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This is no ordinary September morning ...

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... and it never will be again. I can't help but look out at the beautiful September sky this morning and remember that day 8 years ago.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUhlBF8Em70"]YouTube - 9/11 - Congress Sings God Bless America[/ame]

God bless America. :hm
 
I can hardly believe it's been 8 years... it seems like it happened just yesterday. Yet in this short span, the world has chaged so much.
 
always a hard day now. I am not going to work. for some reason this year is harder than it has been in the past. Probably all the tributes on Facebook from all my friends back in NY

condolences to all who suffered losses on 9.11
may you find solace in the memories of the time you had with the dearly departed, before they were so horribly taken from us
:hm
 
I remember hearing it on the radio, and thought it was a small propellar plane. When I got home and turned on the tv I realised what was happening, it was surreal. When I left my home the towers just fell and it was raining ash, it was war, we were under attack. The outpouring of patriotism after that day was very touching, the whole city was in flags. I will never forget that day, I will never forgive our enemies.
 
Middleground said:
I can hardly believe it's been 8 years... it seems like it happened just yesterday. Yet in this short span, the world has chaged so much.
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Canada was so welcoming & brave that day. We are forever indebted.
 
StandUpChuck said:
Canada was so welcoming & brave that day. We are forever indebted.
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yeah i was amazed at all the airplanes that made emergency landings and were stranded up there. And everybody just opened up their homes.

****ed up govt ;) but great people
 
StandUpChuck said:
Canada was so welcoming & brave that day. We are forever indebted.
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You are not indebted. We just wanted to give a bit of help to a country and it's people who have been so good to us.

There was a nice news piece on the CBC a few years back, that talked about the lasting friendships that had developed because of that tragic day. Many of the Gander residents who opened their homes to total strangers, and the stranded strangers that they housed, were interviewed for the story. One could not help to be touched by this.
 
That day was a real shock for me, I was still in college, grabbing a burger at one of my favorite on-campus haunts, and the owner had told me about it, it was that numb, disgusted feeling that welled up in me that I remember the most, never felt anything like it again in my life, and will never forget it. To all those that were personally affected, may you find peace and solace someday, and to those responsible, you will never be forgiven and may you rot in hell, to our allies, thank you for all you did, you also will never be forgotten and neither will the kindness be. Finally, to my fellow Americans, I will never forget, and hope we can all keep this as a day to reflect on what this country is, isn't, and how we all stood as one family.

:hm
 
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I was in my barracks room, getting ready to go out for a run. I turned on the TV after the first one had hit, but the second one had not yet. At first I thought it was some weird accident, where a Air Controller messed up badly or some strange mechanical problem. When the second one hit, I knew what was up. I even immediatley suspected OBL, because he was the only terrorist actively attacking US targets recently. I woke up my roomate, and told him we better get down to our unit. We got down there, and not one minute later, an officer came in and said the Pentagon had been hit. And then of course a bit later another plane goes down in PA.

I remember thinking that this was our generations Pearl Harbor, our wake up call to duty. I still believe that.
 
Not one mention of 9/11 today in my son's school. :( My son said he had to fight back tears during the Pledge of Allegiance as he thought about the men and women who died 8 years ago. He waited for the principal to say something. He didn't. He waited for the teacher to say something. She didn't. My son wore a t shirt w/ the American flag on it, and no one asked him about it.

I did not expect the school to put on some sort of Memorial. But for Heaven's sake, don't avoid the whole thing. They're too young to know what it felt like. We have to teach them.
 
IMO, this should be regarded as a symbol of the consequences of destructive intervention in the foreign affairs of others, but it's been exploited to warrant further indulgence of that vice. :\
 
Agnapostate said:
IMO, this should be regarded as a symbol of the consequences of destructive intervention in the foreign affairs of others, but it's been exploited to warrant further indulgence of that vice. :\
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STFU and start your own thread about it.
 
StandUpChuck said:
STFU and start your own thread about it.
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You didn't place an RIP tag on this thread, did you? I'll discuss whatever's pertinent to the topic. :roll:

You don't dictate the content of this thread, and if you had a legitimate interest in the subject at hand, you wouldn't be trying to.
 
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StandUpChuck said:
Not one mention of 9/11 today in my son's school. :( My son said he had to fight back tears during the Pledge of Allegiance as he thought about the men and women who died 8 years ago. He waited for the principal to say something. He didn't. He waited for the teacher to say something. She didn't. My son wore a t shirt w/ the American flag on it, and no one asked him about it.

I did not expect the school to put on some sort of Memorial. But for Heaven's sake, don't avoid the whole thing. They're too young to know what it felt like. We have to teach them.
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I don't know if you can teach those particular emotions, but it is something these children need to learn about, keeping the worst of the rhetoric and details aside for later of course, but the school missed a golden opportunity to explain this attack, and Pearl Harbor, why they were so bad, and why we are where we are today, whether intentionally or otherwise this school dropped the ball in a massive way.
 
Nations have known far greater suffering and trauma than Sep 11th, including the US. The Civil War for example.

That the US was so traumatized by this reveals just how good the country has had it in the last decades of the 20th century.

I am sorry it happened but I can't say 8 years on I feel any paticular anquish, this is simply what history does every now and then, best to get on with living before your turn at dying comes.
 
JW Frogen said:
Nations have known far greater suffering and trauma than Sep 11th, including the US. The Civil War for example.

That the US was so traumatized by this reveals just how good the country has had it in the last decades of the 20th century.

I am sorry it happened but I can't say 8 years on I feel any paticular anquish, this is simply what history does every now and then, best to get on with living before your turn at dying comes.
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says the person who apparently did not lose anyone that day GFY
 
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DeeJayH said:
says the person who apparently did not lose anyone that day GFY
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Indeed, had I it would be personal, just as the people I saw die in Bosnia became personal, Sept 11th to me is history, and not the worse example of her wrath in any way shape or form.
 
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*Groan* ....
 
StandUpChuck said:
Not one mention of 9/11 today in my son's school. :( My son said he had to fight back tears during the Pledge of Allegiance as he thought about the men and women who died 8 years ago. He waited for the principal to say something. He didn't. He waited for the teacher to say something. She didn't. My son wore a t shirt w/ the American flag on it, and no one asked him about it.

I did not expect the school to put on some sort of Memorial. But for Heaven's sake, don't avoid the whole thing. They're too young to know what it felt like. We have to teach them.
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They didn't make an announcement at my school either. Honestly, I wasn't phased by it. 8 years is a long time to a high school kid- more than half of our lives for most of us. No doubt, the attacks are still fresh in everyone's memory, but not as much as the first few years afterward. While some recognition would have been nice, the lack of it wasn't uncalled for- it's not like we still have announcements every Pearl Harbor Day.
 
Middleground said:
You are not indebted. We just wanted to give a bit of help to a country and it's people who have been so good to us.

There was a nice news piece on the CBC a few years back, that talked about the lasting friendships that had developed because of that tragic day. Many of the Gander residents who opened their homes to total strangers, and the stranded strangers that they housed, were interviewed for the story. One could not help to be touched by this.
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Us Americans couldn't ask for better neighbors.

:2canadian
 
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