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I will never forget that day. Waiting in horror and shock for our loved ones to get home from work in NYC that day. Those who never made it home and those who finally did, completely covered from head to toe is silt, dust and debris.
Not a very good 9/11 memorial thread....if that's what this was supposed to be....the original post is all over the place and the responses only made it worse.
But as somebody that was wearing the US military uniform when the towers came down, I will never forget 9/11.
This is about the only post on this thread that makes any sense to me at all.
I don't like all the wars that were fought in the name of that terrible day. I don't scapegoat all Muslims for that terrible day. I don't think that day is a good excuse for "nation-building," whatever that is.
But I do remember the horror of watching those buildings fall, and of imagining what it must have been like to be trapped inside.
The people who died in those towers were not political figures. They were innocents, going about their daily lives. Let's not disrespect their memory by either using their deaths to justify more needless wars OR by saying the fact that they were killed is somehow justified by this country's past misdeeds.
Actually, it means more to him than it does all the right-wingers who blindly supported your Preskdent's invasion of Iraq, when he blamed 9/11 on Saddam Hussein.
This is about the only post on this thread that makes any sense to me at all.
I don't like all the wars that were fought in the name of that terrible day. I don't scapegoat all Muslims for that terrible day. I don't think that day is a good excuse for "nation-building," whatever that is.
But I do remember the horror of watching those buildings fall, and of imagining what it must have been like to be trapped inside.
The people who died in those towers were not political figures. They were innocents, going about their daily lives. Let's not disrespect their memory by either using their deaths to justify more needless wars OR by saying the fact that they were killed is somehow justified by this country's past misdeeds.
None of the deaths of innocent people simply going on in their daily lives are justified. None of them. No matter where they are.
NYC, Boston, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or wherever they are.
Thousands of lives were needlessly lost.
Tens, hundreds, thousands of thousands of lives were forever altered.
Families and friendships were destroyed.
Just like happens daily around the world.
Sure, the scales are different, but when someone you love is killed, the scale matters little.
9/11/2001 was the day that America should have been reminded that we're no different than the rest of the world.
Unfortunate that so many people look at those events and try to use them to force the opposite view point. Because that's what leads to this kind of thing in the first place.
It has some enhanced meaning to you that it doesn't have to me? What...you went out and killed a bunch of Al Qaeda terrorists in the intervening years?
"We will never forget!" Pfffft....so what. They didn't strike us with hopes that we'd forget anyway. They wanted you to remember it for as long as you live.
Whatever. It's done and it's over. I ain't about to live out life through the prism of 9/11. What you need to be thinking about is how this country can avoid that kinda blowback again, instead of dwelling on 9/11.
Whether you live in New York City, Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, or any little town USA, you have to remember that the September 11th, 2001 attacks were attacks on all of us Americans.
We were attacked on our own soil. Thousands were massacred.
Took us years to get the guy behind it.
Did you get the right guy?
" . . he orders a helicopter pilot to crash, and then twice breaks his own arm. He claims that he is either with the CIA, the CIC, or the CID, depending on who he's dealing with."
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