Tragedies Such As The Wtc
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Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">and others....</div> ...but mainly aimed about the WTC.
First of all i'd like to preface this message by saying that i have every respect for those who were killed in the terrorist attacks on the WTC buildings, and i also have every respect for those emergency workers that strived to save people, and lost many of their own. My father is an emergency planner and basically writes the manuals for this kind of thing, i'm well aware that if this was in England, my father would be one of the ones out their trying his hardest and putting his life on the line. I'm deadly serious.
But... with all that said, i'd like to refer you to <a href='http://warnuts.com/' target='_blank'>this</a>. The offending page is a badly made, badly animated piece of flash that is striving to both mourn the losses and give power to those that did right. But they're not the messages that are given.
There have been a great deal of American Patriotic nonsense and also a great deal of poor tributes to those who lost their lives or lost those whom they know or love. Basically my question is, is this sort of patriotic drivel nothing but an insult to those who died, and and an excuse to brandish empowering statements about America? I find this ridiculous patriotism to be nothing short of offensive.
[EDIT] Ontop of what i said earlier, i'd like to refer you to the amount of "make-you-feel-crappy" images there are out there, you know the ones i mean. I'm pretty sure we all understand the magnetude of something of this scale (hell, years on we're still talking about it) and i'm <i>positive</i> we're not going to forget too soon. [/EDIT]
And again, to end this message, i have <b>NOTHING BUT RESPECT</b> to those whom lost and gave their lives at the time of the WTC incident, so don't even attempt to feed me some BS about me either not respecting them. Oh, and no, i'm English, not American, but don't let that stand in the way of me having an opinion.
First of all i'd like to preface this message by saying that i have every respect for those who were killed in the terrorist attacks on the WTC buildings, and i also have every respect for those emergency workers that strived to save people, and lost many of their own. My father is an emergency planner and basically writes the manuals for this kind of thing, i'm well aware that if this was in England, my father would be one of the ones out their trying his hardest and putting his life on the line. I'm deadly serious.
But... with all that said, i'd like to refer you to <a href='http://warnuts.com/' target='_blank'>this</a>. The offending page is a badly made, badly animated piece of flash that is striving to both mourn the losses and give power to those that did right. But they're not the messages that are given.
There have been a great deal of American Patriotic nonsense and also a great deal of poor tributes to those who lost their lives or lost those whom they know or love. Basically my question is, is this sort of patriotic drivel nothing but an insult to those who died, and and an excuse to brandish empowering statements about America? I find this ridiculous patriotism to be nothing short of offensive.
[EDIT] Ontop of what i said earlier, i'd like to refer you to the amount of "make-you-feel-crappy" images there are out there, you know the ones i mean. I'm pretty sure we all understand the magnetude of something of this scale (hell, years on we're still talking about it) and i'm <i>positive</i> we're not going to forget too soon. [/EDIT]
And again, to end this message, i have <b>NOTHING BUT RESPECT</b> to those whom lost and gave their lives at the time of the WTC incident, so don't even attempt to feed me some BS about me either not respecting them. Oh, and no, i'm English, not American, but don't let that stand in the way of me having an opinion.
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Another thing I can't believe is that some people are saying that 9/11 was "over-hyped" and that the media turned it into a drama. In a day where if a celebrity gets jailed it makes front page news how was 9/11 over-hyped? The Kobe Bryant case makes front page news so often and personally, I don't care about it! I'd rather see the front page headline talking about the two soldiers killed in Iraq, or the 5 citizens wounded by a misfire in Afghanistan. The western world has it's priorities wrong all too often. But on 9/11 and the weeks following it they weren't wrong, and if you feel that they were then you are very cold at heart.
Well, just had to get some anger off my chest, just sick of people thinking they're cool because they can say stuff like that, act like they don't care about life in general, it's sad almost. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> Now I guess I'll go shoot up some more aliens to make myself feel better. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo-->
the focus of any rememberance, i beleive should be the people who died, and nothing else.