September 11th, 2001

[IceHogsFan]

September 11th, 2001.... Ten years later. How has your life been impacted by that fateful day?









I think that day has affected everyone in our nation in one form or meaning. Some more personally then others. Monday, September 12th, 2011 will mark our sixth family heading to either Iraq or Afghanistan to protect and serve. Not only those who can not defend themselves in those countries but to also help combat the terror that lurks from there.

 

[Shoots_he_scores]

As someone who spends about 3-6 hours a day at the airport, and I fly to and from school a lot, my life is impacted everyday by the wonderful people of the TSA. They're a pain but the skies have never been safer than they are today. The thousands that died that day didn't die in vain, they serve as an inspiration for advancements in aviation security, and a host of other things, and as someone who will be making a career in this field I'm extremely grateful for that.

 

[jaxhawksfan]

September 11th, 2001.... Ten years later. How has your life been impacted by that fateful day?









I think that day has affected everyone in our nation in one form or meaning. Some more personally then others. Monday, September 12th, 2011 will mark our sixth family heading to either Iraq or Afghanistan to protect and serve. Not only those who can not defend themselves in those countries but to also help combat the terror that lurks from there.

A friend of mine wrote a book about his latest deployment to Iraq. It is called "Walking the Tiger's Path" by Paul Kendel. I am almost finished reading the book but it has given me a better understanding of what soldiers go through over there. Paul is a "left-coaster", buddhist, and great guy. It is a good read because he is a sarcastic bastard just like I am and it comes through in his writing.

 

[TSD]

If it were not for 9/11 I would be a very different person. I joined the Army because of it. the subsequent religious fervor on both sides of the ensuing conflict led me to question my religious beliefs and ultimately abandon them ( my dog tags still say Roman-Cath).



If it weren't for 9/11 I would never have joined the military, and its very likely I still may have believed in God and would be on the other side of these arguments in NHTA.

 

[IceHogsFan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6EZ-HCTYXk

 

[klemmer]

I'd like it to be remembered in a dignified manner, but am not sure that is possible in this country.



As far as how it impacts me, I drive to a lot more places that I used to fly to. I don't feel any safer on a plane, but it's just not worth the hassle to me.

 

[mikita's helmet]

I'd like it to be remembered in a dignified manner, but am not sure that is possible in this country.

Agreed.

 

[MassHavoc]

How quickly this one horrific event unified a country that has slowly since seen it's individual freedoms eroded in the same of security. One this is for sure, as tragic as it all was, I've never seen anything greater in my life than the response and outpouring of emotion from the entire country after 911. The support, the unity, the focus. In the aftermath of terror I had never been more proud to be an American. I wish we could constantly relive those great days after the tragic events, and push forward as a country with that sort of pride, without having to have one of the worst incidents in US history be the catalyst for it. I want this country to want to be that great, to need to be that great, not be forced to be that great.



My heart still goes out to all families and friends of those that lost their lives on that day.

 

[IceHogsFan]

How quickly this one horrific event unified a country that has slowly since seen it's individual freedoms eroded in the same of security. One this is for sure, as tragic as it all was, I've never seen anything greater in my life than the response and outpouring of emotion from the entire country after 911. The support, the unity, the focus. In the aftermath of terror I had never been more proud to be an American. I wish we could constantly relive those great days after the tragic events, and push forward as a country with that sort of pride, without having to have one of the worst incidents in US history be the catalyst for it. I want this country to want to be that great, to need to be that great, not be forced to be that great.



My heart still goes out to all families and friends of those that lost their lives on that day.

I agree and often think it was our generations version of Pearl Harbor. What that did for our country the sacrifices of over 400,000 dying to fight in WWII. What about the generation who experienced both? We live in a society where we are so short sighted and with no long term memory of anything. It seems we live for the moment and to hell with tomorrow. As much as we were humbled ten years ago it also awakened the sleeping giant within all of us. Unity for our fallen citizens is something to behold and the patriotism and what our country stands for was a shining light for the rest of the world.



Lest We Never Forget

 

[Variable]

How quickly this one horrific event unified a country that has slowly since seen it's individual freedoms eroded in the same of security. One this is for sure, as tragic as it all was, I've never seen anything greater in my life than the response and outpouring of emotion from the entire country after 911. The support, the unity, the focus. In the aftermath of terror I had never been more proud to be an American. I wish we could constantly relive those great days after the tragic events, and push forward as a country with that sort of pride, without having to have one of the worst incidents in US history be the catalyst for it. I want this country to want to be that great, to need to be that great, not be forced to be that great.



My heart still goes out to all families and friends of those that lost their lives on that day.

You used the word eroded like it happened gradually, a lot of it happened in a single swipe, little more than a month after that day with the Patriot Act being signed into law. And we were fine with it. Simply because we were scared. Had nothing to do with patriotism, had nothing to do with having courage or being brave, had everything to do with fear and being afraid of a faceless enemy . I don't really see those as great days in our history. I never want to relive that period again, where everybody had to be sure they weren't going to be labeled as unpatriotic, where anyone who had a differing opinion on how to deal with it was often pushed aside, ridiculed. We went backwards during those days.

 

[R K]

I think it's sad that from the solidarity that day did to this country ten years later it's completely erroded. If we had that same

You used the word eroded like it happened gradually, a lot of it happened in a single swipe, little more than a month after that day with the Patriot Act being signed into law. And we were fine with it. Simply because we were scared. Had nothing to do with patriotism, had nothing to do with having courage or being brave, had everything to do with fear and being afraid of a faceless enemy . I don't really see those as great days in our history. I never want to relive that period again, where everybody had to be sure they weren't going to be labeled as unpatriotic, where anyone who had a differing opinion on how to deal with it was often pushed aside, ridiculed. We went backwards during those days.

I don't think "we" were fine with it. And I don't think "we" are still fine with it. Many questioned the personal rights it would remove. And still many question the personal rights it has removed. We questioned it being used in the wrong context by many through out the process, just as it has been.



I also agree we went backwards in many aspects, this being one of them.



No matter that day will be as profound for some as any other day in their lives.

 

[mikita's helmet]

To paraphrase Ben Franklin:



"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."

 

[mikita's helmet]

You used the word eroded like it happened gradually, a lot of it happened in a single swipe, little more than a month after that day with the Patriot Act being signed into law. And we were fine with it. Simply because we were scared. Had nothing to do with patriotism, had nothing to do with having courage or being brave, had everything to do with fear and being afraid of a faceless enemy . I don't really see those as great days in our history. I never want to relive that period again, where everybody had to be sure they weren't going to be labeled as unpatriotic, where anyone who had a differing opinion on how to deal with it was often pushed aside, ridiculed. We went backwards during those days.

At a family gathering, after 9/11 but before the invasion of Iraq, my brother called me anti-american, twice, in about twenty minutes, when I told him I didn't trust Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc., and that we weren't going to find any WMDs.



We healed our riff after my mother passed away, but didn't talk to each other for about a year after the family gathering.

 

[Variable]

I think it's sad that from the solidarity that day did to this country ten years later it's completely erroded. If we had that same





I don't think "we" were fine with it. And I don't think "we" are still fine with it. Many questioned the personal rights it would remove. And still many question the personal rights it has removed. We questioned it being used in the wrong context by many through out the process, just as it has been.



I also agree we went backwards in many aspects, this being one of them.



No matter that day will be as profound for some as any other day in their lives.

We tolerated it. We accepted it as a measure of some kind of solution, that's what I'm talking about. Not celebrating it. We wanted to know something was being done, even if we didn't understand the consequences completely at that time or even now. There were no protests held, not then and not when Obama reinstated it. The media wasn't "keepin' em' honest" when it was first brought up. It was just....accepted. Fear is a powerful tool. But not everything from that time is bad to me. There were glimmers of "hope" I've seen in an otherwise Asylum Earth.



Like when we were gearing up to invade Iraq, there were huge protests. February 15th, 2003, something like 600 cities, millions of people, all around the world. Think it was Rome that broke the record for largest anti-war rally ever on that day. It was great to see and it proved two things to me. That even back then, when the haze of 9/11 was still sort of fresh, there were people out there that could understand "Alright, something is fucked up here" (though it was blatant) and weren't afraid of saying so in large numbers, and later, the other being that even in the face of that massive outcry of "STOP - THINK", it did nothing to stop it from happening. Nothing at all from, literally, a worldwide effort. The very next month the war began. They do not care. They don't give a **** about what you or I think on these matters. It's not thought of as the life or death of countless people pending on that decision, it's thought of as a business decision.

 

[R K]

No "we" didn't. Some of us were very against it. Some of us were very against many things being done, that did or did not have anything to do with 911, such as Iraq. The Patriot Act further erroded are personal rights granted under the Constitution.



911 was tragic, what followed was just as tragic and border line Illegal. It' a shame our Country doesn't listed to others at many times. One of the reasons we are not very liked around the World.



Don't use "we" though as there is always a minority that doesn't quite agree.

 

[fanof19]

By the end of that week, our list of friends we had lost that day was at 49. Today was as tearful for us as it was then. Especially when we saw our friend's children interviewed, or on camera in a general pan shot of the families.

 

[R K]

Sorry for your loss. Was a day that will never be forgotten.

 

[IceHogsFan]

I would much rather rehash an old thread paying honor and respect to this day then some other thread about conspiracy.

 

[BigPete]

Wow, what a not vieled shot at my thread. I have only this to say, and some will get it and laugh, while others will laud me for it: America **** yeah! Coming to save the motherfucking day yeah! That's how we changed after 9/11/01.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Wow, what a not vieled shot at my thread. I have only this to say, and some will get it and laugh, while others will laud me for it: America **** yeah! Coming to save the motherfucking day yeah! That's how we changed after 9/11/01.

Now on the brink of another war, with Libya!!!!!