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To: Phsstpok

Opps, missed ya. See post 441


446 posted on 05/27/2007 12:49:38 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you will try being smarter, I will try being nicer.)
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To: MNJohnnie
No, you included me in the list for 441, thank you.

I just now got around to looking at it, though. Nicely done and a good tool for reminding people who are trying to forget and "move on."  My only problem with their slide show is that they started so relatively recently.  I mean, shouldn't Bobby Kennedy's 1968 assassination by a Palestinian terrorist protesting America's support for Israel be included in the list?  There are many that go back further.  The entire history of Islam is rife with examples of atrocities, large and small.  It's how that faith primarily spread and maintained it's control over conquered lands.

I was more moved by the YouTube video linked from the thread "Do You Remember" posted here.  I also have saved a link to a 360VR web page from around the time the Tribute In Light was done at the WTC site (early 2002).  Whenever I get to a point where I realize that I'm surprised by any reference to 9/11 I pull up the top right 360VR on that web page, which was taken from the base of the spotlights, and put on Celine Dion singing "A New Day Has Come."

It's an uplifting song and some might think it's a "let's move on" kind of song, but it doesn't make me think about "getting over" anything.  For me it will forever be associated with our lifting ourselves  up, determined to overcome this horrendous assault on humanity by inhuman monsters, and to get on with the business of stopping them from ever doing it again.

There's a line in the song about "all in the eyes of a boy" as the reason she finds that there's a "new day."  I think of looking into Todd Beamer's children's eyes as they carry on their father's legacy.

534 posted on 05/28/2007 6:07:01 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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