I understand today is 9/11 and that many lost their loved ones on that fateful day, and I'm fully aware that anytime I turn on the news I'm going to see a remembrance of those who died, Wall Street Executives, Janitors, Firefighters, and many others. Why yes it is Sad, and these people do need to be remembered, let's please not look at this as an event in the past that is 'over and done with' it's not.

Sadly we are STILL dealing with the after-effects of this event, but we don't talk about. While reading the names of the 3,000 lost this day in 2001, no one will read the names of the 2,200+ lives of our military that have been lost since, 7 of those this year alone.

Today you will hear about the names of the victims of that day, the names of their families, their ages, and testimonies from people of all walks of life.

You will not hear testimonies from Military families who are attending funerals to say goodbye to their loved ones THIS year. Those who gave up their lives in hopes of preventing another attack like this.

So I challenge everyone, while they are remembering the lost lives from this event, for you to remember that the death-toll from this event is not over, and still-climbing, remember the past lives, but also please remember the present lives being taken too soon as well.

Your myopic view of one event is subjective the history of all people is one of slaughter, pestilence, famine, genocide, disease all killing so many and that is the history of man! Each century so many killed in the name of some new ism, all resulting in pain, anguish, and suffering for those who manage to escape and survive...Human sacrifice is the normal state of mans brutality in spite of enormous efforts to the contrary....

I call ********.


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On this day in 1940, Adolf Hitler sends German army and air force reinforcements to Romania to protect precious oil reserves and to prepare an Eastern European base of operations for further assaults against the Soviet Union.
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Your 5k versus the Millions that Died on the Eastern Front.
9/11 diligaf.
That Day, Normal Citizens started to become "potential enemies of the state"

I need to write this down for next year..

9-11 should be remembered for human brutality and Hitlers troop maneuvers.

Got it.

I have another to add to my list...

The Bin Laden crane collapsing on the grand mosque in Mecca...

Oh the irony...

That's awesome! Gotta love irony!


And OP, I appreciate the thread's sentiment. Frick the haters

few people lose loved ones easily , whether its from street crime, in the line of duty, or a car accident

people remember their loved ones and the dates that relate to them,,,

personal losses usually seem just a bit more PUNGENT than losses that are more removed

I remember this day for the birth of my son,,,, dates dont always hold the same significance to everyone ,, and thats ok

ty for paying homage to soldiers who lose their lives performing their jobs, while STILL paying homage to those who died in the tower attacks,,,, we can remember more than one thing for more than one reason,,,,

I saw that in the news. Quite bizarre.

I do respect & admire the U.S. troops and never forget their sacrifice.

It seems like my first reply to your comment was not politically correct enough for Mingle. It's been deleted, but I won't blame anyone, we all have a job to do. So here we go with another more 'diplomatic' reply.
During the second world war the USA sent thousands of their own people to help us out. We would have been deep in the proverbial without them.
So ask yourself a question, if, and its a big if, going by your statement, but if, you were in power, and all of a sudden another world war breaks out, would you send thousands of your fellow Country men to help out someone else.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Hey! missed you! how you been?

Isaac, I'm good, life is treating me well, I hope the same applies to you.

yep it is, still with the same girl I was with when you left...what about you? you find that special someone yet?

Yeah, I saw reports of the Mecca crane accident. I'm sure the cleric at the mosque has a head spinning right now at a high enough RPM to make table legs.

Crane falls from the sky during Friday prayer. It's September 11th. How much does Allah want you whacked that he drops a crane on your head while at mosque? In Islam it's all God's will, so obviously you and Allah had a disagreement, and you lost.

Now the cleric has to wonder, how bad a mullah do I have to be that Allah turns 100+ of my flock into raspberry tile grout...WITH A CRANE!!! Not the usual Semtex suicide vest under the dish dasha, or a car bomb for mosque redecorating, but a freakin' crane.

Ooooooh how I soooo want the crane to come from a company in New York or Pennsylvania. I am sure there are already conspiracy theories that the Israelis sabotaged it, or that American agents planted nano-thermite charges to melt the steel...

Anyway, on the one hand I'm sure their families are devastated by their losses, and so on purely humanitarian grounds, sorry for your loss. As a fan of irony however, I can't think of a more perfect karmic event except for the crane taking down a plane into the mosque, but that would have been asking a lot of the universe.

Poetic Justice on 9/11 ain't it?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/crane-collapse-meccas-grand-mosque-kills-least-107-people-n425891

no such luck!

The German-made crane involved in the incident is operated by the Saudi Binladen Group, who are heading the expansion of the Grand Mosque and also responsible for a huge amount of major building contracts in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Binladen Group is the second largest construction company in the world and was founded by Osama Bin Laden's billionaire father Mohammed.[1][19]WIKI

Thank you Isaac.

Look around you, and ask yourself if the human species is worth saving at all.

The way i see it, it�s always the small ones following orders of the Big ones.

Hitler�s Soldiers follow Hitler.
Stalin�s Soldiers follow Stalin.
Expand the list at your own pleasure.

what i would do, i would put the leaders of the world in one room.
and Blow it up if some issues (world hunger, peace in the middle east, Nukes, Plastic in the ocean) are not resolved by midnight.

That way, nobody sends anyone to die over strips of land and wreak havor on this planet.

or simpler yet, if i were in charge, i would unleash all the nukes.
This planet does not need Humans. It�ll do fine without us and our Madness.

There are no friends, indeed.

speak for yourself,Sunshine!