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04-16-2012, 03:37 PM
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Re: Oh, Jesus Christ - World Trade Center
wow...i just finished reading this thread...thank you for sharing bill...words cannot convey how horrifically tragic, heart wrenching and sad that day was and still is... |
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04-16-2012, 06:30 PM
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Re: Oh, Jesus Christ - World Trade Center
Thank you for being interested as well. I argue back and forth with John about 9/11, but when it comes right down to it, the fact is almost 3,000 people were murdered that day, and I was fortunate enough not to be one of them. I saw people jump and hit the ground, and lost a close friend, but was lucky enough to not join the list. |
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04-17-2012, 08:57 PM
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Re: Oh, Jesus Christ - World Trade Center
You want to know something that is somewhat of a paradox ? The extremists will eventually wipe themselves out, we just have to convince them they will recieve 140 virgins if they leave others out of their self destruct missions. |
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10-03-2012, 09:03 AM
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Re: Oh, Jesus Christ - World Trade Center
I know I'm bumping an old post, but I can't help it. I just read each and every comment on here word for word. I read every word of the articles. I watched/listened to the videos. And I'm sitting here in tears. On 9/11, I was at work - the only adult in the facility - and I didn't have access to a radio or television. I had NO IDEA what had happened until that evening. I went home and watched the news, empathized with families and friends (strangers to me) who had lost loved ones, cried a couple of times... and forgot about it. To me, after those first few days, it was just an awful thing that happened... a thing that happened to strangers. I was able to think about it objectively... and I blamed us for it. I blamed America for sticking its fingers in the business of other countries, cultures, religions... for giving money to people who would become terrorists in their own countries. We deserved it, as far as I was concerned - as a country. Not, mind you, the individuals who experienced it personally. The people who lived through it, the people who died in it, the people who had to live without loved ones... they were, on an individual basis, innocent in my eyes, but my country as a whole needed a wake-up call to realize that our actions have affected others in horrible ways. And so I de-personalized the event in my mind. This thread brought it home for me. It personalized it in a way that I don't think anything else could have done, short of being there myself. I want to thank you for that. And I hope that some day, I can forgive you for it as well. |