PDA

View Full Version : Lest we forget....9/11



Mandelon
09-09-2003, 08:17 AM
9/11 Powerpoint Presentation (http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/picturejokes/9346.pps)

Mandelon
09-09-2003, 08:20 AM
http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/picturejokes/6145.jpg

clownpuncher
09-09-2003, 08:29 AM
I for one have not forgotten. I will never forget. I was deployed to Ground Zero on the morning of Sept 11, 2001, and spent the worst ten days of my life there. I remember 9-11-2001 every single day. Now I concentrate on family, friends and having fun more than ever. Great presentation, thanks.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0082-med.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0069-med.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0104-med.jpg

eliminatedsprinter
09-09-2003, 09:05 AM
That's why I'm greatful for my life, family, and freedom. I'm also glad that both the Taliban and Saddam's Iraqi governments no longer exist. If we are attacked again Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Saudi Arabia's governments should be history as well.

Lady Rat Attack 1
09-09-2003, 09:45 AM
clownpuncher:
I for one have not forgotten. I will never forget. I was deployed to Ground Zero on the morning of Sept 11, 2001, and spent the worst ten days of my life there. I remember 9-11-2001 every single day. Now I concentrate on family, friends and having fun more than ever. Great presentation, thanks.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0082-med.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0069-med.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0104-med.jpg Pictures worth a thousand words... I still get watery eyes everytime I see something like this. And for you having to see it. We truly pray for you and everyone who was involved. Let us NEVER FORGET :mad:

OGShocker
09-09-2003, 09:55 AM
My great, great, grand children will know what happend that day. They will know it as if they were there. This is our job, our duty.
I hear people say "get over it", yeah? really? F**K YOU! I like being angry about what they did. It feeds me.
Never Forget/Never Again!
Clown Puncher, Thank you and all your buddies!
Thanks, I feel better. smile_sp
Another 9-11-01 PowerPoint (http://home.mieweb.com/andyh/America/Wewill.pps)
[ September 09, 2003, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: OGShocker ]

WetWillie
09-09-2003, 10:02 AM
Amen Brother! I will never forget!
WW frown

OGShocker
09-09-2003, 11:13 AM
Oh, by the way. Thank you for your power point!
Notice how a talk of ants on my boat gets more replies than this thread? Go figure :rolleyes:

little rowe boat
09-09-2003, 11:27 AM
I will never forget 9-11. 343 firefighters died that day,along with over 2700 civilians.A sad day in the history of the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

SCLB41
09-09-2003, 07:49 PM
Lets not forget the 173(?) cops....

MagicMtnDan
09-09-2003, 08:02 PM
I pledge never to forget nor will I allow anyone to tread on my country. That's my pledge of allegiance.
God bless the USA and every patriotic American.

MRS FLYIN VEE
09-09-2003, 08:06 PM
We will never forget and we shouldn't many people lost their lives that day. and for what. for nothing. They are always in our thought's and prayers everyday. they will always be there for the rest of our lives. we will never forget. Also thanks to all that did what they could to find all. The other day they buried someone that got killed there and all they had was a vile of blood. This is sad. Bless everyone. Live your lives like there is no tomorrow.

jus a baker
09-09-2003, 08:35 PM
im with you, PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!

DickDanger
09-09-2003, 09:42 PM
Being that I am a fireman, I have been flying my flag EVERYDAY since 9/11, and this week, I have been wearing a different FDNY memorial shirt for each day. At work, we will not be doing any training on Thursday. Instead, there will be a viewing of that 9/11 documentary that those 2 french brothers made, and also we will be having a BBQ that day, with a prayer service following at the local church. God Bless the USA. -DD Out

MagicMtnDan
09-10-2003, 05:34 AM
Video memorial to 9/11 and the innocents and heroes of the day (http://911digitalarchive.org/special/americaattacked/index1.html)
In better times:
http://www.ridgewoodcameraclub.org/Photo%20Gallery/NYCTowersAtDusk02aj.jpg
http://www.ridgewoodcameraclub.org/Photo%20Gallery/Twin-Towers-Reflected_1.jpg
[ September 10, 2003, 06:51 AM: Message edited by: MagicMtnDan ]

johnboy
09-10-2003, 06:46 AM
It will never be forgotten in our home, it will remain a part of our lives. It makes me angry every time I think about. It makes me angry everytime I hear about how much the war on terrorism cost $ wise. The money spent on fighting terrorism will never equal the price paid on 9/11. For those that lost someone close to you I give my sympathy. We all lost something close to us that day, the peacefull life that was a part of being an AMERICAN!
Johnboy

eaglemtnlaketx
09-10-2003, 09:07 AM
eliminatedsprinter...I couldn't agree more. I fully support our military actions to rid this world of cowards. I just cringe when politicians criticize our fine men and women and our war plans. I don't mind paying taxes that go to support the military. Let freedom ring!!!
[ September 10, 2003, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: eaglemtnlaketx ]

THE VIKING
09-10-2003, 09:54 AM
Well, If a Dane should say a few words about this, it would be something like this.
I watched the situation on CNN and wondered what the **** these extremists were doing??
This was not war, this was Evil and nothing but Evil. There vere no excuses for Wrecking the twin towers, other then a sick mans doing.
This was fathers that never came home to their children, mothers that vaporized in the fire.
This was the closest i have ever been at being a nazi.
I hope it will never happen again, and that the people res+ponsible for this evil and meaningless act will be brought to justice some day. burningm burningm
The viking.

Havasu Cig
09-10-2003, 10:21 AM
Good post....rember this when you vote and the liberals who think Bush is wrong in using military force.
I would like North Korea to be next. :mad:

OGShocker
09-10-2003, 04:41 PM
DickDanger:
Being that I am a fireman, I have been flying my flag EVERYDAY since 9/11, and this week, I have been wearing a different FDNY memorial shirt for each day. At work, we will not be doing any training on Thursday. Instead, there will be a viewing of that 9/11 documentary that those 2 french brothers made, and also we will be having a BBQ that day, with a prayer service following at the local church. God Bless the USA. -DD Out Thanks for being on the job Double D!
We went to the LA County Fair after 9-11-01 and bought one of those 30' telescopic flag poles. Our flag flys day and night. We flew it day and night before 9-11 just not as high!
GBtUSA!

Mandelon
09-11-2003, 05:53 AM
God Bless all those lost souls, and their families. cry
Lots of ceremonies on TV today. Pretty emotional.
The Arabs and Muslim's are probably celebrating. Will they show that? burningm

JetBoatRich
09-11-2003, 06:06 AM
I woke up this morning hearing my wife crying, she was watching the services on TV.
Very tough day to get through and not stop every few minutes and think about the events that took place 2 years ago.

Laveyman
09-11-2003, 06:08 AM
The attacks of 911 have become the "Where were you when JFK was shot" of our generation. I for one will NEVER forget where I was, and what I was doing. Nor will I EVER forget to remember those who were senselessly killed by those fockers!

Mandelon
09-11-2003, 06:11 AM
At the office now after my grueling 6 minute commute.... wink
Heard on the radio that Muslims in London are celebrating, handing out flyers with Osama's picture and the twin towers, celebrating the "magnificent 19" The terrorists who did the evil work.
That is sick. Anyone who could celebrate is an animal.
English police can't stop it because it is legal. The terrorists use our own liberal laws against us. They will infiltrate and flaunt their beliefs in front of us while plotting to kill all non-believers...
burningm Not happy today. frown

OGShocker
09-11-2003, 06:16 AM
JetBoatRich:
I woke up this morning hearing my wife crying, she was watching the services on TV.
Very tough day to get through and not stop every few minutes and think about the events that took place 2 years ago. I listened to FoxNews this morning on my way into work(XM Radio). They had the kids reading the name of those lost in the WTC. These little people had to read several names, including their loved ones. I am proud to tell you, your wife was not alone in her sorrow this morning.
OGS

MagicMtnDan
09-11-2003, 06:39 AM
http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif http://www.chevyavalanchefunclub.com/attachments/911flg.gif

Havasu Cig
09-11-2003, 08:01 AM
Mandelon:
At the office now after my grueling 6 minute commute.... wink
Heard on the radio that Muslims in London are celebrating, handing out flyers with Osama's picture and the twin towers, celebrating the "magnificent 19" The terrorists who did the evil work.
That is sick. Anyone who could celebrate is an animal.
English police can't stop it because it is legal. The terrorists use our own liberal laws against us. They will infiltrate and flaunt their beliefs in front of us while plotting to kill all non-believers...
burningm Not happy today. :( Saw the same thing on the news this morning. They said a muslim cleric there is going to give 19 speaches in honor of the 19 highjackers. Somebody should take this POS out. :mad:

Mr. Science
09-11-2003, 08:27 AM
MagicMtnDan,
The Videao Memorial you had posted was awesome. Thank You. I lost my next door neighbor that horrific morning on 9/11. Mark Ellis was a multi-decorated NYC Transit Officer. 26 Years old was to be wed the following month and was to report to a Secret Service assignment in late December of that year. It was tough seeing his family leave this morning at 6am to attend the memorial services at Ground Zero. I would like to thank him and his family for all the tears and suffering and great loss they have put forth over the past 2 years to provide us with our freedoms that we all have each and every day...true American Heros. God Bless You.

riverracerx
09-11-2003, 08:41 AM
Now they want to give Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens in California. Why don't they just send out printed invitations to the Terrorists to come over and vacation here!! burningm
GOD Bless America!
Check out my front page today: River Racer X Sept 11th (http://www.riverracerx.com)

MagicMtnDan
09-11-2003, 09:29 AM
"With malice towards none... with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as god gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan-- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."
Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865
(thanks to the SCOPE Web site www.scopeinfo.com) (http://www.scopeinfo.com))
http://www.scopeinfo.com/images/wtc-photo.jpg

eliminatedsprinter
09-11-2003, 09:51 AM
I've got my flags out. I have been putting my flag out around this time of year for a while, since sept 17 is Constitution day. Since 9/11 I have added a flag. I now also put out a Revolutionary War Navy Jack. It's rad and white stripes with the timber rattlesnake diagonally across it and the words "Don't Tread On Me" along the bottem.

Rocket2003
09-11-2003, 10:11 AM
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/1207Twintowers_jP.JPG
GOD BLESS THE USA!

Banzai Fry
09-11-2003, 11:05 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen, My donation to the tread. http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/928tribute_photo_91101-med.JPG
I will never forget!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/928tribute_photo_91101-med.JPG

watergirl
09-11-2003, 01:03 PM
May God bless America and it's people.

clownpuncher
09-11-2003, 01:17 PM
RiverDave:
clownpuncher:
I for one have not forgotten. I will never forget. I was deployed to Ground Zero on the morning of Sept 11, 2001, and spent the worst ten days of my life there. I remember 9-11-2001 every single day. Now I concentrate on family, friends and having fun more than ever. Great presentation, thanks.
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0082-med.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0069-med.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/536Epsn0104-med.jpg Thank you for your efforts clown puncher. If I ever run into you, beers are on me.
RD :( Hey thanks RD. I hang out in Parker so I'm sure you will run into to me. I can drink a lot of beer :D
Don't mean to make light, but this is a tough day. After 20 years as a fireman (started young wink )not much gets to me anymore but, this will always be a tough day for me. Thanks everyone for your support and thanks for not forgetting what those cowards did to our country and over 3000 innocent people. Good to hear y'aint gonna forget wtf happened frown

Banshee
09-11-2003, 01:34 PM
Thanks to a everyone that posted links or picturs here.
Let us never ever forget
God bless our troops and god bless America
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/111Eagle5.jpg
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/111TARGET-1-med.jpg
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/111WTC1.jpg

Ducatista
09-11-2003, 01:35 PM
Today is Thursday 9-11-2003, I just viewed the presentation. I am angry, I am tearful, I am vengeful, I am a patriot who loves this country. God Bless all of those who died that day, and all that have died in the past protecting our freedom. God Bless thier families and loved ones, and God Bless this great nation. I am a simple man of few words, and this is my prayer for today.

leibniz
09-11-2003, 01:37 PM
Thanks for posting that large image MMD. It fit my 1600x1200 desktop perfectly. There's nothing like a sharp aerial image of destruction to help keep ourselves focused on reality.

MagicMtnDan
09-11-2003, 04:27 PM
http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10087000/10087524.jpg
http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10081000/10081244.jpg

HalletDave
09-11-2003, 04:45 PM
I will never forget.
But I still have a hard time looking at the photos.
It just hurts.
HD

MagicMtnDan
09-11-2003, 04:46 PM
I grew up west of New York City and was there when the Trade Center Towers were being built. I remember the NY skyline before
they existed and saw how they transformed the skyline and the city itself after they were completed.
I was in the area when, in August 1974, Phillippe Petit sneaked onto the roof of the south Tower and strung a 1" cable
across the 250' gap and proceeded to walk across the cable mesmerizing everyone in the entire NYC area (and making news
around the world). That act put the Trade Center Towers (and him) "on the map."
I was lucky enough to have visited the complex a number of times and gone up to the open observation deck on
the south Tower (the North Tower, the first one hit by a jetliner, had the large antenna on it and the famous
Windows On The World restaurant on the top two floors). It was the highest open air observation platform in the world
and the views from up there were spectacular.
I took pictures up there and still have them at home. Pictures looking uptown towards the Empire State Building that showed
the "rivers" of lights from the streetlights in the "canyons" of the Avenues running north-south. I have picturs of
the Brooklyn Bridge off to the northeast of the Towers. I took friends and family up there because the buildings and
the views were so stunning. I was in the lobbies of the buildings (they were multi-story affairs that were impressive in their
own right) and in the basement where tens of thousands of people who worked in the complex shopped, ate lunch and traveled
through as they commuted to/from the buildings.
It was an amazing place, a testimony to what man can build and operate and its memory stands in defiance of those evil people
who add nothing to this world and only seem to exist to destroy what good has been created in our country.
Sorry to ramble on but it's still hard to fathom that these giant buildings, designed to stand for decades are gone and the people in them
have been murdered. Every time I visit family and friends there I instinctively scan the skies searching for the two monoliths.
Even when I was many miles away I could still see the tops of those "salt and pepper shakers" (no disrespect intended - it's
what I thought of them when viewing them from
far away) looming above the hills between me and them. It's something that I'm
sure millions of others in the area have often
done during the past two years...
http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10076000/10076950.jpg
Click here to read about Phillippe Petit (http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,910157,00.html)
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/covers/2003/03/05/clouds.gif
[ September 11, 2003, 06:06 PM: Message edited by: MagicMtnDan ]

MagicMtnDan
09-11-2003, 05:12 PM
Reflecting on the towers
A lone New York City policeman pauses for a moment at two pools of water before the start of second-anniversary ceremonies at
the site of the former World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11. Familes of victims of the collapse of the center's two towers
later placed flowers and other articles of remembrance during the ceremony.
http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/179/793/10x7/030911_remember911_11.jpg
Signs of loss
A woman holds a sign as she and others wait to enter the site of the World Trade Center towers Sept. 11 in New York. Bells rang across the city, and moments of silence were observed to remember the 2,792 people killed two years before when hijacked planes destroyed the 110-story twin towers.
http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/179/793/10x7/030911_remember911_14.jpg
An army of mourners
U.S. soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division reflect during a memorial service
Sept. 11 in Tikrit, Iraq. More than 150 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division attended the service.
God bless our troops
http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/179/793/10x7/030911_remember911_04.jpg
NEVER forget
A firefighter reads the names of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks written on a memorial that reads "Never Forget" Sept. 11 at Ground Zero in New York City. The names of the nearly 2,800 victims were read by 200 surviving children and family members at a second-anniversary ceremony at the World Trade Center site.
http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/179/793/10x7/030911_remember911_17.jpg

Jbb
09-11-2003, 06:02 PM
Why Terrorism Works
By Irwin N. Graulich
Sep 4, 2003
Stop thinking like a Westerner and you will begin to understand terrorism.
There was virtually no guilt trip for destroying the great cities of Nazi Germany, Japan or Korea, including the unfortunate victims of war known as "innocent civilians." Once upon a time democracies knew their enemies and were able to determine general target locations. There was no moral problem with bombing Berlin, Dresden, Hiroshima or Nagasaki, although they resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties. Yet today, when 5 civilian deaths are produced in Iraq or 2 Palestinians are wounded by rubber bullets, the event becomes a worldwide tragedy. Even worse, the targeting of a Hamas terrorist has become synonymous with assassinating a head of state. Why?
How did terrorism manifest itself into freedom fighting and what are the reasons it has emanated from the Muslim world? When a once great civilization and religious culture fails miserably, it has only 2 choices. Go out of business or delude itself into believing it has not failed at all, by producing a new false reality of physical strength and spiritual greatness. Thus terrorism was born to compensate for a hatred of the good and successful, who are also superior in virtually every way. Muslim religious leaders are its major proponents because they see the flaws and fraudulence of their own belief system which is a frightening concept.
The previously mighty, powerful Arab and Muslim world has fallen into the dustbin of history. It no longer produces anything of value, wisdom, discovery or progress. Those amazing Arabian armies of the desert have been reduced to the laughing stock of West Point studies, with the six strongest Arab nations together being totally decimated by a tiny Jewish nation of largely Yeshiva boys.
Furthermore, this little Jewish state has become one of the leaders in scientific and technological breakthroughs, while the countries that retain a good portion of the world's oil wealth have trouble building a shopping center. Israel is a hard enough pill to swallow, but America's success cannot even fit into their mouths.
As Western democracies progressed into the 21st century, much of Arab/Muslim civilization reversed course back into the 16th century. No more great Muslim warriors; no more medical breakthroughs; no more beautiful writings. The development of modern warfare has made every Arab and Muslim country the "butt" of military jokes. The well known videotapes of large battalions of soldiers crying and surrendering to the Israelis waving their hands in the air, or the "brave, great" Iraqi soldiers giving up to journalists during the Gulf War have become embedded into everyone's mind, especially fellow Muslims. Their dignity was destroyed and thus terrorism was born. However, there is something wrong with a mentality that is embarrassed because a tyrant like Saddam was defeated.
Terrorism is a type of warfare where the perpetrators can truly never lose. Since terrorists are made up of many independent cells and events, there is no unified army to defeat and no flag to surrender. Even more incredible, the supportive local populations who most certainly have knowledge of or harbor them, become innocent civilians. Bomb factories, young men living in apartments with AK-47's and no jobs, people shooting rockets and machine guns blasting; yet the neighbors know nothing. Give me a break!
The brilliance of terrorism is that it separates the population from its army so that the foundational populace is absolved of any sins. And thus you can now have a nation like Iraq being separated from Saddam's Baathist regime in which the Iraqis bear absolutely no responsibility, except for 55 people in a deck of cards. Unfortunately many Iraqis were part of the problem, but terrorism and a terrorist dictatorship has allowed them to hide. This strategy also entitles troublemakers to blame their rescuers for the entire predicament. Throw in the term "occupation or occupier" into the mix, and the total responsibility is cast on the morally decent savior, America.
Terrorists have become great public relations propagandists. Unfortunately, wars throughout history have produced many civilian casualties. That is the nature of the beast. While innocent women and children were certainly killed in Allied bombings over Nazi Germany, the ultimate blame for their deaths was always understood to be Hitler and his evil henchmen. Leave it to the geniuses of "the religion of peace (sic)" to develop a new tactic that makes every Muslim an innocent civilian.
Fighting terrorism has led to an immoral concept--the fighting of a compassionate war. Such an idea is a moral outrage. The nature of war and victory is to totally defeat the enemy and create an atmosphere of fear so that they do not rise up and shoot your soldiers or blow up UN officials having meetings. Of course, a moral nation does its best to minimize civilian casualties. However, terrorists have an uncanny ability to rewrite moral battles into genocidal atrocities like Jenin.
Blaming decent democracies is the foundation of terrorism. Because no Arab or Muslim nation is a capitalist democracy where people can feel proud of their accomplishments, terrorism and the lies associated with it are designed to make their populations feel good. It was obvious that America would become the target of terrorism after Israel. After all, America and Israel are, according to the Islamic world, the only countries stopping world domination of Islam.
The Arab and Muslim populations are desperate to believe that they have not lost every war, that they are not weaker than the Americans or God forbid the Israelis. That is why they believe the big lies. According to Adolf Hitler, you heart and your mind have to be open to believe, which is why there can be a museum in Cairo, Egypt dedicated to the Egyptian victory over Israel in the Yom Kippur war.
America and Israel, represented by Christianity and Judaism, are the moral mirrors held up to the face of the Islamic world. They see our successes and our decency. They see how American soldiers treated Iraqi soldiers who were wounded. They see how some Palestinians are treated in Hadassah hospital and how a modern Israeli society has been built in only 55 years. America and Israel are just too superior morally, intellectually and technologically. No one could be that good or successful.
Arafat, bin Laden, Saddam, the Ayatollahs, Assad, the Saudi ruling family, et. al. must all be saying, "We Muslims look like jerks. Let's destroy those despicable, morally high Jews and Christians. They make us all look bad. Wait, we cannot accomplish this goal. Let's use terrorism; it seems to be working

River Lynchmob
09-11-2003, 06:06 PM
Havasu Cig:
Good post....rember this when you vote and the liberals who think Bush is wrong in using military force.
I would like North Korea to be next. :mad: well said. im glad my tax dollars are being used to rid this place of the chicken shit cowards that they are. A much better use than what 90% of our tax dollars are being used for. I'm proud to be an American, long may she wave. If anyone's been to Parker you can check out the flag we fly just south of Badenochs, its the first thing i do when i get there (put up the stars and bars) and the last thing i do when i leave (take her down).

betty boop
09-11-2003, 06:20 PM
http://www.msnbc.com/c/0/179/793/inline/030911_remember911_16.jpg
i hadn't cried till i saw this one....
it is a picture of the boys father and it says "i love you daddy" the policeman was there to comfort the boy...
[ September 11, 2003, 07:22 PM: Message edited by: sunbunny ]