The date

[Assertn]

Originally posted by: Cal_kashi
Do all you realize that this is to us what JFK's assination was to our parents and grandparents. We will probably never live through another historically defining event like this.

unless armageddon hits

[Rhanfahl]

I was at work sanding a car down and paint prepping it while listening to Howard Stern on the radio...I remember hearing whatever useless conversation being turned into Robin blurting out "Oh my God! what is that!" To which Howard made some jackass snide remark about flight traffic control or someshit. Then after the second plane hit, he acutally decided to not be an asshole anymore and turn his show into some sort of news network. I remember thinking "WTF this sick mother fucking asshole better not be pulling an H.G. Wells on us!". I turned the radio off and concentrated on my work the rest of the day constantly thinking about it.

When I got home my mom was crying, telling me all about what I had heard on the TV. So, then I finally thought "So we've finally got what has been coming for us as a nation. All these years of saying how much better we are and how different we are...and now look. We've just been shown that no one is safe anywhere in the entire Universe." I remember everyone asking "how could this happen, we're the United States!" and I kept thinking "its BECAUSE we're the United States, we have grown complacent and arrogant, we have 'foriegn policy' and even tell other countries how to run their own affairs. We send troops all over the world to fight for things that have nothing to do with us. The rest of the ENTIRE WORLD hates the USA"

So yes, while I agree that Katrina has been over100 fold more destructive, it was an act of "God/ Mother Nature". This was an act of a few select individuals who were under the influence that if they did this "God" would reward them with several hundred or thousand virgins in Heaven...sick fucking bastards...

Also, I remember Y saying something about Pearl Harbor. The facts of that are, we were taken by surprise because the Japanese telegraph didn't reach Washington till 37 minutes after the attack actually begun. I think someone commited suicide for the dishonor for it too. So, yes, they Nihons had the intention of informing us then pounding us, but they made a mistake.

I think the only good thing that every came from this incident now 4 years ago was that for a short while...we were all "Americans". We weren't Republican or Democrats, we weren't black or white, we weren't upper or lower class...we were just Americans. The stupid shit bickering over politics STOPPED DEAD in its tracks! Whether you liked Bush or not, everyone supported him.....well, everyone except that fuck Michael Moore (whom I want to strap down and make watch every war real of WWII and what's going over in the east, like in Clockwork Orange. Then afterwards, lock the fat ass fuck up in a room to starve to death).

When my father was a boy the most memorable day of his life was the day Kennedy was assassinated. For us...this is our day that we'll never really forget. We may put it back in our minds, but when our kids ask...we'll know, we'll remember exactly what we were doing when we heard the news...and if we're human, it will rouse our emotions of sadness and anger.