Why Remember 9/11?

[mavenue]

Before anyone attacks me I wanna say that I chose this title for the thread to catch peoples eye. I wasn't directly affected by the death of anyone that day but I still mourn their loss and feel deeply for all the families.

The problem I have with how we remember 9/11 comes with every single news channel. Why do they feel the need to, after five years, keep showing images of the towers on fire, the planes crashing, the towers collapsing and terrified people running for their lives.

I'm not saying we should forget the day or the people, but we shouldn't, especially those who lost someone, have to relive that day every day.

People had such a big problem with many of the movies that were released earlier in the year but the news are just as bad as those movies.

Let's celebrate and remember the lives and heroes, not the terror and horror.

 

[pjlikesporn]

Given this year's news coverage, I fear we are five years away from THE 9/11 SALE: "Ten Years, and We Will Never Forget--And Who Could Forget with these ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES?!?!"

I was downtown that day, and nothing that's been done to commemorate this anniversary--other than the simple ceremony that's done at Ground Zero every year--seems appropriate.

 

[cocktales]

Call me naive; but let's hope that even though we know the bottom line of the news agencies...........that they take the interest of the American people to heart and that terrorism is pushed to the fore-front so that we are forever aware of the threat out there!!

Whether you like/hate President Bush, his actions to deter terrorism seems to be GOOD!

Before 9-11, who'd a thought BIG ole airplanes would be used to ram into buildings..............in NY??

NEVER-MORE, say Americans and the world!!

 

[troyboy]

I think it is good that have some media coverage and discussion on the anniversary of 911 every year. But I think the media goes overboard just like they do with everything. It was covered on every news channel all day long yesterday. Despite Bush saying that he would politicise 911 in any of his speeches yesterday I sure heard a lot of politics in the speeches.

 

[irish1]

I totally agree: Let us remember the people, the victims, the heroes and the families left behind, rather than watch the horror each year.

I went into the bank yesterday, and they have a big screen t.v. turned to the New York stations. I was so surprised to see the event being rebroadcast; I hadn't expected to view this in my bank.

All the tellers, and platform manager, were watching. The mood was very melancholy.

I know that we can not watch this event without seeing the overwhelming tragedy, and ask ourselves, why?

I was born more than ten years after the Second World War. I did not experience the evil of Hitler firsthand, nor did I suffer as a soldier, a starving European, or as a Jew, Christian or Homosexual in the death camps, but I know about them because I have seen films of the torturous conditions that mankind lived through at that time.

I remember where I was when I heard about the attacks (I was in my classroom about 35 miles from ground zero).
Two men, who worked in the towers, were my neighbors, and both perished, leaving families behind. When I see the film footage, I think of them, and the beautiful families they left behind.

Yes, the press does it for ratings. I hope that, however, by seeing these films every year, that we will somehow find a reason to commit ourselves to each other, and try to understand and embrace our differences.

I do not think that this tragedy could have been avoided. Evil people always find a wasy to accomplish their goals. I travel by plane about 40 weeks per year. I feel safe when I fly, but also know that if someone wants to take a plane out of the sky, or to bomb a bridge full of commuters, or any other act of terrorism, they will find a way to accompish it.

I try to live a normal life, regardless of these events. I recall when all the people in New York were trying to restart tourism after the attacks. People were afraid to travel, and the economy of New York suffered trmendously. I hope that, as time goes on the wounds and sadness of the World Trade Centers will become less painful, and we will continue to try to rebuild the city, and to rebuild our friendships here and abroad.

Didn't mean to write so much...live in peace.

 

[NedNickerson]

One of the things you have to remember is that between New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil.

The United States is not alone. Spain also experienced terrorist attacks on the Madrid commuter train system in 2004, and London also experienced terrorist attacks on their transportation system last year.

All of those attacks injured and killed innocent civilians who were going about their lives, doing what each of us do every day, the normal routine of our lives. Who would have imagined that we could be sitting at our desk doing our job and a jet airliner would come slamming into the side of our office building.

Also, not to mention the poor passengers on those airliners, as well as the passengers on those trains and subways and buses... We all have a right to expect to get up in the morning and go about our normal routine and make it safely to our destination in the afternoon.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0802/p04s01-wogi.html

An Al Qaeda timeline
1988:
Osama Bin Laden establishes Al Qaeda ("the base") to channel arms and funds to the anti-Soviet Afghan resistance.

1989-1991:
Bin Laden becomes involved in movements opposing the Saudi monarchy, fueled by the kingdom's acceptance of US troops after Iraq invaded Kuwait.

1996:
Bin Laden joins the Taliban in Afghanistan as they seize Kabul. He now has a base for his training operations.

AUG. 7, 1998:
East African attacks: Nearly simultaneous car bombings hit US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 224 on the anniversary of the Saudi King's 1991 invitation to US troops to defend his country from Iraq.

OCT. 12, 2000:
Suicide bombers ram the USS Cole off Yemen, killing 17.

SEPT. 11, 2001:
Al Qaeda hijackers fly jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, while a fourth hijacked jet crashes in a Pennsylvania field. Nearly 3,000 are killed.

OCT. 12, 2002:
In an attack blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian group linked to Al Qaeda, 202 are killed bombing on the Indonesian island of Bali.

2003 through present:
Iraq becomes a locus for radical Islamists, as insurgents battle the fledgling Iraqi government and the US-led forces that ousted Saddam Hussein. A key mastermind, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, aligns himself with Al Qaeda.

MARCH 11, 2004:
Bombs hit four commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people and injuring more than 1,600. Attacks are blamed on Islamic militants with suspected ties to Al Qaeda.

JULY 7, 2005:
A group calling itself the Secret Organization of Al Qaeda in Europe claims responsibility for bus and subway bombings in London that killed 56 people. Two weeks later another coordinated London subway bombing is attempted.

 

[Ddouble]

This is why we remember:

http://www.bentblog.com/heroes.swf