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.
I was a self described conservative from South Georgia when I had my first combat tour. This guy in particular may not be fighting, but maybe his friends are. Maybe friends of his friends are. He has every right to be pissed and he has every right to look at the enemy in his own way and say "bring it on." Who's to say Atlanta won't be the next target? Or Disney world in Florida. Most people don't know this, but they are plenty country in Florida too. The Gator Bulldog rivalry displays that a little. That Nascar track in Daytona really shows it.
Also, 20 somethings are the brunt of our military force. That guy's attitude and youth is the reason we kick so much ass when we do deploy. Seriously, the Army doesn't recruit 40 year olds for a reason. I'm not quite 40, but I tell you, I have fight left in me, but not as much testosterone to back it up :)