feel free to vent/cry/whatever about the one year anniversary of 9/11 right here.

 

You know, I didn't think it would affect me that much, but all the stories of all the people lost...the lives messed up by those scumbags, is so tragic.

Mostly though, I am still very ANGRY about the whole thing. Angry at the cowards who did it and helped do it, but also very angry at the incompetence of the agencies who should have seen it coming...the INS, the FBI and the CIA. It is becoming more and more clear that they should have put 2 + 2 together...and apparently some of them did, but because of mismanagement and arrogance and inbreeding and *** kissing and the CYA mentality in agency managment, the people who were suspicious were either ignored or told to forget it.

And the INS...what do these people do anyway???????? I mean freakin' blockbuster will track you to the ends of the earth if your video is overdue, but the INS let's all these foreign nationals run around scott free and apparently couldn't find their own face in the mirror.

And don't even get me started about the airlines!

It just didn't have to happen. When will the bill come due for the incompetence in these agencies?

 

I feel for the victims who lost their lives to the senceless acts of violence. Even more I feel for thoes who have lost family and friends. I feel for the people who had to witness, and work in, the devestation that took place. The events of 9/11 have been imprinted in my mind. I am hundreds of miles away from where events took place. The people who were there, I would guess, have much more than an imprint. They will be scarred with the memory of that day.

Most of us were not directly effected by the events of 9/11. I think for most it is a distant sorrow. The thing is has taught me though, is that we are all at risk. We have a hard time comprehending what terrorists are capable of. It could happen in a night club or in a busy shopping plaza, just like it happends in the middle east. It hasn't happened to "me", but it damn sure could. I can't forget that fact after 9/11.

 

I am nowhere near New York, the effects hardly come to an area this remote and this many miles away. So there is little that I have been able to see. The one major thing that has happened is that 9/11 has brought on a whole new era of racism. No longer is it the blacks, hispanics, or anybody else. It is now the arabs, muslims, and those that look the part. It is sad that it has come to this but, I can't really blame the population. I too have changed my attauide towards arabs, it now passes through my mind when I see them "could they be one", It truly is sad.

 

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Ford4Fun,

Very well put.

Isn't it interesting that blacks who are repulsed by racial profiling suddenly changed their tune soon after 9/11/01?

We find ourselves with a sense of Americanism. I sure hope we don't go back to that same sense of Americanism of the 50's where the enemy was communism and people went on witch hunts looking for people who would be labeled as bein Un-American. I'd hate to see another Joe McCarthy crawl out of the woodwork.

It's really scary that the events of 9/11/01 are pushing us back to that era.

 

Truthfully, I'm tired of all the 9/11/01 stuff. It's dominated our lives for a year. Hasn't the time for healing passed? Isn't it time to go on with our lives and look forward instead of looking back and dwelling on the past?

I will never forget what happened on 9/11/01. That does not mean that I will let it dominate my life. If I let it dominate my life, the terrorists will have won again and again.

I will beat the terrorists by going on with my life. If the terrorists attack us again, then that's the price we pay for our belief in our Constitution and all that it means. It's the price we pay for what we call Freedom. It's the price we pay for not having to show our documents when traveling from one state to another. It's the price we pay for freedom from having somebody knock down our doors just because of the way we look.

If we want to continue to have the freedoms we are used to, we have to be prepared for further attacks. If we want security from terrorist attacks, we will have to give up freedoms that are ingrained into our beings that are guaranteed by the Constitution. Even then, we will never be free from the threat of terrorism.

Either way, we pay a price. There will always be terrorists You get rid of one, another will take it's place. You get rid of 1000, but all it takes is the next one to plant a bomb.

Life as we know it ended on 9/11/01. But then, we were on borrowed time anyway. Now we have to ask ourselves, "What is the price we are willing to pay?"