September 11th, 2001.

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"Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime."- Lavrentiy Beria

I never will....

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San Antonio, TX (in the old city)


"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Eli Weisel

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it." - Billy Graham 1981

"Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise" - Barry Goldwater

18 years into the fight. Just the beginning.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

eighteen years since the attack.

a long time and a blink all at once.

being a new yorker and in manhattan that day, my wife worked 4 blocks away from the towers, my kids were at two different public schools in manhattan, and i had my annual physical and was laying in a doctor's office in the midst of an ekg when my doctor's son called from his dorm room at vanderbilt to find out if his dad was okay. and that was when i found out.

i spent then next 90min literally running from the westside to the eastside to pickup the kids and get us all back to riverdale, our neighborhood in the bronx.

i didn't hear from my wife till 3pm that afternoon.

and that time of not knowing where she was felt like a long time and a blink all at once.

the american flag hangs from our terrace.

as it has on this day ever since.

rest peacefully.

rob



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I made it through nearly half the day before I realized it’s 9-11. Don’t know if that’s a sign of healing and so a good thing. Similar to Pearl Harbor or the Oklahoma City bombing (I don’t think the latter is ever remembered any more....even in the forum).

Damn that damnable day.

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rj
AKA
Vreemac, Moth of the Future

Rick Rescorla

We had a moment of remembrance at my high school today. As I looked around the room, I realized that not one student in the room was alive when it happened. They have nothing to remember (and you could see it in their disinterested faces).

For most of the adults, it was just yesterday (though even some teachers were just 4-6 years old and don't recall it).

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late

Will never forget the date, or the tragedy.

However, being from CA, and having never been to NY, and unaware of anyone personally effected by it -- I prob dont feel as deep about it as others.

I dont even think we know anyone who has lost someone in the last 18 years of "war".

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I was in NYC in late June for a wedding and had the opportunity to visit the memorial, and found myself profoundly moved. Today (as I plan to do every September 11th) I am flying a flag (purchased at the site) that was Flown over the 911 Memorial Site for a day.

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Aloha, Ken


“I have developed significant attachments to several members even though I wouldn't recognize them if I sat next to one on a park bench. I'm often tempted when in an airport to walk around, hollering "The Løpe", to see if anyone other than the Homeland Security people will acknowledge me. ” - The Løpe

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us." Justice Robert Jackson