Fuck you
You motherfucking coward terrorists.
We know where you were from.
And we knew where you went.
Your post looks like a banner ad. But I understand your anger. That day was fucked up.
Well, they were invited to Camp David, but I guess that’s off the table now.
You know, I don’t feel that angry anymore. It feels like it’s been like a decade and a half since all that.
Every year I re-watch some of the raw footage from that day, because I don’t want to forget. Doing so reminds me of visceral emotions I felt that day.
But I regret the mis-steps taken since then in dealing with both the aftermath and what lead to such an attack in the first place.
I taught about 9/11 twice a year, multiple classes, for 15 years. I have no more (silent) screams left.
To me, the most fucked up thing is that it’s been 18 years. Really? It’s like it fucking happened yesterday, and we’re still living with the bullshit fresh memory consequences. I’m more angry with the US government’s current attitudes than the terrorists, today.
Cartooniverse, I’m reading your narrative. I stopped to come over here and say I will never forget. It’s easy to get complacent in our busy lives. You just keep screaming about it. Never forget, not now, not ever.
Table, rails. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, to-may-to, to-mah-to.
Bad people do bad things. Bad things make people do bad things.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Those people did a bad thing that day, but hundreds of people used that excuse to justify doing things that were as bad, or even worse.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Whatever it may have taken to ride a jetliner into a building at 350 MPH, I don’t think “cowardice” is precisely the correct term.
Now, if one wants to call them (literally) flaming assholes, you won’t get any argument out of me.
It’s only been eighteen years. I wonder how long it will be before the anniversary is not a front page thing anymore, but becomes another day on which something awful happened. Kind of like December 7. So many of the people then are gone now.
Just last Easter a guy at my church passed away. He was really right wing, conservative, but I did not know him before his brother died in the 9/11 attack. Once folks are gone, those who talked to their wife/husband/sibling before the buildings collapsed, the urgency, or immediacy, will fade.
I will never forget though.
I was so shocked by what happened that day that for months afterward I kept expecting to hear something worse on the news. I was an on-and-off neurotic wreck.
While I got over that, I still remember what it felt like. That was an awful time to live through.
Why would it be a bad thing to move on? I don’t think anyone is at risk of actually forgetting that horrible day, so I don’t necessarily see the problem in not letting the murderous assholes who did the atrocity continue to make you angry and miserable every year.
What I remember most about that day is seeing no planes in the sky while driving home from work. Our company president gave everybody $2,000 paychecks and I donated mine to the International Red Cross.
NEVER FORGET
- That US foreign policy contributed significantly to the weaponization of Osama bin Laden
- That US leadership exploited our grief and disorientation to launch a war against an innocent, sovereign nation
- That US leadership exploited our grief and disorientation to launch a war against our own constitution
- That the US response to a terrorist attack yielded non-terrorist casualties 100x greater than our own losses in the initial attack
- That the US government, compared to the number of 9/11 civilian deaths, spent nearly twice as many of its own soldiers’ lives in wars against two industrially developing nations, allegedly in response to 9/11.
- That the US is sending people to fight in wars of retaliation that were begun before they were born, and for which the alleged instigators (Saddam & Osama) have already been executed
- That all three branches of the US government sanction government by fear over government by law
- That US politicians failed to unite the spirit of this country despite an unparalleled opportunity to do so; to remind us where we came from and the good we have done and still might, if we can recognize each other as members of the same nation.
Mourn the US civilians who died senselessly, sometimes heroically, on September 11, 2001. Look out for their families and friends who doubtless still feel the loss.
And never forget why it happened, and that our entire government was complicit in capitalizing on the horror to tighten a noose around our own freedom and security for the financial gains of a handful of soulless merchants.
Never forget, reject the rhetoric, unite with your neighbors as though your existence depends on it, hold your elected leaders accountable for upholding the law today, try to do better tomorrow.
Forget? How could I? I have this tattooed on my Dick!
100 years later WWI is pretty much forgotten. WWII is passing out of memory really fast and the last veteran will probably die during my lifetime. Korea is already the forgotten war, and Vietnam is remembered more for the anger and protests here in the USA and how the veterans are fucked up more than anything that happened in Vietnam.
I remember every year because I don’t want 9-11 to turn into something like Veteran’s Day, or Memorial Day, where the original meaning is forgotten and it’s just another day off work with really good sales at the mall.
I quoted Baker by accident and don’t know how to fix the quote :smack:
Anyway It doesn’t make me angry and miserable. I just remember because the people who died in the towers and the first responders and everyone else deserve to be not forgotten.
I’m reminded in the odd moments where an older movie or image shows the NYC skyline with the twin towers.