A Day of Remembrance....

[Gidge]

Only for Those Who Do Care.....





















(for those who don't, take it to the Cave)

[MadAudio]

Thank you..............

[jrhager84]

Amen. God bless our troops, and the men and women of the police/fire fighters brave enough to run TOWARDS the chaos when people were running away...

...Never forget.

-Joel

[Slowrider]

Forgetting that, would be like forgetting Pearl Harbor; todays rally is politically motivated, for sure.

[Badger]

I remember rollding down the road late for work driving past the flight line and all the run stations and seeing a massive roadblock going into the gates of Lockheed Martin. This happened often because some idiot would try to drive a tour bus or an ice cream truck through the gate and then try to turn it around in place....I put it in park and waited.

After moving a car length at a time I got close enough to see the guards normally armed like barney fife with a single bullet in their shirt pocket were carrying M16's and were searching each and every car as it stopped for inspection

I got the feeling something had gone terribly wrong and turned on the radio to hear the news talking about how right that feeling was. I spent the morining sitting in a windowless cold war era secure building scouring the web for news and trading information with people all over the world through the wonder of public message boards. Its a spooky thing to hear your off site co-workers say that they have been ordered to stay away from the very campus you are sitting at having been told that it was much too dangerous. it was a surreal experience and one that none of us ever recovered from. Distance did not lessen the sting that much.

Still nothing can compare with the horror and shock that our people in New york and the pentagon felt. I can't pretend to imagine what that was like in any way shape or form.

this is a sperate issue. We are not talking about Iraq, we are not talking about troop build ups, or who lied to who or who voted for what.

We are talking a single terrible act and the innocent lives lost, people who risked and lost everything doing nothing but their job to protect and save lives. None of these deserved that fate that date, no matter your politics.

My thoughts and prayers are with the survivors, wherever and whoever they are.

[capnkid]

It doesn't seem like 6 years, I have a kid who was born a year after 911 and is starting kindergarden.

[capnkid]

I have to add to that. I remember being in high school gym class in 1985 or 86 watching the space shuttle take off, the gym teacher had the t.v. pulled out for our class to watch, and then it blew up. 30 15 year old's with a lot of blank faces. 911 was off the charts though.

[Gidge]

Originally Posted by Bdgr

I remember rollding down the road late for work driving past the flight line and all the run stations and seeing a massive roadblock going into the gates of Lockheed Martin. This happened often because some idiot would try to drive a tour bus or an ice cream truck through the gate and then try to turn it around in place....I put it in park and waited.

After moving a car length at a time I got close enough to see the guards normally armed like barney fife with a single bullet in their shirt pocket were carrying M16's and were searching each and every car as it stopped for inspection

I got the feeling something had gone terribly wrong and turned on the radio to hear the news talking about how right that feeling was. I spent the morining sitting in a windowless cold war era secure building scouring the web for news and trading information with people all over the world through the wonder of public message boards. Its a spooky thing to hear your off site co-workers say that they have been ordered to stay away from the very campus you are sitting at having been told that it was much too dangerous. it was a surreal experience and one that none of us ever recovered from. Distance did not lessen the sting that much.

Still nothing can compare with the horror and shock that our people in New york and the pentagon felt. I can't pretend to imagine what that was like in any way shape or form.

this is a sperate issue. We are not talking about Iraq, we are not talking about troop build ups, or who lied to who or who voted for what.

We are talking a single terrible act and the innocent lives lost, people who risked and lost everything doing nothing but their job to protect and save lives. None of these deserved that fate that date, no matter your politics.

My thoughts and prayers are with the survivors, wherever and whoever they are.

very well said....much luv bro.....

[mshilarious]

Hey is there a Pentagon graphic too? I was unemployed at the time, but a couple of months later I got a job where the commute took me past the damaged side every morning . . .

[RezN8]

We were hit pretty hard that day and are still feeling some of the affects today - so we will never forget.

My mom just retired from FDNY after 30 yrs of service. I asked if she wanted a retirement party. She said most of her friends either died on 9/11 or are now too sick to attend.

[RAMI]

Yes, sad day when your own Government attacks you....

This doesn't mean I don't care, just stating my opinion. That's what makes it a free country.

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by RAMI

Yes, sad day when your own Government attacks you....

This doesn't mean I don't care, just stating my opinion. That's what makes it a free country.

Just secede from Canada already and further marginalize yourself

[RAMI]

Originally Posted by mshilarious

Just secede from Canada already and further marginalize yourself

Nah, I'm one of the good people that kept Quebec IN Canada. If you knew anything about the situation, you wouldn't make such an ignorant statement.

And as far as my statement's concerned....The truth is the truth. And I'm not going to argue with narrow-minded robots who decide something's true just because they so on the news.

Sad day when the Government attacked it's own people....May they rest in peace.

[RAMI]

Don't worry, this isn't the cave, so I'll let you all have your little illusion about your criminal Governemt.....And we wonder why America is going down the tubes???? Haha.

Enjoy your thread.

See ya.

[Greg_L]

RAMI - the life of the party!

[dwillis45]

Here's a better graphic. The bald eagle and the flag are great if you want to celebrate Patriot's Day. If you want to remember the families and their loss, a picture is worth a thousand flags.

[RAMI]

Damn, I'm trying to stay out of this thread for the sake of the dead. But I keep getting rep...neg and pos (2 negs which were signed, so I have to give people credit for that, and 4 pos...and counting) which is cool. The pos comes from people with a brain, and the neg comes from people who DON'T WANT TO believe something...So, no problem, the ignorant stay ignorant by choice.

I'll just say one thing about honoring the dead. The worst way to do it is by perpetuating a lie.

R.I.P.

[mshilarious]

Originally Posted by RAMI

Nah, I'm one of the good people that kept Quebec IN Canada. If you knew anything about the situation, you wouldn't make such an ignorant statement.

Yes, I do, but I felt an ignorant statement deserved one in return

I've been to Montreal a couple of times, it's a beautiful city and not politically like the hinterlands that are more secessionist.

But ultimately, it's in a malcontent province in a country with a small population. Even so, I wouldn't piss on a statue of Jacques Cartier on Canada Day, as you just did. OK, I dunno how much they care about Cartier in Ottawa, and Canada Day in Quebec City, so it's a mixed metaphor. But you probably don't know anyone who was at the Pentagon that day, and I do.

So you deserve negs for your post, it is little different than what Fred Phelps does. But he isn't worth it, and neither are you, so I didn't bother . . . although I would sign it if I did.

[Badger]

Please start a new thread t continue your hijack

[beezelbubba]

Am I allowed to not give a fuck in Jenni's place, provided I do it respectfully?

[Dragon]

Originally Posted by beezelbubba

Am I allowed to not give a fuck in Jenni's place, provided I do it respectfully?

It's up to you what you want people to think of you.

[therage!]

A day that will live in Infamy.

[RAMI]

Originally Posted by mshilarious

Yes, I do, but I felt an ignorant statement deserved one in return

I've been to Montreal a couple of times, it's a beautiful city and not politically like the hinterlands that are more secessionist.

But ultimately, it's in a malcontent province in a country with a small population. Even so, I wouldn't piss on a statue of Jacques Cartier on Canada Day, as you just did. OK, I dunno how much they care about Cartier in Ottawa, and Canada Day in Quebec City, so it's a mixed metaphor. But you probably don't know anyone who was at the Pentagon that day, and I do.

So you deserve negs for your post, it is little different than what Fred Phelps does. But he isn't worth it, and neither are you, so I didn't bother . . . although I would sign it if I did.

Yeah, well, negs or pos, it's the least importatn thing to me. But I know what they represent. It'a about people agreeing or disagreeing with you. So, I have no problem with them, either way.

It comes down to the fact that we have different viewpoints on what "disrespecting the deceased" means. I have my opinion on what 9/11 (and Oklahoma, and the first WTC bombing, and many other things in history) is about. It's my view that was formed from alot of things I've read, watched, heard, etc....Same way everybody forms an opinion on anything. I don't just jump on bandwagons, weather it's to blindly discredit or blindly defend the people we call "civil servants".

So I don't see how what I think dishonors anyone. I didn't kill those people. The people that killed them dishonored them. We just have a difference of opinion on who that is.

[true-eurt]

They are in my thoughts also....along with those involved in the aftermath heroic acts of attempting rescues whilst still in great danger, many of whom, did lose their lives while doing so ...searching for those alive and the solemn task of locating the dead, treating the wounded, providing food, water, shelter and support. To those with the heart wrenching task of telling loved ones, of their loss. Also to those who had the job of cleaning up.


I also think of the families of the other side....and their loss. We cannot control those things, our loved ones do.....nor the love we still feel, even when the things they do are wrong, even horrific. Broken hearts are broken hearts, no matter what side you are on.

I commend the spirit of the NY'rs....to get on with living.

[PhilGood]

My brother was born on Dec 7th.

My Dad was born on Sept 11th.

I suspect May 5th is probably when the world will end.