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PAUL SIMON SINGS SOUNDS OF SILENCE AT 9-11 MEMORIAL
Vlad Tepes ^

Posted on 09/11/2011 10:50:23 AM PDT by ventanax5

PAUL SIMON SINGS SOUNDS OF SILENCE AT 9-11 MEMORIAL

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion
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To: NoKoolAidforMe
Just like Sarah McLachlan should not have sang her tampon music song yesterday in Shanksville.

LOL, but not really. She was there? What the hell did she sing?

21 posted on 09/11/2011 11:38:47 AM PDT by manapua
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To: jmacusa
Silence? Silence about what?

The silence of 3000 voices. You don't understand poetry, but you've got bigotry down in aces.

22 posted on 09/11/2011 11:39:11 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
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To: manapua

Sarah McLachlan sang “In the Arms of the Angel.” It was beautiful.


23 posted on 09/11/2011 11:42:06 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
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To: manapua
What the hell did she sing?

"Drip, Drop"

24 posted on 09/11/2011 11:42:18 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: ventanax5

It’s a great song, but not appropriate to the occaison.

Amazing Grace,

Danny Boy,

Onward Christian Soldiers (my late father’s favorite at any time)

and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, yes.

I don’t expect a Bloomberg lib to understand these things.


25 posted on 09/11/2011 11:45:05 AM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: ventanax5
I would have preferred these guys. Then again, I'm far too politically incorrect for NYC.
26 posted on 09/11/2011 11:50:13 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: NautiNurse

I’m with you on this one!

Maybe the Sounds of Silence should permeate the liberal minds as well as some of our Conservative ones.

Just think, if they had clergy there, we would have been listening to Revs Sharpton and Jackson. I prefer the introspection.


27 posted on 09/11/2011 11:57:01 AM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared one year early than one day late!)
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To: tarotsailor

In his volume, “The Grand Alliance” Churchill mentions that when he and Roosevelt met in the North Atlantic, they had a Sunday Service on board HMS Prince of Wales.

Roosevelt asked Churchill to select the hymns and one of those was “Onward Christian Soldiers”. I later saw a video of the service and Churchill is singing it from heart and Roosevelt is using a hymnal.

Churchill mentions that within a few months most of those young sailor were dead.

That song would never be allowed in today’s PC world.


28 posted on 09/11/2011 11:59:26 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: NautiNurse

Being anti-Islamic is bigotry? Thank you Madame, I’ll take that as a compliment. And watch who you accuse of not understanding poetry.


29 posted on 09/11/2011 12:10:43 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: yarddog

Thanks for relating that.

My dad played piano and when he played OCS he definitely put some jazzy english on the keys...he loved that song. Made the Christian Soldiers march doubletime...*g*,


30 posted on 09/11/2011 12:12:24 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: NautiNurse
The silence of 3000 voices.

That's the way I read it, too. If you've lost a loved one, and are missing them terribly, you are left with silence. They are gone, vanished, they no longer have a voice. One day you can see them, touch them, and talk to them, but in an instant they have vanished and in their place you only have the emptiness of silence.

It sure beats the heck out of someone performing the song "Imagine."

31 posted on 09/11/2011 12:15:54 PM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: RedWhiteBlue

Amen


32 posted on 09/11/2011 12:20:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
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To: DelaWhere
Just think, if they had clergy there, we would have been listening to Revs Sharpton and Jackson.

The Sound of Silence is waaaaay preferable to Sharpton and Jackson... silence is good next to those two...

33 posted on 09/11/2011 12:23:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: jmacusa; NautiNurse

Far better to go into battle, having thought about what is meaningful, and having looked deep inside oneself, rather than whoop and holler your way into battle finding that in your rage, you forgot your weapons.

Far better to go fully into battle armed and ready with total victory as the objective - not all hoopla and indecision like we did in Korea & Vietnam - Our big mistake was to turn back half way through in Iraq the first time.


34 posted on 09/11/2011 12:28:51 PM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared one year early than one day late!)
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To: ventanax5

So glad we didn’t have clergy at the memorial. Their prayers might have prevented us from hearing an aging hippie singing a pointless song that completely failed to apply to the situation at all.


35 posted on 09/11/2011 12:29:22 PM PDT by mockingbyrd
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To: RedWhiteBlue

I agree with you. While the 3000 voices are silent, most of America has gone back to worshiping their neon god which represents material things.


36 posted on 09/11/2011 12:30:07 PM PDT by Library Lady
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To: NautiNurse

Which is about a druggie overdosing in a hotel room.


37 posted on 09/11/2011 12:30:32 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: yarddog

I remember my old girlfriend loved “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.

.... as do I.
That would have been a more appropriate song, as its a song of consolation.


38 posted on 09/11/2011 12:36:41 PM PDT by WOSG
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To: yarddog

“I remember my old girlfriend loved “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.”

.... as do I.
That would have been a more appropriate song, as its a song of consolation.


39 posted on 09/11/2011 12:37:02 PM PDT by WOSG
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To: NautiNurse
“Sounds of Silence” and “In the Arms of the Angel” were both appropriate for today and beautifully sang.
40 posted on 09/11/2011 12:41:49 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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