Remembering 9-11

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Originally Posted by DanicaFan

janvan, it's clear you dont live in the US.

You are completely off-base here. If you think America has no enemies, you are lying to yourself and you know it! I was not showing hate. I simply posted a great tribute video to a tragic day in history and then Uglysquirrel makes a hidden attack on it but brings up Iran. Im sorry Iran is full of radical muslims (terrorists) who hate America and everything that isnt Islam.

If you havent been paying attention, Iran is about to create nukes and they have threatened Israel. This is scary stuff. The terrorists in this country will do anything to spread thier "hatred" on the world.
I hate no one but I hate acts of violence that terrorists do. It is unexcusable. But I know in the end, God will be the final judge on these people.

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One thing I learnt from the Iranian people when I travelled there was to learn to differentiate between the people and the governments that rule them. Not just because the Iranians were kind to a level beyond belief when I went pre-9/11 while even then the government was ruled by dicks but because the Iranians themselves showed me how.

I lost count of the times I was told directly to my face "I do not like what your government does but I love the British people".

Governments do not equal people especially in non-democratic countries.

Following 9/11 people globally expressed sympathy for the American people regardless of what they thought of American government actions up to that time. They all managed to tell the difference between the two. It seems that lesson passed you by. Very sad.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Yeah, it was surreal. I was watching it and thinking this can't really be happening.

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I heard it on the radio first and assumed from the initial reports that it was a doddery old fool flying his Cessna into the twin towers on a cloudy day. Then I saw the first footage with the clear deep blue skies and realised something was very wrong.

Apart from the shock and horror all I could feel was that the world would never be the same again but wasn't sure how, a very odd feeling indeed.

The sad aspect of the events 11 years ago is that very few countries were left unaffected. I know that in the Rep of Ireland that the Friday after the tragic event the country held a day of morning. It meant all business came to a halt. This tradition was carried out for a number of years but I am unsure what happens now.
I find it sad that Danicafan continues to seek approval of his horses video (tremendous) and then ignores the content of the posts issued directly to him.

Does he realize that of all the Mid-East counties polled as to their like or dislike of the US, Iran came out with seeing the US in a very favorable light. More so than any of "our allies" in the Muslim world.
I still do not understand why Israel is so important to you Danicafan.I fear Pakistan a lot more than I would Iran.

I was driving to uni when it came on the radio. I didn't catch the whole story just that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre. I thought it must have been a light plane and then promptly forgot about it. By the time I got home that day I had seen images I will never forget. My wife was 6 months pregnant with our first son and that evening we wondered what sort of world he was coming into.

We should never forget the events of 9/11. Just as we should never forget the events that caused WWII. To forget is to 'unlearn' the lessons of these tragic events and in the unlearning we are setting ourselves up for them to happen again.

All very well, so long as we leave the jingoistics out of it and never forget what "we should never forget" should really mean.

burberry