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, my sincere sympathies. I still cannot imagine the enormous loss on that day 5 years ago, even though we all saw it over and over again. For those of us in the metropolitan New York area, it struck us personally, even if there was no intimate connection with the victims. I could not believe it had happened until I went to the Eagle Rock Reservation, which looks directly at the WTC site. There's now a memorial there, as there was an impromptu one of sorts just several days after the attack.

Peace to all.
Here is a list of how to say "Peace" in many languages

(English transliterations)
Abenaki - OLAKAMIGENOKA
Afrikaans - VREDE
Akan - ASOMDWOE
Akkadian - SALMU
Alabama - ITTIMOKLA
Albanian - PAQE
Algonquin - WAKI IJIWEBISI
Alsacien - FRIEDE
Amharic - SELAM
Arabic - SALLAM
Aranese - PATZ
Armenian - ASHKHARH
Assamese - SHANTI
Aymara - HACANA
Bemba MUTENDEN
Basque (Euzkera) - BAKEA
Bavarian - FRIDN
Batak - PARDAMEAN
Belorussian - PAKOJ
Bengali - SHANTI
Bhojpuri - SHANTI
Bislama - PIS
Blackfoot - INNAIHTSIIYA
Bosnian - MIR
Breton - PEOCH
Bulgarian - MIR
Buli - GOOM-JIGI
Burmese - NYEIN CHAN YAY
Cantonese - PENG ON
Carolinian - GUNNAMMWEY
Catalan - PAU
Cebuano - KALINAW
Chamorro - MINAGGEM
Cheyenne - NANOMONSETOTSE
Chewa - MTENDERE
Chinese - HE-PING
Choctaw - ACHUKMA
Chontal - AYLOBAHA GAFULEYA
Chuuk - KUNAMMWEY
Comanche - TSUMUKIKATU
Corsican (north) - PACE
Corsican (south) - PACI
Creole - PAIX
Crio - PIS
Czech - MIR
Danish - FRED
Dari - SULH
Duala - MUSANGO
Dutch - VREDE
Egyptian - HETEP
Ekari - MUKA MUKA
English - PEACE
Eskimo - ERKIGSNEK
Esperanto - PACO
Estonian - RAHU
Faeroese - FRIDUR
Fanagolo - KUTULA
Farsi (Persian) - SOLH
Fijian - VAKACEGU
Filipino - PASENSIYA
Finnish - RAUHA
Flemish - VREDE
Fon - FIFA
French - PAIX
French (older) - PAIS
Fresian - FRED
Fula - JAM
Gaelic-Irish - SIOCHAIN
Gaelic-Scottish - SIOCHAINT
Galician - PAZ
German -FRIEDEN
Gikuyu - THAYU
Greek - EIPHNH
Greenlandic - EQQISAQATIGIINEQ
Guarani - PYGUAPY
Gujarati - SHANTI
Halaka - PEGDUB
Hausa - LUMANA
Hawaiian - MALUHIA
Hebrew - SHALOM
Hindi - SHANTI
Hokkien - TAI PENG
Hopi - SHI-NU-MU (=peaceful)
Hungarian - BEKE
Icelandic - FRIDUR
Icelandic(older) - FRIDR
Igbo - UDO
Ila - CHIBANDA
Indonesian - DAMAI
Inuktitut - ANUSDAKE
Italian - PACE
Japanese - HEIWA
Javanese - RUKUN
Kannada - SHANTI
Kazakh - MIR
Kekchi - TUKTUQUIL USILAL
Khmer(Cambodian) - SANTEKPHEP
Kinyarwanda - AMAHORO
Kirundi - AMAHORO
Klingon - ROJ
Koasati - ILIFAYKA
Korean - PYOUNG-HWA
Kosati - ILIFAYKA
Kurdish - ASHTI
Kusaiean - MIHS
Lakota - WOWANWA
Lao - MITSUMPUN
Latin - PAX
Latvian - MIERS
Lingala - KIMIA
Lithuanian - TAIKA
Lojban - PANPI
Luganda - EMIREMBE
Magindanain - KALILINTAD
Mahican - ANACHEMOWEGAN
Malagasi - FANDRIAMPAHALAMANA
Malay - KEAMANAN (SALAM DAMAI?)
Malgache - FANDRIAMPAHALEMANA
Maltese - PACI
Mandarin - HA-PIN
Manobo - LINEW
Maori - RONGO
Mapundungun - UVCHIN
Maranao - DIAKATRA
Marshallese - AENOMMAN
Mentaiwan - PERDAMIAM
Metis Cree - PEYAHTUKE YIMOWIN
Micmac - WONTOKODE
Miskito - KUPIA KUMI LAKA
Mokilese - ONPEK
Mongo - BEOTO
Mongolian - ENKH TAIVAN (?)
Mossi - LAFI
Munsterian - ECHNAHCATON
Navaho - KE
Nepali - SAANTI
Nez Perce - EYEWI
Nhengatu - TECOCATU
Norwegian - FRED
Ntomba - NYE
Nyanja - MTENDERE
Ojibwe - BANGAN (=to be peaceful)
Otomi - HMETHO
Palauan - BUDECH
Pali - NIRUDHO
Papago - DODOLIMDAG
Pashto - AMNIAT
Pintupi - YATANPA
Polish - POKOJ
Ponapean - MELELILEI
Portuguese - PAZ
Potawatomi - ETOKMITEK
Punjabi - SHANTI
Pustu - SULA
Quechua - CASILLA (?)
Rapanui - IBA KIBA
Romanian - PACE
Romansch - PASCH
Ruanda - NIMUHORE
Rundi - AMAHORO
Russian - MIR
Saa - DAILAMA
Sami - RAFAIDUHHTIT
Samoan - FILEMU
Sanskrit - SHANTIH
Sardinian - PACHE
Serbian - MIR
Sesotho - KHOTSO
Setswana - KAGISO
Shona - RUNYARO
Sinhala - SAMAYA
Sioux - WOOKEYEH
Siswati - KUTHULA
Slovak - MIER
Slovenian - MIR
Somali - NABAD
Spanish - PAZ
Srilankan - SAAMAYA
Swahili - USALAMA (SALAMA?)
Swedish - FRED
Tagalog - KAPAYAPAAN
Tamazight(Berber) - TALWIT
Tamil - SAMADAANAM
Tangut - NEI
Tatar - DUSLIK
Telugu - SHANTI
Thai - SANTIPAB
Thiraro - MBUKUSHI
Tibetan - ZHIDE
Tlingit - LI-KEI
Tongan - MELINO
Truk - KUNAMMWEY
Tsalagi - NVWHTOHIYADA
Tswana - KHOTSO
Turkish - BARIS
Turkmen - PARAHATCYLYK
Twi-Akan - ASOMDWEE
Uighur - SAQ
Ukrainian - MIR
Urdu - AMAN
Uzbek - TINCHLIK
Verlent - PAXTEM
Vietnamese - HOA BINH
Welsh - HEDD
Wintu - MINA
Woleaian - GUMUND
Xhosa - UXOLO
Yiddish - SHULAM
Yoruba - ALAAFIA
Yue - SAI GAAI OH PIHNG
Zapotec - LAYENI
Zulu - UKUTHULA (UXOLO?)