I have a huge problem with "remembering" 9/11

[Phrozt 10+ year member]

To the people that actually read the thread and the replies... especially to yne721 who actually carried my thought out further and gave some very excellent examples... *Gold Star*

To the people who only read my very first post, instantly hit reply and called me an *******, fuck you. Learn to read.

ex_03: Thanks for the cold hard numbers of exactly what I was talking about. Plenty of wonderful people die to horrible thing every year, but you don't see people going on and on about it, year after year.

9/11 is my grandma's Bday, and she's sick of it as well... she brought up a good point when I talked to her yesterday, that when we keep on bringing it up and "remembering" it, it's probably even harder on the families who are still trying to cope with it and get over it. We basically pour salt in the wounds of the families who lost people so we can have something to cry about as a nation. Fucking ridiculous.

 

[nVRuckus 5,000+ posts]

I've talked to several people today.. co-workers.. friends.. people on the net.
No one was connected to anyone that died there in any way... yet they were all telling me how sad it was and how bad they feel. Yes. It was a sad thing. It was a loss of many lives. However... why in the world would you, someone who had no connection to any of these people... feel sad about it 5 years later? Hundreds of thousands of people die every year. A lot of them for no good reason. Are you mourning their deaths? Deaths of cancer patients?? Deaths of children who were killed in accidents?? Deaths of people trying to help those who are down and out that get caught in the middle of a battle and get killed?? Deaths of firefighters/police/EMTs?? Deaths of other heros?

No.

Why? Because that doesn't make you a part of a nationally recognized big event.

Anyone who's still "mourning" 9/11 is just lying to themselves. They don't really care.. they just want to say what they were doing on some day that everyone remembers so that they'll feel special.

I kinda agree with you but its the same as the Jews with the Nazis today they will act as if they actually lived in that time and they really didnt even have anyone in isreal //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Was it a shitty thing? Yes, did it really effect me? only in airport lines i guess.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

Ur a dumb ***..how do u feel about that..

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While I do agree that some people act as though they care when they really don't so people don't see them as insensitive and uncaring, I disagree that you have to have known someone who died to legitimately feel emotional anguish about the situation, even 5 years after the fact.
Not everyone reacts to situations the same way, believe it or not ...

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how come rescue was so quick to arrive to ground zero, bush was in new york the same day, all the ruble has been cleaned, and they were really on the ball with the rescue mission, but in new orleans, they new ahead of time a hurricane was coming and there was gonna be disaster, but yet the rescue mission was so ****ed?
this was a sensless act and should be remembered, things like peral harbor that jntar mentioned, and the hollacaust etc. it's a sensless act that shouldn't have happened

George bush doesnt care about black people. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

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it just goes to show you how much people in this country have their priorities fucked up....it's the same with acting and actors......apparently they need 30 million to be in a movie......

and they cry about it when they dont get it.

they still mourn because it wasnt an atack on people, it was an attack on america. and before anyone else jumps on my reply, no i didnt read the whole thread, im not going to, and i dont care if this has been covered already or not. the purpose of remembering is not the people that lost their lives that day, its in rememberance of what happened to america that day, to americaNs that day. and regaurdless of if you were there, if you knew the people, or even if you remember what you were doing or where you were when it happened, it is now a part of OUR history. something that isnt going to change, nor is it going to be forgotten. it is about remembering the day that someone tried to take something from us, and tear us down, and instead we became stronger and more together. and sure it is sad that lots of people lost their lives, but its not neccesarily about that. alot of people mourn for that, but more so, people mourn for what america lost, and then they can celebrate what we gained from the experience.

exactly... you think people make fun of others sympathizing for pearl harbor? do people get made fun of or criticized for crying at the vietnam memorial? its part of our history, something not to be forgotten...

attack on america is a good point.

Compared to the 408,399 deaths of americans in World War II, only 3,000 of which were civilians...
and compared to the 58,209 casualties of Vietnam, not to mention the other 153,303 which were wounded....

you've only proven my point.

this war isnt over yet //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

I lost a friend in one of the towers...he was NYPD

oh..another thing

Pear Harbor was the reason why the US officially got involved in WW2.....many have said that it couldve been avoided (and I agree).....many have said that FDR knew about it (Im 50/50 with this)

It is also stated, via an intercepted message to Tokyo before Pearl, that US Congressmen were involved in assisting the Japanese with the attack.

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I still dont understand how we went from Afghanistan to Iraq.....

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[yne721 10+ year member]

To the people that actually read the thread and the replies... especially to yne721 who actually carried my thought out further and gave some very excellent examples... *Gold Star*

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