Sept. 11

[subzero 5,000+ posts]

i was at home with my daughter

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I was in 4th grade.

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

lol i'm old

 

[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

I was on my way to school when I first heard about it, by the time we all got there all we did was huddle around the TV and watch in disbelief.

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

Yep, it was a pretty awful day.

 

[matt_bennett05 10+ year member]

WE could be the generation that sees the world completely change... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif I just hope I can enjoy every day I have until...

 

[kgcolbyIII 10+ year member]

People die daily, its life.. get over it...

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

People die daily, its life.. get over it...

Really bro? I hope they perma-ban you //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

Why would they perma-ban someone for not being overly patriotic? We've killed more women and children in the past ten years than any "terrorists" did on 9/11.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Why would they perma-ban someone for not being overly patriotic? We've killed more women and children in the past ten years than any "terrorists" did on 9/11.

It's not really about not being patriotic, it's just about showing some respect.

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

Then why don't we all show respect every second of the day, every day, for our whole lives? We should only show respect to peoples' deaths if they happened in our country? Large groups of people die on a daily basis all over the world. The only time us Americans seem to care is when those horrible terrorists killed those amazing people working in the world trade center.

I'm not trying to say that 9/11 wasn't tragic, and that we shouldn't show respect for the people who died. I'm just saying that the United States has been milking(yes, milking) it for the past ten years as the worst possible thing to happen to us when in reality, worse happens on a daily basis. We don't need to keep 9/11 in our hearts. We need to keep the understanding that there is injustice and hatred in the world that needs to be stopped.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Then why don't we all show respect every second of the day, every day, for our whole lives? We should only show respect to peoples' deaths if they happened in our country? Large groups of people die on a daily basis all over the world. The only time us Americans seem to care is when those horrible terrorists killed those amazing people working in the world trade center.
I'm not trying to say that 9/11 wasn't tragic, and that we shouldn't show respect for the people who died. I'm just saying that the United States has been milking(yes, milking) it for the past ten years as the worst possible thing to happen to us when in reality, worse happens on a daily basis. We don't need to keep 9/11 in our hearts. We need to keep the understanding that there is injustice and hatred in the world that needs to be stopped.

You just don't get it.

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

You just don't get it.

You're right. Only American life matters. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

You're right. Only American life matters. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

How did you arrive to that conclusion from what I said?

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

How did you arrive to that conclusion from what I said?

Easily. You said I don't get "it". What did you mean by "it"? Camaraderie? I get that many people died on 9/11, and that they shouldn't have died. I don't get why Americans have since felt the need to band together against the threat that is terrorism when terrorism has been going on everywhere(including here) for 20+ years. There have been billions of deaths in the past few decades from evil, corrupt men, but we only care about the few hundred that died on 9/11?

As I said, I don't see why American lives are the only lives that we have to care about. Pearl Harbor matters more than Hiroshima, 9/11 matters more than the ten year war we've been in since it, etc., etc.