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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:03 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:20 am
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:13 am
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:17 am
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:58 am
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Though this is a late comment, I haven't really been around much here. However, I found myself stumbling in this direction and felt an urge to post.
Five years, and the memory is forever ingraved in the minds and memories of a nation. Five years, and we're no much closer to easing a pain that still aches in the hearts of thousands. This tragedy was a hit home in more ways than one. Like my mother and her recollection of "what she was doing" when JFK was shot, I see everything I had been doing. I'm sickened that when I saw the first plane hit the World Trade Center (on the morning news) I thought it was a movie. I never once thought it could be happening. Only when the news reporter was in mid-sentance, turned as the second plane went in and said "Oh s**t, another plane just hit the World Trade Center" and the shock on his face was too real to act, I knew something was wrong. Horror then struck when the Pentagon was hit. My own mother and step-father, and now mother-in-law and father-in-law, worked in the Pentagon. More frightening, if you look at a picture of the section of the Pentagon that was hit, the top-most window on the right hand side of the hole, the VERY first window, is my Mother-In-Law's office. She was late to work that day with my Father-in-law. They were lucky.
I heard over the radio yesterday the following:
Today is September 11th. Its been five years since we were attacked. Today, remember what happened. But more importantly, remember everyday. Remember why we have our young soldiers fighting in Iraq, remember why we're still at war. Never forget today, and the lives lost in that tragic event.
My brother wa in Iraq for four months, thankfully doing only Command Control in the Green Zone. But I have a friend who was a Marine, now retired, who did 3 tours, one of which was the first group into Fallujah. He recently relapsed and went to a medical ward for a few weeks. He was a great man, and now his entire life is different from being in that war. And I'm proud when I can forward his words: "I am proud to serve my country". Even with all the nightmares, the post-traumatic distress disorder, he still believes in what he did.
Remember not just those who died yesterday, but those fighting for us today.
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:39 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:04 am
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