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"My feelings about folks shouting bring it on from the safety of their own bedrooms are emotionally driven by what I've seen myself at both Trade Center bombings and by the real dangers that people I care about, including a Captain in the 2ID Stryker Brigade who just deployed, are facing in this fight. I truly respect your experience"

With all due respect, you don't know where the posts your taking offense at are coming from, nor the backgrounds of the posters.

I guess your hijab routine is being done out of fear, we get your point, you don't get ours, and most of us will not be shouted down by a minority - shouting minorities helped create the circumstances that brought us 9/11 in the first place.

Let angry Americans vent. If FACEd by a terrorist, 99.9 percent of us would do everything in our power to take him down, whether armed or unarmed and we know it.

The original post that drew my reaction was by a self-described twenty something conservative from a southern state.

I don't know what a hijab routine is but from the rest of your post it seems like you think I'm part of some scared, shaking, vocal minority trying to shout down all the brave voices. Interesting coming from one who just castigated me for not knowing the background of other posters.

The truth is this, my reaction to this kind of chest thumping is emotional but fear is not the emotion, anger is. When the attack came it happened here, not there. My response was to get myself in there (after my family made it home) and help. There wasn't discussion about it, they needed help and we went. We stayed and dug for two days. I'd really rather not spend anymore time sifting through rubble for identifiable remains. And, I'd really rather not go to any more funerals and watch numb kids try to figure out what happened.

The original threat that started this thread was aimed at civilian targets, not our military. Nobody I know who was part of this is going to take a bring it on attitude when the targets are civilians. In this case bringing it on would mean more dead three year olds like the one on the plane that hit the Pentagon.

Folks who may well be and likely are as brave as anyone here, or DC, have the luxury of not knowing first hand the consequences. They may well behave just as admirably as some of those passengers did or as some of the civilian volunteers at GZ did. Talking tough though when you don't have a clue (the original poster) does piss me off.

We should all give allowances for youth and inexperience and I really don't harbor any ill feeling to that poster. On the other hand you and others want to put some kind of frightened label on my position. Well, I am neither young nor inexperienced. I've been in the belly of this beast and will go back again if called on. I will not though take a bring it on attitude when the targets are civilian.