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Posted on 9/11/19 at 7:40 am
Posted on 9/11/19 at 7:40 am
For those that were alive, we'll never forget that awful day.
The first college football game after the vents was this one. SC vs Mississippi State (YT link)
Other teams had celebrations as well
TA&M
#NeverForget
The first college football game after the vents was this one. SC vs Mississippi State (YT link)
Other teams had celebrations as well
TA&M
#NeverForget
Posted on 9/11/19 at 7:59 am to Lonnie Utah
God bless all those that sacrificed, lost loved ones and paid the ultimate price for our freedom
Posted on 9/11/19 at 8:47 am to JustGetItRight
I usually have not much good to say about Aggie, but damn that’s AWESOME what y’all did in that stadium, frickin AWESOME. Had never seen that view before.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 8:59 am to Lonnie Utah
For Saudi leaders, today is a holiday. They attacked us and our leaders are rewarding them with nuclear power.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:04 am to Lonnie Utah
Where were you when they built the ladder to heaven?
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:14 am to Lonnie Utah
One of my proudest moments as an Aggie.
This writeup of the event (Orlando Sentinel) is something I re-read from time to time just remind myself.
It's almost 20 years old, so hopefully Chicken won't ding me for quoting the whole thing.
This writeup of the event (Orlando Sentinel) is something I re-read from time to time just remind myself.
It's almost 20 years old, so hopefully Chicken won't ding me for quoting the whole thing.
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This is a tale of two college campuses and a Rorschach test for Americans to decide where they fit along the nation's cultural divide.
It's corny vs. cool, instinctive patriotism vs. deeply ingrained political correctness.
It's Texas A&M vs. Harvard.
Despite my Harvard background, I come down squarely with the Aggies.
My guess is that most Americans will, too, even those who might be embarrassed to admit it, until they think about the two schools and themselves.
Harvard ended funding for, and kicked off campus, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which provides financial aid to students who receive training and become military officers. It did so in 1995 because the Pentagon prohibits homosexuals from openly serving in the military.
Harvard, whose students can take ROTC at nearby schools, apparently believes that promoting gay rights takes precedence over the national defense.
At A&M, the military is part of a culture that reveres family, football and, in times past, making fun of New Yorkers.
But after the Sept. 11 attack, students at the working-class university devised a uniquely Aggie way to raise more than $150,000 for the victims, most of whom are from New York. Harvard students, with presumably greater financial resources, did nothing comparable.
A&M students sold 70,000-plus T-shirts proclaiming "Standing Up For America," in patriotic colors. The school's triple-decker, 82,000-seat football stadium was color-coded, the top in red, middle in white and the bottom in blue for the next game. It was one patriotic television picture.
Admittedly, these are not exact comparisons, but the anecdotes illustrate the cultural differences between Harvard and A&M, and, to an uncomfortable degree, between Ivy League elites and most of America.
Harvard is, well, Harvard, the nation's most-prestigious university. But it's a snooty place where many, although by no means all, look down on the rest of America as intellectually inferior and unsophisticated.
I spent two semesters there as a Neiman Fellow, taking advantage of a generous university program that allows mid-career journalists to sample its rich academic offerings.
At the time, shortly after Ronald Reagan's election as president, the campus consensus was that he had duped the country. Americans, the Harvard group-think argued, would return to traditional liberalism soon. That view was out of touch then, as now.
Fast-forward to today, when Harvard is among elite colleges where the view that U.S. foreign policy gave Osama bin Laden reason for his terrorism appears to be more than a fringe opinion. The Associated Press reports that "a recent peace rally [on campus] drew several times more students than a patriotism rally."
At A&M, this year rated the nation's 15th best public university by U.S. News & World Report, the T-shirts symbolize an instinctive belief in America and its values. Students and faculty there have the common sense to distinquish between foreign policy and murder.
The reality is that the comparison between Harvard and Texas A&M illustrates the hierarchy of institutional values.
At Harvard -- and I'm being generous to the school's students and faculty -- there is an underlying skepticism about the virtues of the U.S. military and unabashed patriotism. Some argue that hostility is a more accurate term.
Many at Harvard and similar institutions say that most Americans don't understand the complex nature of the issue. But they're wrong. Sometimes things are as simple as they seem.
The Harvard detachment from the military, symbolized by its looney ROTC policy, is one reason that students, faculty and administrators take an academic view of the situation. Many see flag-waving patriotism as wrongly judgmental about the superiority of the American way of life.
And Harvard is not alone. Other elite educational institutions, such as Yale and Cal-Berkeley, display similar attitudes, especially when compared with most of the nation's campuses and communities.
At A&M, as in most of America, the students and faculty believe national defense takes priority over pushing gay rights. And despite, what some of my liberal friends will argue, this view has nothing to do with anti-gay bigotry.
It has to do with common sense. When the nation is attacked, internal squabbles about policy nuances pale in comparison.
Times like these make me wish Harvard played serious football so I could root against them on TV. You can be sure that I will be pulling for the Aggies.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:21 am to Ag Zwin
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One of my proudest moments as an Aggie.
I wanted to relay a story to you about one of your Aggie brothers and one of the many, many small yet untold stories of Heroism that day.
My Dad went to Med School back in the 60's with a guy from Texas. (At least) One of his sons went to TA&M. On 9/11 the son was in NYC attending a conference at the Marriott across the street from the WTC. He was on the street about to enter the hotel when AA Flight 11 hit the north tower. As debris from the impact started to rain down, he grabbed an elderly lady and tucked her under a concrete bench and used his body to shield her from the debris. Several large parts of the aircraft landed not far from them.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:25 am to Lonnie Utah
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Never seen this before. Awesome.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:28 am to brewhan davey
I was in the red section and bought a white as well. They were sold out of blue where I was.
I still have the shirts and won’t get rid of them.
I still have the shirts and won’t get rid of them.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:31 am to Lonnie Utah
love the subtle GO TO HELL BIN LADIN after the moment of silence. awesome
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:35 am to Ag Zwin
I can't imagine anyone would ever write a piece like again that in today's "woke" society. Calling it like it is is a thing of the past, sadly.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:50 am to Lonnie Utah
How big of a douche do you have to be to downvote this post?
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:53 am to Willietd
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How big of a douche do you have to be to downvote this post?
was probably the two assholes that said "inside job"
Clowns
RIP to the fallen.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:53 am to Willietd
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How big of a douche do you have to be to downvote this post?
I have a serial DV'er that DV's everything I post. I'm guessing it's a tater so the question kinda answers itself.
This post was edited on 9/11/19 at 9:54 am
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:57 am to Willietd
Where were you when the event occurred, and how old? It was one of my first memories that I have, I was 6 years old, in 1st grade. I lived in NJ then, about an hour south of the attack. I remember sirens in the school going off, police rushing in and having us all hide in the basement below the gym. The school was locked down until 4:00 that afternoon because on that day, I remember hearing the adults say that because of our proximity to the locations attacked/attempted to attack, leaving the school could be deadly. We actually had to go into the city about 2 weeks later, my grandmother lived in the Bronx, and there was still rubble and debris from the event.... one of the saddest and most heinous things you could ever see at any age, especially as a 6 year old kid.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 9:57 am to Lonnie Utah
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I still have my blue shite.
Posted on 9/11/19 at 12:17 pm to McMillan
Thank you for this thread. What a horrible day. I was maybe 12 years old, 7th grade. Every year, when the weather is like it is today (warm with a clear, blue sky) its like I am transported back to that very day. Like today was the day it happened. Its hard to explain how somber and eerie that is.
All I can say is that we must remember what happened that day and continue to push to keep our freedoms as Americans and remember there are enemies out there who want to see America burn. Never forget that. God bless America!
All I can say is that we must remember what happened that day and continue to push to keep our freedoms as Americans and remember there are enemies out there who want to see America burn. Never forget that. God bless America!
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