Comments on: Thoughts on 9/11 http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:27:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: twolf1 http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288440 twolf1 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:53:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288440 <p><a href="#comment-288433"><em>tommy yum @ 320</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Well. Who’s up for a drink?</p></blockquote> <p>make it a double</p> tommy yum @ 320

Well. Who’s up for a drink?

make it a double

]]> By: Valley Girl http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288439 Valley Girl Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:52:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288439 <p>DefJef- right place right time would be when emotions weren’t running so high and it was actually possible for people to listen outside the box.</p> DefJef- right place right time would be when emotions weren’t running so high and it was actually possible for people to listen outside the box.

]]> By: Millineryman http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288438 Millineryman Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:52:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288438 <p><a href="#comment-288433"><em>tommy yum @ 311</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Well. Who’s up for a drink?</p></blockquote> <p>I’ll have a double, straight up</p> tommy yum @ 311

Well. Who’s up for a drink?

I’ll have a double, straight up

]]> By: windje http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288437 windje Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:52:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288437 <p><a href="#comment-288425"><em>Boudica @ 302</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>I don’t think Merrill had any floors in in the WTC, weren’t they in Weehawkin, NJ? But Morgan Stanley, yes.</p></blockquote> <p>Merrill was primarily in the WFC across West Street.</p> Boudica @ 302

I don’t think Merrill had any floors in in the WTC, weren’t they in Weehawkin, NJ? But Morgan Stanley, yes.

Merrill was primarily in the WFC across West Street.

]]> By: *ilson46201 http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288436 *ilson46201 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:51:47 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288436 <p>Tom — you have been posting the same info and links for months now in here. We asked you nicely tonight to stop it. You refused. You spammed, You shapeshifted. You called us Nazis. You are a disrupter …</p> <p>STFU as other moderators so eloquently asked you …</p> Tom — you have been posting the same info and links for months now in here. We asked you nicely tonight to stop it. You refused. You spammed, You shapeshifted. You called us Nazis. You are a disrupter …

STFU as other moderators so eloquently asked you …

]]> By: Anne http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288434 Anne Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:51:34 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288434 <p>New York was not the sole site of tragedy that day; people died in Washington, D.C. and they died in a cornfield in Pennsylvania. As it was happening, no one knew how much more was coming, how much worse it might get, which city or town or building was next. We all felt the fear that day, but most of us did not experience death or loss of our own loved ones, and for that we were all grateful: there but for the grace of God… </p> <p>I am not a gawker. I do not rubberneck at the scene of an accident. </p> <p>I understand - a little - what Steve is saying. Some years ago, the school my kids attended burned pretty much to the ground. It was an old, stone-front school that had been around for generations. It was a country school that grandparents of current students had attended. It was a special place, full of history and personality. It wasn’t modern, but it was like a warm lap for the kids to crawl into every day.</p> <p>It hurt my heart to see the shell that was left - just the stone-front facade. It was just fenced off and left to stand, and for at least a year, I could not look at it when I had to take the road it was on. </p> <p>People came to gawk - people who didn’t live there, had no kids in school there, who didn’t even know anyone who went to school there. It was surprising how territorial and protective we all felt about it - very much a “what the hell are YOU looking at?”</p> <p>I get what Steve’s saying, and my burned-down school expreience is nothing at all comparable, but it helps me understand how he feels and why.</p> <p>But the events of that day did touch all of us, though most of us did not have the physical reminders every day. It doesn’t change that we were really all connected in our fear and in our pain. Those who seek to profit off the events deserve contempt, but those who wish only to respect and honor in their own way do not.</p> <p>Peace to all.</p> New York was not the sole site of tragedy that day; people died in Washington, D.C. and they died in a cornfield in Pennsylvania. As it was happening, no one knew how much more was coming, how much worse it might get, which city or town or building was next. We all felt the fear that day, but most of us did not experience death or loss of our own loved ones, and for that we were all grateful: there but for the grace of God…

I am not a gawker. I do not rubberneck at the scene of an accident.

I understand – a little – what Steve is saying. Some years ago, the school my kids attended burned pretty much to the ground. It was an old, stone-front school that had been around for generations. It was a country school that grandparents of current students had attended. It was a special place, full of history and personality. It wasn’t modern, but it was like a warm lap for the kids to crawl into every day.

It hurt my heart to see the shell that was left – just the stone-front facade. It was just fenced off and left to stand, and for at least a year, I could not look at it when I had to take the road it was on.

People came to gawk – people who didn’t live there, had no kids in school there, who didn’t even know anyone who went to school there. It was surprising how territorial and protective we all felt about it – very much a “what the hell are YOU looking at?”

I get what Steve’s saying, and my burned-down school expreience is nothing at all comparable, but it helps me understand how he feels and why.

But the events of that day did touch all of us, though most of us did not have the physical reminders every day. It doesn’t change that we were really all connected in our fear and in our pain. Those who seek to profit off the events deserve contempt, but those who wish only to respect and honor in their own way do not.

Peace to all.

]]> By: tommy yum http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288433 tommy yum Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:49:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288433 <p>Well. Who’s up for a drink?</p> Well. Who’s up for a drink?

]]> By: DefJef http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288432 DefJef Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:48:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288432 <p>VG </p> <p>Exactly when would be the right time and where would the right place be?</p> <p>I believe SG dismissed all other “theories” about what happened as nothing more that tin foil rubbish and it precisely because HE opened up this can of worms and displayed his own ignorance of the matter that so many people have decided to bring up some of the tin foil stuff which may not be so tin foil.</p> VG

Exactly when would be the right time and where would the right place be?

I believe SG dismissed all other “theories” about what happened as nothing more that tin foil rubbish and it precisely because HE opened up this can of worms and displayed his own ignorance of the matter that so many people have decided to bring up some of the tin foil stuff which may not be so tin foil.

]]> By: *ilson46201 http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288431 *ilson46201 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:47:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288431 <p>Tom, you are changing screennames but not IPs so we know you are trying to spam this place now…</p> <p>please leave now …</p> Tom, you are changing screennames but not IPs so we know you are trying to spam this place now…

please leave now …

]]> By: Pachacutec http://firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288430 Pachacutec Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:47:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/10/thoughts-on-911/#comment-288430 <p>Steve wrote a fine post. I know a place where people can write about what they want to write about. It’s called DailyKos and it lets you make your own posts and diaries.</p> Steve wrote a fine post. I know a place where people can write about what they want to write about. It’s called DailyKos and it lets you make your own posts and diaries.

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