Posted on 03/31/2006 9:22:32 PM PST by Teacher317
I should've added "editing" and "deleted"
Mods, feel free to pull this one
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September 11th is something we should never forget:
The Falling Man (worth the read)
How does a person react when they are forced to face their own mortality? What makes a person do the terrorists' job for them? What makes a person jump?
This should be writing assignment for every high school senior.
Darryl Worley said it well:
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Never, ever forget.
I really don't understand what purpose the releasing of these tapes serve. Releasing them to the families maybe but to the general public?
Frivilous Lawsuit comes to mind........
What obscene history revisionism.....
Oh aren't we happy that we have a compassionate court. They are only looking out for our well being. So nice of them to think of the people for a change. They must have gone to the school of psychology and learned about peoples' feelings.
Charlie Sheen should be held in solitary confinement and made to listen to these tapes over and over again...
The purpose is so that we will not forget the agony our fellow citizens suffered.
Sweeping this under the rug is playing into the enemy's hands. We must never forget, and we must strike harder at our enemies than we have done so far.
The only thing which fills me will more rage than reading that the tapes have been censored, to the enemy's advantage, is recognizing that our government tried hard not to release the tapes.
I disagree - not ghoulishly so - but I think we should see the towers on a daily basis, I think we should see the beheadings that circulated online that no news on TV would show - that I for one, literally was sick after viewing. We MUST feel the anger of that day - we MUST stay angry and horrified to continue this fight. If it takes the voices of panic and horror to stay true to the fight, then we should hear it.
Those "peaceful believers" who would destroy us all in bloody heartbeat are -counting- on the MSM to suppress -all- the truly horrible, gory details of that day.
Only by doing that can they hope to break this country's resolve and will to exterminate them.
Out of sight; out of mind.
As the days stretch into months and the months into years, agonizing memories fade and lose their power to persuade the will to action.
The will becomes weak; complacency and impatience takes its place.
Then, when the horror of that day is *almost* forgotten, it will be repeated.
The ancient Celts would dip a rag or torn shirt into the blood of their slain kinsmen and when the warriors began to fail under the fatigue of battle, someone would 'raise the bloody flag' before them and remind them of why they were fighting....and it never failed to compel.
That [and all the other photos, videos and tapes] are *our* bloody flag.
It is much easier for us all just to forget that infernal day.
It will be much harder to forget the hell that will surely follow, if we do.
To remind America of the evil we are fighting.
Let me ask you, how many times did the MSM re-broadcast the Rodney King video on the network nightly news?
Now, how many times have you seen the pictures of the people forced to leap to their deaths re-broadcast on NBC, CBS, and ABC?
If Islamic terrorism was something the left cared about, we'd see pictures of those poor bastiches jumping out of the upper windows EVERY DAY of our lives. Play the tapes!
I agree with all the people on here that say we need reminders. If a family member or I died in such a manner, I wouldn't want it to be forgotten. I think it's an insult to the victim. Our (mine included) attention spans are too short. We need the reminders.
I see.
Abu Gharib photos must be released because we all have the right to know according to the ACLU.
But this court
"An appeals court ruled last year that the calls of victims in the burning twin towers were too intense and emotional to be released without their families' consent."
Made up yet another law to keep us ignorant and not remind people of what happaned here. Not a peep from the ACLU.
It almost makes you think that there's been a coup and justice is dead, that the enemy is ruling us but most people are blissfully unaware.
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