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I refuse to bow down to the cult of 9/11 memorializing. We got sucker punched, and it hurt and sucked real bad. But time moves on, and i move on with it. Everytime i see the footage, it just makes me angry as hell, but since we can't really do anything about it, i've learned to just put it in the back of my mind and chalk it up to a world gone momentarily crazy on that day.
We do, every year. We celebrate with many people we love that escaped with their lives. And we mourn our friends who didn't............
Same here. We observe the moments of silence, and we have a memorial service for our dead. Prefer to be with other survivors that day rather than stay home from work, too.
We also remember 2/26/1993.
The National 911 Memorial will open on the anniversary this year.
It was a bad day, for sure, and in recent memory, but I wouldn't agree that it's the worst day in US History. September 17, 1862, at Antietam comes to mind, among other days.
Where do you live? Where were you on 9/11/01? I never said I was the only voice for the tri-state area.
The "facepalm" guy is just some random pic you have over-used? Thought it was from star trek. I hate science fiction, so I apologize for assuming, I guess I really wouldn't know.
In general, it absolutely does affect the people in the tri-state area far more than those in other parts of the country. I guess that would be expected.
In addition to the overall WTC survivors organization, there is a separate group for the 9/11 survivors who were in the Marriott (3 WTC), since most of them were from out of town. Some had difficulty back in their hometowns because while the cleanup and recovery operations and other aspects of the aftermath were everyday news in the NY metro area, it soon faded in most other parts of the country and those people had a hard time finding others to relate to, so they kept in touch for support via that group.
I don't really like to rank stuff like this - or say which was the worst, or turn things into a competition
I lost someone that day. It still fills me with a horror that other things don't, a combination of personal loss, the unexpectedness of it, and the visual aspect burned into my mind. Some atrocities aren't visible to us at all, never mind visible in such a shocking and visceral way
I'll go to the lake near my house, its where I go when I find myself thinking about this a lot
Why are so many people writing other tragedies? I did not see that question in the OP. I don't know what I'll be doing on 9/11 yet, and I really do think it was the worst day in modern history.
Then you don't know how conversations work. Not many conversations stay on topic very long.
Because the liberals are the one who started it and keep bringing it up....without paying any attention to their liberal comrades who VOTED FOR the war, before they didn't...and then made up all kinds of crap to disparage GWB. While decades of how much of a "threat" and how many "WMDs" Iraq had...is on record. All because they knew, they KNEW none of their ilk would EVER research how they voted and how vehemently they too, "knew" Iraq was an issue, had the same intel that showed SH had WMDs, and SH was a loose cannon.
Care to take Kerry, Clinton, H. Clinton, Gore, Kennedy, Pelosi, Feinstein...word for word...and question what they said in the past, until they pretended they never said it? All for an election to be won by votes for the sheep who fell for their lies.
Y'all just pass over that. Like they NEVER said what they said and supported what they supported.
No, and it's not a lie.
Just because you don't like the truth, doesn't mean that it isn't true.
Your version of "the truth" vs. what?
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There are a lot of things worse than Sep 11.
As you were already told: stop interpreting the OP and shoving WORLD history in a thread where American history was the issue.
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