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Stop Commemorating 9/11
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| September 13, 2007
| Dan Calabrese
Posted on 09/13/2007 11:21:05 AM PDT by Invisigoth
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To: Invisigoth
What? We can’t mourn our way to victory?
Well, what am I going to do with all this yellow ribbon?
81
posted on
09/13/2007 3:33:26 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(...now I have to feed the dog as if nothing has happened.)
To: Invisigoth
82
posted on
09/13/2007 3:40:24 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: combat_boots
The roar and reverberation from the Arizona blast brings grown males to tears.
Stormin' Norman was a narrator of a Pearl Harbor 50th annual
commemeration show (on CBS, I think).
IIRC, he mentioned that some photographers at Pearl Harbor had
their cameras grabbed and film ruined...so that the photos they
took of barrels behind the hospital full of amputated limbs
wouldn't be published.
The real motive for this war-time censorship wasn't given, but
I couldn't help but think of two reasons for keeping the photos
out of circulation:
1. Not have people faint and have heart attacks by seeing this
in the local paper
2. Not light a fire under the average American that wouldn't be
put out until they killed about every person of Asian extraction
in the USA.
Sadly, since 9-11, I realize there might be third (and best) reason:
3. Not give the isolationists/defeatists a graphic image they'd
use when pushing appeasement/"accomadation"/SURRENDER, as in
"our boys have suffered enough and we shouldn't put any more in
harm's way".
83
posted on
09/13/2007 3:43:09 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: combat_boots
Every American should see that monument.
The United State Army gave my father a free year-long trip to
Pearl Harbor in the mid-1950s. (He drew a two year hitch standing
guard during The Cold War).
He said there were still unrepaired bullet-holes in the Schofield (sp?)
Barracks.
In the previous generation, many people refused to buy Japanese
after WWII until the day they died.
My father worked with one of those fellows...that survived
The Bataan Death March.
BUT he finally came to terms with his experience with the Japanese,
he did buy a Japanese car.
When my dad told my mom that this fellow finally bought a Japanese
car, she shrewdly asked:
"For target practice? Or to drive?"
84
posted on
09/13/2007 3:50:24 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Redbob
“December 7th is remembered as the day the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor
without provocation nor a declaration of war.”
Surely, Sec. of State’s reception of the two Japanese emmissaries
while the Pearl Harbor attack was on-going is something that comes
to mind whenever dealing with the mendacious.
Hull just barely restrained himself from being the first American to
kill the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordell_Hull
“After he had glanced at their copy of the fourteen-part message
[Japan’s declaration that negotiations were at an end], Hull’s anger
burst forth. ‘In all my fifty years of public service,’ he told the
astonished diplomats, ‘I have never seen such a document that was
more crowded with infamous falsehood and distortion.’
Nomura and Kurusu, who had not been told of the attack, bowed themselves
out in an embarrassed fluster. A department official overheard Hull
muttering under his breath as the door closed, ‘Scoundrels and piss-ants.’ “
85
posted on
09/13/2007 3:58:39 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Invisigoth
A new kid on the block dictating to everyone right out of the cradle?
Grow up, Skippy. You make your decisions, and I'll make mine. Fair enough?
I plan to remember every year, whether you approve or not. Perhaps you'll be happier over at DU or KOS...
86
posted on
09/13/2007 4:51:32 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Invisigoth
Ask the families of these freepers murdered on 911 if it is time to stop.
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87
posted on
09/13/2007 4:55:58 PM PDT
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: Invisigoth
88
posted on
09/13/2007 4:58:17 PM PDT
by
rottndog
(Government is a necessary evil, but as with all evils, the less of it the better.)
To: Invisigoth
Yes. If you don’t like it then get out!
89
posted on
09/13/2007 8:49:29 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
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