Posted on 05/03/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by Huck
Yesterday should have been a glorious day around here. There should have been fireworks and celebration. There should have been somber remembrances. There should have been patriotic tributes. There should have been shared joy at the news that our guys had finally gotten Bin Laden.
Instead, when I visited the site, what I found was a lot of carping. I found people focused more on the political spin than on the great news. I found people transferring their birther mentality onto this event, talking about Obama faking this news, photoshopping information, etc. It wasn't everybody, but it was a LOT of people. It made me sick.
Yesterday Free Republic seemed like DU. It makes me wonder what the hell is going on. Are Freepers getting younger? I always assume that DU is so pathetically immature because they must be younger. Free Republic has always been a place dominated by great class, and wit, and decency. Not this time. What I saw yesterday was a pathetic embarrassment and totally unworthy of this great forum.
As some of you may know, I was in lower Manhattan on 9-11. I was just across the street from the WTC when the first plane hit. I still remember the beautiful clear blue sky that day. I remember walking in between the towers just a minute or so before 8:46am, on my normal route to work. I remember my co-workers screaming in panic when they watched from an office window as the second plane hit the south tower. I remember women crying and screaming hysterically. I remember not being able to contact my wife to tell her I was OK. I remember people jumping to their deaths. I remember seeing the north tower go down with my own eyes, hearing it with my own ears. I remember fleeing Manhattan. I remember it was a Tuesday.
I remember returning to work the following Monday, riding the ferry passed the site, noxious smoke still billowing from the wreckage. I remember armed troops on the sidewalks. I remember wearing a breathing mask inside my building because the foul odor was seeping in through the ventilation system. I remember thinking we'd really gotten kicked in the teeth. They had killed innocent people, they had traumatized our women and children, and I really wanted revenge. I hung a picture on my wall of the American eagle sharpening his talons.
It has been a long time since that day. It's hard to believe how fast time flies. Then again, if you lost your loved one, I imagine time hasn't gone so fast. I love my wife so much, I can empathize with anyone who has lost the one they love. I can't imagine how that would be, and don't want to know, but I can cry for those people because I know what it is like to find your one true love.
I'm not an Obama fan. I hate socialism. But I am so happy that Bin Laden is killed, and that we have exacted some real revenge. It's about time. The politics don't even play into it for me. I still have the little flag, now tattered, that I flew on my car antenna after 9-11. I want to take it out of storage and put it on my car. I want to see American flags on cars like we saw back then. But it's not going to happen, and partially because the normally patriotic conservatives such as the ones here on Free Republic are instead focused on the politics and the fact that a socialist Democrat was president and will get some of the credit.
I guess you all would have been pissed on D-Day too. FDR was as big a socialist as anyone. I guess VE day and VJ day would have chapped your hides, since Truman was a DEM. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush. I know it wasn't every Freeper acting this way. But when I went on the board, that was the general impression, and it was really disappointing. It should have been a great day here. Instead, I saw a lack of patriotism and a lack of class. Free Republic should be better than this. If conservatives lose their patriotism and class, then what will happen to those virtues? I hope we can get them back soon. In the meantime, thanks for reading.
Respectfully,
Huck
I guess that means he would let her work there with risks, if she was ugly.
Ahhhh! Makes sense.
911 truther zotThat must be one of the more satisfying zots you can do. Good job.
I agree with you. Some of the threads/posts were very disturbing. Insane, actually. And totally out of character for this site. There has been a change in the overall types of folks attracted to FR in the past couple of years.
Back in the mid- to late-70s I worked at One Penn Plaza, so the WTC and Lady Liberty was the view from my office. The scenes on tv for the weeks following 9/.11, looking downtown, was what I looked at every work day. Well, except those 2 huge buildings were there. I can’t imagine if I’d been there in person on 9/11.
And I can’t imagine how folks can hate our current sitting POTUS so much that they’d rather attack him (as if there isn’t plenty of time for that) than celebrate a major American victory in the ‘war on terror,’ the amazing work of our military and intel community, and the capture/killing of the symbol of the worst attack on US soil in our history. Sad day, indeed.
You know I wear pajamas all the time? How did you figure out who I was? I faked my death and now you are going to ruin it. I swear, if I ever catch up with you, so help me God, I am going to give you a firm smack with my gloved hand.
LOL!
Finally!!! It’s amazing what people can believe that ain’t so.
LOL good point!!
Okay, just for the sake of argument, those planes didn’t hit the towers.
Where are they, and where are the passengers?
Ted Olsen’s wife was on the plane that hit the Pentagon. Where is she?
Well said, Responsibility2nd and I very much agree.
Type II diabetic, Type III troll and Type I idiot. Good riddance.
LOL
He IS NOT natural born.
PSssst- Lazlo, that was a different picture..........no gloves......No Gloves!
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