Comments on: Where I Was On September 11

By: Fred Maidment

Fred Maidment — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:35:17 +0000

If it's hard to tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, people will choose what is familiar. If you want them to make a choice, you have to offer them a real choice. People buy the same brand over and over, even though there is something better, simply because the "better" isn't different enough to switch. Sure, can't be too different, but there has to be something to choose.

By: Fred Maidment

Fred Maidment — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:30:00 +0000

I remember thinking how I was disappointed in their choice of video of the event, considering I knew that much better video was available. Then I chastised myself for being so petty about something like that. A good view of the south tower being struck from a television news camera does not convey the awe, surprise and fear experienced by the people sitting in their living room watching the event unfold, screaming and crying at what they have just witnessed, uncomprehending of the ramifications of it.

They wanted to kill us. Not just the people on the planes and in the towers or the Pentagon. They wanted to kill all of us.

Dan, I’m glad you were running late that day and could share with us your experiences.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:48:43 +0000

in that the Republican brand is so bad; they assume the only way to win is to run moderates. Unions, combined with democrat $$ out spend Republicans 3 to 1 or maybe even more.

By: Wade

Wade — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:43:40 +0000

I appreciate your memories of 9/11, not many of us actually worked in the towers. Hopefully I won’t get accused of being to political, but its 8 years later and as I watch the people at Ground Zero recite the names of their lost loved ones, I can’t help but wonder how New York is still a blue state, and how it could vote for the politicians it votes for. I hoped, really hoped, that people would wake up after 9/11, and the boos and hisses given to the likes of Richard Gere during the televised memorial when he said we needed to understand the enemy gave me a sliver of “ok, they understand now”. But in 2004 New York was still blue, and the city still votes overwhelmingly Democratic. I wonder how many of the people reciting names voted for Obama. Did any of them change? I hope so.

By: MrsNachos

MrsNachos — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:30:37 +0000

I wish I could hug you right now.

By: StandardCandle

StandardCandle — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:15:17 +0000

It doesn’t ever fail to remind me just exactly how precious our time is, and where priorities should be in government and in our personal lives.

For those who callously compare the deaths of 9/11 to other world events forget that these were heinous crimes of mass murder perpetrated by ambitious and evil hearts… I only wish this anniversary was non-partisan…

By: Xasteius

Xasteius — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:27:15 +0000

Link
At least until the next one….

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:23:38 +0000

I read this every year and it nearly brings me to tears every time. It makes everything else we do seem so trivial, but then it angers you to know that most people don’t understand the dangerous world in which we live.

By: wayneinnh

wayneinnh — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:16:43 +0000

In memory of Muriel Siskopoulos, murdered on September 11,2001 for doing nothing more than going to work on a Tuesday morning. Here is a great video for those who would like to say "Thank You" to our soldiers and are not really sure how to do it.

By: janis

janis — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:00:04 +0000

Your remembrances of this day came to mind earlier this morning and I had hoped that you would post it again. Do you feel honored to see what Obama and Co. have done to this day?

It is my fervent prayer that when the history of this time is remembered in the next generations, it will be the honor that will be remembered, the courage and ferocious tenacity of the rescue workers, the response by the Bush Administration, and not the feckless and cowardly attempts to reinterpret this event into the “recent unpleasantness some years ago.”