Seabishop said:...how many people actually tone it down for holidays like Memorial Day. Most people have cookouts, go on trips, etc. Especially once our generation is gone most people will just look at it as a day off.
PlannerGirl said:I will never understand the guts and strength of my friends who were THERE that day:
Repo Man said:Sept 10th would turn into a party night for college kids because they have the next day off.
Cardinal said:No. We simply do not have holidays to commemorate attacks on our country.
Cityscape Dreamer said:..... and gangs of kids off school/work with nothing to do all day attacking or vandalizing property of Arab/Muslim/Sikh/Indian/anybrown foreign-looking-soundingpersonofnon-Christian origin on that special day.
SkeLeton said:We have 2 9-11's trademarked here in Chile, both in the 20th Century.
Mike D. said:I'm all in favor of showing those videos of the WTC over and over again all day long every 9-11, hell every day for that matter.
Its amazing how quickly most Americans have forgotten.
They'd rather take the run and hide approach or the ostrich approach and hope all our problems just go away.
SlaveToTheGrind said:Can't agree more with Mike D. In our society today, things like this will become forgotten as time goes on. Look at the Murrah(sp?) Building tragedy in Oklahoma......
Duke Of Dystopia said:It is what separates us from the BASTARDS that took down the towers. Its what separates us from the ASSHOLES that supported them then and NOW! You can be with them and hold the hate since the crusades, or we can all piece our lives back together and work to be happy. It will PISS THEM OFF knowing they failed to bring us to our knees. Even my bitterness will pass, maybe, in time....
jordanb said:Now that's what I call moving on and being happy!
jordanb said:OT2: How do you do one of those "offtopic" quote things?
But I think we should work our asses off to make it a day of mourning in every Wahhabi hidey hole in the world.
BKM said:Does that mean our next war should be Saudi Arabia? Makes more sense to me.
BKM said:Does that mean our next war should be Saudi Arabia? Makes more sense to me.
SkeLeton said:Here it was a holiday until a few years ago...
gkmo62u said:
What specific freedom have we lost. Really. What exact freedom has been taken away from you Giff?
gkmo62u said:What specific freedom have we lost. Really. What exact freedom has been taken away from you Giff?
gkmo62u said:As soon as you take a book out of the library, a public institution, there is a record of it. There is no expectation of privacy.
gkmo62u said:Let's not get immediately revisionist here.
You clearly stated that "nor is our freedom immediately in danger from anyone but John Ashcroft."
I ask what freedom has John Ashcroft taken?
That meets the definition of a threat to our freedom, our way of life, which sorry to break it to those apologists out there, is the best way of life in mankind's history.
I don't know why the rallying cry didn't echo in 1992 or in 1995. Scale maybe? Place? Sheer surprise of it all? [/B]