9/11/2001

I was awakened by my dad when the second plane hit. Got to class and we never left first period. Watched both towers & #7 collaspe live. I remember the eerie thing about the following days was the suspension of all air traffic. Living in the flight path of multiple international airports made that a big deal. The quiet skies were very unsettling. I think I heard one military helicopter until they reinstated commercial flights and thats it.

I also remember when I was splitting wood in my driveway when I heard about the Columbia exploding upon reentry in 2003 and where I was when I heard "We got him" on 05-02-11

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Originally Posted by Hummer

The question to ask is why we're still fighting the same enemies in the same place 16 years later? Negotiating with the primitive scum is a fools game. Drop a thousand MOABs on every little village and encampment from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Annihilate the Taliban. Wipe them off the earth just as they murdered American citizens in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, and our soldiers in Afghanistan and beyond. That's winning, Mr. Trump.

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I'm okay with this, just as much as your first contribution to the thread.


I was also at work when I heard about a plane hitting a building...on FOX 103.5. Lewis and Floorwax show. Went into the office where there was a television, we turned it on and actually watched the second plane situation live. I remember being confused and infuriated, and then extremely concerned about the situation unfolding before my eyes. As we all know now, how bad it went after that....at the time, I was so hoping that the buildings would hold up long enough to get people out of them to safety. The jumpers and the franticly waving people hanging out of the windows clinging to hope for survival.

When the first building collapsed, my heart and gut wrenched. My eyes are welling up as I type this right now....I started thinking about all the people that I watched die, and then I thought of all the people that were trying to help them...that died. The second building went.....and I couldn't talk. I don't think I spoke to anyone for a couple of days.

It is taking some control for me to not post more now about what I think we should have done, and what we should still be doing to the responsible people and mindsets that thought this horse shit was a great idea to pull on America.

Had the TV on for local traffic as my first wife and I were getting ready for work. National news jumped in after the first plane had hit. They were yammering about stupid possibilities of why it happened...when I saw the second plane fly into the other tower. This was no accident. Transcontinental flights with large fuel loads intentionally flown into the buildings. This was an act of war.

I had a class at the Microsoft office in the Tech Center. I couldn't focus on the content. Was creepy looking at the sky normally full of air traffic and seeing none. Saw the towers fall on TV.

More people killed than at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...and people seem to have forgotten about it.

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Originally Posted by Otterbatcat

I'm okay with this, just as much as your first contribution to the thread.


I was also at work when I heard about a plane hitting a building...on FOX 103.5. Lewis and Floorwax show. Went into the office where there was a television, we turned it on and actually watched the second plane situation live. I remember being confused and infuriated, and then extremely concerned about the situation unfolding before my eyes. As we all know now, how bad it went after that....at the time, I was so hoping that the buildings would hold up long enough to get people out of them to safety. The jumpers and the franticly waving people hanging out of the windows clinging to hope for survival.

When the first building collapsed, my heart and gut wrenched. My eyes are welling up as I type this right now....I started thinking about all the people that I watched die, and then I thought of all the people that were trying to help them...that died. The second building went.....and I couldn't talk. I don't think I spoke to anyone for a couple of days.

It is taking some control for me to not post more now about what I think we should have done, and what we should still be doing to the responsible people and mindsets that thought this horse shit was a great idea to pull on America.

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I think the Saudi's should have been rolled too. We know they knew and had to be involved at some level. Not to mention they like us about as much as the Pakistani's.

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Just wondering for everyone to wonder why we are still at war in Afghanistan, since the "Iraq War" officially ended; were any of you in office or on ground in country making decisions? Politics make decisions on war and this is why it has taken so long. Since we were not allowed to target individuals in Iran, Pakistan, etc is why the war is still pursuing. Just a thought.

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Originally Posted by Shooter45

Just wondering for everyone to wonder why we are still at war in Afghanistan, since the "Iraq War" officially ended; were any of you in office or on ground in country making decisions? Politics make decisions on war and this is why it has taken so long. Since we were not allowed to target individuals in Iran, Pakistan, etc is why the war is still pursuing. Just a thought.

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We're not allowed to, in my opinion, "do it right". Too much pussy footing and feel good crap so we look as humanitarian as much as possible. I'm pretty sure this is my last post on this topic, as I feel as though we should have turned a few countries into fucking glazed over glass some time back.

It's an ideological war. Some people's ideology has no compatibility with others, and they have offered the infidels the option to convert or die.

...but we're above that and can't 'label people' because we're so civilized. [Bang]

This has repeatedly happened in history, and there's a single response that works....for a couple of centuries or so. Repeat.

America's foreign policy has been screwed up since the Korean War. In WWII there were no boundaries or limits. We fought the enemies no matter where they were. If you make war as painful as possible in all regards it will end; the enemy gives up when they learn they're village and family has been destroyed. Extending massive limits on engagement and targets only extends the pain and length of war hence our current policy. Shoot, bomb, and exterminate any enemies no matter of location or regime and the enemy will give up or die off. That is the answer just as it used to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLW0jKKRXMo Link to Kevin Cosgrove 911 call. I'll never forget this specific Man.

I will always remember the events I witnessed on this day. This whole day always upsets me even during the year when I hear people talk about how it was an inside job, holograms, missiles, actors, etc. Too many idiots with a youtube account. Then the U.S. sending so many people over there just for that dumbass in the whitehouse to let everything fall back into enemy hands. It was a huge punch to the gut when I heard Falloujah fell under ISIS control; I lost a good friend to that hell hole.

The whole situation sucks entirely and we all feel the pain. Yet again, did you go over to fight this problem Portsider86?