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The Day of Terror: Campus Reactiuons
9/11/01(A Day That Will Live in Infamy)
| Adam Graham
Posted on 09/11/2001 4:42:14 PM PDT by Keyes2000mt
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Here's My Poem, "The Day of Terror":
The Day of Terror
Oh my Country,
My Country
Now you are stricken
At morning light,
By mayhem most foul!
Behold the terror that grips the skies
As the smoke billows across the land
Behold the petty vengeance of Americas enemies
As hundreds and thousands panic
As fear takes hold
And rules the airwaves
As you listen to the radio,
Wonder about your loved ones,
And whether you shall see them again
Wonder whether this is the end or
Just the beginning
And know, things will never be the same again
Howl for justice,
For retribution against those
Who have wrought havoc upon our nation
And deal with the uncertainty of not knowing
Who the culprit is
Try to go about your day
Try to hold back the tears
And the anger
To write your papers
And attend your classes
See your brother
So long alien from his father,
Call and talk with him for the first time in ages
See churches fill and people pray
Like they never have before
Pray for peace
For an end to the confusion
-Adam Graham
To: Keyes2000mt
My husband is an administrator at a small state college. He said the kids gathered in the food court outside his office were glad classes were cancelled. That was it. Woo hoo, classes are cancelled. I'm glad that wasn't the reaction on Dec. 7, 1941.
To: mountaineer
December 7, 1941, was a Sunday. There were no classes.
To: mountaineer
Kids. My two 14 year olds get it because we were there a couple of weeks ago. We were at ground zero. It helps if its not far away.
To: Keyes2000mt
When I mentioned to a friend that we ought to bomb the hell out of Afganistan and any other country harboring terrorists, she said, but there are innocent people there. I responded--what do you consider all those people who died today in the WTC, the pentagon and on those airplanes??? Perhaps 10,000 innocents--or do our innocents not count?
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posted on
09/11/2001 4:55:50 PM PDT
by
Betteboop
To: patriciaruth
December 7, 1941, was my grandma's 18th birthday and she would tell me they were having a party for her when the attack took place. She never complained that her birthday party got ruined. What a generation gap.
To: Keyes2000mt
Here at Macalester College in St. Paul, afternoon classes were cancelled. Everyone's pretty shook up; TVs were put up in our campus center, people were calling NY, and we had a prayer service this afternoon. I'm supposed to go tutor physics in 8 minutes, but I'm going to stay right here and watch the President. Finally, I bet I'm not the only one having trouble concentrating on my homework.
To: mountaineer
That was it. Woo hoo, classes are cancelled. That wasn't the only reaction here. People were glued to their TV sets for the first few hours. Students are now hanging American flags out their windows. My dorm room now has a Gadsden ("DONT TREAD ON ME") flag in one window and an American flag in the other.
To: Prodigal Daughter
December 7, 1941, was my grandma's 18th birthday.... It was Vito Corleone's birthday, too (I think it was his 49th).
To: Prodigal Daughter
Yeah, one of the guys who argued that this was our fault conclude his speech by saying, "Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you?"
Can I join someone else's generation, I'm not too happy about being in mine.
To: mountaineer
I remember when President Kennedy was assassinated. I left my calculus class in college when I heard the news that he had been shot and went to a church to pray, with a transitor radio, which gave the news while I was in the sanctuary alone that the President had died.
Then we had the weekend off but had to go to class Monday. I had to do a paper on Shakespear's King Lear. It was very hard for me to concentrate on writing even though a couple days had passed and my parents hadn't even voted for him. Voting age then was 21, so I hadn't voted.
I remember ending the paper on King Lear by stating that the tragedy of a nation's leader is the tragedy of the nation. And my professor wrote a remark after that indicating he did not understand that statement.
This will be like then, some college kids will be deeply affected, others will be upset that the Madonna concert was canceled.
To: Keyes2000mt
"I think that I shall never see,"A poem as lovely as a reactionaree..."
To: patriciaruth
December 7, 1941, was a Sunday. There were no classes.I'm well aware of that. I meant I'm glad America's young people in 1941 reacted in a less self-centered manner.
To: mountaineer
Pearl Harbor defined my parents' generation.
The Kennedy assassinatation defined my generation, the Baby Boomers.
The Challenger explosion may have been the definer for the Generation X'ers.
This tragedy will probably define the Millennial Generation.
To: mountaineer
I'm glad America's young people in 1941 reacted in a less self-centered manner. Yes, people were more patriotic then and there was no TV news brainwashing. But I think a certain number of Republicans groused a lot and called it "Roosevelt's War."
To: Keyes2000mt
Kudos for your out-spokenness in a Leftist environment!!
To: Keyes2000mt
At LeTourneau University in Longview, TX, classes were not canceled, but they were certainly unproductive.
Most of us have spent the day alternating between praying for the victims, the nation, the nation's leaders, and everyone directly involved, and watching the news.
There is a calm, but sad, even angry, aura throughout the student body and administration.
To: Keyes2000mt, All Michigan State Spartans and Alumni
This is the editorial reply to today's horrific events from THE STATE NEWS- Michigan State's student newspaper:
SN EDITORIAL BOARD: Terrorist actions despicable; America must unite behind president
Terrorism struck our nation Tuesday in a way the Cold War never had. Four hijacked planes turned into weapons more fierce than the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The skyline of the United States will forever be different - the World Trade Centers twin towers gone. A portion of the Pentagon is wiped away.
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and I assure you freedom will be defended, President Bush said, a somber look on his face and a serious tone in his voice. Make no mistake. The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly actions.
We echo our presidents vigilance and stand behind his response to this attack on U.S. soil.
He has vowed these cowards will be held accountable for the hundreds of lives lost in four airliners - and for the thousands who died in New York and our nations capital.
But until that day comes, we choose not to hate the world, or be afraid to live our lives and love our loves.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:17:38 PM PDT
by
rintense
To: mountaineer
You know I was thinking about what I would do if I were W. A draft would be a consideration and why not draft college students be this time around? These kids should be concerned.
To: Betteboop
THis is very, very war-like. To me, it would be better to send a decisive, overwhelming message to whatever country did this act of evil. It would be better for civillians in that terrorist state to die than more civillians in the US to die. Only a fool, such as the professor above, would sacrifice the lives of our families and friends for the sake of saving enemies bent on our destruction. Such a personb is no different than the hijackers on those planes.
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posted on
09/11/2001 5:21:06 PM PDT
by
doc30
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