The Worst Day

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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]I am posting this on all the forums that I go to, so if you read it on one, ignore it on the other[laugh][/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]Here it is that dredfull day....9/11. Here is my recap:[/size][/black][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]I recieved a phone call from my mother telling me to turn on the TV. I said what channel? She aid I am sure it won't matter. So I did and my jaw dropped. I thought "Is this for real?"
It was horrible. Watcing the news, you say footage that you will never see again. People actually leaping from the windows.
I kept thinking, what the HECK is going on, can this really be happening. I was numb the whole week, or should I say for several months.
Watching the movie recap last night and tonight, makes me that it might have been somewhat expected. I know the show is speculations and of course the ol' "shoulda, woulda, coulda." But, the news saying we had our chance to kill Bin and we didn't.
It has made us all much HUMBLER (if that is the word) and I appriciate every day and every thing in a whole new way.[/size][/black][/font]
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[zonker]

9/11 was a sobering day for most Americans. It surely was for me. This morning I watched the MSNBC replay of their coverage of that morning, begun precisely to correspond with the timing of that morning. It brought back all the feelings of fear, frustration, anger, and shock. My son had been in the nearby Sears Tower in NYC when the planes hit. He called me on his cell phone before the phones went down. Living on the West Coast, I was just getting out of bed. At the time he didn't know what was going on. He asked me to turn on the TV and try to tell him what was happening. He was on foot in the street, hearing what he thought were F-16's fly over. He thought the whole nation was under attack. I guess it was.

I certainly hope all Americans will remember the lessons we learned that day - especially the lesson that continued freedom requires perpetual vigilence - and perhaps we can continue to stand only if we are united. We are at war with terrorism and will be for many years to come. I suspect we'll be hit again in a big way before it is over. Whether we survive as a nation will perhaps depend on whether we learn the lessons - or go back to sleep.

Glad to be an American - appreciating it more since that day.

z~
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[cool][#0000ff]Of course this has nothing to do with float tubing or fishing...but I guess it really does. If we ever lose our country to those wackos that are responsible for all the terrorist acts our fishing and tubing days are over.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like many of us, I watched the special reports and programs on 9-11. I was surprised at how easily the raw emotions I felt on that day were brought to the surface again and how I once again felt the horror and shock that I felt on that morning five years ago. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It truly was a life-changing event. Now we all live in fear of "WHAT NEXT"? It is naive to expect that nothing more will ever happen. The only unknown is when and how bad. I don't like living in fear like that. But, better than living under the rule of those who are causing all the problems.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Thankfully, fishing is a "brainbroom" that helps us forget (for awhile) that we can never go back to the carefree days of the past, when the twin towers were still standing and we could believe that we were safe in our mighty country. [/#0000ff]
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