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The sad part is they were killed by scary brown people and not some gay virus.
No mention of the millions killed in America’s ensuing rampage though.
No mention of the millions killed in Hitler's ensuing rampage though.
I wasn't aware that Hitler went on his "rampage" as a response to 9/11. You never stop learning.
My wife's father was killed on 9/11. We usually go to the memorial on the anniversary. Its incredibly, incredibly somber. The reading of the names, the bells ring and time stops. Everything goes silent, and people are crying everywhere you look. I didn't know her dad, but it's the most difficult thing in the world for me every year. I truly can't imagine what she and other family members feel. I have empathy, but this is different. I can't describe the way you feel pain hanging in the air, but it's almost as though it's being hugged away by the other families who lost theirs. You feel it, but it's insulated in a way.
Now think of the many places like that and how millions feel around the world that the US has created.
I think about that often, but this is a wildy stupid point. As if all these innocent people and their families somehow deserved 9/11 because of the actions of our government. My wife was a child when this happened, you think she understood what the fuck was going on in the middle east? You're an idiot.
I agree we are bad actors in a lot of ways, but I can also think and feel two things at once. What a one dimensional and ignorant thing to say. Grow up.
but this is a wildy stupid point. As if all these innocent people and their families somehow deserved 9/11 because of the actions of our government.
Wow talk about putting words in someone's mouth. Yikes.
We both know that's a condescending thing to bring up. I do not need to be reminded of the pain we've caused world wide in order to mourn the loss of a family member, no matter how politically charged the situation may be. It's just an asshole thing to say.
I'm sorry your wife lost her father, but his life objectively isn't more important than any single other person's. Many people dont get memorials or ceremonies to dedicate to them with their names spoken out and remembered through history. I will be hoping she can move forward with her life and heal from having a father who is gone, but I won't be mourning any more for her or you or anyone else who was victimized that day any longer than I do the Iraqis and Afghanis who paid the price. In fact, I will likely never think of your wife or her father, but I still can never forget of all those dead Iraqis and Afghanis who were killed and raped in your father in laws name.
Like the real victims are those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. What a scumbag. They can all be victims at once, and this can all be tragic at once. Not everything is zero sum you thoughtless basement troll. Yes, I had to come back to say this. Fuck you.
When the fuck did I say or even insinuate that he's more important than anyone else? Theres nothing stopping them from having their own memorial, and I'm sure they do. Should I comment on theirs like "hey don't forget the 9/11 victims, they're sad too" You dipshit. Like what I'm supposed to be at this memorial going "gee I hope all those dead Iraqis have a memorial too, or this wouldn't be fair."
And killed and raped in his name is quite a stretch when none of that was his choice. He was going about his day and got killed along with 3000 other people who were just going to work. Who's name was he killed in, fuckin Bin Laden's dad or something? And you want me to sympathize with that? Another idiotic comment. Stop being an inflammatory shitbag and think a little bit. And you know what, in the mean time, suck a fart out of my ass.
Now think of the many places like that and how millions feel around the world that Genghis Khan has created.
We learned nothing...
On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists who were members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist network, hijacked four California-bound commercial airplanes shortly after their departures from airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C. In a coordinated attack that transformed the planes into weapons, the hijackers intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and another into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Learning about the other hijackings through telephone calls, passengers and crew members on the fourth plane launched a counterattack. When the passengers attempted to breach the cockpit, the hijacker pilot, who had changed course toward the nation's capital, crashed the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near the town of Shanksville.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed on that day, the single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on American soil, and the greatest single loss of rescue personnel in American history. Approximately two billion people, almost one third of the world's population, are estimated to have witnessed these horrific events directly or via television, radio, and Internet broadcasts that day.
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