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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 11, 2011 9:20:03 GMT
LEST WE FORGET.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 11, 2011 9:43:05 GMT
Ten years means nothing to the memory of the atrocity of that day. Rest in peace all the innocent people who died in the towers,in the planes and on the ground - I hope you've found a better place than here. Thoughts and sympathy always to those families and friends and all who suffered. Time has no meaning in memory however after ten years more details seem to be emerging from people who were there and who want to share what came into their lives. I suppose as time goes by it makes it a little easier to talk about it. Also, effects from the days after the horror are showing physical/mental consequences to some of those brave people who worked in Hell. edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/....t.cnn?hpt=hp_c2
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 11, 2011 9:44:28 GMT
and this posted via friends
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Post by steelmonkey on Sept 11, 2011 15:32:11 GMT
I was living 60 miles west of NYC and got to the city 4 days later...had to take a ferry from New jersey cuz the roads were still closed....the city still smelled funny and ash was landing in the cat bowl, 60 blocks north of the twin tower site. Everyone was walking around in shock and NYC felt like a college campus...millions of people clearly sharing the same feelings and experiences...the police and fire stations were the saddest places...each one an open wound with pictures and flowers and people miloing about crying and hugging 24/7.
I was spending all my weekends in NYC at that time of my life...within three weeks the gentle vibes and community spirit had waned...and a different chest pounding belligerent 'America' had emerged...but worse than that, for me, was the universal advertising...every store, storefront, print ad and radio jingle more or less got over the point: Hey,, buy something, let's show those motherf**kers we're allright...and let's start by consuming this or that product or purchasing this or that thing...the theme, throughout the island and even within blocks of the site was : BUSINESS AS USUAL....very bittersweet healing...nothing learned, nothing gained , nothing healed...just plain business as usual..SOOOOOOO American. And the flags went from a symbol of sadness and mourning to an unmistakable rejoinder of the bad guys in the 60's 'America-love it or leave it' remember?
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 11, 2012 10:00:13 GMT
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Post by snaffler on Sept 11, 2012 10:34:25 GMT
LEST WE FORGET. Well at least Obama eventually caught up with Osama
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