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 Posted - September 10 2011 : 11:12:32 PM
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As I head to bed tonight, a thought....
Tomorrow morning when most of us awake, you may find yourseld shiver just a little bit. You might think naturally it's getting cooler here, Fall is coming. But it won't be that, it will be a ghost tapping you on the shoulder.
It will be the ghost of those we lost ten years ago, when so many eyes were drawn to New York, and Washington, and to a Pennsylvania field.
I moved to Princeton, NJ. that afternoon because of a crying Fiance who herself was trying to be a Den mother to a bunch of 22 year old grad students some who lost family in the towers, one I believe in the Pentagon.
For some time I lved under the safety net of a Combat Air Patrol flown by he wonderful fellas of the NJ Air National Guard the 177th. That time, though I saw the Pentagon that October and didn't see Ground Zero till several months later is forever a part of me.
Many were victims that day. Some standing, some saving, and some resisting.
On 9/11 the Tenth We must remember them...
Pax Vobiscum,
Gareth
"A is A"
-Aristotle
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 Posted - September 10 2011 : 11:43:55 PM
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Thank You for posting Gareth. I've heard people say, "I'm tired of hearing about 9-11"
Those are a few of the people that never lost anything that day...
Walt
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Posted - September 11 2011 : 12:25:14 AM
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I was on vacation...slept in that morning...woke up, shuffled out to the living room to watch the tube while my beloved slept in some more. Peter Jennings was talking about a fire in the Towers as the camera was pointed at them just as the second plane hit...
An honest appraisal of us as a nation will show that we don't remember, we haven't learned a thing and we keep going on as if nothing really happened...look around and please, PLEASE prove me wrong.
I'll do the same thing I do every 9/11...mourn for a nation that has become a cartoon and a laughingstock, like the dragon lady at the end of the bar who still thinks she's got it...even though "it" left her behind 30 years ago. Her friends don't have the heart to tell her, knowing she'll snap at them anyway, while the rest could care less, so long as they get what they came for.
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Posted - September 11 2011 : 07:54:46 AM
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Hey Walt, Shay:
I think we all lost something that day. Even those willfully now ignorant.
Shay, yeah, BUT reinvention is an American thing. The problem faced is, to what? Things have changed the US needs to decide what they are, where their plurality exists. Right now the US is a "reacting" nation. It has had to do that from time to time but it's not at it's best in this. What troubles me is that when you are elsewhere in the world and ask people what they admire about America, they are usually shallow foolish things derived from American pop media, not things like "Habeas courpus", and the balance of powers between the Constitutionally proscribed branches of Government, your Bill of Rights, which seems to mean more to others; haters and admirers alike than to Americans themselves at present. We aren't far from Thanksgiving that most American of festivals. What better time to remember-give thanks, and resolve to go forward, not into some patina coloured Rockwellian past but the future that America would naturally be, by her own lights.
OK, I'm gonna get off my soap box, but not before saying this, I lost my faith in an enormous crisis several years ago, yet despite that there are things I still believe in, and one is the Issacian sacrifice that was made 10 years ago, and in our Parents generation still of some memory. An American Airborne Colonel I met while still in the Canadian Army in the late `70's said something I will never forget:
"There is only one price that Freedom will accept, and thats Blood."
Some of our young men and woman, a declining number, are clearly still willing, are we?
-Gareth
"A is A"
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Posted - September 11 2011 : 10:12:06 AM
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I was in the 4th grade. Our teachers weren't saying nothing. Wasn't til 4 PM when I got home and saw it on CNN news.That what motivated me to join the Army.That didn't work out.
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - September 11 2011 : 12:10:10 PM
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I'm one of those people who lost no one personally, but who knows many people in my train club, more than 50% of whom are military or former, who DID lose friends, relatives, etc. on that unbelievable day 10 years ago. Don't think for a MINUTE that I didn't tear up, I was on my PC looking for a job, saw a picture of the first tower on fire, and thought it was a joke....then as I read more online, I turned on TV to see the awful truth. Just because some of us lost nothing, didn't mean we didn't lose ANYTHING. Our country is not perfect,but we are a beacon to many around the world, our freedoms are legendary, a social experiment like no other, those who desire to repress their citizens hate us for being free and able to chose, because they won't let their own people chose their fates. As someone posted, the price of Freedom is often blood. Even those we try to help often turn on us, because of the blood price ( civilians killed accidently, etc ). One reason we've turned into reactionaries, not pro-actionaries. But if the people aren't willing to sacrifice for their own freedoms, then they are not ready for it. The Arab Spring has shown that some ARE ready to do so,finally. Maybe this will finally spur other peoples to fight for their own rights and freedoms, like we did for ours so many years ago, and still pay a price for it. I never was conscripted, I missed every war since the '70s due to being an age that was either too young or too old. But I DO appreciate the sacrifices of all those who did, and still do, protect our nation. And if the need ever arises, that my body is called upon to make a sacrifice and defend the USA, I will come forward, not run away. I can even provide my own guns and ammo to do so  . WHile many citizens in America are lethargic or caught up in their own lives, we've seen time and again the spirit, generosity, and willingness to pitch in if a catastrophe happens. I don't believe for a MINUTE that people would not step up if the situation is dire enough to require it. That's just being American. And , regardless of what some politicians say, I'm still proud to be one. AMEN.
Jerry Casper
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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Posted - September 12 2011 : 04:20:29 AM
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Very well said, Jerry. I'll add only this: I couldn't care less what other nations allegedly think of us, or our actions when it comes to self defense. Life is not American Idol or high school; in other words, it's not a popularity contest. It is much better to be respected or even feared than be liked in some corners of the globe. Yet people are still dying to come here, sometimes literally, or they cry out for our aid (which we give generously) in times of disaster, making all of that criticism nothing but a lot of meaningless hot air.
Mary Fahl - Dawning of the Day
This morning early I walked on
while my darling was in a dream
The last sweet days of summer bloomed
and dressed the trees in green
Then soaring high in the gleaming sky
from far across the bay
came a fearsome roar from a distant shore
at the dawning of the day
Then I called my men to follow me
knowing well that the view was dim
Though tired and worn, how they fought all morn'
as time was closing in
And my heart was sad though sore with pride
for brave lads all were they
As the angels fly, how they climbed so high
on the dawning of the day
But the edge is moving nearer now
inside the fading sun
and calling, calling out to them
my brothers, one by one
But only dusty silence sounds
The ashes float away
as the twilight ends and the night descends
'til the dawning of the day
Forgive me love, I'm going now
so very far away
When darkness falls, only think me near
and do not be afraid
And please don't grieve when I am gone
Abide in what remains
'til the shadows end and we meet again
on the dawning of the day
For when shadows end,
we shall meet again
on the dawning of the day
Never Forget.
The Tyco Depot
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Posted - September 12 2011 : 08:10:42 AM
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Sometimes who hates you is the best compliment!
Here is our heart's, and reviled by some which is how we know their desires are of the darkness,
St. Augistine said:
The turbulent have to be corrected,
The faint-hearted cheered up,
The weak supported;
Wisdom's opponents need to be refuted,
Its insidious enemies guarded against;
The unlearned need to be taught,
The indolent stirred up,
The argumentative checked;
The proud must be put in their place,
The desperate set on their feet,
Those engaged in quarrels reconciled;
The needy have to be helped,
The oppressed to be liberated,
The good to be encouraged,
The bad to be tolerated;
All must be loved.
-Gareth
"A is A"
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Posted - September 12 2011 : 4:55:53 PM
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Our School Had a 9/11 Memorial And The Senator and a Magor in the Marine Corp, Major Armani(get this, He Likes Trains!) Speaked About 9/11. The Band Played, I was in it, and There Was Videos with pictures.
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