In memory of September 11th

A tribute

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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 #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well said.

Peace to the World
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We will not forget.
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for saying this in a non-sensational way Brad.
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 #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thoughts to all.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Until that day, my belief in actual evil intent did not exist.

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.   
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
as we remember this dreadful day in the history of the world, i know that all Filipino people are one in thought in condemning the attack and in giving sympathy to the people of America specially to the victims and thier families and also to those who have been a victim of islamic wars in the past and also in years to come. There are some islamic insurgencies that even we in the Philippines has been fighting in our own and I know it will still going to last for a long while. I just hope that all the people would learn to care for everyone regardless of their religions, race, and beliefs before it is too late and something like this happen again. Peace to everyone and God Bless to All.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Our family wishes for peace in the world and goodwill among human beings and their interactions with all creatures and creation. I have seen too much in my travels to think there will be a quick solution to this violence we are experiencing. There are those who wish nothing more than a return to the fourteenth century and its inherent bloody "smiting of necks", for whatever twisted reasons. I hope for a more stable world in which all our children and their children can live. Mankind has the potential to realize incredible wisdom, knowledge and experience. I pray that will be so. Thank you, Brad, for the reminder. Blessings to everyone from us, here in Idaho Falls. Peace be with you and yours. I cannot forget any of those whose lives were lost, on that day, thru bravery and selflessness, in the Middle East and around the world even as I write this. We remember.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We will never forget for sure. My thoughts and prayers are with all the families who lost loved ones that day. And with the soldiers and their families who are still across the world trying to end this terror. The last 5 years have hit home with me often. My cousin, Jason Sparks, was killed 2 years ago in Iraq. He was only 19 years old, and had been in Iraq for 4 days. My little brother is in Iraq as we speak, but thank God steps aboard a plane in 3 days to head home. I live in a military town, so the effects of this post 9-11 world are with me everyday.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One of the saddest, most dearly bought wake-up calls in the history of the free world. This day is most certainly not a day of forgetfulness (and in my own case, nor forgiveness). Even now I can't watch any documentaries on the subject. Every time that image of a plain crashing into the WTC flashes on TV, it fills me with disgust and remorse. The pain is much too near.

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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Five years ... and still.. I can't cry hard enough
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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I live in Oz yet was still beside myself in shock, horror and grief when I saw it on the news. I'll admit it, I cried when I saw those images being transmitted into my loungeroom....not just because of the tragic loss of life and the wanton destruction, but also because of the pure evil behind it. I simply couldn't fathom why any human being would want to perpetrate such evil and horrific acts, so yeah, the events of 9/11 are permanently engraved in my mind as eternal reminders of the worst tragedies I'd ever known.

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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I really do feel for the families that lost their love ones to this, and I would like to say that God is on your side and he will always be there! For the rest of the world I have two words: WAKE UP! Somethings are not what they seem!
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

 

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I remember watching it as it actually happened. I could not believe what I was seeing and then the second plane hit. I will never forget the feeling I had at that moment. I knew the world, and my life, and the lives of all of us had changed forever. How can that ever be forgotten? It can't!
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I surely will never forget it. That was a sad day. I hope that everybody who lost someone in 9/11 is doing ok and pray for families that are taking this day very hard.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I hope that everybody who lost someone in 9/11 is doing ok



Everyone in America lost someone that day.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top

Everyone in America lost someone that day.

That they did.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i am sorry for the victims and i appriciate all of you but i don,t believe that that buuildings have ruined beaucause of the plane crashes.here its reason.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=loose+change
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
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top


I knew someone had to post something like that.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thanx Brad. Though I didn't lose any family members or friends, the death of my fellow Americans feels just the same. We also lost 2 symbols of what this country stands for, so the lost was even greater to me.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think this memorial/discussion is a great tribute to those who died and those who fight on and those who continue to live with the memories. It's a terrible thought, but I'm surprised that random bombings aren't happening all over America, at malls, gas stations, supermarkets, etc, as they do in parts of Israel. Let us keep viligant and hope that it never happens.

We must be careful not to lump Islamic terrorism in the same catagory with other forms of terroism, such as the IRA. Most typical terrorist groups felt they were fighting for some political cause when, if achieved, would then cease their activities and get on with life. However, nothing could be more evil than Islamic terroists. They follow and evil ideology and they simply worship the death of all who are no like them. And they are many and supported in one way or another by the not-so-violent Muslim mainstream. They oppose all that is right and good in the world. To quote Aragorn from LOTR, "Show them no mercy, for you shall receive none." I hate the thought of spending millions of tax dollars to keep these lunatics in prison. They should be shown the door to eternal damnation. What they don't know is that they've already lost the war. It was settled long ago on the cross.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not just americans that will not forget, but the hole world. My deepest respects
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was surveying with my husband on that day and we had just pulled up to the subdivision we were laying out. Before we could get out of the truck we heard a reporter say that a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers. What a horrible loss of life that must be, we thought. Then we heard about the second plane. That was a moment I will never forget as long as I live. We sat in the truck listening to the most unbelievable news in total shock and horror as we watched plane after plane line up and descend to the airport. At that moment all life changed as we knew it. The horror and change was cemented when a plane struck the Pentagon. Then one more taken down by brave passengers.
To this day I remember how strange it was that there were no airplanes in the skies for days. It was an eerie feeling on top of what was already the worst feelings we ever had.
While my family did not personally lose anyone in the attacks, all Americans and indeed the whole world lost that day. Brothers and sisters. Our fellow man.