One word: What are you feeling, what's your reaction?

Determined

 

I sure as hell ain't afraid. We're not a nation of fear.

Proud.

 

It's one of those things that I've thought about a lot over the last 9+ years.

Would we be in the economic situation we're in if 9/11 hadn't happened? Maybe I'm naive, but I don't think so... That's not to say it's to blame for everything this country has been through since then, but it certainly got things rolling in the wrong direction.

 

The collapse was going to happen, but it was Katrina and rising gas prices that was the final push.

 

Fixed.

 

This.

 

Aboutdamntime.

 

SATISFACTION. 8)

mick and the stones were wrong!!

 

It was still an overheated economy based on debt-fueled bubbles.

 

Bittersweet.

Sweet because we finally got the son of a bitch. Bitter because, for the thousands who died in terrorism attacks that Bin Laden orchestrated and the thousands more who died in combat looking for him, we didn't get him soon enough.

Plus I have a hard time celebrating someone's death, even someone who truly deserved it like Bin Laden.

 

i know several folks have weighed in on having 'a hard time celebrating someone's death' sentiment, but c'mon. most of us here aren't heartless ogres who live for learning someone has passed. and i'm anti-death penalty. but i'm also flexible enough to know when one of my personal tenets doesn't fly.

and OLB, along with hitler, are two who immediately come to mind.

i understand those who don't want to celebrate because of what might happen next. but on the grounds you can't bring yourself to celebrate ANYONE'S death? c'mon, suburbia. take advantage of that rarest of opportunities to DANCE ON A GRAVE or to TAKE A DUMP IN THE OCEAN, in this case....

 

Empty.

Sorry I just don't get the celebrations. Our CIA and military got a tremendously sensitive assignment right, which shouldn't be taken for granted. They went in and eliminated the guy with precision and skill. Yet, I lost three friends on 9/11 and none of them are coming back because of this, and none of the anguish this caused to thousands of families goes away, either. I find little satisfaction in this news, not that I think I was supposed to.