Posted on 09/04/2006 4:15:17 PM PDT by DakotaRed
September 11, Where Is The Anger?
Last evening, my wife and I watched the Discovery Channels specials on the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Titled “What Really Happened When... Inside the Twin Towers” and “Attack on the Pentagon.” We are within days of the 5-year anniversary of this tragic and unparalled sneak attack on our soil and citizens.
Throughout the programs, we watched as the horrors of the morning were relived along with some reenactments of those who selflessly gave their lives rescuing and saving others. Interviews with loved ones of those who died were shown along with interviews of those who survived the horrific attack, some horribly disfigured today due to severe burns and injuries.
We listened as a Navy Chief Petty Officer that worked at the Pentagon described losing his 11-year-old son who was on Flight 77 that fateful day. We watched as one man and his wife were interviewed and as the camera panned to him today, he was revealed as a horribly disfigured person, missing much of his flesh still due to extreme burns. A man very lucky to even be alive. A little girl was spoken of by her Mom as she recalled her daughter urging Mom to take her to the Pentagon to help pull Grandpa out of the building, finally looking at the TV and tearfully saying, “bye bye, grandpa.”
People spoke about cell phone calls they received from loved ones who were stranded in the Twin Towers, thinking they would soon escape. People that were rushed out by the brave New York City firefighters were shown with tears in their eyes still because those firefighters didn’t get out, but died trying to rescue even more people. Office workers were shown in reenactments selflessly directing people to safety while refusing to leave themselves until they knew others were safe. Men spoke of their own cowardice of not remaining to help, opting instead to flee the burning and soon to collapse buildings and who live with guilt today.
Firefighters that were trapped in the rubble of the collapsed buildings and were rescued were shown recounting their hours of being trapped in a fluke two-story area of the rubble of the North Tower that didn’t fully collapse, allowing them the chance to survive, yet denying it to so many others on other floors. A civilian woman who was with them recounted her own feelings of despair and relief as they were rescued hours later.
In all, a very heart wrenching yet necessary reminder of the horrors our fellow citizens went through that day.
What struck us both as very odd was towards the end of the programs; nearly all they actually showed expressing similar sentiments. In their own way, they expressed no anger, no outrage; one even saying it just doesn’t matter any more. Can we imagine if survivors of the sneak attack against Pearl Harbor had no anger? Would our young men have flooded to enlistment offices in 1941 if the country had no anger? Could we have won World War Two if our country held no anger to be channeled against the enemy and drive them back to their homeland, defeating their totalitarian regimes, then helping them rebuild to become functioning free societies today?
I will not judge the emotions of those loved ones and survivors. While I watched the horrors on Television some 3,000 miles away, they experienced it first hand. But, I just don’t understand this emotion of forgiveness over an unwarranted, unprecedented attack and slaughter of nearly 3,000 innocent people as this, knowing it is bound to happen again if we don’t stay on our toes.
Many others throughout the nation seem to express the same sentiment of harboring no ill will against these terrorists, seemingly seeing them as innocent third world “freedom fighters” so oppressed by American policy that they have no recourse but to engage in suicide attacks against our wealth and success.
Have we fallen back asleep? Do we honestly feel these terrorists aren’t bent on world domination, but are so oppressed they need to attack us, the ones who actually buy their products?
Next Sunday, September 10, 2006, we may see the answer to these and other questions as the Discovery Channel shows another special, “The Price of Security,” hosted by Ted Koppel. Given that Liberals like Mr. Koppel have fought every security measure that the current administration has tried to institute or propose, one can only imagine the slant of this inaugural report by Ted Koppel. Being billed as a debate the nation "must have before the next terrorist attack happens," I will be very surprised if anything other then the usual left-leaning diatribe masquerading as a “fair debate.”
I can only wonder, where is our nations anger? How will we win the War on Terror if so many have forgiven those that planned the attacks and trained the 19 to carry out the sneak attacks of September 11, 2001 and humanized our latest enemy?
How can we have forgotten our anger so soon?
Lew
To quote a FBI agent "It was not big enough"
I know that a very good friend of mine who dreamed of working in that building, was murdered there. NO He was executed there.
I haven't forgot I wont forget.
I now hate, an emotion I never really had until after 9/11.
How can we have forgotten our anger so soon?
Not to worry, the anger is there. Nobody on Free Republic has forgotten a thing. I believe the general population has not forgotten either. Yes, the media treats 9-11 as an aberration, but we know what happened and we will not put in power people who would destroy our country.
Anger is a hard burning emotion that uses a lot of energy, mental and physical energy. Nobody sane can truly stay angry for 5 full years. They might be able to rekindle that anger when ever they think about 9/11, but to actually stay actively angry the entire time would be just plain unhealthy.
How are we going to win a war on terror with leaders
who arent angry, who wont really hunt down these goatlovers
and slice them to ribbons?
Unfortunately, I agree. The American public will need a WMD going off in the US in order to provide public support for the necessary extermination of the Islamofascists and those that support them.
People who use anger tend make savage frontal attacks. They outrun their supply lines. They make stupid blunders.
A nation with resolve invents new weapons. Builds factories and mines to crank out arms and munitions in overwhelming quantities. Maneuvers on the ground to make the best use of the force they have.
Many Americans are not involved in the war we are fighting. They are so soft and have been protected by others for so long it doesn't seem real to them, and they resent the esteem given to those who are fighting it on the ground.
But never doubt, DakotaRed, that those Americans who are fighting - have Resolve and Discipline.
Semper Fidelis
Where is the anger? My house.
It's alive and burning white hot.
We will never forget.
The only way our so-called leaders today are really going to wake up and get serious is if they're personally threatened somehow.
We haven't forgotten September 11, 2001.
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There is no patriotism on the left. The left only fears and hates the right.
You have to remember that docudramas tend to put things into a "perspective" and create a sense of distance between the event and the viewer. The footage has been carefully selected....you will not see footage of jumpers falling or hitting the street, body parts being pulled from the building, people screaming in anguish on the streets.
Of course if it's pictures from Lebanon, thats different.
NY was angry enough when the midwest got some of 'their' homeland security money. But they were happy enough to support Kerry instead of Bush.
Be assured that the one who does need to keep resolve HAS a full reserve of it and I know that President Bush has exhibited anger on a number of occasions when speaking of those "murderers" of 9/11. He did so at his last press conference and we are fortunate that he won't waver based on a biased poll or numerous television programs that refuse to bring back the focus of what went on. He will continue to do what America needs most - fight this war on terror overseas!
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