In memory of September 11th
A tribute
Sunday, September 10, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Five years ago on September 11, 2001, 19 men boarded four planes in the United States with the intention of hijacking them and crashing them into important buildings with the hope of killing as many people as possible.
Three of those planes made it to their targets killing over 3,000 people. The fourth one crashed after passengers attempted to retake the plane after learning the fate of the other three planes.
For Americans, September 11th marked a major turning point for how the country viewed the world. For people outside the United States, the choices and response to September 11th has stirred a great deal of debate. Even within the United States, there is a great deal of disagreement over how best to continue to carry out the response to the terrorist attacks and the growing movement of violent Islamic radicalism.
The people who attacked the United States were part of a terrorist organization called Al Qaeda. A radical Islamic group dedicated to restoring the historic caliphate that once existed from Spain to the far east, Al Qaeda considered the United States as an obstacle to their goals of turning "moderate" Muslim states such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt into fundamentalist Islamic Republics modeled after then Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Their belief was that if the US presence in the middle east as well as its support of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Israel could be removed that they moved one step closer to their goal. They believed, wrongly, that the US response would be to withdraw its presence from the middle east just as it had done so in Somalia in the mid 1990s.
On this day, we at this site give our thoughts to the families of the men and women who died on that day. And we support the valiant men and women in the armed forces from the United States and other countries who are working to put an end to organizations and movements that support the indiscriminate wholesale annihilation of innocents.
We hope the world does not forget 9/11. We certainly will not.
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Reply #3 Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:05 PM
My family's thoughts are with those other families that lost members on that day and those that have given of themselves in the war since. May God bless them all.
Reply #5 Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:16 PM
I doubt I'll ever forget.
There certainly has been no even remotely comparably horrible or horrific spectacle in my 52 [almost] years of existence.
Man's inhumanity to his fellow man knows no bounds.
Reply #6 Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:20 PM
When I saw the tape of them laughing, I realized my mistake in not believing in the true capacity for evil intent.
Now I know better.
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Reply #10 Monday, September 11, 2006 12:41 AM
The ugly face of Islam was brought to the American consciousness decades too late – ridiculous immigration policies (keeping the good ones out and the bad ones in) and scrupulously idiotic war agendas (Taliban? Sure. Did anyone know they were groomed by the US Army to fight the former administration?).
Innocence was the drug of joy for most Americans before the attack, and after that it seems that things haven't changed much. How many more people have to die until America will wake the heck up?! It needs to understand that the immidiate enemy isn't roaming the deserts of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia or Iraq... it's learning the schematics of the Pentagon in its apartment in LA as we speak (all relation to future events is entirely accidental, I just know Muslim extremists up close).
I used to live in Israel for a while, and I can tell you that it never stops. It only changes shape and intensity. The only way to fight it is too unethical, too racist to consider... and they're using it... well.
Reply #11 Monday, September 11, 2006 12:52 AM
Pretty amazing that for 35 years, I kept my innocence and belief that all men are good.
Thank you for your post. You are totally correct. We will NEVER forget...
my prayers to those lost that horrible day, and to everyone effect.
Reply #12 Monday, September 11, 2006 1:35 AM
The tears for 9/11 still flow from time to time....though not purely for the horrors of 9/11. With the terrorist attacks in London and Madrid as well, further plots unfolding, and the senseless violence, killing and destruction continuing in Iraq; Israel and Lebanon; Afghanistan; Sri Lanka and several African nations, all too often in the guise of some religious cause, fuelled by some lunatic crackpot, the events of 9/11 can never be too far from my mind.
And when I know of countries developing technologies with the potential to inflict even more death and destruction, I'm witnessing even more of mans inhumanity and often believe that man can be/is the least civilised of all animals on this planet.
Sadly, mankind is its own worst enemy, not even the tremendous forces of nature have ever inflicted the amount of pain and suffering mankind has inflicted upon itself.Reply #13 Monday, September 11, 2006 2:32 AM
Reply #14 Monday, September 11, 2006 2:52 AM
I remember these events as though it were yesterday. Even the UK, which had become hardened to terrorism over the years of the IRA conflict, was shocked.
It may be a time to remember other victims too. Here's a list of the people who died in Northern Ireland http://www.iraatrocities.fsnet.co.uk/deaths.htm Add to that 6000 soldiers and 14000 civilians injured.
Let's also not forget the victims in Bali and London.
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Reply #18 Monday, September 11, 2006 7:25 AM
| I hope that everybody who lost someone in 9/11 is doing ok |
Everyone in America lost someone that day.
Reply #19 Monday, September 11, 2006 8:02 AM
| Everyone in America lost someone that day. |
That they did.
Reply #20 Monday, September 11, 2006 8:11 AM
i know its a bad thing that write comment like that about bad day and but this is my opinion and that doesn;t mean that i am not angry and unhappy about that day
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Reply #1 Sunday, September 10, 2006 9:54 PM
Peace to the World