BiBottomBoy Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 I think I'll be watching the CNN coverage and playing "The Rising" - what about you guys? Quote
Guest EXPAT Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 I personally will be avoiding all of the TV specials etc. I just don't want to see it all again. I will probably go to a movie. Quote
Guest hitoallusa Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 I might have a tea party.. not that Tea Party.. at home. Try to figure out what to bake. Thought about inviting people for dinner but that's too much work. Quote
Members RA1 Posted September 8, 2011 Members Posted September 8, 2011 "Recovering" from the week past and getting ready for the next week. I have already personally relived the horror of the US being attacked in the lead-up to the anniversary. I am aware. I know what happened. I am continuously sad and sorry about it all. I need no further reminders, at the moment. If I happen to be flying on 9/11/11,I will be keenly interested in whatever the controllers and other pilots have to say, if any thing. I expect very little. Grief among pilots is personal and usually quiet. Retribution is always noisy and continuing. Best regards, RA1 Quote
Guest JamesIvory Posted September 8, 2011 Posted September 8, 2011 Remembering ... watching football. I really don't want to watch over and over again the tragic events of that day. The only special I have an interest in is on CNN called Footnotes. It appears to be interviews with people in the background that day. Like the ticket agent who checked in some of the terrorist or the Coast Guard pilot who was ordered to shoot down a passenger plane. I feel their memories will be a different perspective. Quote
Members Lucky Posted September 9, 2011 Members Posted September 9, 2011 Is the huge power blackout in San Diego a harbinger of Sunday? 1.4 million people have lost power in an (so far) unexplained blackout... Quote
Members BigK Posted September 9, 2011 Members Posted September 9, 2011 I'm flying. Have done it a number of times on purpose. Quote
Members BigK Posted September 9, 2011 Members Posted September 9, 2011 I'm flying. Have done it a number of times on purpose. Quote
Members BigK Posted September 9, 2011 Members Posted September 9, 2011 I'm flying. Have done it a number of times on purpose. Quote
Members OneFinger Posted September 9, 2011 Members Posted September 9, 2011 I'll actually be flying on 9/11. It's not going to be a long flight and the cities aren't a real popular route. Hopefully, nothing will happen. I am curious to see some of the many programs / remembrances. It was such a monumental event that I welcome a look-back with the benefit of 10 years of additional data. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted September 9, 2011 Author Posted September 9, 2011 I cannot imagine what a pain in the ass airport security will be like Sunday. Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted September 9, 2011 Members Posted September 9, 2011 I personally will be avoiding all of the TV specials etc. I just don't want to see it all again. I will probably go to a movie. Ditto except I will probably order in. Quote
Guest Hoover42 Posted September 10, 2011 Posted September 10, 2011 I'll be going to see the new movie, "Contagion" Too bad I don't have a cute guy to bring along with me Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted September 11, 2011 Author Posted September 11, 2011 Rent one! Escorts like movies too! Quote
Members BigK Posted September 12, 2011 Members Posted September 12, 2011 I cannot imagine what a pain in the ass airport security will be like Sunday. It was a breeze (San Francisco). Asked if I needed to take my belt off as usual and TSA said does it usually set off detector, I said no so he said leave it on. Didn't inspect my CPAP machine as usual. Quote
Guest hitoallusa Posted September 12, 2011 Posted September 12, 2011 Listened to the memorial service and I almost cried. Rest in peace. I hope this kind of tragedy doesn't happen again. God bless America. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted September 12, 2011 Author Posted September 12, 2011 I almost cried too - but only because Paul Simon played and I can't stand hippy shit. Quote
Members JKane Posted September 12, 2011 Members Posted September 12, 2011 I read touching stories about the day, as experienced by New Yorkers, on both Joe My God and Bill In Exile, teared up a little at both, but firmly agree with the sentiment Scott ended his piece with: Editors note: I’m going to use this tenth anniversary to make this the last time I post about 9/11 during the life of this blog. As a nation we’ve wasted and corrupted anything good that might have come from this horror and the annual rolling out of the tears and hand ringing and rending of garments on this date have simply become too much to stomach. The people who died ten years ago today in New York City, Washington D.C and Shanksville Pennsylvania deserve to rest in peace and to be mourned and remembered by their families and loved ones. But this country no longer has any right to use them as its own national martyrs. We forfeited that right long ago. As Paul Krugman wrote in his NY Times blog this morning, “The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons. A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity? The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted September 13, 2011 Author Posted September 13, 2011 On many levels the terrorists won. Quote
Members Lucky Posted September 13, 2011 Members Posted September 13, 2011 On many levels the terrorists won. And what does that mean? Because we spend billions to defend against a phantom enemy? Or are the terrorists now ruling Milwaukee? Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted September 13, 2011 Author Posted September 13, 2011 Their goal was to hurt our economy and force us to limit our own freedoms while dividing our government. That's what bin Ladin said a week after the attacks. In what way have they not accomplished those goals? Quote
Members Lucky Posted September 13, 2011 Members Posted September 13, 2011 Is that what he said? The first part I can find, but not the second one: November 01, 2004 The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group's goal is to force America into bankruptcy. Al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday but released the full transcript of the entire tape on its Web site Monday. "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript. He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, "using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers." "We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," bin Laden said. He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration." *** Or maybe it was this: Bin Laden's Goal: Kill 4 Million Americans Stewart Stogel, NewsMax.com Wednesday, July 14, 2004 Quote
Members RA1 Posted September 13, 2011 Members Posted September 13, 2011 It doesn't matter what Bin Laden said or thought, we have lost many of our freedoms and in that regard, the terrorists have "won". I repeat my theme about US citizens taking responsibility for whatever happens to each and every one of us within the limits of their physical abilities. The TSA can be reduced to checking for metal and virtually nothing else, IF each and every passenger would take the responsibility of preventing any hijacking or terrorist activities. This would be similar to asking and requiring the persons sitting at the emergency exits IF they can and will assume the responsibility of opening the exit and helping others get out, if required. This is something we all can do. As far as using the destruction of the twin towers to enrage or attract the populace for action, I only have this to say: No real pilot who was alive at the time of the attacks on US, the citizens of the USA, will every forget that they used American airliners to perpetrate their awful activities. We take it personally and always will. Best regards, RA1 Quote
