National day of anger...

For me, this anniversary has always been a day where I relive the absolute anger I felt that tragic day. In my rage I sometimes wish we would bomb every Muslim holy site until they hand over Bin Laden and his followers. However, it looks like I will have to wish for bombing the NYT's.

I am not as low-life as the terrosrist so my wish is only in my mind.

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a few well placed "Bunker Busters" maybe...a good way to "remember" every year.

v

...nuff said.

The NYT, like many liberals, feel that patriotism and remembrance are "mawkish" and "gaudy". Not "sophisticated" enough for their elevated intellect. Their attitude kind of makes me want to heave...

All I can say is that the NYT better be happy that George Bush is President and not me.  I would ban them from the White House press corps if that were possible.

 I still remember where I was that day, too.  I was walking into my classroom to teach and my students asked me were we getting out of school that day.  I had no idea what they were talking about because I was at work and had not turned on the news.  They said, "We are being attacked." I live in Alabama and we felt the horror of it just as if it had happened in our city. 

My fellow NBers, I felt it necessary to post this email I recieved 5 years ago.  It really hit home.  It has everything to do with media bias and end their endangering of us all. 

DO NOT FORGET

I sat in a movie theater watching "Shindler's List", asked myself, "Why didn’t the Jews fight back?"

Now I know why.

I sat in a movie theater watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself, "Why weren't we repared?"

Now I know why.

Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict the actions of evil people.

On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.

On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want us to forget the carnage. They say we must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the motivation of the perpetrators.

Major television stations have announced they will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.

I will not be manipulated.

I will not pretend to understand.

I will not forget.

I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of the press to kick our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.

I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President Bush's address to the nation with the snide remark, "No matter how you feel about him, he is still our president." I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings questioned President Bush's motives for not returning immediately to Washington, DC and commented, "we're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."

I will not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't informed of every little detail of this war, they aren't "likely --nor should they be expected -- to show difference."

I will not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the United States of America.

I will not be appeased with pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected by the previous administration.

I will not be comforted by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the silly "have your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.

I will not be influenced by so-called , "antiwar demonstrators" who exploit the right of expression to chant anti-American obscenities.

I will not forget the moral victory handed to the North Vietnamese by American war protestors who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers,airmen, and Marines.

I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.

I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told a labor party conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it? There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must!"

I will force myself to:

-hear the weeping

-feel the helplessness

-imagine the terror

-sense the panic

-smell the burning flesh

-experience the loss

-remember the hatred

I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Were did they find the courage?"

Now I know.

We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.

--Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (RET.)

Not as lean, Not as mean But still a Marine.

"Again there will be the public tributes, the tightly scripted memorial events, the reflex news coverage, the souvenir peddlers. Is all of it necessary, at the same decibel level -- still?"

I suppose, then, that we can cancel future observances of Memorial Day and Veterans' Day? Veterans' Day takes place on the date it does because is commemorates the end of World War One. Hell's bells, that was nearly 90 years ago; definitely time to move on and forget about that one... </sarcasm>

Of course, that would mean two less long weekends for unionized workers. Hm ... bad idea.

~~~

If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them!