We Will Never Forget.
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@jon-nyc posted a very moving story on Facebook. I hope he will share it here.
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@jolly said in We Will Never Forget.:
Is there an answer other than hunting "terrorists" in the voting rolls of this country? Of course, but in the current government and media climate there doesn't seem to be. Apparently our government's focus is their own elitist self-preservation, not ours."
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The current government had nothing to do with the time preceding and institutions set in place after 9/11.
It is laughably untrue that we have learned "almost nothing" from the attacks. Go here for an analysis from Brookings of the security failures that enabled 9/11 -- all under the Republicans -- and a timeline of the security that was set in place afterwards, also under the Republicans. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/08/27/9-11-and-the-reinvention-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community/
Since that awful, awful day, thousands of security-related strategies and activities have been put in place, virtually all under the radar. Like the careful and thorough examinations of shipping entering US ports every day. I cannot enumerate the number of workers -- and their families -- who deal every day, all over the country, with safeguards stemming from 9/11. It is inarguably more than this writer would have you believe.
If the Congressman who advocated hardening of airplane cockputs had won his fight, we would never know how many tragedies would have been averted. We will never know how many terrorist acts did not happen because of surveillance that has taken place since that day.
The greater lesson to be gained is that 9/11 with its indescribable and as-yet almost unbelievable terrible cost, must by all standards of decency and common sense transcend politicization. But nothing keeps writers of this concretized mental outlook from politicizing even this.
For shame.
Let's spend the day, rather than ferreting out delusory reasons to pile more recrimination on the heads of our enemies, reflecting upon those whom we lost, and on gratitude toward the police, fire and rescue personnel, human and dog, whom we can never adequately repay for their heroism.
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Joel Meyerowitz talking about the photos he took afterward. (If you saw any photograph of the immediate cleanup, it was one of his.)
An important thing to remember; we almost had no photos of that time. The only reason we do is because he broke the law.
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Jesus said to let the dead bury the dead. And while remembrance is nice, it does not change the facts of what we have morphed into or what we are becoming. The lessons of any great tragedy are not to repeat the mistakes of the past, but to also let the retrospection of time guide the future.
I think the gentleman who wrote the words I posted earlier has a very timely point...The enemies of the United States are not primarily domestic, but foreign. Even as the scared mice of Congress erect fences and call in troops for a scanty rumor, the real threat is not the American people.
And for all the praise-worthy efforts of people in airports or on shipping docks, it amounts to naught when any fool with a mission can stroll across our southern border at will. While we have spent millions of dollars to get a guilty plea of trespass against a guy wearing buffalo horns and taking selfies, six guys crossing our border could take down a large part of our power grid or interrupt gas supplies to half the country with few weapons and just rudimentary intelligence.
The American people are not the enemy. Maybe that's the real lesson from that day in September.
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@jolly said in We Will Never Forget.:
No.
Jesus said to let the dead bury the dead. And while remembrance is nice, it does not change the facts of what we have morphed into or what we are becoming. The lessons of any great tragedy are not to repeat the mistakes of the past, but to also let the retrospection of time guide the future.
I think the gentleman who wrote the words I posted earlier has a very timely point...The enemies of the United States are not primarily domestic, but foreign. Even as the scared mice of Congress erect fences and call in troops for a scanty rumor, the real threat is not the American people.
And for all the praise-worthy efforts of people in airports or on shipping docks, it amounts to naught when any fool with a mission can stroll across our southern border at will. While we have spent millions of dollars to get a guilty plea of trespass against a guy wearing buffalo horns and taking selfies, six guys crossing our border could take down a large part of our power grid or interrupt gas supplies to half the country with few weapons and just rudimentary intelligence.
The American people are not the enemy. Maybe that's the real lesson from that day in September.
Jolly, they don’t even need to cross the border. A decent computer and an internet connection will bring down half the country.
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@lufins-dad said in We Will Never Forget.:
@jolly said in We Will Never Forget.:
No.
Jesus said to let the dead bury the dead. And while remembrance is nice, it does not change the facts of what we have morphed into or what we are becoming. The lessons of any great tragedy are not to repeat the mistakes of the past, but to also let the retrospection of time guide the future.
I think the gentleman who wrote the words I posted earlier has a very timely point...The enemies of the United States are not primarily domestic, but foreign. Even as the scared mice of Congress erect fences and call in troops for a scanty rumor, the real threat is not the American people.
And for all the praise-worthy efforts of people in airports or on shipping docks, it amounts to naught when any fool with a mission can stroll across our southern border at will. While we have spent millions of dollars to get a guilty plea of trespass against a guy wearing buffalo horns and taking selfies, six guys crossing our border could take down a large part of our power grid or interrupt gas supplies to half the country with few weapons and just rudimentary intelligence.
The American people are not the enemy. Maybe that's the real lesson from that day in September.
Jolly, they don’t even need to cross the border. A decent computer and an internet connection will bring down half the country.
Which is why we must monitor Tucker Carlson's emails!
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@aqua-letifer said in We Will Never Forget.:
Joel Meyerowitz talking about the photos he took afterward. (If you saw any photograph of the immediate cleanup, it was one of his.)
An important thing to remember; we almost had no photos of that time. The only reason we do is because he broke the law.
Link to videoThanks for sharing!
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Tonight on Bongino's show, he will be interviewing the only survivor of the E ring at the Pentagon. That man is Brian Birdwell...
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The Brits:
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@89th said in We Will Never Forget.:
@aqua-letifer said in We Will Never Forget.:
Joel Meyerowitz talking about the photos he took afterward. (If you saw any photograph of the immediate cleanup, it was one of his.)
An important thing to remember; we almost had no photos of that time. The only reason we do is because he broke the law.
Link to videoThanks for sharing!
No prob! He's got some interesting stuff on the 'gram, too:
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@lufins-dad said in We Will Never Forget.:
@jon-nyc posted a very moving story on Facebook. I hope he will share it here.
Four of us from my firm - Christine McNulty, John Moran, Bill Cline, and myself- were registered at the Risk Waters Electronic Trading conference at Windows of the World that morning, the restaurant and event space on the top floor of the north tower. I had a last minute conference call scheduled at 11am with a prospective client. I considered doing the call from the Trade Center but I knew cell phone service was spotty up there, and I wasn’t sure how private the pay phones would be. So I decided to stay home until after the call. Bill was similarly saved by a schedule conflict. Christine and John, who had flown in from London for the event, arrived on time. They perished that day, as did every attendee who had arrived by 8:46.
We often hear the stories of people who worked in the trade center every day but were saved by some dentist appointment or a kid’s first day of kindergarten. When I hear these stories I think of Christine and John, who had the very opposite experience. They should have been thousands of miles away, but fate intervened the other way. Christine was young - in her early 30s I think. John had a wife and two small kids. May they rest in peace.