The Day the Towers Fell- - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

justplugit · 09-09-2007, 07:16 PM

Nope, it won't fly, Karl. We are not a united country, willing to make the sacrafices that our country made in those times.

We are all so fat and happy thinking about ourselves, me included,thinking about what we are going to buy next.

Meantime these Terrorists are planning our demise, make no mistake about it.

Can't stick your head in the sand, but that's what we do unless ,and until it hits our own families.

Just listen to binladen's last message,
suggesting we change our relegion in America.

In other words that's his only solution.

At some point this will be a fight to the finish.

striperondafly · 09-09-2007, 07:26 PM

yeah we should all change to Satan worshipers and send Bin Laden and all his followers to meet our man

Ground Zero on Wednesday - I teach tech classes every few months in 2 WFC on the third floor

The Iceman 6 · 09-10-2007, 09:01 AM

I walk by it every day on the way to work downtown. Lived in NYC when it happened. I"ll never forget.

fishpoopoo · 09-10-2007, 10:02 AM

i remember eating lunch in the WTC basement food courts.

fondly.

Backbeach Jake · 09-10-2007, 11:25 AM

When I first heard of it on the radio, messages were mixed and confused. At first, I thought that there had been a terrible accident, a wayward plane had crashed into one of the Towers. Then the second happened. I was uncomprehending. One of my co-workers decided to go find a TV at a pub and find out what had happened. We found that the World had changed forever.

justplugit · 09-10-2007, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

We found that the World had changed forever.

How true Fred, it's a whole new ball game now.

spence · 09-10-2007, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

We found that the World had changed forever.

I don't think the world has changed, just our perception of it has.

Additionally, it's too easy to use a "changed world" theory to justify radical and potentially harmful actions of our own, rather than make mindful course corrections in response to the wake up call.

9/11 shouldn't be a rally cry, that's not who we are, but rather a time for somber remberance of those lost and a steady conviction to continue to be the Country we've made it.

-spence

JohnR · 09-10-2007, 01:20 PM

This was like it before 9/11 though most Americans did not know it was going on. Many in intelligence and the military as well as those living overseas knew, as did those that felt the need to be on the lookout for actions like these.

9/11 was just an increase in effort, a new phase, to what was occurring prior to that point. Sad but true.