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Oh be quiet. Pathetic that you can pull Obama into a thread about 9/11.
Stupidity reigns ...
I will yell from every mountaintop about not repeating the mistakes that led us to 9/11... those mistakes are being grossly repeated by Obama
Next time it might be 30 million Americans
So as politely as I can say ... you be quiet ...
Pathetic is some Americans who live in a bubble
We honor our fellow Americans by NOT allowing politicians to fail at keeping our homeland safe.
I don't know anyone who's forgotten what happened on 9/11/01, or who has forgotten what that day signifies, or how the tragedy has affected our everyday lives, to this day.
And RIP always to a college acquaintance -- a wife, mom and friend, trapped on the South Tower.
I will yell from every mountaintop about not repeating the mistakes that led us to 9/11... those mistakes are being grossly repeated by Obama
Next time it might be 30 million Americans
So as politely as I can say ... you be quiet ...
Pathetic is some Americans who live in a bubble
We honor our fellow Americans by NOT allowing politicians to fail at keeping our homeland safe.
They are right. If anything, the Shrub should be mentioned in this thread...not President Obama.
Yeah, it definitely went too far with all the symbolism. The company that produced all those magnet flags for our cars made a killing.
Well, my father is very patriotic and he had some women approach him at a local store around this date a few years ago that said they were selling pins to support various charities (breast cancer, troops, autism, etc.) and they charged him something like $10 for a tiny ribbon/flag pin that was supposed to support the troops. He ended up buying a few of those pins. I still say it was a scam. He can afford it, but he loves to buy coffees (and other stuff) for people in uniform and whatnot, and it irritated me that this usually savvy guy had his sympathies played on by these chicks who were just trying to make a quick buck.
I was 20.
I remember i worked a double shift from 3pm to 7am the afternoon/evening of the 11th in Fort Lee, overlooking the george washington bridge (I think they had closed the bridge altogether at that point). I remember i had never heard it so quiet, ever. just totally eerily quiet.
I don't know how I feel about all this memorial stuff. I think i find most of the facebook posts kind of annoying. Basically, if I see one more eagle and flag superimposed over the NYC skyline, I'm gonna puke. A few thousand people died that day - tell me their individual stories. I read as many as I can, but ... that's a lot of deaths. But yeah, tell me who they were. Don't give me symbols.
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What the heck does that mean?
Don't feed it. It's just trying to cause trouble.
I agree. One of my girlfriend's worked with the guy who took the photo (the official photog of record) of the firefighters raising the flag and that photo has been basterdized so much and no one gives him photo credit where they should. That's a huge deal for a photographer.
Also I cringe when I see someone refer to the World Trade Center site as GZ.
Seems like most have moved on....not much memory of the day.
Me? I worked for many years in the Cantor space.... more than 100 of my friends, colleagues and competitors met with death that day.
Forever, I will remember them, the horror of the moment, and shape of life since.
Old expression: "Lest we forget......." Somehow I think we mostly have.
I was at the WTC on 9/11. I was there in 1993, too.
Lost many, many neighbors, friends and colleagues, too.
Like anything, those who were in NY or DC and/or lost people they cared about are going to react differently than those who watched the day unfold on TV or were too young to comprehend.
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