Just wondering what everyone is doing to mark the one year anniverary of that infamous day??

Go to school as usual. Not think of it. To resume normal life is to defeat terror.

I am going to work.. well, having my daily life. remembering the fallen ones and the heroes... but living life. it goes on...

Our office has organised a one min silence for the time the first plane hit tommorrow. It is about 13:36 UK time.

i'm going to a candlelight vigil tomorow night on campus.

Im going to get on with my life.

Same thing I`m gonna do today, maybe have a drink if I`ve got time.

Moment of silence at school.

I love this.. something horrible happens, according to just about every damn idiotic american, and people have an anniversary for it?

yeah, lets celebrate that some people fucking died! WHOOOO
GO OSAMA GO!
oh.. wait.. you aren't celebrating that.. wait.. you are! You're celebrating that he actually succeeded with a shitty plan!

Alright! WE LOVE YOU OSAMA!

I received this in an e-mail and it touched me.

perhaps I am sentimental, but it seems quite appropriate.




WHOEVER WROTE THIS SHOULD STEP FORWARD AND CLAIM
> > THIS POEM. THE WORDS ARE VERY POWERFUL
> > TWO THOUSAND ONE, NINE ELEVEN (2001-911)
> >
> > Two thousand one, nine eleven
> > Three thousand plus arrive in heaven
> > As they pass through the gate,
> > Thousands more appear in wait
> > A bearded man with stovepipe hat
> > Steps forward saying, "Lets sit, lets chat"
> >
> > They settle down in seats of clouds
> > A man named Martin shouts out proud
> > "I have a dream!" and once he did
> > The Newcomer said, "Your dream still lives."
> >
> > Groups of soldiers in blue and gray
> > Others in khaki, and green then say
> > "We're from Bull Run, Yorktown, the Maine"
> > The Newcomer said, "You died not in vain."
> >
> > From a man on sticks one could hear
> > "The only thing we have to fear.
> > The Newcomer said, "We know the rest,
> > trust us sir, we've passed that test."
> >
> > "Courage doesn't hide in caves
> > You can't bury freedom, in a grave,"
> > The Newcomers had heard this voice before
> > A distinct Yankees twang from Hyannisport shores
> >
> > A silence fell within the mist
> > Somehow the Newcomer knew that this
> > Meant time had come for her to say
> > What was in the hearts of the five thousand plus
> > that day
> >
> > "Back on Earth, we wrote reports,
> > Watched our children play in sports
> > Worked our gardens, sang our songs
> > Went to church and clipped coupons
> > We smiled, we laughed, we cried, we fought
> > Unlike you, great we're not"
> >
> > The tall man in the stovepipe hat
> > Stood and said, "Don't talk like that!
> > Look at your country, look and see
> > You died for freedom, just like me"
> >
> > Then, before them all appeared a scene
> > Of rubbled streets and twisted beams
> > Death, destruction, smoke and dust
> > And people working just 'cause they must
> >
> > Hauling ash, lifting stones,
> > Knee deep in hell, but not alone
> > "Look! Blackman, Whiteman, Brownman, Yellowman
> > Side by side helping their fellow man!"
> >
> > So said Martin, as he watched the scene
> > "Even from nightmares, can be born a dream."
> >
> > Down below three firemen raised
> > The colors high into ashen haze
> > The soldiers above had seen it before
> > On Iwo Jima back in '44
> >
> > The man on sticks studied everything closely
> > Then shared his perceptions on what he saw mostly
> > "I see pain, I see tears,
> > I see sorrow -- but I don't see fear."
> >
> > "You left behind husbands and wives
> > Daughters and sons and so many lives
> > are suffering now because of this wrong
> > But look very closely. You're not really gone.
> >
> > All of those people, even those who've never met
> > you
> > All of their lives, they'll never forget you
> > Don't you see what has happened?
> > Don't you see what you've done?
> > You've brought them together, together as one.
> >
> > With that the man in the stovepipe hat said
> > "Take my hand," and from there he led
> > three thousand plus heroes, Newcomers to heaven
> > On this day, two thousand one, nine eleven
> >
> > Author UNKNOWN
> >
> > DON'T KEEP SUCH MEANINGFUL WORDS AND
> > FEELINGS TO YOURSELF
> > PASS THIS ONE ALONG

A message that does not just pertain to that date... but to our daily lives.

And by the way, darkness doesn't necessarily mean evil...

Damn, and I thought I didn't have a life....

I will be staying home and watching the news. I would much rather hear about this from people who were really there than the idiots that will be droning on about it in school.

Let me give you the info on it.

A guy ordered some men to hijack planes and crash them into buildings.

They did so

People died.

People are still talking about it.

And this happened a year ago! Dear god that was so fucking long ago I can't believe it! man.. no wonder you have to stay around and watch news to see what happened... so long.. so long..

dude, john... how do you honestly expect americans to react to the anniversary of the single largest attack on america that our generations have seen?

:news flash:
..it's a big deal..


our company is having a large breakfast for everyone and they've told everyone to watch the memorials on the televisions in our conference rooms for most of the morning.

How is it a big deal? PEOPLE DIE EVERY FUCKING DAY!

Thousands upon thousands every single year.. and I mean thousands!

And because some people got sloppy and wound up killing a few thousand people everyone is "celebrating" the damn day, since that is what they are doing, they are doing shit in "remembrance", which is idiotic since it would only deepen the damn wound, since it would remind the person about what happened.

That's why I don't give a damn for pearl harbor day, though that in itself is pretty stupid... and what about oklahoma day? For that building in oklahoma which got blown up?

I know... why don't we celebrate Holocaust day, for all of the jews who got killed by hitler and the germans, plus the non-jews.. and others.

Oh oh oh! I have a better idea! We can celebrate Nuke the Japs day!

yep.....america is a great place isn't is....where thousands of ppl die.....and ppl have attitudes like that.....that's sad


im only gonna do my part.....im going to remember....

i'm liking the 'nuke the japs day' idea... but back to the point, people have been remembering or celebrating days in history since civilization began. that's what began the cycle of history in the first place; some old guy in a village gathering everyone up to tell them about the day tuk-terk battled the giant horned beast and died saving his village. there were a lot of people that died sitting at their desks that day, but there were also a lot of hero's that died that day rescuing survivors of that terrorist attack. just because you shut everything out and deny that the day means anything doesn't mean that everyone else should follow suit. september 11th effected america whether it effected you or not and almost every american that isn't struck with some delusional anti-9.11 campaign is going to take a minute out of their day to pay respect to those that died.

My atittude is quite fine, because, unlike most people, I don't like emotions constantly cloud my judgement. I would much rather waste my time pestering people like you guys, then wasting my time "remembering" that a bunch of people got killed.

blah.. arsinik posted when I did.. anywho...

Let me point out something:

Gravestones are for the living, not the dead. We do these things because we are too weak of mind to let go that which has long since left us.

you need to lay off the kung-fu master rhetoric and come to grips with the fact that people mean something to other people.