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Remember 9-11
 Sep 10 14 03:18 pm Link And Obama is giving a speech on national security on prime time tonight, eve of 9-11. Sep 10 14 03:20 pm Link Chuckarelei wrote: I'm not missing baseball for that! Sep 10 14 03:28 pm Link ernst tischler wrote: I'll take anything to miss baseball. Including bowling. Sep 10 14 03:41 pm Link Chuckarelei wrote: I certainly will not miss it. Sep 10 14 05:07 pm Link  Moderator Note!Please do not turn this into a Soapbox thread. Sep 10 14 06:57 pm Link Every time we try to get out they drag us back in! This is horrible. Sep 10 14 07:15 pm Link God bless America. Sep 10 14 07:31 pm Link . Sep 10 14 09:17 pm Link Is it really time to forget 9/11? I look at the changes to the USA since 9/11 - few have been positive. We're now as far from 9/11 historically as Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech was from the Holocaust and WW2. When does a country move on and try to achieve rapprochement? Sep 11 14 03:21 am Link Virtual Studio wrote: Toward Terrorists who prey on innocent Civilians? Sep 11 14 04:53 am Link Virtual Studio wrote: When will people from Canada realize that 9/11 wasn't "our fault"? Sep 11 14 06:30 am Link For a moment, I wondered whether September 11 would become a national holiday, but then I observed that our holidays were there to commemorate victories, and none of us would think of 9/11 as a victory. So far, for the past 13 years, 9/11 has been in our national consciousness pretty much every day, and we are still fighting the fight. Yes, I remember 9/11. Sep 11 14 06:38 am Link Virtual Studio wrote: Never. Everything is "remembered" and memorialized. Sep 11 14 07:06 am Link Looknsee Photography wrote: It will be looked upon in the same way we do December 7, 1941. Sep 11 14 07:07 am Link Virtual Studio wrote: Kennedy did not meant that as "forget WW 2!". Sep 11 14 07:24 am Link Virtual Studio wrote: I hope that there never will be "rapprochement" to terrorists. Sep 11 14 07:26 am Link TomFRohwer wrote: Yet the USA has forgiven Irgun and the IRA, to the point of forming firm relations with their successors. Sep 11 14 07:34 am Link  Moderator Warning!Please note, SOAPBOX is closed. Keep all comments non-political and respectful. One brigging has occurred already. Sep 11 14 08:07 am Link
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Reason: violates rules Comments: Off topic. Sep 11 14 09:31 am Link So that means that US President Obama's speech is no allowed on MM ! Reason: violates rules Sep 11 14 10:04 am Link Looknsee Photography wrote: Christopher Hartman wrote: Maybe. That might even be appropriate. But our holidays (and our days off from work) commemorate victories. Does anyone get December 7th off? Sep 11 14 10:18 am Link Looknsee Photography wrote: My high school math teacher used to love giving surprise tests in honor of Pearl Harbor day. Sep 11 14 10:21 am Link Remember 9-11 Sep 11 14 10:45 am Link  Sep 11 14 11:29 am Link Damon Strong wrote: Real charming Sep 11 14 11:39 am Link Ok, let's see if I can do this without being brigged... Nope. Couldn't do it. Self edited my comments away... Have a nice day! Sep 11 14 07:11 pm Link This is how I remember it, Say what you will about Stern,this was about as real as it got relive it in realtime here http://uproxx.com/media/2014/09/listen- … ng-of-911/ Sep 11 14 11:42 pm Link I was there, I had friends working in the towers, and it can't be forgotten. To give those of you who have been to NYC, and Times Square in particular, an idea of how amazing (in the proper sense) that day was, when I walked from 47th street and 10th Avenue to Grand Central Station passing through TS, I was able to actually count how many people were in the streets: 13, including my GF and I. The Freedom Tower is almost completed finally, and I am disappointed with it. I thought we would have the balls to rebuild 2 towers just slightly taller, if only to show we would not be intimidated by the terrorists. It is there to stay and I'll have to look at it as long as I live here. All that said, it is time to move on and LIVE, without forgetting, so I won't be watching the memorials anymore. They foster too much negativity for many reasons, but to each their own. Sep 12 14 12:03 am Link the eeriest part of 9-11 (for me), is that just about every anniversary, the weather out here (in so cal) has been exactly the same as it was that day. i don't know what the weather was like in nyc today, but i will never forget how it mirrored la weather (in nyc) that day. hot, and cloudless. i have friends who worked in the towers on that day. they all survived. not that it matters. many don't have that same angle. and by default, if you live your life, you move on. but you must never forget. that's the key. forget all the political bs that follows an event like that. the visceral, tangible memories should never wane. it would be an utter disservice to those who were lost to do so. i was born in the 60's. i remember my parents (and especially my grandparents) always bringing up 12-7 every year. i understand why. Sep 12 14 12:14 am Link I remembered where I was when it happened. I remember 15th anniversary. I reflected. I wondered how Gandhi would have responded. May be we can use MM as a means of peace building -) Sep 11 16 11:17 pm Link I always feel lucky to live here. Sep 12 16 02:47 pm Link I live in NYC. It was a really nice as I remember it. Clear blue skies. The terrorist pilots could not have had it better. I was taking the day off so I didn't go in to work that day. I watched the whole thing on TV. I was stunned. I knew I was watching history happen in a big way. I had a friend that was commuting from New Jersey on the PATH train and saw chaos when he came out of the subway. He had no clue what was happening so he went to get some breakfast. I think after he got his breakfast the second plane hit. He wrote me that debris was coming down and everyone was getting out of there so he headed downtown toward Battery Park where he got the Staten Island Ferry away from Manhattan. People were getting out of there as fast as they could. He said he was completely covered in white soot and so was everyone else. It was surreal. I have another friend who lost his friend in the towers. He can't speak about it. It's too emotional for him. Fighter jets were flying around overhead. This is New York. You don't have fighter jets flying around unless it's an airshow. The rubble burned for several days afterwards. There was smoke/dust in the air and there was a weird smell that I couldn't describe at the time. I don't remember it anymore. I just get angry when I see pictures and can't watch movies of the burning buildings. I remember watching TV incredulously as the towers started to collapse. I still can't believe that two of the most massive towers on the planet came down like that. What pisses me off the most is the innocent lives lost and what they were going through on that day. No, I will never forget. Sep 13 16 07:11 pm Link Virtual Studio wrote: I wouldn't say that its "time to forget" but I'm inclined to agree w/ the general sentiment. Sep 13 16 07:57 pm Link TomFRohwer wrote: The West used to say that about the "godless" Communists. The Brits used to say that about the IRA. Sep 13 16 07:59 pm Link Virtual Studio wrote: And yet the Berlin Wall remained up for 20 more years or so. I would not call that rapprochement. Sep 13 16 08:47 pm Link Looknsee Photography wrote: What national holiday do we have to celebrate victories? I am totally stumped. I hope you don't mean Veterans Day or Memorial Day or July 4 th. Sep 13 16 08:54 pm Link Farenell Photography wrote: I would merely point out that the IRA terror campaign of bombing and murder were, in large, funded by the inhabitants of Boston and New York via NORAID. The IRA is the only terrorist organisation in the world whose "logo" is the M16. Sep 13 16 10:02 pm Link Risen Phoenix Photo wrote: I'd call the Berlin Airlift a pretty good sign of solidarity. Or dont the actions of those US servicemen matter? Sep 13 16 10:04 pm Link Virtual Studio wrote: I try to forget, but I can't... it took me years and years until I didn't tear up when seeing the footage. Sep 14 16 05:41 am Link |
