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Favorite way to remember 9/11?
Posted on 9/11/24 at 10:32 am
Posted on 9/11/24 at 10:32 am
Mine is looking back at what happened on campus to make the Red, White, and Blue Out game happen.
All volunteer work, pre-amazon ordering, free fast wifi and computing.
I look back at that time on campus, people coming together, and standing up for America in some small way.
Texas A&M Aggies create the Red White and Blue out at Kyle Field
All volunteer work, pre-amazon ordering, free fast wifi and computing.
I look back at that time on campus, people coming together, and standing up for America in some small way.
Texas A&M Aggies create the Red White and Blue out at Kyle Field
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Posted on 9/11/24 at 10:37 am to PHLaggie
When I lived in that area, a few days before 9/11 I'd go to Mike Spann's resting place at Arlington National Cemetary and make sure it was clean. I'd wipe all the dust and pollen off of his headstone and had some gardening scissors to detail anything the Old Guard accidentally missed.
For those who don't know, he was the first American killed in Afghanistan. SEC alum, an artillery officer in the Marine Corps, then joined CIA.
I tried several times to make it up to his memorial in Afghanistan but I was always either in the east or far west and couldn't get up to RC/TAAC/SOTF-N's area.
For those who don't know, he was the first American killed in Afghanistan. SEC alum, an artillery officer in the Marine Corps, then joined CIA.
I tried several times to make it up to his memorial in Afghanistan but I was always either in the east or far west and couldn't get up to RC/TAAC/SOTF-N's area.
This post was edited on 9/11/24 at 10:49 am
Posted on 9/11/24 at 10:37 am to PHLaggie
Posted on 9/11/24 at 10:39 am to PHLaggie
My favorite way to remember 9/11 is how the country seems to unite. I was only a kid when it happened. The teacher turned the TV on and ran from the room, leaving our young minds alone to absorb it. In the aftermath, it seemed there was no right or left, just Americans.
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:13 am to PHLaggie
It angers me how we just keep letting Muslims into this country. I know they aren’t all bad but it’s going to happen again because we don’t have the balls to make a common sense decision
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:15 am to GreatPumpkin
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It angers me how we just keep letting Muslims into this country
oh boy
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:15 am to PHLaggie
Reminds me of that tragedy.
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:22 am to GreatPumpkin
quote:Terrorists come in all colors, nationalities, and religions. Remember the OKC bombers were white Christian Americans.
It angers me how we just keep letting Muslims into this country. I know they aren’t all bad but it’s going to happen again because we don’t have the balls to make a common sense decision
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:23 am to GreatPumpkin
quote:Bro STFU.
It angers me how we just keep letting Muslims into this country. I know they aren’t all bad but it’s going to happen again because we don’t have the balls to make a common sense decision
Had a Lebanese-American from Brooklyn in my unit on 9/11. After previously passing on the opportunity, he signed up for RIP after 9/11 (now called RASP), didn't make it, and ended up eating a lot of Afghan and Iraqi dirt with the 82d and 173d.
But I'm sure you listening to Toby Keith on your trailer porch steps did more than he did.
This post was edited on 9/11/24 at 11:24 am
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:25 am to PHLaggie
I have the Bush Jr. Presidential Library not too far from me, and head there most years.
I took my family to the 9/11 museum in lower Manhattan for the first time a few years back. . Talk about sobering. The room of scrolling videos where family members provide tributes to their dead loved ones hits you deeply.
The sheer scale of destruction was something to comprehend as well. Standing next to the ruined base of the North Radio Tower makes you feel tiny.
I took my family to the 9/11 museum in lower Manhattan for the first time a few years back. . Talk about sobering. The room of scrolling videos where family members provide tributes to their dead loved ones hits you deeply.
The sheer scale of destruction was something to comprehend as well. Standing next to the ruined base of the North Radio Tower makes you feel tiny.
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:31 am to Windy City
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took my family to the 9/11 museum in lower Manhattan for the first time a few years back. . Talk about sobering. The room of scrolling videos where family members provide tributes to their dead loved ones hits you deeply.
I’ve posted before about how I was on top of the wTC 2 weeks before 9/11 for a family vacation.. 11 years old.. it’s so surreal to look at the pictures of that day
Went to the excavation site in 03, and then didn’t get back until 2016 as an adult and went to the museum for some closure on it all and I lasted like an hour .. I couldn’t do it and had to get the hell out of there
We do the “coulda been me” thing here on the rant and OT but it definitely could’ve been me that day
This post was edited on 9/11/24 at 11:32 am
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:36 am to Lawyered
quote:That must feel surreal when you look back on it. Did you take any pictures?
I’ve posted before about how I was on top of the wTC 2 weeks before 9/11 for a family vacation.. 11 years old.. it’s so surreal to look at the pictures of that day
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:37 am to PHLaggie
I recommend the 911 bar attached to Rio Mambo in South Fort Worth.
They sold a year or so ago so not sure if the bar still exists.
They sold a year or so ago so not sure if the bar still exists.
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:38 am to PHLaggie
Jack Buck's poem
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:41 am to BuckI
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Remember the OKC bombers were white Christian Americans.
including church (predominately black) burnings later that year and well into the following one.
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:44 am to BuckI
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Terrorists come in all colors, nationalities, and religions. Remember the OKC bombers were white Christian Americans.
No, you fricking idiot, they were not.
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:44 am to BuckI
speaking of, you rarely hear about OKC anymore. Wonder why........
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:46 am to McMillan
quote:IDK, discuss it on the day of that attack maybe.
speaking of, you rarely hear about OKC anymore. Wonder why........
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:47 am to Murph4HOF
It doesn't and that's the problem.
Posted on 9/11/24 at 11:48 am to BuckI
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errorists come in all colors, nationalities, and religions. Remember the OKC bombers were white agnostic Americans.
FIFY
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