We Will Never Forget.
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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.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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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.
Me/rry/Christmas
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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.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
