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In memory of September 11th

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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 #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Pichin, Madmike and Whitewolf...

I understand the point you're trying to make and all I'll say is that I have my own opinions of what happened prior to that day, on that day, after that day and where we are now. However, there is a time and a place to discuss this and I think you guys know that this isn't it.

And to those of you who don't agree.......the beauty of one aspect of our nation in full view for all patriots to see even if it makes your blood boil.

And some words to my brothers in arms...Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. The man was not a lunatic and saw things for the way they truly are.

Nuff said.

SB
Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top
SO. That's that.

Several of my professors lived and worked in lower manhatten. Some of them lost their offices and studios, some lost their friends. They cancelled classes the next several days. The afternoon of the attakcs i went to give blood with my roomates. We walked back and forthe across town, and the hospitals were over crowded with people coming in. I choked up, i thought it was so wonderful that everyone was trying to help. Later in the day i was overwhelmed, i wanted to do something.. i went back to work and grabbed my boots and a couple hard hats for my friends, and i went to jersey to pick them up. People at work looked at me like i was crazy. We were going to go to new york and save someone. I was on the road already before my dad called me and urged me to come home.. i hadn't thought it through, the crossing to ny was closed. He put it in perspective. It was as if a whole city had fallen down, and we couldn't help. It just. sucked.

Where were you that day?
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #78 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was delivering papers with my mom in the morning when I first heard it on the radio that one plane had hit. When we got home, we watched on tv as the second one was struck... the rest of the day was spent watching, and talking about why someone could do that.
Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Where were you that day?


I was in my high school Journalism class. We had two televisions, access to the web, and radios everywhere. So we were some of the few in our school that scattered the word around. I watched it all live on TV. One plane after another. The rest of the day was basically spent wathcing the news. Everything stopped. People were crying, some couldn't handle it after the second plane hit. I can only imagine what it was like to be in the city that day.
Reply #81 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can't believe how many people that are sleeping! Why would you ask a question like, why would the goverment do all this? You want the answer, THE ALMIGHTY GOD IN THE STATES---MONEY! Like P said, do your research! I hate to do this on this day, but everyone needs to know that those people died because of our government! Conspiracy Therist, I think the better choice of words would be, the UNPLUGGED! Those who refuse to accept what the news, and others types of media seems to give us! People use your own common sense! GET OUT OF THE MATRIX, you wind up a virus, just like everyone else! If you have something to say about this, then please say something, insted of trying to insult the ones that KNOW! Thanks a bunch PICHIN! I really was waitng for someone to say something!
Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top

People use your own common sense

There's only really one thing to say about 'common sense'...it's clearly rarer than rockinghorse poo.

It obviously doesn't matter that 3000+ people died in horrific circumstances....only that armchair theorists can have their day in the sun blaming all and sundry.

Tell you what, next trip to the moon...catch a lift and check out the non-existent footprints there-on.  On your way, for some light reading might I suggest 'The DaVinci Code'.

Only one request....make it a one-way trip...so that those with their sane, collective feet on planet Earth can henceforth have something to look up and smile about....

Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” Winston Churchill

HAVE A NICE DAY!
Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top
now i am confused...which story should I believe? I did not know that such conspiracy theories exist, until now. I have read both sides and each are as believable as the other(i think). All I know is that there are so many people who must have been involved in the conspiracy if it really existed (soldiers, government officials, civilians, etc.). I dont think one American would like to see his country suffer in such a terrible way much more a hundred or so. But then again, another dillema clouds my mind. I simply believe that if there is smoke, there is fire. Why are there conpiracy theories such as this if there are no evidences that prove otherwise? Many people would have not believed it if was unbelievable in the first place. I rest my case for now. I still believe though that only terrorists are capable of doing such terrible things and no citizen of a country would like to see his Motherland in such suffering and anguish. Peace to all!
Reply #85 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I feel very sad about 911 and its victims.

I also feel very sad about the 52,000+ victims of the 'war on terror' America has unleashed on the world.
Reply #86 from WinCustomize Forums Top
To PICHIN - another Winston Churchill quote for you: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Reply #87 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Now this is exceptionally outrageous. Do these "PICHIN" and "MadMike25" characters realize that so many American soldiers are dying thousands of miles away from home to protect their idiocy? I just hope that there're no soldiers stationed in the ME reading this... it must break their hearts. It definitely breaks mine.

I especially liked the 4th point presented by PICHIN. Yes… it's a Jewish insurance fraud. You cracked the case, genius.

At least you didn't give the military plain crash into the Empire States building 50 years ago as an example... that would've probably signed your commitment papers.
Reply #88 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why The 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away
Turns out, we need grand theories to make sense of grand events, or the world just seems too random


Read the rest. You unstable anger mongers might just learn just how you have been played.


WWW Link
Reply #89 from JoeUser Forums Top
Awesome.....well done, Drag.

It's nice to see someone else remembering; I was the only one in my plant who wore anything in remembrance (a flag t-shirt. I only saw one other person all day long with a similar shirt). Let's not ever allow this day, nor its implications, to be forgotten.

I also feel very sad about the 52,000+ victims of the 'war on terror' America has unleashed on the world.
----kin242

True, but this in turn leads me to wonder about the running death toll of Fundamentalist Islam's 30+ year war on Western nations and culture.
Reply #90 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok i really dont know if someone else noticed it but, just look at the smoke. am i getting nuts? Theres like a face in the smoke just in the left side of the pic. anyways it could be a optical illusion or just coincidence but it looks like a face for me.
Reply #91 from WinCustomize Forums Top
MONEY! Like P said, do your research! I hate to do this on this day, but everyone needs to know that those people died because of our government!
Prove it.
Reply #92 from WinCustomize Forums Top
the UNPLUGGED! Those who refuse to accept what the news, and others types of media seems to give us!


I think the word "refuse" says it all. Not those who objectively look at the information in total. Just those who would rather believe some horses asses who are trying to get their 15 minutes by claiming the absurd.

Reply #93 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes Virginia, morons do exist. They go by the names PICHIN, MadMike25, Docusa Whitewolf07 and all the other pukes who have posted their conspiracy garbage here. Nice...real nice of you to remember those we lost by putting up your crap here. Losers.
Reply #94 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The war on terror is, to a large extent, a war of ideas...of conflicting philosophies and ideologies. The battlegrounds are not just in Iraq or Afganistan, nor even just in the US or England. The battlegrounds are in the media...both here and internationally. The weapons are words--lies, misdirection, unfounded accusations, and hysterical, we're-in-denial-but-we'll-find-someone-close-at-hand-to-blame-who-won't-cut-off-our-heads, conspiracy theories--and the ammunition is words.

Every "bullet"...every self-serving, "Bush is a liar" bullet...fired by the Bitter Bettys and the Grima Worm-Tongues of the left, in defense of their narrow and short-sighted political agendas, is a bullet fired at American troops and American ideologies. It is a firefight in defense of Islamic rape laws and the deliberate murder of innocent women and children....ad nauseum.

It is unfriendly fire coming from our rear. And the left has chosen its allies.

And I will say it, if no one else will...it is sedition at the very least and treason at the worst.
Reply #95 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Man, what part of this is a thread about showing respect for our lost loved ones and fellow man don't some of you people get. This thread is not a debate over the origins, reasons, why or how the attacks happened. It was meant to share our respect and grief with each other over the loss of our fellow man. All of you who could not control yourselves or your paranoia should be ashamed of yourselves. All of you using God and religion to boost your claims. Well, let me tell you something. God told us the most important thing is Love. And that is all this thread was trying to emulate. Love for our fellow man through respect and grief for one another. So, please, go start your own threads and give this one the respect and honor it deserves.
Reply #96 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Havent any of you read the studies about how badly the building was made? If I was designing and building such an inportant building I would have made sure all the safety features were top class. It was fire that brought the building down.. and if you have seen the photographs from inspections on the fireproofing in inspections you would know that the building wasnt protected correctly.

Also isnt it a coincidence that airport security goes high alert just after something bad? The security should always be high....
Reply #97 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Havent any of you read the studies about how badly the building was made?

Apparently you had someone write your comment as it is plain to see that you can't read. Stupidity, ignorance and disrespect reigns. Do you think discussing, solving, or knowing about all these accusations, statements and or facts will bring one ounce of comfort to the bereaved?
Comforting, remebrance and love is the theme of this thread. Oh, that's right, you either can't read or can't comprehend what you do read.
Reply #98 from WinCustomize Forums Top
clwood: you are now fueling the fire...
Reply #99 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hi everybody, throughout history the date 11 has always been concidered to be somewhat related to Death and Destruction esp 11th of September for example two of the most powerful Hindu fortresses fell nearly 2000 BC in a bloody battle in an Indian desert present day Rajistan, then, Gangiz Khan attacked and reduced Baghdad to ruins on (according to the historians of that date when converted to modern calader) 11th of September, and lastbut not the least Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah the leader who gave the world a new country without having even a single drop of blood shed in the process and which has now come to be known as a Nuclear Power i.e., Pakistan, also passed away on the 11th of September.

But as soon as we thought everything was over, there came yet another event which moved the very foundations of the world as we know it. The attacks on the WTCs was something that should never have happened.

And even though I am a Muslim and even though I (MIGHT) have every reason to believe in the OTHER side of the Picture (the side which makes US the Muslims the good guys and Bush as the Devil) I still say it should have never happened. To be honest I dont know who did it (Al-Qaeda or US Gov.) or why (To kill innocent people or to establish control over the Middle East) did they do it but I just know this much ....... on the Day of Judgement they will get waht they deserve cuz a crime against Humanity is something NO religion or rule supports. Besides God is All Mighty, in my heart I KNOW that all the people who lost their lives in 9/11 WILL go to Heaven cuz thats what my religion tells me that when a person is killed without a reason, that person goes to Heaven and this is totally the opposite for the on who kills them.

Lets all ake a moment of our time and pray for all those who lost and those who still loose their lives throughout the world in wars and in terrorist attacks that God may give them space among the Great Heavens and may God give patience to those who lost their Loved ones and may God show his Wrath to those who are responsible for these calamities.

MAY GOD BLESS US **ALL**
Reply #100 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It Really Breaks My "MUSLIM i.e, Terrorist,Extremist ... etc" heart to see that such "Sensible and PIOUS" ppl don't even know what to say or how to hide their "Good intensional" feelings to themselves on and occasion like this.

We are here to mourn the Innocent dead of 9/11 not to show that we know something more than the other. If Im a "Terrorist" and I'm able to do it then can't you guys, afterall you guys ARE waaaaaaaaaaaaaay "Better" than Me.


Shame on You