Thank You Prager for posting this.

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!

Please ignore him.

IMO, and of course I'm not Oli, I understand leaving up an OT thread for one day on 9/11.  Yeah, I think the dog/Osama photo is over the top and would probably remove it, but "Muslim leader" and international criminal wanted by almost every nation on earth is not the same thing.

I agree, though, that it's jarring on what had been a moving remembrance thread.  If more of the same shows up and the thread takes a dive, yeah, it'll probably be deleted.

Seems to me that Oli is trying to be very tolerant and understanding and not a hard-head about the board, and I respect that so much.

To all of us who lost friends and family that day, and to all of us with friends and family in the military, fire, police, and emergency responders, God Bless!

wHO DO YOU WISH TO IGNORE ? sOCK PUPPET AND HIS INFLAMMATORY PICTURE? Or my caling attention to his hypocracy! Or is it ok to only observe  the tos when it suits your or his needs! We have a moderator who is supposed to delete garbage  like puppet posted! If it is me you wish to ignore go right ahead! Just one more person who  practices hypocracy! BTW Osama bin laden had no more to do with 9-11 than your average muslum! Islam is the culprit behind 9-11 and not one single man! so the photo is intolerant  and inflamatory!

Thanks Hans for posting a reminder of something I will remember to my grave. 

NEVER FORGET

I had someone come up to me at work yesterday and ask, "What year was 9/11?" Unbelievable. That in the space of 9 short years a mature adult, someone who holds an advanced degree in humanities, of all things, could possibly forget!!!  NEVER FORGET!!! 
 
It is seared into my memory like a brand, a scar that will always be there to be seen by all those who know me, & a frame through which I view others.

                                          NEVER FORGET.

Every moment of that day can be pulled up to play in my mind as if it were yesterday, or this morning, & the feelings that accompany those memories are still fresh, & ragged. Every insult to that memory is like salt to the wound. The pain, tears, & anger wells up quickly. These brief 9 years have taught me how to shield my pain & anger from others. But it does not go away.

                                          NEVER FORGET.

                                          Thank you, Prager. 
                                             
                                                                                                     

                                                                                                      jackie harris

Raymond go play your games on another thread.  This is not about you.... get it?!

Really great pics kellyj.  Of all days of all posts a little unity would be nice for a change.  Thank you Prager for taking your time to post this.

~Rooka

RE Raymond:  The people who fell were never really formally identified, although it was attempted through blowing up photos.  Nobody wants to remember someone that way, but the fact is it was reality of that horrible day.  We cannot all be sheltered, we have to face reality and have a moment of thought for the many who lost lives, the heros, and family members who still grieve.

Same with the dog pooping, if you remember after this happened there was a lot of anti-osama propaganda and lots of anger, and it is all part of the healing process, anger is one of the stages of grief.  Humor is also a way of coping with tough things, and I don't see anything wrong with it.

Raymond, he is not a "Muslim leader", and your statement would truly offend any Muslim-- Osama Bin Laden was NOT a real Muslim, he was an extremist leader of a terrorist group called the Taliban who practiced a distorted and perverted form of Muslim religion.  Ignorance like this is why there's so much problem with the mosque, so much that its tainting this day of rememberance with hatred even more-- it is not universally their (Muslims) fault that some extremists did this, no more than it's all Catholics fault that someone bombed an abortion clinic.  See, they took a principal from a religion and distorted and misused it.  Hatred and evil is the cause of all this.

LIfe's short, be positive & greatful for each breath you take,
Thank you for this thread.