Was one of the worst day in our history.Remembering those that died or injured , those that  gave so much that day, whether in crumbling Towers , the pentagon or the brave souls on United flight 93.
To the solders that gave the supreme sacrifice ,so we may be safer today.To their families & loved ones you have my gratitude and  my heartfelt condolences .

I was just a 21 yr old kid at that time... I vividly remember watching it early morning. My back facing the TV, in the college cafeteria, I was paying for breakfast, when the guy next to me squealed. I turned around, and for first few seconds thought it was some movie clip, because we never imagined something like that could ever happen to us

look on the internet as a plane had just hit the first tower, and as I watched on the internet, the second plane hit.  Stupidly I thought it was Pilot Error!  Why, because I could not conceive of someone so brainwashed that they would deliberately commit suicide and the homicide of all those innocent victims.  Truly a sad day.  To all the firefighters, policemen, soldiers, airmen, sailors, passengers on Flight 93 and others who have given so much, thank you.

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loose change......flag operation?

How many thank yous, and condolences need to be given?

Why we drag up every tragedy to open old wounds annually I will never get.

You're kidding, this was not some tragedy, this was the worst attack on our country! How insensitive of you. Many people in this hobby lost friends, neighbors, or coworkers on 9/11.

Now, I get to see her name on the 9/11 memorials that list the names of those lost on that terrible day.   Our relationship had ended over a decade earlier, but it still sucks to know someone you knew and were intimate with have their life ended by a bunch of crazy a-holes who think they'll be rewarded with 72 virgins for doing something so foul and evil.  Several others I knew made it out of those buildings that day, including a cousin, though they were all damaged by the whole thing.  

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Try watching the entire link without crying...

not to worry, Putin will take care of us now!

I guess the three on your local board weren't enough.

I am guessing he thinks his reputation as a low rent "wanna be pimp: won't follow him here. WRONG!!! He's a low life there, and he's a low life here. Wrapping a piece of shit in an American flag doesn't make the piece of shit smell any better, it only despoils the flag that it's wrapped in. Even for 2Not, this is a new low.

FWIW, my heart goes out to those who lost loved ones twelve years ago.  I know it's small solace that they are still remembered today, and will be for generations to come, but it's the best that we've got.

I don't think we should forget about that day.

I guess it's the pageantry I find difficult to understand too. Everyone remembers exactly where they were that day and on every other tragedy they have heard about, the mass shootings etc.  

Just who is supposed to be on the receiving end of this giant kaboom?  As you said, Osama is already dead, just what country would you like to blow up to make yourself feel better?

Then we will have to bomb ourselves, just to be on the safe side.

Yeah, let's see now...we went to war in Afghanistan, where the attack was dreamed up.  We're still there.  We got Osama, much of the Taliban and Al Queda.  We fought a stupid war in Iraq, and have hit many of the AQAP guys with drones.  That's nothing?  What else were we supposed to do?

those of us who worked there and lost friends/family.

My company moved from #7 to midtown in 1999, but many of people i knew personally were still employed by the companies located in #1 and #2 on 9/11.  2 of my family members commuted daily via Path train station located there.  It was only a miracle that neither one of them suffered. My college classmate survived but had extensive injuries.  My coworker was homeless for months.  List goes on and on and on. My best friend was married to firefighter who died during rescue efforts.

For months after the tragedy I had to ride on a bus through downtown Manhattan every day. Not sure what was worse - watching the ghost town or inhaling ashes of those who perished.

With no nation state to openly declare war on, just what else are we supposed to do?

The list of rights that we have already willing (or not so willingly) given up in this "War on Terror" is already longer than I care to list. Short of killing every Muslim on the planet, what else are we really supposed to do?

Yes.  My point really is Marvin's writing as if we've done nothing and redressed none of the wrongs.  While I'll admit not everything we did was smart, it's also true that the guy who dreamed up 9/11 is now a rotting corpse at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.  And we are pursuing lots of bad guys across the word, but it's like whack-a-mole.

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there can be no peace.  Its really that simple.

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You are correct but, like roaches we need to continue to reduce the population of the terrorist assholes and show the ones that wish us harm that they will likely die if they do so.  Show strength and they will attack others less strong.  

WOW. Nice comment.  

WOW and I thought it couldn't get any worse. No wonder you're so bitter and lonely

Pageantry? Really?

"show the ones that wish us harm that they will likely die if they do so." only works if "they" are afraid of dying.

Not the case.  "THEY" are ok dying as long as they kill us.

Sorry if you are.  

How about aiming your bile to all those who feel the same way I do? Selective outrage or what.