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2003-09-11 Home Front

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Posted by Brian 2003-09-11 12:09:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 God bless America.

Posted by Hyper 2003-9-11 12:16:03 AM|| 2003-9-11 12:16:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ditto! God Bless America.

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-9-11 12:31:27 AM|| 2003-9-11 12:31:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Those people who lost their lives that day
Those that lost family members
Those that lost friends
Those that lost colleagues:
Some of us were those people
Some of us were spared their fate
All of us were affected
In one way or another by September 11, 2001.

We must never get complacent about what happened.
We must be vigilant
We must demand that our leaders are vigilant
and that they fulfill their responsibilities
to serve us and protect our country and its citizens.
We must take the fight to our enemies and put
the Fear and Wrath of God into their souls
so this never happens again to our nation.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-11 12:31:45 AM|| 2003-9-11 12:31:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The first line just wasn't enough...

God Bless America, land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her,
through the night with the light from above,
From the mountains
to the prairies
to the oceans, white with foam!
God Bless America, my home, sweet home!
God Bless America, my home sweet home!

Posted by Hyper 2003-9-11 12:35:54 AM|| 2003-9-11 12:35:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Never forget, never forgive, never again. May God bless and keep us all.

Posted by Seafarious 2003-9-11 12:41:20 AM|| 2003-9-11 12:41:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Take a moment to visit the Here is New York website, with about 5500 photos.

Posted by Steve White 2003-9-11 12:56:21 AM|| 2003-9-11 12:56:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 On another September day onne hundred and eighty-nine years ago, Americans watched one of their largest cities come under brutal, crushing attack. This one didn't last just a few awful hours, it lasted an entire night and until dawn.
Another generation would call another place like that Ground Zero.
The citizens of Baltimore called it Fort McHenry. One of them wrote words we all know - but it's the words that we don't know as well that mean the most this morning.

"...And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2003-9-11 1:07:30 AM|| 2003-9-11 1:07:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
-- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto December 7th, 1941

Posted by SteveS 2003-9-11 1:15:17 AM|| 2003-9-11 1:15:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I pray for the ones who died. I pray for their families and loved ones. I pray that God comforts them all.

I pray that God guides us to make the right decisions. The struggle against evil and those who are evil has so many false turns, so many accommodations, so many paths that lead us to a blind end. I pray that the good people, our country, our friends, our allies, all who cherish life and liberty, will have the courage to stand together and the wisdom to stay on that right path. Come what may.

Posted by Steve White 2003-9-11 1:16:52 AM|| 2003-9-11 1:16:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 "Now's not the time to go wobbly, George." -- Prime Minister Thatcher to Bush I

Posted by Brian 2003-9-11 2:08:03 AM|| 2003-9-11 2:08:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 As the President said Sunday night: May God continue to bless America.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-11 2:20:50 AM|| 2003-9-11 2:20:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Take a moment to visit the Here is New York website

I did and I bought the book (of pictures). I plan to show it to everyone who enters my home. Just my little way of making sure that atleast some will never forget. God bless.

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-11 3:32:02 AM|| 2003-9-11 3:32:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 screw all who died , life goes on, what goes around does come around. Like Newyork like Baghdad...only 3000 who cares. This event will never make it to the annal of history

Posted by steveerossa 2003-9-11 3:47:07 AM|| 2003-9-11 3:47:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 And what's going to come around for you is a bullet in the freagin head, I hope.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-11 3:56:29 AM|| 2003-9-11 3:56:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 http://www.amble.com/images/alqaeda.jpg

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Posted by .com (a.k.a. Abu This Believer) 2003-9-11 4:35:13 AM|| 2003-9-11 4:35:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 A memorial garden will be opened in London today:

British victims of the September 11 attacks were being remembered on the second anniversary of the terrorist atrocity. Families of the 67 Britons who died when two hijacked passenger planes slammed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Centre are to gather at a garden dedicated to their memory. More than 750 relatives and guests will visit the site in London's Grosvenor Square, which is overlooked by the United States Embassy and which was the focus of grief in the aftermath of the tragedy. The Princess Royal will officially open the garden of remembrance which contains a small pavilion bearing three bronze plaques listing the names of victims for the UK, UK Overseas Territories and those with dual nationalities. A spokesman for the Department of Culture said the idea for the garden originated from the families themselves. "They felt it would be fitting for their loved ones. Grosvenor Square was where people came to leave flowers after September 11. Although most of the families had private memorial services, there have been no funerals. Buried beneath the garden is a twisted metal girder recovered from Ground Zero. Preserved in resin, the half tonne of rusted steel from One World Trade Centre was placed underground because it was too distressing to be displayed. It rests beneath a memorial stone which dedicates the garden to "all those who lost their lives in the 11th September 2001 terrorist attacks".

Posted by Bulldog 2003-9-11 5:57:41 AM|| 2003-9-11 5:57:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Syeeve,I wish I could track your ass down!
You have to be the sorriest punk I have run across!
The best part of you,Stevee,ran down your Mama's leg!

Posted by raptor 2003-9-11 8:20:01 AM|| 2003-9-11 8:20:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 For the rest of the world that have forgotten, remember that people of all nationalities, races, and yes, religions, were innocently killed two years ago. (That goes double for you too, France.....even though you obviously don't give a damn if Grandmere dies in her stuffy Paris apartment.....)

We Americans also mourn their deaths on this day. We won't forget them, even if their countrymen have.

raptor-- to hell with stevee. As one of my old coworkers used to say, "You can't fix stupid, so don't even try."

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-9-11 8:35:05 AM|| 2003-9-11 8:35:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 the troll appears, like the turd in the wake punchbowl. Never forgive, never forget, and if you find steveys address, let me know

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-11 8:45:48 AM|| 2003-9-11 8:45:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 I will never forget this morning, two years ago.

I was actually having morning coffee and reading another BBS I used to hang in, where I first heard about this. Sprinted to the TV... and just stood there like an idiot with my mouth open.

Between the two towers, the Pentagon, and the Pennsylvania crash, it did seem like things were unravelling. Yet America could take their best punch and, despite all the dire prophecies, barely missed a stride in historical context.

I heard how life had changed forever, and of course the talking heads were alluding to an over-reactive American police state, and cluck-clucking about our naivete.

In some ways, I don't think life has changed enough. When you read that support for the WOT is waning, you wonder if we really have that short an attention span... but then you remember the source of the polls, how the questions you ask shape the outcome, how the public is daily softened by the lockstep media emphasis on bad news, and you realize that the war goes on.

Continuing and winning that war, no matter what Jennings, Brokaw, and Rather want you to think, is what leadership is all about.

Damn everyone who caused this and everyone who forgets and everyone who thinks those people deserved this or somehow brought this on themselves. Damn everyone who thinks we should be patient or understanding with the criminals who did it.

Thanks Britain, and Australia, and millions of silent supporters all over the not-as-civilized world who still count on America to set some standards. I sincerely hope we do not let any of you or our own victims down.

Posted by Mark IV 2003-9-11 9:05:39 AM|| 2003-9-11 9:05:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 Yitgadal vyitkadah, vyitroman vyitnasae, shmei da kadishu, bri hu.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-9-11 9:09:57 AM|| 2003-9-11 9:09:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 May He who makes peace in Heaven, send peace to us and to all who mourn.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-9-11 9:11:31 AM|| 2003-9-11 9:11:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 As the horror of September 11, 2001 unfolded on TV, I sat awe struck and muttering âthose despicable bastardsâ. I continued to mutter this condemnation for several days as more details were revealed of the innocent lives of children, ordinary citizens, as well as rescue workers that were taken by these contemptible madmen. Life in this country for our children and grandchildren would never be the same.

Now comes the vile, ignominious Steveerossa seeking equal vehement condemnation by degrading the memories of those lost lives. Youâve come to the right place for that Stevee.

Posted by Gasse Katze 2003-9-11 9:41:22 AM|| 2003-9-11 9:41:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#24 ...ignore...steve...life...too...short...

Posted by Bulldog 2003-9-11 9:44:06 AM|| 2003-9-11 9:44:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#25 Raptor >>> With all due respect, I feel I must correct you.

It was "out of the goat's ass."

Posted by Paul 2003-9-11 10:22:11 AM|| 2003-9-11 10:22:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#26 Let's roll, let's catch us some Bad Guysâ¢, God Bless America!

Never forget! NEVER!

Posted by Katz 2003-9-11 10:30:46 AM|| 2003-9-11 10:30:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#27 go to www.ushostnet.com/gulfwar/911attack.swf

that's where the tribute from politicsandprotest went to.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-11 10:31:20 AM|| 2003-9-11 10:31:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#28 I for one will never forgive or forget.

Oh, BTW stevie, do you know how many REAL, permanant enemies you just made? It's all fun n' games, ain't it, trolling to see how much of a rise you can get from Rantburgers, but you just terminally crossed the line, bucko. I really want to meet you in real life, boy. But we won't be mokin any meed together...

Posted by Watcher 2003-9-11 10:50:56 AM|| 2003-9-11 10:50:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#29 Amen, Bulldog. Stupidity is a sickness. Arrogant stupidity is a terminal illness. Let it be so.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-11 10:53:12 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-11 10:53:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#30 The Story of Rick Rescorla form the Mudville Gazette via Winds of Change is powerful enough that it should be read in private.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-11 10:56:04 AM|| 2003-9-11 10:56:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#31 Two planes struck our nation,
starting a mighty fire,
That is still burning nations in the middle east.
==

You could probably work that into a haiku.

I hope the people of the middle east recognize our restraint. If we really were the great satan, we would have responded with nukes, and made some fires of our own.

Posted by flash91 - fatwah you talkin bout willis 2003-9-11 11:02:59 AM|| 2003-9-11 11:02:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#32 Flash91, should be four planes. Never forget the Pentagon and those brave souls in Pennsylvania.

Posted by Steve 2003-9-11 11:23:01 AM|| 2003-9-11 11:23:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#33 Their deaths shall not be in vain, and they shall be avenged.

Not if the anti-war types have their way. We'd be wallowing in our victimhood, and reaching out to the likes of bin Laden to find out why they hate us.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-11 11:24:22 AM|| 2003-9-11 11:24:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#34 Though not american, I clearly remember what I did and how I felt that particular afternoon (french time), and the feeling is still here. In a very selfish way, 9/11 really changed me, half a world away.
Two years later, while I have no doubts the nazislamists will be military defeated on every battleground, I am equally sure and sad of the victory of their islamofascist cousins. AQ bombings will not defeat us: our lack of faith in ourself, in our values, our cowardice and our deathwish has already done so. The antiwar mvts, the great schiism between democratic nations and our delusions are the sign of our future demise. This is a tragic commemoration.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-11 11:29:42 AM|| 2003-9-11 11:29:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#35 Just a suggestion Stevey, but do you pray for death to come and put you out of your misery?
I don't think even the maggots would eat your corpse. It'd probably make 'em puke.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-11 11:44:00 AM|| 2003-9-11 11:44:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#36 Steve W - thanks so much for the Here is New York link. Very, very powerful.

Someday, maybe I'll be able to look at those pictures without the big lump in my throat and the tears welling up, but I really doubt it.

Posted by Jeff Brokaw 2003-9-11 12:34:11 PM|| [http://jeffbrokaw.net/weblog/] 2003-9-11 12:34:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 Never doubt stevey's patriotism, His grandfather fought in the first big one.

Posted by Lucky 2003-9-11 12:47:53 PM|| 2003-9-11 12:47:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#38
Comment: "out of the goat's ass."
I concede the point to you,Pual.
Stevee can't have a human mother,if he had a human mother she would hang her head in shame for birthing this pile of offal.It is to bad we can't e-mail some of stevee's coments to his parents.
The Story of Rick Rescorla:Can't read to much bandwidth.Must be getting a lot of hits.

Posted by raptor 2003-9-11 12:56:45 PM|| 2003-9-11 12:56:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 Super Hose: Thanx for the link.

stevey: Are you joking or toking here?

Posted by Katz 2003-9-11 1:17:22 PM|| 2003-9-11 1:17:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#40 What a pensive day....we must never forget. But how can you write "never forgive" and "God Bless us..." in the same sentence?

Posted by MS 2003-9-11 1:30:01 PM|| 2003-9-11 1:30:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#41 For forgiveness there must first be repentance.

I can't say I'm going to hold my breath waiting.

Posted by eLarson 2003-9-11 3:07:48 PM|| 2003-9-11 3:07:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#42 MS, I wrote it quite easily. God bless America, and we shall strike them down with the full might of our resources.

Statecraft is secular, after all.

Posted by Brian 2003-9-11 3:25:55 PM|| 2003-9-11 3:25:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#43 I remember watching the towers on TV. I saw the first tower burning, and was in shock. So I do what I usually do when I'm in a bad mood.

Try too shrug it off with a off-handed comment. My first one was this.

" Great, next the other tower is going to be hit dead on too. "

Moments later, that's exactly what happened. You can't imagine what I felt like to actually see my comment happen. Of course, I just couldn't keep quiet, I had too try and console myself AGAIN.

" Anyone want to take a bet on which tower goes first? "

That's when the first tower fell. I will NEVER forget those moments. It was the first, and only time, I have ever felt true horror.

Never forgive, Never forget, and NEVER shrug this off as just another day. I tried, and I have never completely forgiven myself for making those comments.

However, I made a third comment which struck me harder than any of the others.

" Those bastards, why did they attack NYC and not D.C? "

Minutes later is when I found out they did. I don't remember much about that day except for those comments, where I was, and the sheer horror that gripped me.

Stevey, if I ever find you, I will FORCE you to visit every family who lost someone on 9/11, and tell them what you think. Do you think they will just consider it insignificant?

Posted by Charles 2003-9-11 3:37:29 PM|| 2003-9-11 3:37:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#44 stevey, I fully understand that you're too fucking stupid and too fucking dense to understand "little" differences, but if your brain functions even once in awhile, I would hope that you'd rethink your taunt of 9-11.

Its one thing to have disagreements about the division of capital, of labor policy, of wealth etc. Its quite another to blow off the deaths of thousands of innocent and unarmed civillians whose only crime was to get up in the morning and go to work.

Today's post by you was WAY over the line.

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-9-11 4:17:53 PM|| 2003-9-11 4:17:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#45 There has been an American flag up in my garden on July 4th for decades.
Now there is another day when it will go up every year.
And it will do that as long as I live. That's a promise.
My thoughts are with you on that sad day for all mankind.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-9-11 5:52:17 PM|| 2003-9-11 5:52:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#46 TGA: Thank you.

Posted by Mike 2003-9-11 6:38:32 PM|| 2003-9-11 6:38:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#47 TGA,you are a true brother,your Honor is of the highest calaiber.Thank You.

Posted by raptor 2003-9-11 6:47:50 PM|| 2003-9-11 6:47:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#48 Stevey, you are a coward. You're post is something that you would never say in person. Get over it, yeah, I do not intend to. This day is a hard day for most of us, in my case I spent seven years in the Marine Corps and served our country, not because I had to but because I felt it was my obligation. I take this day a little personal, because we failed to keep the "Barbarians from Storming the Gates," so to speak. I will never forget that day but I live for each new day: going to work, going to school, taking my sons to events, spending time with my family and freinds, LIVING MY LIFE without FEAR. Yes, I am wary and more observent about my environment, but I live my life. Stevey, it is obvious that you don't have a clue about the real world, such the pity for you.

God Bless America

Posted by djh_Semper Fi 2003-9-11 6:50:25 PM|| 2003-9-11 6:50:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#49 Time for Stevey to find a new nic. This one's banned, too.

Never forgive, never forget, never "understand."

Posted by Fred 2003-9-11 8:32:12 PM|| 2003-9-11 8:32:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#50 TGA---Your thoughts are much appreciated and touching. On September 12, 2001 I was working on a number of projects and I had 5 calls from Canadians I knew in my engineering field from Vancouver, Victoria, and Huntsville, Ontario telling me how shocked, saddened, angry, and touched for not only the US but for me personally. I was touched to the core by their genuine feelings for these United States. The carnage is forever burned into my mind, but the goodness of people all over the world is also there, imprinted, too.

Thanks again, TGA.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-11 8:54:42 PM|| 2003-9-11 8:54:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#51 Mike, raptor and Alaska Paul, welcome.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-9-11 9:33:34 PM|| 2003-9-11 9:33:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#52 thank you for your good taste, Fred

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-11 9:44:21 PM|| 2003-9-11 9:44:21 PM|| Front Page Top

18:29 Bulldog
21:26 Aris Katsaris
12:26 raptor
12:23 raptor
05:37 Bulldog
03:01 Anonymous
02:08 Anonymous
00:48 Baba Yaga
00:34 Rafael
00:19 Not Mike Moore
00:05 Aris Katsaris
23:59 Aris Katsaris
23:58 Bomb-a-rama
23:27 Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire
22:52 Charles
22:43 Charles
22:38 Charles
21:49 Scooter McGruder
21:44 Frank G
21:43 True German Ally
21:33 True German Ally
21:21 Charles
20:54 Alaska Paul
20:52 Anonymous