This past Monday, I had the great privilege, along with a spectator-filled room in Montreal, to attend Richard Gage and David Ray Griffin's presentations.

Even if I have been following on a daily basis for the past few years all the News available regarding 9/11, I still learned a few new things from these very efficient speakers. Which just goes to show how important work they are both doing, investigating and constantly reporting new developments regarding the events. They are, truly, OUR mainstream media.

The evening started out with a great introduction where the Maître D' asked the Radio-Canada crew (french equivalent to CBC) reporting the event to stay for the evening, instead of leaving 10 minutes into the first presentation... which they did anyway, of course.

Then DRG stepped up to the plate and delivered another of his precise and fact filed presentation about the legality of the wars going on and giving us an interesting glance at his next book.

During the (very) small break between the two presentations, I went in the back, over DRG's book table, where he was already signing books. I had brought my old copy of "The New Pearl Harbour" for him to sign. So I took it out, shook his hand and we had a very brief conversation about the "New Pearl Harbour - Revisited", which he explains is not just an updated version of the first one, but rather a complimentary book. So I told him I would buy it soon, and jokingly added that "I was too poor, this month"...

Later on, after Richard Gages's presentation, you could easily feel the "awakening" of a few people in the crowd, during the Q&A. I guess it's always the same, everywhere he speaks. But you could also feel a sense or urgency in his tone of voice and his eyes, which made me realize how far we'd all come. The science behind explosives at the WTC on Sept. 11 is now incontrovertible . Gage and A&E911 have done their job of amassing the data and putting hard cold facts on the table. He is now relentlessly repeating it everywhere he goes, like a mantra. All he can do now, is spread it everywhere. Just that, makes him and his staff work extremely long hours every week, he mentioned during the Q&A. But he still does it with conviction and energy.

And as I walked out of the room, two hours or so after his presentation was finished, I saw DRG again, still over at his table, giving a radio interview. It made me wondered why at this point in his life, when most people would prefer a well deserved quiet retirement, he elected to tour across the land, speaking as often as he does, writing book after book on the subject. I think I know what. That sense of urgency again...

I stopped and bought the "New Pearl Harbour - Revisited". If he can sum up the energy to do all that he does at his age, the least I can do is encourage him to keep writing informative material as he has done in the past.

Mr. Gage, Mr. Griffin - your work is important. Thank you. You are two of the Movement's indestructible core columns.