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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: TheSarge on August 08, 2010, 07:27:25 AM
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As we are all aware of...the 9th anniv. of 9/11 is just right around the corner.
I'm asking folks as a way to remember what happened on that day 9 years ago to please change your avitar to the front page of your hometown newspaper from that day or to one that you prefer from the website below.
http://www.september11news.com/
That link provides thumbnails of hundreds of newspaper front pages. Find the one form your hometown or since mine isn't there...find the one that sums up best how you felt that day.
Just a thought.
Can we sticky this again this year through Sept. 11th?
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I never forget the 9/11 anniversary. In fact, I don't forget 9/11 on any day, even on Christmas. Thanks for reminding others.
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I never forget the 9/11 anniversary. In fact, I don't forget 9/11 on any day, even on Christmas. Thanks for reminding others.
I'm honestly amazed at how fast this year has passed. It seems like yesterday I was asking folks to do this for the 8th anniv.
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I'm honestly amazed at how fast this year has passed. It seems like yesterday I was asking folks to do this for the 8th anniv.
I know. It felt like yesterday despite happening in 2001. I remember 9/11 so well. I was so horrified and saddened by it. I was so glued to the TV for the next few days like everyone else. It was really clear and nice day, the sky was blue. The news was slow. Then all Hell breaks lose.
Video before it happened.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaVYdg9BoNI[/youtube]
Initial report.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP5uIPyYDlQ[/youtube]
So amazed and horrified at how the world changed so much from there.
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Will do.
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(http://webmedia.newseum.org/newseum-multimedia/tfp_archive/2001-09-12/lg/MA_BG.jpg)
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I know. It felt like yesterday despite happening in 2001. I remember 9/11 so well. I was so horrified and saddened by it. I was so glued to the TV for the next few days like everyone else. It was really clear and nice day, the sky was blue. The news was slow. Then all Hell breaks lose.
So amazed and horrified at how the world changed so much from there.
I already had the Today Show on that morning, kind of watching it, laying in bed pondering what I needed to do that day, work-wise, errands and stuff.
I heard Matt and Katie say that a plane had gone into a building in NYC, and I started paying attention. My first thought was ....oh-uh, somebody's filming a movie and something went really wrong. I was thinking a Bruce Willis type movie.
It never occurred to me, that it was a jet-liner, a terrorist act and deliberate.
I will never ever forget the sight of the second plane going into the second tower. I honestly truly thought it was a simulation of what they thought might have happened with the first plane. I sat there, just stunned.
And then I started to cry.
When the NBC guy, at the Pentagon, while Matt and Katie were talking to him, said "we just felt a horrible thud and noise"...I knew immediately it was either another plane or a bomb.
What would be hit next? Is this what it was like for those at Pearl Harbor?
That night, there were maybe 10 or 12 of us, sitting in the bar area of a favored restaurant, watching the tv. Everyone, had tears on their cheeks......
How can anyone EVER forget 9/11?
(http://www.september11news.com/BBX11KnoxvilleNewsSentinelX_small.jpg)
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I hope I never forget! I think all of us same thinking folks.. (anti-libs) will not forget..
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My newspaper is on there, but I opted for this one instead. To remember the horrifying 12 hours it took after the Pentagon was attacked to find out my stepmother was alive and well. She had a meeting every Tuesday am at the Pentagon.
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My newspaper is on there, but I opted for this one instead. To remember the horrifying 12 hours it took after the Pentagon was attacked to find out my stepmother was alive and well. She had a meeting every Tuesday am at the Pentagon.
My SIL was going through the same thing. Her stepmother worked within a block of the World Trade Center. Jen couldn't find anything out, as she couldn't get through on the phone lines. When she did get through, she found out her that her stepmother was IN a plane, circling NYC trying to land after the second plane went in to the WTC!!!! Her stepmother said that everyone on the plane was terrified, because they could see the destruction, but didn't know why.
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I haven't forgotten 9/11 and never will.
My dad was on Long Island that morning. He is a truck driver and runs a lot to the east coast. My mom couldn't get a hold of him for about three hours. My dad was finally able to call us and say that he was fine. He could see all the smoke and traffic was at a stand still. I believe the city shut down the bridges that day in fear of an attack on those. I'm not 100% positive about that since I wasn't there. It was just very scary.
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I haven't forgotten 9/11 and never will.
My dad was on Long Island that morning. He is a truck driver and runs a lot to the east coast. My mom couldn't get a hold of him for about three hours. My dad was finally able to call us and say that he was fine. He could see all the smoke and traffic was at a stand still. I believe the city shut down the bridges that day in fear of an attack on those. I'm not 100% positive about that since I wasn't there. It was just very scary.
They shut down everything in NYC -- commuters were stuck there, thousands walked across the bridges to get home.
New Yorkers will never forget 9/11.
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I was getting my first ultrasound for my oldest son when the first plane hit. We heard about it in the car to Hanscom AFB and I thought it was a small plane that hit the tower.
When we were at Hanscom the second plane hit and the base was locked down immediately -- very very impressed on how quickly they locked the entire base down (jersey barriers brought in to surround key buildings). By the time we got home my husband was called and told to return to his base and pack his bags, he was heading out. Special Ops at Hurlburt AFB in Florida was gone by nightfall.
I will never ever forget that day.
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I was a senior in high school when it happened. I was asleep when the first plane hit. I remember my mom calling me and telling me what happened, but my first thought was "Big deal, some jackass in a Cessna ****ed up. A bomber hit the Empire State Building in the 40s and didn't knock it down." Wasn't until I woke up a little later and flipped on the TV that I went "OH, ****!"
When I got to school that day, the admin told the teachers to leave the TVs off in school so no one could see anything. Except for when I went to staff period for ROTC. Our Lt. Col. let us watch the entire time we were in class.
I also remember that I didn't have to go to work that week. I was working in a law firm library in one of the skyscrapers in downtown Dallas, and not knowing if anything else was a target, the firm told everyone to stay away until further notice.
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I was living in CA and on my way to work in Alhambra to pick up some material, when I heard on the radio the first plane hit just before 6 AM. The first thing that immediately came to mind was when a B-29 bomber hit the Empire State Building in (I think) 1945 or so, and didn't think too much more of it at that point.
But as I was waiting in the McD's line, the second plane hit. At that point I knew in my gut it was no coincidence. I told the people in the drive through that the planes had hit. They asked if anyone was hurt, and the only word I could come up with was, "Thousands."
I then got my stuff at Alhambra, and got down to where the actual work was going on in Lynwood. Traffic on the freeways was a NIGHTMARE, but NO flights were coming in (the route I took was the 605 to the 105, which you can see the planes coming in). On the way, the first tower collapsed. The second collapsed just as I got to Lynwood. We did our work as quickly as possible and all went home. By that time, the freeways looked like a ghost town.
Got home just after noon to see the ex- sitting in front of the TV and bawling. That was the first time I actually SAW what happened, and it was worse than I had imagined.
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I haven't forgotten and never will. Remember when some one said that on that day we were ALL New Yorkers. We still are no matter where we live.
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When I was a kid...I never understood why my mom would get teary eyed when she talked about where she was when Kennedy was killed. And at the same time amazed that she could remember down to the smallest detail where she was and what she was doing when she heard the news.
I understand completely now.
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That is why I will ALWAYS remind my kids about that day
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Mrs E and I were living in Salt Lake City. Getting ready for work, we had the news on and saw what was being reported.
I saw the towers come down on TV at work in the break room. My first thought was, "Oh, the humanity."
Pearl Harbor, as horrific and dastardly as that was, pales in comparison to this. Hawaii wasn't even a state in the union at that time, yet the nation mobilized and went to war with the intent to win the damned thing.
It took about a year for short-memoried Americans to start questioning the GWOT and to start lobbing spitballs at GWB.
Appalling. Simply appalling.
And now we have a Muslim president.
Even more appalling.
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I was living in CA and on my way to work in Alhambra to pick up some material, when I heard on the radio the first plane hit just before 6 AM. The first thing that immediately came to mind was when a B-29 bomber hit the Empire State Building in (I think) 1945 or so, and didn't think too much more of it at that point.
But as I was waiting in the McD's line, the second plane hit. At that point I knew in my gut it was no coincidence. I told the people in the drive through that the planes had hit. They asked if anyone was hurt, and the only word I could come up with was, "Thousands."
I then got my stuff at Alhambra, and got down to where the actual work was going on in Lynwood. Traffic on the freeways was a NIGHTMARE, but NO flights were coming in (the route I took was the 605 to the 105, which you can see the planes coming in). On the way, the first tower collapsed. The second collapsed just as I got to Lynwood. We did our work as quickly as possible and all went home. By that time, the freeways looked like a ghost town.
Got home just after noon to see the ex- sitting in front of the TV and bawling. That was the first time I actually SAW what happened, and it was worse than I had imagined.
My brother, who lives in Chicago, was in Silicon Valley for a work conference. The conference had started on Monday. When they all found out about it, the conference was immediately cancelled so that all could get back home to their families. About that time, he heard that parts of downtown Chicago were being evacuated. He and the other 3 guys from his territory couldn't find a way back to Chicago. They all crammed into their small rental car and drove it home. They went straight through, only able to talk to their families by phone, and he got home sometime on Thursday....he was overwhelmed when he finally got home to see the news videos.
What happened was not something you could comprehend just hearing about it on the radio or someone telling you over the phone.
A person had to actually see the images on tv to fully TRY to comprehend the devastation.
As overwhelming as it was to watch on tv....I cannot possibly think what it would permanently do to one's psyche, to have been there in person.
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I remember seeing this skyline:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Midland44_Skyline.jpg)
Completely dark for the first time in my entire life that night. You've got to remember...Midland was a site for a potential terrorist attack at the time for three reasons. I actually sat through a green light just staring in disbelief as it sunk in what I was seeing.
And I'll never forget driving by the charter school two of my kids were attending and seeing a Sheriff's Deputy in his cruiser parked diagonal across the drop off lane at about 2pm that day.
I remember for the first time in my life too hearing a national radio news broadcaster on AP describing both of the towers being "gone"...and hearing his voice crack as he said it.
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I can't remember if it was after the plane hit the Pentagon, or the one went down in PA... local tv announced that Oak Ridge National Labs was evacuating all non-essential personnel, the labs were locked down and security extended the perimeter out from the gates to the main roads. Within a day or two...those big cement barriers were installed at the few gates that are still left open today. All the others were permanently barricaded.
I was so caught up in what was on tv, that it didn't occur to me, that the labs could be a target.
Most people around here have always known, that if enemies were able to bomb the labs and explode them...we would either be dead or soon to be. I don't think anyone ever thought about an airplane could fly into them.
Who ever thought about a plane deliberately flying into an office tower in NYC....or any city/town in the US?
Who ever thought about planes and bombs hitting Pearl Harbor?
But it happened and we forgot, particularly after the Cold War ended, that there was always a possibility that it could happen again.
Will we eventually forget that it did happen again, and again become complacent? Or if some Americans have already become complacent, how long before the rest of us do?
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I was totally horrified on 9/11. Like many, I woke up thinking "No Way!" and than realizing one of the towers crashed, "Not Good!". I was so horrified by what happened. I didn't even want to know how many people died. I was deeply saddened that day. I was so glued to the TV for the next few days. 9/11 really affected me and I didn't know anyone who got killed and injured. I really miss the World Trade Center.
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done. Thanks for the 'minder.
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can someone pls tell me how to change my avatar?
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can someone pls tell me how to change my avatar?
Up at the top, click on profile, and to the left click on Forum Profile Info. There you will see it. I use "I will update from my own pics"
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I worked in the lab that is under the Corning Tower in Albany NY at the time. I was looking at the batch of samples I had run the night before, with my supervisor, and in came one of our senior chemists, who said, "Two planes hit the World Trade Center." All of a sudden, the lab--the whole ****ing lab, all floors--got frenzied. Howard Stern was on the radio across the hall, and he was speechless. Never heard that happen, before or since. When the words "al-Qaida" were mentioned, one of the techs mentioned that at Ramzi Bin al-Sheb's (sp?) trial a few years previous, the Corning Tower in Albany was listed as an alternate target. We then heard about the Pentagon, and a field in PA. I called my wife (we had been married three months) and told ehr about the significance of the Corning Tower, and she said, "Get out of there." So, I left, went to the parking lot, and went back into Albany to get my wife and MIL, who worked in the next office. No one was on the streets of Albany. I started to freak out, and I was going 85 mph up Broadway in Albany (a 30 mph zone). We got to the proper parking lot, dropped off my MIL and a co-worker of hers, and then went home--and I saw the towers going down for the first time. My wife was crying, and she couldn't understand why I wasn't. I wanted blood. Lots of it. Still do.
Never forget, nor forgive!
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I worked in the lab that is under the Corning Tower in Albany NY at the time. I was looking at the batch of samples I had run the night before, with my supervisor, and in came one of our senior chemists, who said, "Two planes hit the World Trade Center." All of a sudden, the lab--the whole ****ing lab, all floors--got frenzied. Howard Stern was on the radio across the hall, and he was speechless. Never heard that happen, before or since. When the words "al-Qaida" were mentioned, one of the techs mentioned that at Ramzi Bin al-Sheb's (sp?) trial a few years previous, the Corning Tower in Albany was listed as an alternate target. We then heard about the Pentagon, and a field in PA. I called my wife (we had been married three months) and told ehr about the significance of the Corning Tower, and she said, "Get out of there." So, I left, went to the parking lot, and went back into Albany to get my wife and MIL, who worked in the next office. No one was on the streets of Albany. I started to freak out, and I was going 85 mph up Broadway in Albany (a 30 mph zone). We got to the proper parking lot, dropped off my MIL and a co-worker of hers, and then went home--and I saw the towers going down for the first time. My wife was crying, and she couldn't understand why I wasn't. I wanted blood. Lots of it. Still do.
Never forget, nor forgive!
I wonder if anyone in Albany noticed American Airlines Flight 11 deviating that morning and what they made of it.
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I wonder if anyone in Albany noticed American Airlines Flight 11 deviating that morning and what they made of it.
It was probably too high for the naked eye, but I'm sure that there were one or two ATCs in the tower at AIA who were wondering.
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I was at a country store. Bunch of us rednecks in there looking at TV and fix'n to go to work when the first plane hit. I thought to myself, "What a terrible accident" but a redneck beside me was a little more in tune. He flat footed stated, "Boys, I don't know who but we are at war with somebody."....a few minutes later, I had to agree with him.
Rednecks are really smarter than most people give them credit for being.
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Nine years ago, I was unemployed, alone, and living in a shitty apartment my mom owned in Inglewood. I spent the majority of my days feeling sorry for myself, and alternating between thoughts of entering the priesthood and fantasies of wining an Oscar for having directed a film that the entire world would adore.
In other words, I was drinking. A lot. By myself. My biggest fear the night of 9/09/01 was being found dead on the couch in my boxer shorts with 37 empty bottles of beer around me and a urine-filled windshield washer bottle at my feet.
The night before 9/11, I had managed to shower and meet a friend from college at the Forum in Westwood, CA to see Tool. It was a show that changed my life not only because of what they did that night, but what would happen to me less than 12 hours after they finally ended their show.
Just before 6:45 am pacific time on September 11, I awoke, let the dog out, went to pee, then turned the TV on.
At 7:03, the second plane hit the WTC.
From that moment until my birthday on January 18, 2002, I basically gave up on my life. Good, innocent people were either murdered, killed trying to save each other, or worst of all, made the decision to end their own lives knowing the entire world was watching them do so, while there I sat, drinking myself to death because it wasn't ME having to make that call.
That's what I've taken away from 9/11 -- the notion that I should've been there, not those good people who never asked to pick a side in this fight. At that point in time, they were doing what they needed to do for their families, while I was doing whatever I needed to do in order to function.
On 9/11/01, I was a pathetic drunk. On 9/11/10, I am a functioning, happy, loving man. It is for the honor of those who died for me on 9/11 that I live my life as an honest and good man.
I can only hope that that is enough.
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Will do. I can't seem to find my hometown's Sept. 12th issue. The Search feature doesn't work for some reason. Though, I think I found a photo from the linkl you provided that will suffice.
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Nine years ago, I was unemployed, alone, and living in a shitty apartment my mom owned in Inglewood. I spent the majority of my days feeling sorry for myself, and alternating between thoughts of entering the priesthood and fantasies of wining an Oscar for having directed a film that the entire world would adore.
In other words, I was drinking. A lot. By myself. My biggest fear the night of 9/09/01 was being found dead on the couch in my boxer shorts with 37 empty bottles of beer around me and a urine-filled windshield washer bottle at my feet.
The night before 9/11, I had managed to shower and meet a friend from college at the Forum in Westwood, CA to see Tool. It was a show that changed my life not only because of what they did that night, but what would happen to me less than 12 hours after they finally ended their show.
Just before 6:45 am pacific time on September 11, I awoke, let the dog out, went to pee, then turned the TV on.
At 7:03, the second plane hit the WTC.
From that moment until my birthday on January 18, 2002, I basically gave up on my life. Good, innocent people were either murdered, killed trying to save each other, or worst of all, made the decision to end their own lives knowing the entire world was watching them do so, while there I sat, drinking myself to death because it wasn't ME having to make that call.
That's what I've taken away from 9/11 -- the notion that I should've been there, not those good people who never asked to pick a side in this fight. At that point in time, they were doing what they needed to do for their families, while I was doing whatever I needed to do in order to function.
On 9/11/01, I was a pathetic drunk. On 9/11/10, I am a functioning, happy, loving man. It is for the honor of those who died for me on 9/11 that I live my life as an honest and good man.
I can only hope that that is enough.
This is a great story!
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Excellent story HollywoodNeoCon. Amen!
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Nine years ago, I was unemployed, alone, and living in a shitty apartment my mom owned in Inglewood. I spent the majority of my days feeling sorry for myself, and alternating between thoughts of entering the priesthood and fantasies of wining an Oscar for having directed a film that the entire world would adore.
In other words, I was drinking. A lot. By myself. My biggest fear the night of 9/09/01 was being found dead on the couch in my boxer shorts with 37 empty bottles of beer around me and a urine-filled windshield washer bottle at my feet.
The night before 9/11, I had managed to shower and meet a friend from college at the Forum in Westwood, CA to see Tool. It was a show that changed my life not only because of what they did that night, but what would happen to me less than 12 hours after they finally ended their show.
Just before 6:45 am pacific time on September 11, I awoke, let the dog out, went to pee, then turned the TV on.
At 7:03, the second plane hit the WTC.
From that moment until my birthday on January 18, 2002, I basically gave up on my life. Good, innocent people were either murdered, killed trying to save each other, or worst of all, made the decision to end their own lives knowing the entire world was watching them do so, while there I sat, drinking myself to death because it wasn't ME having to make that call.
That's what I've taken away from 9/11 -- the notion that I should've been there, not those good people who never asked to pick a side in this fight. At that point in time, they were doing what they needed to do for their families, while I was doing whatever I needed to do in order to function.
On 9/11/01, I was a pathetic drunk. On 9/11/10, I am a functioning, happy, loving man. It is for the honor of those who died for me on 9/11 that I live my life as an honest and good man.
I can only hope that that is enough.
So, then--you've been in the rooms, so to speak? :hi5:
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Nine years ago, I was unemployed, alone, and living in a shitty apartment my mom owned in Inglewood. I spent the majority of my days feeling sorry for myself, and alternating between thoughts of entering the priesthood and fantasies of wining an Oscar for having directed a film that the entire world would adore.
In other words, I was drinking. A lot. By myself. My biggest fear the night of 9/09/01 was being found dead on the couch in my boxer shorts with 37 empty bottles of beer around me and a urine-filled windshield washer bottle at my feet.
The night before 9/11, I had managed to shower and meet a friend from college at the Forum in Westwood, CA to see Tool. It was a show that changed my life not only because of what they did that night, but what would happen to me less than 12 hours after they finally ended their show.
Just before 6:45 am pacific time on September 11, I awoke, let the dog out, went to pee, then turned the TV on.
At 7:03, the second plane hit the WTC.
From that moment until my birthday on January 18, 2002, I basically gave up on my life. Good, innocent people were either murdered, killed trying to save each other, or worst of all, made the decision to end their own lives knowing the entire world was watching them do so, while there I sat, drinking myself to death because it wasn't ME having to make that call.
That's what I've taken away from 9/11 -- the notion that I should've been there, not those good people who never asked to pick a side in this fight. At that point in time, they were doing what they needed to do for their families, while I was doing whatever I needed to do in order to function.
On 9/11/01, I was a pathetic drunk. On 9/11/10, I am a functioning, happy, loving man. It is for the honor of those who died for me on 9/11 that I live my life as an honest and good man.
I can only hope that that is enough.
Great story!
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So, then--you've been in the rooms, so to speak? :hi5:
Oh, yes. I'm a real good friend of Bill W. :)
And thanks everyone, for giving me a place to share that.
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I have a storage trunk full of newspapers and magazine articles of that day and the ones that followed. I cannot get myself to look at it yet.I have a vcr tape of Usama Bin Laden laughing at how most of the hijacks didn't even know they were all going to die. I still remember watching that couple on TV, they where in one of the towers they climbed out holding hands and jumped to their death. I remember being in a store and a lady said out loud "why do they hate us?" she didn't have enough money to pay for her food and everyone in the line pitched in and gave her money. I thought to myself had this been a few days earlier they would have not helped her much.
I have always been upset they stopped playing that footage over and over again of people jumping to their deaths and the towers falling. Each and everyday I remember 9/11. They way the small minority have taken over this country is obscene. Michelle is supposed to be at one of the Memorials. That too is obscene, since she and her husband hate America.
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Agreed. IMO, the only ones in the Obummer family allowed to attend any kind of Memorial to remember that day is the two girls. They're still young.. But mostly, they're innocent kids. They know not what their parents do. Allow them to attend something, but keep Barry, and Michelle at least 200 feet away from any kind of remembrence ceremony.
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The 9th anniversary of 9/11 is looming. Such a sad day and really makes me feel sad. I cannot imagine a tragic day like this. :( :bawl:
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The 9th anniversary of 9/11 is looming. Such a sad day and really makes me feel sad. I cannot imagine a tragic day like this. :( :bawl:
Every year, as the time gets close....I wonder if this is the year, the terrorists will try again to destroy us... :(
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Every year, as the time gets close....I wonder if this is the year, the terrorists will try again to destroy us... :(
They might try...but I very seriously doubt they will succeed.
It's going to be very weird for me to be over here notonly in AFghanistan...but in the very area where the Taliban was born for this years rememberence.
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They might try...but I very seriously doubt they will succeed.
It's going to be very weird for me to be over here notonly in AFghanistan...but in the very area where the Taliban was born for this years rememberence.
Be safe over there.
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They might try...but I very seriously doubt they will succeed.
It's going to be very weird for me to be over here notonly in AFghanistan...but in the very area where the Taliban was born for this years rememberence.
Don't suppose you could spend the day in a bunker?
Continued prayers for you and your family. :heart:
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Don't suppose you could spend the day in a bunker?
It's not my preferred place to be. :-)
Continued prayers for you and your family. :heart:
Your kindness in that avenue is beyond words. Thank you.
BTW...just in case anyone was wondering...seems that Ramadan ENDS on 9/11 this year.
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It's not my preferred place to be. :-) I'm so claustrophobic, I'd be having to take my chances outside.... :o
Your kindness in that avenue is beyond words. Thank you. Always!! Every day, don't ever doubt, ok? :heart:
BTW...just in case anyone was wondering...seems that Ramadan ENDS on 9/11 this year. Well SHIT!! :(
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^ Well, I didn't know Ramadan ends on Saturday, but from what you said earlier, that may be just another cause to worry about whether or not we could possibly get hit again Saturday. I doubt it will happen, but is is certainly a bit worrisome.
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^ Well, I didn't know Ramadan ends on Saturday, but from what you said earlier, that may be just another cause to worry about whether or not we could possibly get hit again Saturday. I doubt it will happen, but is is certainly a bit worrisome.
We got hit every damn day I was over there. Quit being a ***** and ruck up, bitch.
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We got hit every damn day I was over there. Quit being a ***** and ruck up, bitch.
:fuelfire: :fuelfire: :-) :lmao: :rotf: :cheersmate: :cheersmate: :cheersmate: :bow: :bow: :bow:
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We got hit every damn day I was over there. Quit being a ***** and ruck up, bitch.
That's a bit stronger response than I was ready for...
It's a bit more common place to see exposions, and people getting killed when over in the Mid East. I'm not used to it. I'm just a normal citizen over here. That's why I'm fairly vigilant when watching the news, and such. It can happen any time. Especially now that it has, and there have been extremists that vow it will happen again. Pardon me if I'm a bit shocked, and worried that more terror may come our way.
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:fuelfire: :fuelfire: :-) :lmao: :rotf: :cheersmate: :cheersmate: :cheersmate: :bow: :bow: :bow:
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thanks for sharing your troubles. and glad you are better.... :heart:
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The 9th anniversary of 9/11 is looming. Such a sad day and really makes me feel sad. I cannot imagine a tragic day like this. :( :bawl:
I know this was one of the factors that made my son decide to become a Marine. He was 16. It is his generation's Pearl Harbor. I've always thought that was ironic since Jake's generation is most like that of their grandparents who lived through WW II. Anyway, we're both night owls so we did a lot of our school work at night and were still asleep when the first plane hit. My husband came in a woke me up. I thought he was joking and told him I really didn't think he was funny. I mean who could imagine such a thing! It's hard to imagine and my heart still breaks. I can't watch those tribute videos that have "Only Time" or "The Arms of the Angels" without crying.
Cindie
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I know this was one of the factors that made my son decide to become a Marine. He was 16. It is his generation's Pearl Harbor. I've always thought that was ironic since Jake's generation is most like that of their grandparents who lived through WW II. Anyway, we're both night owls so we did a lot of our school work at night and were still asleep when the first plane hit. My husband came in a woke me up. I thought he was joking and told him I really didn't think he was funny. I mean who could imagine such a thing! It's hard to imagine and my heart still breaks. I can't watch those tribute videos that have "Only Time" or "The Arms of the Angels" without crying.
Cindie
I called M at work between the planes hitting the Pentagon and dirt in PA....like many, I was quite tearful as I had the Today Show on when the first one hit, and I saw the second one hit...and watched tv all day.
He was incredibly busy at work, with some production issues, and honestly...he blew me off....told me I was needlessly worrying and he couldn't talk on the phone, right then. I was stunned that he was so...unconcerned, uncaring ...atypical of him.
Around noon, he left the plant to do a bank run. He had the radio on in the car. He wasn't more than a few minutes from the plant, calls me .....to ask me if I realized what had happened in NY?
HUH?
Apparently he was only half listening to me when I had called him earlier, and it did not register what I was telling him. He thought I was telling him about A plane that had crashed, not that planes had deliberately been flown into buildings. He was stunned when I told him all that was going on.
That night, we were with several friends, when he saw it all on tv for the first time....had tears running down his cheeks.
He, like a couple of the others, had not seen a tv that day. All of those seeing the videos for the first time....the shock, the stunned looks of "is this real?"...must have been the same expressions that we all had the first time we saw those images.
How could anyone will ever forget 9/11 and what it meant for our country?
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Muslim rage boy....This may be a good time to refresh our memories of some other times the Muslims have attacked, made demands(threats) and gotten their way.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/10/the-eternal-flame-of-muslim-outrage/
from:
http://michellemalkin.com/
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^ Well, I didn't know Ramadan ends on Saturday, but from what you said earlier, that may be just another cause to worry about whether or not we could possibly get hit again Saturday. I doubt it will happen, but is is certainly a bit worrisome.
Right now and for the next three days I'm more worried about celebratory fire from these idiots going out and partying for Eid.
We're good for the next three or four days otherwise.
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Right now and for the next three days I'm more worried about celebratory fire from these idiots going out and partying for Eid.
We're good for the next three or four days otherwise.
Yeah, what goes up must come down......but they don't worry about that in the Muslim world.
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Yeah, what goes up must come down......but they don't worry about that in the Muslim world.
I was in Baghdad the night they made the announcement that Saddams sons were killed in Mosul.
110 killed and over four hundred wounded from celebratory gunfire.
*shakes head*
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I was in Baghdad the night they made the announcement that Saddams sons were killed in Mosul.
110 killed and over four hundred wounded from celebratory gunfire.
*shakes head*
Please be careful....
<<<<hugs>>>>
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I honestly hope that something is done between now and the 10th anniversary to the mindset of the MSM and they start showing the video and the audio of what happened on 9/11 again.
We don't need to be shielded we don't need to be protected. We NEED to be REMINDED of what happened.
We need to hear cries of Remember the towers...remember Shanksville.
It needs to echo from every corner of the planet...and be heard in every terrorist den around the world.
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I'll be at GZ tomorrow for both ceremony and protest. I know my moving into the 21st Century has been long overdue, but I bought my first digital camera this afternoon (with memory stick and carry case, of course), so I should be able to bring some decent shots to the board. It's nothing too pricey ($150), but it does have 8X zoom, where most of the others in the same price range had only as high as 5X zoom.
Also, I have a little Sony digital sound recorder, so maybe I can catch some good bits of speeches and upload them. I'm a little more shaky on that.
As you may know the protest organizers have asked us not to bring signs, and I'm complying with their wishes. I don't agree with this self-censorship, and don't think we should give a rat's @ss what the lying propaganda media makes of us, since they're going to revile us no matter what we do, but Pamela Gellar has done too much to make this happen--she's been getting all kinds of death threats, you know--for me and, I hope, most others to not agree to do this as she wants it done. Meanwhile, the enemies of all decency will have all kinds of lying signs; but there'll be WAY more of us than of them.
Last I checked it looks like Newt has bowed out; at least, he's not on the list of confirmed speakers on Atlas Shrugs.
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I honestly hope that something is done between now and the 10th anniversary to the mindset of the MSM and they start showing the video and the audio of what happened on 9/11 again.
We don't need to be shielded we don't need to be protected. We NEED to be REMINDED of what happened.
We need to hear cries of Remember the towers...remember Shanksville.
It needs to echo from every corner of the planet...and be heard in every terrorist den around the world.
Well you can forget the MSM, Tx, but I believe Fox News is showing the footage. And, really, when you get down to it, THEY'RE the mainstream now.
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And to echo what Tx is saying, I'd like to provide one of my favorite songs here:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU&ob=av3n[/youtube]
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Also, I'm not sure it's appropriate to post this, but I wish to. I wasn't there, and didn't see what actually happened, but this video is from someone that lived very close to the Twin Towers. I wish to post this for the same reason she does. To make people remember. To show all of you what it was like up close. I warn some of you: This is very, very hard to stomach, and isn't for the faint of heart. I get choked up every time I watch it. However, I think it needs to be seen every year on September 11th.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNNTcHq5Tzk[/youtube]
It is paramount that we remember. The FDNY Heros. The Brave citizens who went above, and beyond to help. The EMT's. But mostly, we must remember the event, and the raw hatred shown to us on that day, because if we lose our vigilance... If we take our eye off the in-escapeable fact that this is what Islam wants for us all, we are lost.
We must never...EVER forget 9/11/01.
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I was settin' at my computer fine tunin' my latest artwork for a company in Topeka, KS when my next door neighbor yelled for me to turn on the tube!
I thought holy crap a jet liner had a major mal****tion! Then, the second one flew into the other one!
I knew right then it was the muzzies!
It was the last artwork I ever did! Some how advertising just wasn't on the agenda after that and my business went under.
I was like most here, I wanted BLOOD, and lots of it! Still do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was in favor of turning Afghanistan and any other terrorist coddlin' nation into glass! Still think it's a good idea!
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:bravo: Those last two lines run along my very same thought process. Amen.
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:bravo: Those last two lines run along my very same thought process. Amen.
Amen, brother, Amen!!!!