Forty Years Ago Today…
…the North Tower of the World Trade Center was completed.
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here.]
I was always struck, on 9-11, how a woman said something to this effect: “I don’t see buildings. I see people.” Meaning that whatever concern she felt for the buildings themselves, was completely eclipsed by her concern for the people who were inside when they fell. So in some ways noting this date runs counter to that, but still I wanted to note it.
We must never forget the lesson we learned that day, more than nine years ago. Evil exists and it must be confronted.
Hat tip, Big Government.
[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
“Remember the Alamo!”
“Remember the Maine!”
“Remember Pearl Harbor!”
Remember 9 something or other, dude…
Yeah the country has developed a bad case of ADD. Of course the ADD was aided by America hating politicians, leftist media and liberal educators.
President Bush said it would be a long war.
Buck (2f4203) — 12/23/2010 @ 8:22 amHe was right. We are entering the 10th year with no end in sight. Of course it has been dragged out because our military are not allowed to conduct war on our enemies.
Men die so the bleeding hearts can have their warm, fuzzy feeling.
The people don’t even care enough about 9/11 to demand the memorial at ground zero be finished.
That was so long ago….
They have forgotten
This post is racist, anti-muslim, and proof of your bigotry against Allah lovers.
JD (6e25b4) — 12/23/2010 @ 8:31 amI do wish 9/11 had a name, instead of the sterile date. I suppose the lack of a name could indicate we are too horrified to come up with one, but that’s not really what happened. We named the holocaust. The MSM just didn’t want to characterize it.
I wish we had rebuilt these structures, at least relatively similar to how they were before. It wouldn’t bring back the dead, which is the most important thing we lost, but there’s a stubbornness and a pride in rebuilding them close to how they were, instead of the muted replacement we plan (and somehow still haven’t built!) It would have put more meaning behind the idea that we will not fold to terrorism.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 12/23/2010 @ 8:43 amOur esteemed guest host wrote:
No, evil exists and it must be defeated.
The determined Dana (bd7e62) — 12/23/2010 @ 8:53 amGreetings:
My father was born in southwest Ireland and came to this country in 1927, in time for the Great Depression and a four-year tour of the islands of the Pacific in the early 1940s. He worked in the construction industry in and around New York City. He used to like to say he started with the Empire State Building and finished with the World Trade Center.
I was taken to the Empire State Building several times as a youngster and the outdoor observation deck was a marvelous experience for an evolving New Yorker. The WTC, on the other hand, was almost beyond belief. Nosing up to the windows on the indoor observation deck gave me the sensation that the tower was leaning over. The closeness of the East and Hudson rivers added a whole new dimension.
After getting over the initial shock of our muslim brothers religious fervor and making sure my relatives, some of whom worked in the area, were all okay, I thought about my dear departed father and was almost glad that he wasn’t around to see the destruction of his handiwork. My father was a practicing Catholic but I’m sure he would have felt that payback was in order.
11B40 (48a642) — 12/23/2010 @ 9:11 amI do wish 9/11 had a name, instead of the sterile date. I suppose the lack of a name could indicate we are too horrified to come up with one, but that’s not really what happened. We named the holocaust. The MSM just didn’t want to characterize it.
I’m not sure *how* it could be characterized accurately since we are too afraid and/or not permitted to name the enemy. ‘Man Made Disasters’ certainly doesn’t tell the whole story either. At least 9/11 stands on it’s own – no one any where doesn’t know the date’s reference.
Dana (8ba2fb) — 12/23/2010 @ 10:17 amDana: you and Aaron both misspelled destroyed.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 12/23/2010 @ 10:18 amNo, N they stir it up quite nicely with no help from us.
Mike K (568408) — 12/23/2010 @ 10:41 amComment by The determined Dana — 12/23/2010 @ 8:53 am
Without the confrontation, there can never be the defeat.
Why we no longer remember….
AD-RtR/OS! (b8ab92) — 12/23/2010 @ 10:51 amWhen was the last time you saw a video or a still pix of one of the planes flying into the side of the building, or of the people on the upper floors jumping to their deaths on the sidewalks below?
The media has not exactly covered themselves in honor over this almost decade-old tragedy.
Buck:
The war is not ten years old. It’s just been about ten years since we decided to start shooting back again.
Osama declared war in 1996. But the war is older than that.
The USA first got into this war in 1801. But the war is older than that.
You would have to go back to about 622 to get to the start.
Newtons.Bit (76606a) — 12/23/2010 @ 11:20 amthe current segment of this war should be dated to November, 1979!
AD-RtR/OS! (b8ab92) — 12/23/2010 @ 11:39 amYes, AD, it’s another gift to us from Jimmy Carter.
Mike K (568408) — 12/23/2010 @ 12:41 pmAll this conservative compassion may have jumped the shark. It has become so Big Government that it is not even conservative any more and the spending risks the viability of this state and nation big a big part of everything.
KTLA aired another episode of what I call “First Responders Gone Wild” today. The lady’s car was stuck in 6″ of mud crossing a road. 1 truck behind her stopped; she was in the way. A group of firemen were STANDING in the water hooking up her car to be pulled out of the mess. It was unacceptable to carry her or have her walk out of the mess, making her shoes dirty. Another team was deployed downsteam in the event victims or First Responders were washed away and needed to be rescued. Overtime Jackpot. Just pull the freaking stupid lady out of her car and drag her to safety. God damn. Enough already.
We need to either nuke Afghanistan or leave that hell hole. I don’t care about 2 embassy workers of other countries in Rome being injured by islamic bombs. Jeez, get a little perspective by acknowledging how many people exist – how many people are injured every day from random crap. Islamic Bomb scare crap is all about government worker overtime.
Wesson (019671) — 12/23/2010 @ 12:41 pm#9
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Since the end of WWII we have confronted many enemies and none have been defeated.
rab (7a9e13) — 12/23/2010 @ 2:12 pm^notwithstanding, of course, the USSR. In the future, please put down your crack pipe before you post here again.
Dmac (498ece) — 12/23/2010 @ 2:16 pmWe must never forget the lesson we learned that day, more than nine years ago.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of people in the government and media who actively disagree with this.
Murgatroyd (fd5fcd) — 12/23/2010 @ 2:47 pmI’m sure Noriega would disagree with you, Rab.
Newtons.Bit (27fb9b) — 12/23/2010 @ 3:48 pm“I’m sure Noriega would disagree with you, Rab.”
I think Saddam Hussein would too, only he doesn’t have much to say about anything these days.
Dave Surls (007474) — 12/23/2010 @ 11:01 pmNot if I have anything to say about it.
I Be Libtard (31f4bd) — 12/23/2010 @ 11:19 pmSure he does. He’s just saying it from a very hot place, and no one on Earth can hear him…
IGotBupkis (31f4bd) — 12/23/2010 @ 11:23 pmSeptember 11th will be remembered as the crime of the century.
COMPOUNDED by the fact that 9 years on, that hole in the ground is still empty.
IIRC, the Empire State Bldg went up in less than a year. Just sayin’.
Jones (72b0ed) — 12/23/2010 @ 11:40 pm“Forty Years Ago Today…”
Forty two years ago today (12/23-24/68) the first humans in history to leave the Earth and reach the vicinity of the moon, 240,000 miles away, were falling into lunar orbit for the first time– the Christmas Eve telecast from Apollo 8’s Borman, Lovell and Anders to come beaming back a few hours later. Yes, once upon a time Americans accomplished challenging and progressive feats– particularly engineering endeavors– like construct the then tallest buildings on Earth and hurl three men a quarter million miles away from it to circle the moon and bring them back safely.
Merry Christmas to all.
DCSCA (9d1bb3) — 12/24/2010 @ 4:14 amAD-RtR/OS! wrote:
If President Carter had responded as he should have — telling the Iranians that they had 72 hours to have all of our people released and on a plane heading home, in good condition, or they would be declared the honorable American casualties in the strikes which turned Tehran and Qom into radioactive black holes in the ground — would we have al Qaeda today?
And would he have won re-election in 1980?
The Dana who remembers 1979 (bd7e62) — 12/24/2010 @ 4:58 amDCSCA wrote:
And since then our Islamist friends have managed to knock down those buildings. We have proved that we can create and build; they have proved that they can kill and destroy.
The multicultural Dana (bd7e62) — 12/24/2010 @ 5:03 amPoor Disco Stu. Even when you sort of try to do the right thing, you still eff it up.
Icy Texan (5f649c) — 12/24/2010 @ 5:04 amComment by The Dana who remembers 1979 — 12/24/2010 @ 4:58 am
The American People had seen the feckless performance of the great Rabbit Hunter,
and were ready for a Cowboy to lead them out of the carnage of Desert One, to that City on the Hill.
A different result in Iran would have made any run for the Presidency by RR moot.
One of the great stories from the Carter Presidency which foretold his non-ability to visualize the big picture,
AD-RtR/OS! (b8ab92) — 12/24/2010 @ 8:56 amwas his insistance on handling the schedule for the WH tennis court in the Oval Office.
He was a micro-manager who was overwhelmed by the macro;
and the Presidency, if nothing else, is macro!
Jones:
The new building is under construction. The site itself is far from empty, you can see some really great pictures of it here.
One World Trade Center “officially” started in 2004. However much of what they have been doing until recently has been purely symbolic. It’s ramping up to full steam now and should be finished sometime in 2011.
I think part of the problem is that people don’t realize how vast a site that the world trade center is. The whole site is one giant steel and concrete structure that extends 70 feet below street level. It contains massive amounts of utilities, ranging from water-mains that would supply a city of 100,000 people to subway stations and subway tunnels that run through the site.
Newtons.Bit (76606a) — 12/24/2010 @ 10:25 am