To those who perished 8 years ago.....

[jynweythek]

Sorry for all the families but it was indeed BUSH

 

[Galactic]

I do understand one thing, America isn't remembering the victims of 9/11 to honour them.

You need to back a bullshit comment like that up. What the holy fuck. There have been a lot of crazy ass posts in this thread that I have chosen thus far to ignore, but how the FUCK can you, one who DOESN'T EVEN LIVE HERE, have the sheer audacity to say something like that?!

I did NOT create this thread to ignite a firestorm......only to remember the innocent civilians, and please Facial King, don't read too much into why I chose that word because as usual, you are wrong.......I simply wanted to do this in a simple way that remembers the people who died on that day.

To say that we don't remember the 3,000+ people that died on 9/11/01 is ignorant, inflammatory, heartless, incorrect, and ludicrous. If that was your intent, congratulations, you succeeded. There is a reason, Boothbabe, why we have the expression "We will never forget."

 

[CunningStunts]

Sorry for all the families but it was indeed BUSH

WTF are you talking about? Why are people bringing politics into a thread meant to remind us of 9/11??

 

[Galactic]

WTF are you talking about? Why are people bringing politics into a thread meant to remind us of 9/11??

Just what I have been wondering as well......amazing isn't it? Makes you wonder about people........

 

[Skyraider22]

To all fallen firemen and policemen you will never be forgotten and the soilders who gave their life for me Thank You and God Bless

 

[Boothbabe]

You need to back a bullshit comment like that up. What the holy fuck. There have been a lot of crazy ass posts in this thread that I have chosen thus far to ignore, but how the FUCK can you, one who DOESN'T EVEN LIVE HERE, have the sheer audacity to say something like that?!

So how many times have you thought about them this past year? How many times this past year have you personally done something to honour them? Before 9/11 (and after) they were complete strangers to most of you and you wouldn't even have noticed they were gone if they died any other way that didn't make the headlines. It's the events of that day that you remember, the event of the planes crashing into the two towers, the event of people dying. Once a year you all have a big get together and you tell each other how great America is and that something like 9/11 can never be allowed to happen again and 2 days later everything is back to "normal".

 

[JacknCoke]

Sorry for all the families but it was indeed BUSH

Get that trash out of here, this is not the thread for political arguments please choose one of the other 1,000's of threads on this board if you would like to do that.

Never forget 9/11
R.I.P all who were lost but never forgotten

 

[Jagger69]

WTF are you talking about? Why are people bringing politics into a thread meant to remind us of 9/11??

Just what I have been wondering as well......amazing isn't it? Makes you wonder about people........

Some people are so bent on making their "side" the good guy and the other "side" the bad guy that they just don't get it.

Goddammit....we are AMERICANS first and foremost and I don't give a flying fuck if you are a right-wing nutball or a left-wing lunatic, when it comes right down to it....we have a helluva lot more in common than the things that divide us. I wish that just once....and this memorial thread is the perfect opportunity....that we could come together as one and just be AMERICANS....united in respect and honor for those who SACRIFICED their lives on September 11, 2001.

If you are more dedicated to your political philosophy than you are to your country, you are a traitor in my book. I might disagree with you on many political topics but if your welfare is threatened or you suddenly become endangered by the acts of those who hate our country and our culture, then those walls come tumbling down and I will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you to protect you and this great nation of ours. These are the very tenets upon which this nation was founded and we must never....NEVER....let them pass into obscurity over the petty differences that divide us.

The USA fucking rocks and anyone who takes issue with that can kiss my fucking ass.

So how many times have you thought about them this past year? How many times this past year have you personally done something to honour them? Before 9/11 (and after) they were complete strangers to most of you and you wouldn't even have noticed they were gone if they died any other way that didn't make the headlines. It's the events of that day that you remember, the event of the planes crashing into the two towers, the event of people dying. Once a year you all have a big get together and you tell each other how great America is and that something like 9/11 can never be allowed to happen again and 2 days later everything is back to "normal".

How often do you think about or do something overt about the British troops who died on the battlefields of WWII? Or WWI? What about all the civilian victims of the blitz from the Luftwaffe? Do you know any of those victims personally? How often do you think about them???

You are totally out of bounds here, Boothbabe.

I like you a lot BB but you need to leave this one alone. You are dead fucking wrong here and need to give it up. You make yourself look more idiotic with every post you make on a subject about which you obviously know very little.

 

[Galactic]

So how many times have you thought about them this past year? How many times this past year have you personally done something to honour them? Before 9/11 (and after) they were complete strangers to most of you and you wouldn't even have noticed they were gone if they died any other way that didn't make the headlines. It's the events of that day that you remember, the event of the planes crashing into the two towers, the event of people dying. Once a year you all have a big get together and you tell each other how great America is and that something like 9/11 can never be allowed to happen again and 2 days later everything is back to "normal".

My God, you could not be more wrong. EVERY time I drive downtown and look at the skyscrapers where I live, I think of the horror those people had to endure.....jump or burn? I have personally thanked firefighters and police for their commitment to protecting us since the attacks.....MANY times........of COURSE we remember the events......but how DARE you insinuate that we don't remember the PEOPLE as well. You were not here. You don't know. That might be the STUPIDEST comment I have ever read, that 2 days later we were back to normal. How wrong you are. It took MONTHS, if not close to a YEAR, before things returned to "normal".....and to be honest with you, though I don't know why I am wasting my time, things have NEVER returned to what they were before that day occurred.

It's bad enough that you went ahead and opened your mouth and jammed your foot in there. But to keep up this act like you know how things really are, when you aren't even HERE, is quite frankly, absurd.

You have shown the depth of your character, and it is quite shallow. Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and admit that you were wrong, that maybe your actions were offensive and hurt other people.

If I could neg rep you again, goddamn it I would. And I NEVER neg rep people.

 

[JacknCoke]

So how many times have you thought about them this past year? How many times this past year have you personally done something to honour them? Before 9/11 (and after) they were complete strangers to most of you and you wouldn't even have noticed they were gone if they died any other way that didn't make the headlines. It's the events of that day that you remember, the event of the planes crashing into the two towers, the event of people dying. Once a year you all have a big get together and you tell each other how great America is and that something like 9/11 can never be allowed to happen again and 2 days later everything is back to "normal".

This is quite possibly the most inconsiderate comment I have ever read. Do you think because we come together on a day like 9/11 every year that we are doing something wrong? Remembering a tragedy that affects everyone in our country is suppose to be demeaning?? I don't know where you are from (sir or ma'am) but I think your idea of this day is completely distorted. I for one think about this type of thing every day. I know too many people in the military to not think about something like this...

 

[CunningStunts]

So how many times have you thought about them this past year? How many times this past year have you personally done something to honour them? Before 9/11 (and after) they were complete strangers to most of you and you wouldn't even have noticed they were gone if they died any other way that didn't make the headlines. It's the events of that day that you remember, the event of the planes crashing into the two towers, the event of people dying. Once a year you all have a big get together and you tell each other how great America is and that something like 9/11 can never be allowed to happen again and 2 days later everything is back to "normal".

I lost colleagues and a friends wife in the Pentagon that day. I work extra hard every day of my life to make sure that these cowards NEVER do such a thing again.

 

[Shifty]

Detractors - and you know who you are - please watch this in it's entirety.

How dare you! These posters have the right to grieve and remember their fallen countrymen today, and every day.

 

[Boothbabe]

How often do you think about or do something overt about the British troops who died on the battlefields of WWII? Or WWI? What about all the civilian victims of the blitz from the Luftwaffe? Do you know any of those victims personally? How often do you think about them???

That's exactly my point.

My God, you could not be more wrong. EVERY time I drive downtown and look at the skyscrapers where I live, I think of the horror those people had to endure.....jump or burn?

Your thinking about what they had to endure.

how DARE you insinuate that we don't remember the PEOPLE as well.

So what are their names? The only ones who can truly remember and honour the victims are the ones who knew them. It is simply impossible to remember or honour someone if you have never even known them. You remember the events of that day and what the victims had to endure. The family and friends of the victims remember loosing someone that day, that's the difference.

Do you think because we come together on a day like 9/11 every year that we are doing something wrong? Remembering a tragedy that affects everyone in our country is suppose to be demeaning??

I never said that.

 

[Shifty]

It is simply impossible to remember or honour someone if you have never even known them.

This is one of the most foolish statements that I have ever read.

 

[Boothbabe]

This is one of the most foolish statements that I have ever read.

Right now somewhere on earth a man who you have never known has died from old age. Can you remember him? Can you honour him?

 

[Shifty]

Right now somewhere on earth a man who you have never known has died from old age. Can you remember him? Can you honour him?

Yes.

 

[Galactic]

That's exactly my point.



Your thinking about what they had to endure.



So what are their names? The only ones who can truly remember and honour the victims are the ones who knew them. It is simply impossible to remember or honour someone if you have never even known them. You remember the events of that day and what the victims had to endure. The family and friends of the victims remember loosing someone that day, that's the difference.



I never said that.

Are you serious? I'm being totally straight right now. Are you serious? Or are you just using this as an excuse to troll?

Do I know their names? Does it MATTER? No. It doesn't. Should we not remember/honor those slaughtered in the Holocaust because we may not know all 6 million names? They were my fellow country men and women....while it would seem that you do not experience the same level of patriotism for your country, I actually DO care about my country and the people I inhabit it with.

I'm only thinking of what they had to endure? *sigh* You really have no clue, no understanding, which is not at all surprising, as you obviously have no heart. Yes....I think it is pretty obvious that I think about what they had to endure.....I also think about the children whose mommy or daddy never came home....the loving and doting wife/husband who will never feel the embtrace of their soul mate ever again......the mother/father who did not even have the cold comfort of a burial, and a specific place to visit the remains of their child.

You should stop posting in this thread, because all you are doing is spreading a great level of disdain for yourself throughout. Indeed, I for one can never take ANYTHING you have to say here at FreeOnes seriously ever again. For someone to come on here, on OUR national day of remembrance, and smear it with your childish, insipid, unintelligent, uncaring, and otherwise disgusting attitude speaks volumes of one's character, of which you have zero.

Your arguments carry no weight and are the thinnest I have ever seen. There is no debate with you what so ever. You don't make any sense, and you compound that with every "response".

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Well you got to hand to Boothy. When have Galactic 22, Jason 282, Jagger69, Shifty, Georges, CunningStunts, Hot Mega, Biomech, JacknCoke, Skyraider22, Friday On My Mind and I all been in agreement?

 

[ChefChiTown]

I do understand one thing, America isn't remembering the victims of 9/11 to honour them.

I think I might be the only person here who is going to have big enough nuts to agree with you and admit that you're right (for the most part). Obviously, that was a blanket statement that you made, because we can both agree that not every single American is like that. But, I believe that the majority of Americans are like that.

To everyone who is getting in an uproar over Boothbabe's comment, just look at it this way...

Think of the last time you were at a funeral. Now, think of all the people that showed up to honor the deceased at that funeral. Do you honestly think that all of those people were there to pay respect for the deceased? No, they weren't. In all honesty, a lot of people show up to funerals just so they can say that they were there. A lot of people don't go to funerals (or even tributes for victims of tragedies like 9/11) to "honor the deceased"; they do it just so everybody else can see them there, which makes them feel like they did something nice. That's not honor...that's selfish. And, that's exactly how a lot of Americans are with 9/11.

 

[Galactic]

I think I might be the only person here who is going to have big enough nuts to agree with you and admit that you're right (for the most part). Obviously, that was a blanket statement that you made, because we can both agree that not every single American is like that. But, I believe that the majority of Americans are like that.

To everyone who is getting in an uproar over Boothbabe's comment, just look at it this way...

Think of the last time you were at a funeral. Now, think of all the people that showed up to honor the deceased at that funeral. Do you honestly think that all of those people were there to pay respect for the deceased? No, they weren't. In all honesty, a lot of people show up to funerals just so they can say that they were there. A lot of people don't go to funerals (or even tributes for victims of tragedies like 9/11) to "honor the deceased"; they do it just so everybody else can see them there, which makes them feel like they did something nice. That's not honor...that's selfish. And, that's exactly how a lot of Americans are with 9/11.

Et tu, Cheffy? Unreal. You could not be more wrong. Going to a funeral because you have to.....totally different. Your analogy holds no water. Someone you may have known, barely known, or not known at all, and attending their funeral out of a feeling of obligation is MUCH different that witnessing thousands of your fellow innocent countrymen and women get annihilated for no valid reason at all.

I don't think you can say "most"....you don't know that to be true. I don't think people have made the trip to Ground Zero so they could be "seen."