11 Yr Later......

A Soliders Change of View

9/11 Thoughts

 There are any number of things that I can say about that day. The details of it are burned into my mind as I’m sure they are with many others. Thoughts still feel fresh, the initial reactions and the close minded “world” view that was violently ripped apart that morning. For some reason it is the silence of that day that stays with me. On a beautiful day, weather-wise, I drove through the streets of New Rochelle looking for a something normal. It was supposed to be the 1st day of my senior year at Iona. Having set a schedule that allowed me to sleep in; I was home vs. being on campus when Satan had his moment. It wasn’t long before I hopped in the truck to link up with who ever may have been around. But the turned up empty as the streets were empty. It’s not the empty that comes from it being late and folk are asleep, or the empty from bad weather. It was that frightened, shocked, stuck with fear empty. Even the Projects were quiet…..

It all changed after that day and I guess to be still alive 10 yrs later says a lot. You see we weren’t around for a 1st Moon walk, Presidential killings, Nuclear Bombs or Pearl Harbor. But in our hour of hell 9/11 craved its own unique slot in the history of the world. We can revisit the past Evils through grainy black and white, aging photos and news reels. There were no HD news cameras on Hiroshima, no Internets for the Reign of Hitler, and no 24hr cable news networks for the Titanic or the Hindenburg. Not just did we see the unimaginable but it was crystal clear, sharp, vivid and as real to the eye as the office I currently sit in, no matter where you were.

I could only imagine what Twitter and Facebook would have looked like that morning……

News12 Reports of 9/11 Terror Threats. Asks me how I feel as well.

Oooooh Look What They Found In Osama's Crib

......lemme found out Bin Laden watching Pinky and Ice LA Fox????

In other News is appears the Pakistan Government is NOW trying to man up and flez a lil bit on the U.S and it's no permission asked actions.

Terror Generation's Moment in Time

Created by an 8 yr old to represent 9/11

Recent events have me spending much time “defending” the position of others then I’m usual accustomed too. Osama Bin Laden’s dead. And wait what’s this? People are HAPPY about it?!?!?! Wow I would never in my wildest dreams imagine that a man who killed thousands of innocent folk in the coldest of blood would fire up the souls of his victims loved ones. How dare they rejoice in his death…..those heartless monsters!! They should be like us and question and doubt and conspire in the face of all facts and sound logic!!

OSAMA WE MISS YOU!!!!!!!!

Ok enough with the sarcasm. If you can bring yourself to speak on how intelligent, conscious, enlightened and mature that you are then part of that requires you to be able to see view points that may run in opposition to yours. Yes there are a few overly excited hill billy USA good ol’ boys that don’t like any “A-rabs” or “Muzlams” regardless of what they’re about. But that is not what brought people to the gates of the capital or the streets of Gotham surrounding Ground Zero. Think back a bit... 

Those of my age group were young adults when 9/11 took place. Ideas of who we are and what we stood for were pretty well advanced. America is not the perfect paradise you would be brought up to believe. So even as fear, disbelief and concern over took us, we still had our previously established core beliefs about the world and this nation’s  true place in it. That is why WE were not celebrating in that manner. The bigger picture doesn’t escape us thus making more for questions and doubt. Ok that’s fine, so let look at the majority group of those we are seeing in the streets expressing this “joy over death”…..

The college kids you see climbing lamp poles and chanting USA, they’re crazy right? Delusional brain washed sheep huh? Do your homework and pay attention to what they were raised on. For us the purest embodiments of evil were dead. Hitler was the meanest of the mean. His tales only struck us there Learning Channel specials and WW2 movies. It was a decent memory that we couldn't relate too. We feared rouge cops more then terrorists. But for these kids it was different. The drunken college guy we saw Sunday night was 8,9,10 maybe 11 yrs old when the towers came down. Chances are they loss someone or directly knew someone that loss someone that day. The difference between us and them is that at 9 yrs old what do you know of the world? These were kids who were now ushered into a new world yet their previous memories are so short that to them there was no world before terrorism. The war on terror has defined their lives. Their "Boogie Man" was real, alive and still looking to kill them. They saw a man with a mission and followers dedicated to carrying it out bring the force of Hell to the center of the world. Then they saw it replayed again and again via the power of the media and the growing Internets.

Understand, the differences in demographics here, we were younger yet established in central beliefs, they were young impressionable and unlike those that were younger then them and completely incapable of understandable what was happening (like my 3 ½ yr old cuz) they had to deal with this. So to them and millions like them Evil = Osama. And to10 yrs later see that taken down deserved if not for a few days, some celebration.

But if you conspiracy lovers still need something to chat about here's this.

Teacher Comes Clean After Osama Is FInally Handled

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Man finally shaves his beard after the word of Bin Ladin's death, he had let it go for 10 years

No More To Say

Everyone's got an opinion, but just because you type it and hit send doesn't make it a fact.

THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

I never knew about this. It's really moving. The innocence of children is so refreshing and heart breaking in comparison to us adults.

More Info

The truth is that no one os 100% safe.

I just give thanks that Jillz was straight but as long as you have freedom you live with the possibility of the negative unknown.



Suicide Pilots "note".(pdf. form)

Security Fail in the making???

To be honest I can careless about the body scan stuff.But I know this is an invasion of privacy lawsuit just waiting to happen.