9/11/01: Never Forget.

The sky was so blue that day.

The World Trade Center is an insatiable bottom.

November already is it?

R2 the chuckle this invoked sure just confirmed my place in hell. I hope that's also full of insatiable bottoms.

Do you realize there are young adults now who don't even remember this day? Some that weren't even born when it happened?

Damn, we are living in a scary world now.

We're living in a scary world because people were born after September 2001, R5?

Your second paragraph doesn't logically follow your first.

Wow, you mean time marches on and younger people don't know and don't care? Who would have guessed.? Youth...it's sooooo scary.

[BELL RINGS]

Bring out your dead!

Your day has come, NYC. Time for the countless" I remember" posts.

Well, this is incredible video.

[quote] Well, this is incredible video.

[quote] Alas, the page you requested was not found. Probably something to do with a court order or something.

The Never Forget thing is so smug and passive aggressive. It implies that there are people who FORGET, As if.

Let's Roll.

You'd better trademark that quick, Lisa B., and have a total bitchfest with anyone who dares use it again without your paid approval. It's not like anyone ever said that before. Throw the family of that rugby queen under the bus while you're at it.

I always wonder if we’ll have a repeat performance every single 9/11.

Is this our official 9/11 thread?

This was on its iPod:

I'm over it.

Basically, I just want to hear how Trump will make it about himself in some awful upcoming series of tweets. They should be starting in about five hours.

We are preparing for the next attack.

You suck, OP.

Just a hello to a few friends I went through it with, as I do every year.

I still think Cheney planned the whole thing...I really do.

God, has it really been a year since this?

[quote]Hong Kong Protesters pause all activities In solidarity against terrorism for 9/11

This caught me off guard.

I recently rediscovered the friend I was IMing with on AOL that morning as we discovered it was happening. He was at work in DC. I was at home in Pittsburgh. Suddenly he types "Turn on your TV."

Never forget AOL IM

I will call him today, r26. Neither of us is on AOL anymore.

[quote]The World Trade Center is an insatiable bottom

With a gaping hole:

So all sons and daughters of the victims are for the first time all adults now, right?

Ah, some of the unborn ones may still be 17

Refreshing!

That memorial at the WTC is hideous and beyond ugly.

Speaking as a New Yorker who lost friends that day, I get incredibly annoyed by the whole “Never forget” thing. It’s such a stupid thing to say. I’m staying off Facebook because the griefpalooza was already in full swing yesterday. The self righteousness and thinly veiled racism will ramped up throughout the day. So many people I know just revel in this on social media; none will be found at our neighborhood memorial service tonight.

[quote]Neither of us is on AOL anymore.

Shocked.

WW for R33. Well said.

I get incredibly annoyed at people who judge how others grieve and make assumptions about their experiences while discussing their own memorial practices.

[quote]November already is it?

Only a Brit would require we use British dating conventions to discuss an American event.

... on a forum run out of the US, for extra Brittiness.

[quote]Only a Brit would require we use British dating conventions to discuss an American event.

[quote]... on a forum run out of the US, for extra Brittiness.

Rather unbrilliant, I'd say, B-G. Rather.

The only thing that is driving me nuts - and I assume it's everywhere of the like - is the funeral tones of the CNN team. It's sad. It didn't happen yesterday. Ramping up the woe cheapens it. Cover it, don't live it.

Was OP's line meant to make me snicker? Because it did.

I'm making a lasagna and taking it over to New York's house. No one wants to cook at a time like this.

About ten years ago I was teaching a lesson about Philipe Petite, the man who walked between the Twin Towers on a high wire, and one of my students blurted out that her father died on 9/11. Turns out he had, she had not yet been born so had never met him. Imagine that being the primary thing you know most about your parent.

I hate the way the deplorables have hijacked (no pun etc) 9/11 for their own racist agenda. It happened almost immediately after, with the lying about "the (obviously brown) employees of Dunkin Donuts cheering" etc type bullshit.

I do believe Cheney and Co were actively ignoring obvious signs of a threat so they could use an attack as an excuse to start a profitable war. Invading Iraq never made any sense unless you were making money from it or finishing what your old man started in the case of W. No doubt creating more enemies in the process.

Never forget it was an inside job and the perps have not been punished

DL and 9-11 is how I became acquainted with grief porn

O bullshit, they didn't give a flying fuck about Iraq. It was the PATRIOT Act, it was YOU who were their target.

The Patriot Act never would have passed if 9-11 had happened off camera.

R39 = ironyproof

What a story!

Wow. That John is hawt!

B&W:

R47 it was both. Don’t forget about the sweet, sweet black gold in the ground there!

[Quote] Only a Brit would require we use British dating conventions to discuss an American event.

The largest loss after Americans were British followed by Indians. It was an international event in terms of loss of life, beyond the politics. Many in many countries grieve on 9/11.

I fed two cats when Ground Zero was cordoned off.

[Quote] So all sons and daughters of the victims are for the first time all adults now, right?

A friend's son got his first job. Another's just entered freshman year. Both mothers remarried.

Oh, wow, R26. That caught me off-guard, and now I'm a bit misty.

How wonderful of those people who, in any language, define the word "patriot."

I so miss the days when the United States, for all its terrible faults (slavery/Jim Crow; treatment of Native Americans, Chinese, and Japanese; United Fruit Co./Latin America, etc), was a legit beacon of freedom and the belief in second chances and self-actualization.

And while, unlike Obama, I do not overestimate the intelligence or good will of Americans, I still believe in the value of this grand experiment; and also believe the world is imperiled when America is adrift--weak internationally and fighting among ourselves.

Thank you, Hong Kong. Bless you.

R33 is unhappy about "thinly veiled racism" while ignoring the fact that the Jihadis HATE us and everything about us.

Do you think there’s a big difference between “Never Forget” and “Always Remember?”

There was a notorious men's room in the WTC lower level. Lots of str8 married on their way into work.

I hope they all got out in time, R60.

I hope they all got off in time, R61.

Typical ..... some claim to bw offended by the "racism" because of 9/11 (against who? Muslims, who are NOT "a race"?) when the actual perpetrators were clearly "Racist" or more accurate, HATE-filled TERRORISTS intent on killing anyone unlike them.

I'm going to hell right with you, R62.

Save me a stool, r62 and r64.

I'm still astonished that so many dopey people liked the idea of build a shrine to Muhammud so close to where all those fanatical Muhammudans aimed to kill us.