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in memoriam
Topic Started: Dec 7 2007, 01:26 AM (267 Views)
bachophile
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That is quite a shot of the memorial.. I've not seen it from that angle before.
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Having lived through 9/11, my imagination is better suited to appreciate the horror of that day.
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bachophile
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as i posted it, i was actually thinking about whether 9/11 displaced 12/7/41 as the day which lives in infamy.

nontheless, i see the day america entered ww2 as the day that the struggle between good and evil began in earnest.

and now, one evil fell, and others also, but new ones will always come and be happy to fill the role.
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We'll never be able to live blissfully in the isolation of the oceans again.
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as i posted it, i was actually thinking about whether 9/11 displaced 12/7/41 as the day which lives in infamy.


Probably in some ways, that is true.
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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Check it out.

I promise the videos will bring you to tears.
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RosemaryTwo
Dec 7 2007, 08:47 AM
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as i posted it, i was actually thinking about whether 9/11 displaced 12/7/41 as the day which lives in infamy.


Probably in some ways, that is true.

Yeah, I wonder what %age of today's (American) 18 year-olds know the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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jon-nyc
Dec 7 2007, 11:08 AM

Yeah, I wonder what %age of today's (American) 18 year-olds know the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

interesting thought. But that is the way of history, isn't it?

It makes "sick" people like me wonder what horror could possibly displace 9/11.
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I had a boss once who went to the memorial and saw some Japanese tourists taking pictures and smiling for the camera and laughing.
She said, "how would you like it if I had my picture taken in front of a mushroom cloud?"
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kenny
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Hasn't lots of yucky stuff been happening since the days of rocks and arrowhead weapons?
Everyone wants more.
I do.

Those with the best rocks and arrowheads have always gotten it.
Then they get to write their children's history books and pretend to be pure, selfless and right.
Rah Rah Rah for our group! :rolleyes2:

Sameo Sameo. :yawn:
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Phlebas
Dec 7 2007, 09:34 AM
I had a boss once who went to the memorial and saw some Japanese tourists taking pictures and smiling for the camera and laughing.
She said, "how would you like it if I had my picture taken in front of a mushroom cloud?"

This may not have been all that it appears. Asians generally laugh to cover up embarassment or uncomfortableness. It may have just been a cultural thing with out any disrespect.
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Dec 7 2007, 08:27 AM
Phlebas
Dec 7 2007, 09:34 AM
I had a boss once who went to the memorial and saw some Japanese tourists taking pictures and smiling for the camera and laughing.
She said, "how would you like it if I had my picture taken in front of a mushroom cloud?"

This may not have been all that it appears. Asians generally laugh to cover up embarassment or uncomfortableness. It may have just been a cultural thing with out any disrespect.

Thanks for the explanation. It was most likely a culture clash. My ex-boss' mother came from Poland with a number tattooed on her arm, so she was fairly sensitive about WWII.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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jon-nyc
Dec 7 2007, 09:08 AM
RosemaryTwo
Dec 7 2007, 08:47 AM
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as i posted it, i was actually thinking about whether 9/11 displaced 12/7/41 as the day which lives in infamy.


Probably in some ways, that is true.

Yeah, I wonder what %age of today's (American) 18 year-olds know the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

This is true. When the number of eyewitness people gets less and less, events begin to lose their impact. The same will happen with September 11th in the future.

In Taiwan, we have the 10-28 incident that happened many years ago. I dont know if it has lost its importance, but it has faded from immediate memory for many.
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kenny
Dec 7 2007, 10:11 AM
Hasn't lots of yucky stuff been happening since the days of rocks and arrowhead weapons?
Everyone wants more.
I do.

Those with the best rocks and arrowheads have always gotten it.
Then they get to write their children's history books and pretend to be pure, selfless and right.
Rah Rah Rah for our group! :rolleyes2:

Sameo Sameo. :yawn:

Yeah, ain't it the truth. Why, those American sailors and soldiers had been raping the Orient and killing babies for years...thak God for the Japanese...
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This is true. When the number of eyewitness people gets less and less, events begin to lose their impact. The same will happen with September 11th in the future.


What's interesting to watch, though, is how TV will change history. We have amazing footage of 9/11, like we have never had before. Watching these videos may keep generations of young students engaged in the way that a text book fails.



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