9/11 Remembered Today. Another date Which Will Live in 'infamy"

[IamKeenan]

Never Forget, Never Surrender!!

[IamKeenan]

A couple of my Favorite Photos when I was there in 1985

[IamKeenan]

9/11/2001 (11/9/2001 for us Europeans) - A reminder that for all of the good we may accomplish, for all of the achievements we may amass, one thought, one action may wipe it all away in an instant. “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. “ Mohandas Gandhi
We may not be able to do anything about the tragedy the world shared on that day but hopefully we can use it to better the world in which we, as individuals, live. Richard Bach wrote: “The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or tear the pages.” We have the gift of life, to go on and make ourselves the best “I’s” we can be. We have an obligation to help others achieve the same – only in these two things will we ever be able to avoid the type of insanity demonstrated by the fanatics so caught up in rage that they have lost sight of the brotherhood of humanity. We are destined for more, we ARE more! I hope that in aspiring to be more than you are and have more than you have that you will find that you are already more than you imagined.

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
" Louisa May Alcott

[brown-raider]

KEENAN, I for one will never forget! many want to act like 9/11 never happened but not me I know who the enemy are, and their intentions in and outside America

[Sveta's Hero]

KEENAN, I for one will never forget! many want to act like 9/11 never happened but not me I know who the enemy are, and their intentions in and outside America


Brownie, I think most Americans will never forget. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the towers were hit. I don't think I could ever forget something like that.

[st.gans]

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[RiverRock]

Brownie, I think most Americans will never forget. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the towers were hit. I don't think I could ever forget something like that.

I remember also. I was at work and everyone was saying that someone shot missiles into New York. I can't believe it has been 7 years already... and we are still in Iraq.

[Sveta's Hero]

I remember also. I was at work and everyone was saying that someone shot missiles into New York. I can't believe it has been 7 years already... and we are still in Iraq.


I had the day off that day, and planned to go fishing with my friend James. Right before I got to his place, he called and told me that the one of the towers were hit by a plane. Then when I got there we actually watched the second plane hit the second tower. We didnt go fishing that day, we just watched the news all morning.

[IamKeenan]

I am watching ''The day the Towers Fell'' and seeing the Horror all over again. Every cable channel seems to have some kind of Memorial today. From the Petagon, Flight 93 Memorial Field and Ground Zero:(

[Voobrazheniye]

I had the day off that day, and planned to go fishing with my friend James. Right before I got to his place, he called and told me that the one of the towers were hit by a plane. Then when I got there we actually watched the second plane hit the second tower. We didnt go fishing that day, we just watched the news all morning.

I was sitting in a United Airlines plane in Denver getting ready to fly to Chicago that morning. Obviously, we never left the ground. It was chaos in the airport as all kinds of people were trying to figure out how to get home when the airport was closed (they would not allow cabs or other transport up to the terminal).

It was also strange to see no airplanes in the sky for several days, except for National Guard F-16s that occasionally flew patrols over Denver. I got to Chicago the following Saturday (the first day that planes flew again), and it was very sobering to see a lot of United personnel on the plane, who were headed to Chicago to catch their assigned flights. There were some flight attendants who could not stop crying almost the whole flight because they had some personal friends who were killed on the United flights were involved.

What angers me is how quickly everyone seemed to forget about it and how the television networks have seemed to almost CENSOR the footage of the planes hitting the buildings and don't seem to want people to remember. Americans should be seeing this regularly and remembering who did it.

[IamKeenan]

I can't remember where I was-I only remember I was glued and in Shock in front of the T.V.

[IamKeenan]

They are still Showing Footage of that day. And the interviews of the people that were on scene are so Brutal. They have most Americans Belief in what really should be done to those Countries.

This is the Second plane hitting the Building and People Sceaming

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[IamKeenan]

UnFreaking Believeable

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[Neilikka]

9/11 brought US into age of terrorism, anxiety


WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush said he didn't care how terrorism architect Osama bin Laden was brought to justice, dead or alive.
"We'll smoke him out of his cave and we'll get him eventually,'' Bush said confidently.
That was back in 2001 when the United States reeled in shock and horror after 19 men hijacked four airliners and turned them into guided missiles. The jets slammed into New York's World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside, killing nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest attack in history on U.S. soil.
It was the beginning of a new era of anxiety and vulnerability for the country after only a few years of post-Cold War comfort. Americans suddenly woke up to the chilling threat of terrorism - not in the Middle East or somewhere else around the world, but at home.
It was a turning point, too, for Bush, an inexperienced, little-traveled president who had shown marginal interest in world affairs.
Before Sept. 11, Bush was best known for winning his office in a controversial Supreme Court decision and then cajoling Congress into passing one of the largest tax cuts in history and enacting a major education bill.
After Sept. 11, Bush declared himself a wartime president. He de¬nounced "evildoers'' and launched a global war on terrorism. He rallied Americans and the world; his ap¬proval ratings soared into the stratosphere.
Now, on the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, Bush winds down his presidency with those attacks and the aftermath standing as the defining events of his time in office - and low ap¬proval ratings.
"You have to view this as the seminal event of his presidency,'' said Norman Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. "It transformed him, it focused him and gave a sense of purpose to his presidency that really had not existed before.''
Suddenly, Ornstein said, Bush's mission was clear: "Fight a war against terror and win it.''
The president laid the groundwork for two wars in close succession, in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Today, he still is carrying the burden of those wars, still not won, and a tarnished U.S. image around the globe. Critics blame him for allowing people to be tortured, for domestic spying and for abuses of executive power.
Bush sent U.S. troops into Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, to strike al-Qaida training camps and remove the Taliban rulers who harbored bin Laden. The Taliban fell quickly. Bin Laden slipped away.
Many key lieutenants, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, were captured. Others were killed.
On March 19, 2003, with solid support from Congress, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein. The decision was justified largely on grounds - later proved false - that Saddam was building weapons of mass destruction that, Bush said, "could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.''
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney repeatedly sought to link Saddam to the Sept. 11 attacks. But the independent Sept. 11 commission concluded there was no such relationship. Bush eventually stopped making that connection, but still cast Saddam as a terrorist threat.
In an Oval Office speech on the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Bush said, "I am often asked why we are in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks. After 9/11, Saddam's regime posed a risk that the world could not afford to take.''
The war at first was popular, when it looked like a relatively easy victory. Bush made protecting the U.S. the central theme of his re-election campaign and staged the 2004 Republican convention in New York, a reminder of the attacks.
On the seventh anniversary this year, Bush will mark the day simply by going to the Pentagon for the unveiling of a Sept. 11 memorial.
History will judge his presidency on the war in Iraq, which Bush decreed the central front in the war against Islamic extremists. It has lasted longer than the Civil War, World War I and World War II. It has claimed the lives of more than 4,100 Americans and cost about $653 billion.
Many people already have come to a decision.
A Gallup Poll in March found that 54 percent of Americans believe Iraq will be remembered as a failure and that 59 percent think it was a mistake to send U.S. troops there in the first place.

By Terence Hunt
Associated Press

[beezneesman]

As long as sme mf's paid with their lives for this, what we didn't need was some limp wristed President to deal with this he would have wanted to break bread and sing Kumbaya with the terrorists...:plane::cell:


Well a lot of people in A'stan and Iraq have paid with for their lives for it. Whether they are the right people is another matter entirely but I guess you think that as long they're brown and worship Allah that's alright.

[alpine-frolic]

It's sad to remember that every day, in many parts of world , as many innocent people as in 9/11 are killed by others.