9/11 Anniversary

[YankeeFan]

13 years tomorrow.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Anybody else have an uneasy feeling, like something big might happen tomorrow?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Anybody else have an uneasy feeling, like something big might happen tomorrow?

Yeah, Roger Goodell will resign.

Also, it's the two year anniversary of ... BENGHAZI!!!!!

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Anybody else have an uneasy feeling, like something big might happen tomorrow?

Yes. A ****-ton of over-patriotic, flag waving bull****.
I'm done with the 9/11 stuff.
Sorry. Not sorry.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

It is incredible to ponder how much print media have changed just since that time.

 

[spikechiquet]

I'll let Joe Machi sum it up: http://youtu.be/-jGcEg9sWX4?t=2m55s

 

[Boom_70]

" To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. "

 

[doctorx]

Why they hated us then: Britney Spears. Why they hate us now: Miley Cyrus.

 

[Songbird]

"Remember Me" is a very good movie to watch today or tonight if you can find it. It's like any good love story, and well-acted, then the ending leaves you breathless.

If you're a virgin to the movie, but might be intrigued, don't Google it to ruin the suspense. Yes, there's a 9/11 tie.

Rob Pattinson is excellent, as are Emily de Raven and Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan.

http://putlocker.is/watch-remember-me-2010-online-free-putlocker.html

 

[YankeeFan]

I hate this day.

 

[Bob Cook]

On a newspaper Facebook feed I follow, the first comments after a note on 9-11 were Muslim hate and conspiracy theories.

Never forget.

 

[WriteThinking]

They STILL give me chills, every time I see them.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110908-about-911-september-9-11-twin-world-trade-center-towers-indelible/

 

[Double Down]

One of my favorite TV moments ever. Still makes me cry, every single time. (The whole thing is worth watching, but I set it to skip ahead to the part where Letterman talks about a small Montana town, a draught, and the idea that we're all in this together.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBLgp1qTCTg&t=5m42s

 

[qtlaw]

As a member of a generation that grew up thinking potential nuclear attacks but was fortunate to never have had an armed conflict during the prime enlistment ages (the 20s); 9/11 was chilling in that the US was under attack; that simply does not happen to us.

We as a country have lost a great deal in the past 13 years; we'll never get that sense of freedom back.

My hope though is that we also never forget the seeds of that attack, IMHO its not about a struggle between Muslims and the West; its about how the US' arrogance in Middle East affairs gave a foundation for extremists to build their anti-West platform.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I remember every little detail of the day.

A writer buddy called after the first plane crashed and as I was driving to the weekly press conference (I was covering a major college at the time) I heard about the second one while listening to Stern. During the press conference, the SID interrupted to tell us about the third plane crashing in DC.

This sounds insane to say now, but I think it took awhile for it to sink in. The coach spoke normally and then the star QB came out and said, "I can't talk about football when this country is under attack."

That was when it actually sank in for me.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

Glad to see people are still burying their heads in the sand 13 years later.

 

[Boom_70]

"Gitmo shall be closed no later that 1 year from the date of this order"

 

[Baron Scicluna]

"Gitmo shall be closed no later that 1 year from the date of this order"

"Major combat operations are over. The battle in Iraq has been won."

"My belief is, we will in fact, be greeted as liberators."

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

 

[kleeda]

Before this devolves into lunacy, here's this. I read this Hunter S. Thompson piece every year on this date: http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751

 

[Buck]

I'm not making light, but who is to say what sense of freedom we will or will not get back.

Washington DC fell, and the nation went on later to have a vast sense of freedom.
The Roaring 20s were followed by the Great Depression, and we later went on to experience other periods of excess and optimism.