9/11 tribute

[shelley]

Seems like a lot of people here were too young to really understand the impact of that day. Are you serious? In response to the anniversary of a recent terrorist attack, you're wondering why you don't get ANOTHER DAY OFF SCHOOL?

Here is a clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on September 20, the first episode aired after the attacks. Maybe it will give some people a little more perspective on how everyone felt in the immediate aftermath, and how to remember the tragedy.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001

 

[RCTACameron]

I recently saw a documentary on this, and some of the footage was quite scary. I was only 3 when it happened, in Australia, but I have friends who live in New York, and lived there then, and they were impacted by it a lot. It's amazing that the people in the plane heading to the White House made sure it didn't hit it, and saved so many lives. R.I.P. to everyone who died.

 

[Edward]

Seems like a lot of people here were too young to really understand the impact of that day. Are you serious? In response to the anniversary of a recent terrorist attack, you're wondering why you don't get ANOTHER DAY OFF SCHOOL?

Here is a clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on September 20, the first episode aired after the attacks. Maybe it will give some people a little more perspective on how everyone felt in the immediate aftermath, and how to remember the tragedy.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001

>Wasn't affected
>No way I can really feel much about it unless I was

 

[riffz]

http://www.911truth.org/

I'm really hoping that you don't actually believe this ********.

It truly astounds me how many people buy in to stupid conspiracy theories.

BTW, it's kinda funny how none of the people on the 'Steering Committee' are actually engineers:

Spoiler

Janice Matthews - midwife
Mike Berger - sociologist
W. David Kubiak - media
Fred Burks - interpereter
Gabriel Day - activist
Jon Gold - web developer
Mickey S Huff - historian/sociologist
Steven E. Jones - mathematician, electronic/particle physicist
Erik Larson - no qualifications
Dan Nalven - electrical engineer
Bryan Sacks - philosopher
Peter Dale Scott - poet/writer
Michael Wolsey - was on the radio a few times
Barrie Zwicker - journalist/media critic

Wonderful qualifications, none of which are actually relevant.

I don't know exactly what to believe. But I do think that anyone is qualified enough to realize that the 9/11 Commission Report was far from satisfactory. They even forgot to mention one of the buildings that fell down without a plane hitting it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_phenomenon

People are not "perfect" (whatever that means). They make mistakes, they are greedy, and they are selfish. In my opinion, many people put too much faith and trust in their government to do the right thing.

(Note that the wiki link doesn't apply directly, but many of the points are relevant and extend to people who deny anything that starts with the word "conspiracy".)

 

[flan]

http://www.911truth.org/

I'm really hoping that you don't actually believe this ********.

It truly astounds me how many people buy in to stupid conspiracy theories.

BTW, it's kinda funny how none of the people on the 'Steering Committee' are actually engineers:

Spoiler

Janice Matthews - midwife
Mike Berger - sociologist
W. David Kubiak - media
Fred Burks - interpereter
Gabriel Day - activist
Jon Gold - web developer
Mickey S Huff - historian/sociologist
Steven E. Jones - mathematician, electronic/particle physicist
Erik Larson - no qualifications
Dan Nalven - electrical engineer
Bryan Sacks - philosopher
Peter Dale Scott - poet/writer
Michael Wolsey - was on the radio a few times
Barrie Zwicker - journalist/media critic

Wonderful qualifications, none of which are actually relevant.

I don't know exactly what to believe. But I do think that anyone is qualified enough to realize that the 9/11 Commission Report was far from satisfactory. They even forgot to mention one of the buildings that fell down without a plane hitting it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_phenomenon

People are not "perfect" (whatever that means). They make mistakes, they are greedy, and they are selfish. In my opinion, many people put too much faith and trust in their government to do the right thing.

(Note that the wiki link doesn't apply directly, but many of the points are relevant and extend to people who deny anything that starts with the word "conspiracy".)

I love to read conspiracy theories and this one is a fav of mine. personally I dont believe it though.

 

[Ethan Rosen]

Seems like a lot of people here were too young to really understand the impact of that day. Are you serious? In response to the anniversary of a recent terrorist attack, you're wondering why you don't get ANOTHER DAY OFF SCHOOL?

Here is a clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on September 20, the first episode aired after the attacks. Maybe it will give some people a little more perspective on how everyone felt in the immediate aftermath, and how to remember the tragedy.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001

>Wasn't affected
>No way I can really feel much about it unless I was

Then just stop posting about it. Those of us that saw society shake that day don't want to hear about how unaffected you are by this.

 

[oprah62]

Edward just waits until a post that he doesn't agree with comes up so he can have his little fun with greater than signs. Seriously, it's annoying. No one cares about your unaffected-ness, when others were greatly affected.

 

[StachuK1992]

I really wish I could go back to that day.
Yes, it was terrible what happened, but now that I'm older, I would understand the devastation to a higher degree than I do; I feel that I was too young to really understand just how serious it was, as were a good chunk of SS.

 

[Joker]

Well if we look at probability, and assume no preference in time (in days) for child birth, we can assume there is over 1,643,835,616 Birthdays on 9-11. (Assuming stable world population at 6 billion)

So we could look at this, and other tragic world events, and say that they ruined the birthdays of 1.6 million people.

That's messed up.

On topic: It is a terrible thing that has happened, and as Ranzha said, many terrible decisions have been made because of it. Very sad.

Thats 1.6 bil, not 1.6 mil.

No, it's 16 million.

He wrote 1.6 bil, but the correct number is 1.6 mil

1,643,835,616

Thats 1.6 bil, not 1.6 mil.

Yes, its 1.6 billion.

Fix'd

lol thats right.

 

[Edward]

Seems as if I've come into a house where I'm not welcome :I I gtfo now. Sorry If I offended anyone.

 

[oprah62]

It's just that people are very sad about this, and you needed to add your 2 cents. That's all.

 

[Logan]

Seems like a lot of people here were too young to really understand the impact of that day. Are you serious? In response to the anniversary of a recent terrorist attack, you're wondering why you don't get ANOTHER DAY OFF SCHOOL?

Here is a clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on September 20, the first episode aired after the attacks. Maybe it will give some people a little more perspective on how everyone felt in the immediate aftermath, and how to remember the tragedy.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001

Thank you for posting that. I can relate to him, because 9/11 happened when I was at school, when I was 5. Just like how Martin Luther King was shot when he was in school and 5. Our reactions were the same, and I get to see now, how even the most, calm, and used to pressure people reacted after this tragedy.

 

[Zyrb]

I was 5, and I was with my mom watching the T.V. she was so worried because my dad was in New York when it happened. I didn't understand terrorism, she had told me some mean people were hurting America

 

[shelley]

Seems like a lot of people here were too young to really understand the impact of that day. Are you serious? In response to the anniversary of a recent terrorist attack, you're wondering why you don't get ANOTHER DAY OFF SCHOOL?

Here is a clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on September 20, the first episode aired after the attacks. Maybe it will give some people a little more perspective on how everyone felt in the immediate aftermath, and how to remember the tragedy.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001

>Wasn't affected
>No way I can really feel much about it unless I was

You were affected, you just can't appreciate it because you were too young to really experience what the country was like before 9/11.

And even if you don't feel anything about it, realize that many other people did and still do. The least you can do is show a little respect about the matter.

 

[AvGalen]

Yes, 9/11 was a big disaster. Not just because of all the tragic deaths, but also because it happened in the USA and had such major worldwide consequences as increased fear/terror, increased religious intolerance and, I believe, the still ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But please, also have a look at some of the other things that are going on in the world and don't get as much media attention and will certainly not be remembered every year:
http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/d.html
and if you can ever find the time, research things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide or if you can find even more time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history