Tomorrow is September 11th

[perkele]

My favorite penpal Ariz Abdulnamikov from Afganistan lost his life few months later.

 

[mountain muscle]

I was in Western Colorado repairing and rigging up Nabors 909 after it was stacked in the yard for a few years.

Didn't even hear about it until lunch time.

 

[velvett]

clearly you must have been a world away from nyc and not been effected in the slightest bit. you know nothing of the pain we all went through that day and the YEARS that have passed. i can describe to you to the second where i was that day.

why should we remember? close to 3000 innocent people were murdered in the name of terror. big difference than a family being killed in a car accident. thats why its called an accident. these unfortunate things happen everyday and i feel for everyone who suffers for them and i wish no ill will on anyone. to compare 9/11 to an ordinary day is just ridiculous.

its a shame most of america feels like you. when tradegy on a mass scale hits your neck of the woods i wonder how you will feel?

I am from NYC - I know people that were there and survived, I know someone that died and I know another man who in his 40's has a 65% loss in lung capacity due to his efforts to try and help clean up the mess that was left behind - his doctors give him less than 10 years to live - no one will sit and remember him while his children grow up and watch him die.

Shame on YOU for judging me and not letting me have my own opinion that reading off a list of names is completely unneccessary. How many more years will people have to dredge up the sadness that comes along in having to re-live the event over and over again.

I never once compared 9/11 to car accidents - you made that assumption - I never specified. Who remembers the 3774 soliders that have died in the Iraq war since 2003 - or the 27,000+ that were wounded?

And since it's not clear to you - WE don't all feel the same way as you and 8 million other people that you assume feel as you do.

 

[wootoom]

Ya, i'm sure Velvett meant any harm in her post you know she's one of the meanest people on the board. She was simply making a point.

 

[timtim]

I am from NYC - I know people that were there and survived, I know someone that died and I know another man who in his 40's has a 65% loss in lung capacity due to his efforts to try and help clean up the mess that was left behind - his doctors give him less than 10 years to live - no one will sit and remember him while his children grow up and watch him die.

Shame on YOU for judging me and not letting me have my own opinion that reading off a list of names is completely unneccessary. How many more years will people have to dredge up the sadness that comes along in having to re-live the event over and over again.

I never once compared 9/11 to car accidents - you made that assumption - I never specified. Who remembers the 3774 soliders that have died in the Iraq war since 2003 - or the 27,000+ that were wounded?

And since it's not clear to you - WE don't all feel the same way as you and 8 million other people that you assume feel as you do.

i apologize for my wrong assumption. i still feel 9/11 like it was yesterday and with your close ties to the whole thing why should we stop saying their names? you are right, we think differently and that is ok. i was wrong for jumping on your comment. i had a very long year after 9/11, changed alot of who i was for a long while. you are stronger, good for you.