9/11 Remembrance

[lchyi]

What I remember the most is the way we all came together. For those of you in other countries here's what it looked like shortly after September 11th...

Many orphanage funds were setup. Some were legitimate and helped out immensely but as always, some were a big fake (there are still people in America that wish to take advantage of a situation like that... some were even in New York). However, back here in Bakersfield, California, there was not one block that you went to that didn't have at least 5-6 American Flags waving in the air. Churches were filled with prayer and concern. Some often praying through the night for the families lost. There was a fund set here for a local man lost in the Towers and there was a fund here that raised over a million dollars for the Orphanage fund back home. Our Key Club made a quilt and sent it to the American Red Cross in New York to donate to the families. It was a wonderful time.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Richdog

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Regs
How can you compare Sept 11 with a heat wave? People jumping out of burning buildings while mothers make their last cell phone call on crashing air planes. Europe has my sympathy, but don't ever put Sept. 11th and excessive heat in the same sentence.

How could anyone possibly associate burning buildings with excessive heat?

Notfred what an incredibly unintelligent, irrelevent, and downright petty thing to say thing to say. 9/11 was a world-changing incident, a horrific act the like of which has not been seen in modern history. They cannot be compared simply in terms of the numbers killed and are of a completely different nature, to do so then add that stupid comment you wrote above (therefore crapping in a memorial thread) was wholly disrespectful to everyone involved in 9/11. Shame!

:brokenheart:

May they rest in peace.

I hate to say it Richdog, but what he said went right over your head. He wasn't minimizing 9/11.

 

[nan0bug]

This is one of those times where pictures are worth a thousand words

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: brownh2o
I'd like to ask everyone to take a moment and remember all the innocent lives that were needlesly lost as a direct result of the bloodthirsty American government's penchant to wage war to solve every problem. We may never find the people we set out to capture, we may never find "weapons of mass destruction" or any other similiar buzzword which the media loves to repeat ad nauseam, and we may never learn that you can't fight fire with fire, but at least the people are distracted from all the problems at home. God bless America.

You honestly don't have a clue and if you can't be respectful, I'd ask you to leave this thread and never return.

 

[nan0bug]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: brownh2o
I'd like to ask everyone to take a moment and remember all the innocent lives that were needlesly lost as a direct result of the bloodthirsty American government's penchant to wage war to solve every problem. We may never find the people we set out to capture, we may never find "weapons of mass destruction" or any other similiar buzzword which the media loves to repeat ad nauseam, and we may never learn that you can't fight fire with fire, but at least the people are distracted from all the problems at home. God bless America.

You honestly don't have a clue and if you can't be respectful, I'd ask you to leave this thread and never return.

I think (hope) I'm speaking for everyone here when I ask that he leaves these forums and never returns.

Mods, wouldn't this post have been more appropriate in politics & news? I think this guy needs a vacation.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: nan0bug

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: brownh2o
I'd like to ask everyone to take a moment and remember all the innocent lives that were needlesly lost as a direct result of the bloodthirsty American government's penchant to wage war to solve every problem. We may never find the people we set out to capture, we may never find "weapons of mass destruction" or any other similiar buzzword which the media loves to repeat ad nauseam, and we may never learn that you can't fight fire with fire, but at least the people are distracted from all the problems at home. God bless America.

You honestly don't have a clue and if you can't be respectful, I'd ask you to leave this thread and never return.

I think (hope) I'm speaking for everyone here when I ask that he leaves these forums and never returns.

Mods, wouldn't this post have been more appropriate in politics & news? I think this guy needs a vacation.

Why, because his opinion is different than yours? Isn't that what the great nation of America is founded upon? Freedom?

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: nan0bug

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: brownh2o
I'd like to ask everyone to take a moment and remember all the innocent lives that were needlesly lost as a direct result of the bloodthirsty American government's penchant to wage war to solve every problem. We may never find the people we set out to capture, we may never find "weapons of mass destruction" or any other similiar buzzword which the media loves to repeat ad nauseam, and we may never learn that you can't fight fire with fire, but at least the people are distracted from all the problems at home. God bless America.

You honestly don't have a clue and if you can't be respectful, I'd ask you to leave this thread and never return.

I think (hope) I'm speaking for everyone here when I ask that he leaves these forums and never returns.

Mods, wouldn't this post have been more appropriate in politics & news? I think this guy needs a vacation.

Why, because his opinion is different than yours? Isn't that what the great nation of America is founded upon? Freedom?

I just don't think it is appropriate to mix politics in this thread.

 

[nan0bug]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

Originally posted by: nan0bug

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: brownh2o
I'd like to ask everyone to take a moment and remember all the innocent lives that were needlesly lost as a direct result of the bloodthirsty American government's penchant to wage war to solve every problem. We may never find the people we set out to capture, we may never find "weapons of mass destruction" or any other similiar buzzword which the media loves to repeat ad nauseam, and we may never learn that you can't fight fire with fire, but at least the people are distracted from all the problems at home. God bless America.

You honestly don't have a clue and if you can't be respectful, I'd ask you to leave this thread and never return.

I think (hope) I'm speaking for everyone here when I ask that he leaves these forums and never returns.

Mods, wouldn't this post have been more appropriate in politics & news? I think this guy needs a vacation.

Why, because his opinion is different than yours? Isn't that what the great nation of America is founded upon? Freedom?

Its a rememberance thread, not a politics thread. His remark was inflammatory, immature, and unnecessary. He could have posted it somewhere else, or waited until tomorrow.


His post has been taken care of.

Watchful Mod

 

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by: Karsten
Rest in peace!

Page I put up a day or two after it happened:
My World Trade Center Pics

Very nice pictures. I regret not taking my camera when we went to the observation deck of the World Trade Center in 2000. Being from Connecticut, there was always tomorrow seeing as how the city is an hour away, and you think "These buildings aren't going anywhere, I'll bring the camera next time." Little did I know......

Rest In Peace.


:brokenheart:

 

[Cyco]

Originally posted by: nan0bug
This is one of those times where pictures are worth a thousand words

Wow....that is something else, isn't it?

 

[forager]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
:brokenheart:

 

[Platypus]

His post has been taken care of.

Watchful Mod

god bless America

 

[brownh2o]

His post has been taken care of.

Watchful Mod[/quote]

Whoops, sorry, I forgot about the rule where my post has to promote Christianity, right-wing ideals, jingoism and other archaic or/and close-minded ideas.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: brownh2o
His post has been taken care of.

Watchful Mod

Whoops, sorry, I forgot about the rule where my post has to promote Christianity, right-wing ideals, jingoism and other archaic or/and close-minded ideas.[/quote]

oh wow, you just became my favourite poster.

too bad you'll get banned for it :\

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: brownh2o
His post has been taken care of.

Watchful Mod

Whoops, sorry, I forgot about the rule where my post has to promote Christianity, right-wing ideals, jingoism and other archaic or/and close-minded ideas.[/quote]

Look bub, this is not a "9/11 Political Causes and Implications" thread. This is a rememberence thread. I've got no problem with you espousing your various political beliefs, just do it in the appropriate thread and forum.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: brownh2o
His post has been taken care of.

Watchful Mod

Whoops, sorry, I forgot about the rule where my post has to promote Christianity, right-wing ideals, jingoism and other archaic or/and close-minded ideas.[/quote]

This thread is to remember 9/11 and all the people who died, not to promote what you believe is wrong with our government today

 

[dmurray14]

Just watched a 9/11 special on HBO. God bless them all. God bless them.

 

[WoofyJr]

:brokenheart:

I must see this special show 9-11 on hbo.... hope it replay tonite...

 

[Howard]

We're so morbid. Remembrance need not be depressing.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: minendo
We will not forget.

Thank you very much for making a grown man cry.

I will never forget the heroes that lost their lives that day. May God bless their souls.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: minendo
We will not forget.

Oh man, that makes me soo sick to my stomach. Really powerful stuff. So sad.






KeyserSoze

 

[NoReMoRsE]

 

[Stojakapimp]

As I was driving on the freeway in Sacramento tonight, I saw this American flag hanging up on one of those overpasses, and a guy next to it was waving an American for all the cars to see. Sent a chill down my spine. I love seeing stuff like that.

 

[Zim Hosein]

 

[SickBeast]

I remember waking up, turning on the TV, and the shock I felt when I realized the sheer magnitude of the situation. 50,000 people in the near-vicinity. Firefighters rushing to the scene. Order in chaos, and resolve in the face of challenge. Then the fourth plane went down, with people dying in democratic American style; voting to end their lives in order to save countless others and defend their country.

God bless our neighbours to the south.