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Posted by: zepequeno 2 years agoA national ad campaign being launched on Thursday features the stories of people who remember where they were when they heard of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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joeblowe
Aug. 31, 2006, 12:22 p.m.They are looking for money to finance a memorial? What happened to all the previous donations and the insurance money? If my house burns down, my insurance company will (supposedly) put it right back the way it was. There should be two nice shiney new towers built there by now. Maybe built a little BETTER, but pretty much the same...
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dandt1612
Aug. 31, 2006, 12:43 p.m.Funny this would come out before elections.? Hmm
We must not forget what happened but, we also have to move on.
Shame on anyone that uses this tragic event ever again for political gain.
I think it has been abused enough!
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Herculeez
Aug. 31, 2006, 12:46 p.m.i totally totally agree with tese two comments. definitely kudos to ya two!! points for originality for sure!!! and georgie give me 100 more pushups while yer at it. why the ****** you cant sling an m16 around your shoulder and go help out the marines? why not yer 2 daughters? this aristocracry bullshit in america is old. people like bush and others in his circle need to give back society. i say bring back the draft a nd draft females too. females want all the equality well then let them serve their country for a year before college too. thagt means the two lil bushies would be eligible for service too. just like in israel where women have to serve for 2 years as well.
my wife works for a 911 widow who was well off before 911 and now she is even more well off. she even has a book out now. talk about milking 911 even the survivors are milking it.
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ItsMe
Aug. 31, 2006, 12:49 p.m.I was on my way to work that morning when the first tower was hit and took it as an accident. A few minutes later at work I watched as the second tower went down.
Why did these survivors of relatives get such huge settlements? People are killed every day driving, flying, etc and they don't get everything these survivors did. How much did the Oklahoma City survivors and their families get? Our government kind of went wild with this retrubition.
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Rubes
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:02 p.m.All this news about it is because the 5 year anniversary is coming up.
I think that we must respect the survivors in our comments. Unless you are a survivor you have no idea what they went through (as far as that morning). Of course people can understand how they feel because many have lost a loved one in accidents, some more tragic than others.
Could you imagine speaking with your spouse or son that was on flight 73 or stuck in the second tower after the first one collapsed? Knowing this would be the last time you heard from them.
But to throw out blanket statements like "even the survivors are milking it"(which some are- but not the majority) or "who the **** cares where you were"....
Who cares what they got in settlements, if you are worried about that go buy a heavty life insurance policy on your self and your family.
Please. I agree, we must move on, but show a little respect.
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smokeyhustler
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:13 p.m.Man, im from Oklahoma City, felt the blast while sitting in math class, and watched the following weeks as friends of mine shed tears for their loved ones who were killed in that horrible explosion. Some of which even lost their parents in the blast.
Did they get enormous retributions?
I like your comment hurculeez, not a lot of people writting books after surviving that one!
By the way, anyone who wants to see how a memorial should look should come down here and see ours. They did a woderful and very respectful job on it!
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Rubes
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:27 p.m.I was in Italy and saw the whole thing. I remember riding the bus home from my friends house ... wondering if the other people had any idea yet of what had happened.
What a horrible day..
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camilleyun
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:43 p.m.The purpose of a Memorial (for anything) is to prompt people to remember certain events with reverence and respect - what better way to reach people and attempt to compel them than to ask them to recall the personal experiences of that day.
I don't see any politics here - just a marketing tool.
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dandt1612
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:49 p.m.luvmyprez,
I did read the story. And I know the Anniversary is coming up. I hope that a lot of money is raised for the memorial and would love to see something beautiful come out of such a tragic event.
Sorry if I am alittle suspicious anymore can't help it.
I watched the 2nd plane crash into the 2nd building on live TV on GMA and set there crying for a while and was glued to the tube for days and days. It was an awful day. Peace
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pharmmonkey
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:49 p.m.i remember like ti was yesterday i was with my grandfather at a auto shop waiting to pick my car up from being fixied when this all went down. sad really the thought that so many people lost someone they loved or family or friends. they will not be forgotten.
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the_pimpinest_pimp
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:51 p.m.I was getting ready for my first day of 8th Grade. When I saw it I thought it was just an accident.
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zonkra
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:53 p.m.I wonder if President Bush will respond to this, like "Well, I was reading "My Pet Goat" to these schoolkids, and I about fell over when I was told that what I'd been warned about so many times had happened, but hey, I was on vacation. I just kept on reading "My Pet Goat" and waited for them to put me on AF1 and take me down the bunny hole. Later, I realized I'd won the trifecta, and told 'em that. They just looked at me funny, but they always do."
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NoSpinDave
Aug. 31, 2006, 1:54 p.m.some of the comments from the left on this article are AMAZING. You people need SERIOUS help.
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Twistoflex
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:04 p.m.I was in Atlantic City. My girlfriend turned to me and said, "This is what you were warning me about." For several months I had been warning friends, relatives and investors in online chat rooms to expect colossal urban terrorist attacks on US soil. I also warned that the Dumbya dictatorship was aware of the imminent threat and might even be complicit in the attacks. In any event, the Dumbya dictatorship would welcome the attacks as a way of reversing the political fortunes of an illegitimate and failed administration. This is exactly what happened.
There was no clairvoyance involved in my prediction. It was simply an objective conclusion I had reached from observing the behavior of the junta and the high profile plausible deniability campaign that was conducted for months by the National Security Agency.
We need a criminal investigation into the 9/11 attacks conducted by an Independent Special Prosecutor and Grand Jury with unlimited judicial subpoena power.
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Dsb2k6
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:12 p.m."We need a criminal investigation into the 9/11 attacks conducted by an Independent Special Prosecutor and Grand Jury with unlimited judicial subpoena power."
We do need that badly, but that would be like letting the cops search your car when you know you have a kilo of cocaine in the trunk. It aint gonna happen.
I was sitting on my couch excersizing my civil liberties when the government decided to blow up the trade center. I remember thinking, damn, that huge building fell down because of fire. Thats incredible.
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Dsb2k6
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:17 p.m.At the time I was ready to enlist, and I am damn glad I didnt. I woulda been down for going after the people who caused it, but not down for invading Iraq for no apparent reason. Of course, if I were to go after the people who caused it I would be charged with treason.
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dcharti
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:17 p.m.Ooh, and to go along with the campaign we need "Where were you" commemorative t-shirts - only $25.99! Ooh, and a "how did you hear the news" compilation CD box set with radio interviews and a new hit single from Beyoncé and Garth Brooks, sponsored by Marlborough and Coca-Cola - only $49.99! Let's also not forget the limited-print memorial commemorative plate and matching coffee mug set......
This was a tragedy where thousands lost their lives, not a PR extravaganza.
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CommonSense50
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:19 p.m.I remember 911, JFK and Challenter. 911-was in my office when a trader said the first tower was hit, went out to the floor and we all watched in a very stunned slience the rest of the disaster unfold. JFK-was home ill that day from school, watched the whole thing on TV, Challenger-was watching on TV when it went, better than my hustand who was a engineer in the launch room on site.
Horrors happen to us and should not be forgotten, each generation unfortunately, has their "own" disaster to remember and each of them should be. Memorials should comfort those that survive and give awareness to those that come after.
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Twistoflex
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:29 p.m.Dsb2k6,
You're right and that's a good analogy. The only way that we'll see a criminal investigation into the worst crimes against Americans ever inflicted on US soil is if Americans emphatically demand a Constitutional Amendment providing for Independent Non-Political Criminal Investigations with unlimited judicial subpoena power any time the nation is attacked and to make it retroactive to 9/11/01.
Dumbya apologists would do everything possible to obstruct such efforts. The truth is neither of the corrupt monopoly parties would really want to see this because such investigations would reveal plenty of unclean hands.
Most Americans' "knowledge" of 9/11 consists of sound bites from the propaganda ministries. But there is an increasing faction of Americans who are understanding that the vast body of corroborated prima facie, circumstantial and whatever physical evidence survived reveals that the gov'ts conspiracy theory doesn't add up and much worse.
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C-dog
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:30 p.m."Where were you?" is just another distraction from "What's happened since then?"
The world is more dangerous. The Bush administration has created a hotbed of terrorist training in Iraq. And Osama bin Laden is alive and well in Pakistan and urging on his followers to evermore destructive acts.
In the wake of the inevitable, fake and crocodile-teary "Where Were You?"-type bulls--t we'll see over the next few weeks on mainstream media, watch for the Bush administration and its gas-bag apologists trying to hammer home their specious "argument" that if we leave Iraq "they'll" follow us home.
If we really want to honor the dead of 9-11 we *won't* make it all about how sad/bewildered/scared we felt that day. BUT will demand that the government stop banging its head against the wall in a country that had nothing to do with 9-11 or WMDs. And *demand* that we spend the next half-trillion dollars on making the homeland *really* secure. Not with empty, divisive mendacity but real action.
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sage1
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:31 p.m.the sorrow of that day shall live in all of our hearts. i was leaving a friends house in shock. got on the bus people didnt even know what had gone on, it was like i was in a daze. being from NY and having friends who worked either in or near the buildings. i with desperation tried to call people on my cell phone but could not get through. although it was a clear and sunny morning in Cali, it had seemed the sutt form the collapsing towers had clouded the world. the image of falling bodies seered in my mind. i happened to be wearring a tee shirt of the NY sky line. a sky line forever changed. i got home and watched the news still in disbelief wondering when the president would make an address.
since that day though, with all of the speculations that have come out what i find to be trully sad is we may not knkow what really happend. i agree we do need a criminal investigation conducted by an independent pros. that might be more meaningful than a memorial
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zonkra
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:32 p.m.Glad you liked it, lump. The second part goes like this: "So, when I got on the plane I called my dad, and he's like going, 'You dumba**! I told you morons if you told the Taliban we'd bomb them if they didn't let us put in that Black Sea pipeline was a bad idea. Now we've got that Bin Laden kid as ticked off at us as the Soviets, and they weren't even camped out by Mecca! Did you think Tenet was just blowing smoke when he told Condi he thought that headcase might use airliners? Good Gawd. Your mother was right about you and Jebbie being mildly retarded. She said that clear back in Midland, but I didn't listen because I was too busy toting Nixon's freight with the Shah over in Iran. Now you're messing with them again, too! I'd rather see you drinking again than doing that cr*p!"
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zonkra
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:38 p.m."So I called up mom, and I said, 'Mom, dad's doing it again! Would you tell him I'm the decider this time? So she says, 'Okay, Junior, but don't you go doing something really dumb like sending black people to Houston if there's a hurricane or something.' So, I said, 'Okay, mom, but don't you go saying something like they're getting too uppity if I do!"
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CommonSense50
Aug. 31, 2006, 2:44 p.m.luvmyprez, thank you. We have to live each day anew and look forward, but the past should not be let go or forgotten, it is a part of what makes each of us who we are, as indivdiuals, communities and as a nation.
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