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09-10-2007, 09:01 AM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I walk by it every day on the way to work downtown. Lived in NYC when it happened. I"ll never forget.
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09-10-2007, 10:02 AM
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Wipe My Bottom
Join Date: Sep 2006
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i remember eating lunch in the WTC basement food courts.
fondly.
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09-10-2007, 11:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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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.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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09-10-2007, 12:04 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
We found that the World had changed forever.
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How true Fred, it's a whole new ball game now. |
" Choose Life "
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09-10-2007, 12:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
We found that the World had changed forever.
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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
Last edited by spence; 09-10-2007 at 01:28 PM..
Reason: Wrong syntax
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09-10-2007, 01:20 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
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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.
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09-10-2007, 03:25 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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The wake up call should have been the Al-Queda financed 93 car bombing of the WTC by the "sheik".
I believe that was the first attack on our innocent civilians in the US by an outside terrorist group.
It killed 6 and injured over 1,000 innocent civilians, but the light didn't go on.
Why i don't know, but somebody fell asleep at the switch and dropped the ball.
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