Remembering 9/11

@fruityPond7887

What a lovely post!

Thank you for making this and giving us a moment to reflect and remember those who's lives were lost. <3

I appreciate you sharing this! 💛✨

@fruityPond7887 Thanks for sharing this post. It's important to remember all the lives lost and honoring them.

@fruityPond7887 The fact that mass killings are happening and people are dying all over the world is tragic.

It is very importnat to remember those who are lost but also do the best thing possible to prevent such things in the future.

In my opinion is not only 9/11 but all people who lost their lives in an unfair and sudden way.

Education and community psychology are the only solutions of preventing thse events in longterm.

Thank you for the thoughtful post.

Honor and glory to the heroes and martyrs of that most tragic day!

Never forget, nor forgive those that killed thousands of good innocent people in the name of a stupid ideology of hatred.

Stupid, because nothing can be improved in this world by terror and killing.

Terrorism is utterly unacceptable, morally abhorrent, and politically useless.

It's meaningless cruelty and savagery.

Those that intend to kill people, particularly civilians, to promote their crazy causes, should be hunted down all over the world, wherever they might be.

Evil deserves no tolerance, no mercy.

Decent people deserve safety and peace.

Thank you @fruityPond7887 for bringing up this brilliant article, and calling our attention to remember what must not be forgotten.

@fruityPond7887

Thank you so much for making this. Even though some of us weren't yet alive during this horrible tragedy and we may not fully understand it, but it is great that you posted this because we can learn from that so that history does not repeat itself.

Thank you so much for this post!!🙏

@fruityPond7887

I was really young to remember 9/11 so I can't really recall any specific details of the particular event. But visiting the memorial when I was a bit older really engraved the magnitude and disaster that day was for many people. Everyone older than me tells me where exactly they were at on that day when they heard the news.

@fruityPond7887

oh, Pond...what happened was indelible
marks lasting decades later (as you pointed out, cancer, etc..)
what I gleaned - when people come together, we can do so much harm
...also a lot of good. So, always vigil for things to keep heading in better, kinder right directions
(ps - personally, im a fighter against capitalism/greed and hope one day everyone on planet can, not just survive... but thrive - without being under that cruel influence)
thank you for posting and bringing these to mind

I try to remember by honoring, and valuing lives/my life, thats how!
Thanks again for posting!
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@fruitpond

Thank you so much for sharing this amazing post with us. Even as a Muslim, I stand completely against that horrible event that occured on that fateful day. We stand in solidarity for all those whose lives were lost, and for all those whose lives were scarred forever because of that event.

Thank you.

Your friend, Grapes

Thank you for this thoughtful post.

I remember 9-11 well. It was one of those rare occasions where everyone who is alive on a given day can tell you exactly what they were doing at the instant it occurred. I knew something was up when I heard the TV before I even left my room. My parents never turned it on in the morning. We just didn't do that in our home...except for that one day.

It's a shame that on every anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, along with mourning our dead so many people repeat the usual casuistry...namely, pretending that religion had nothing to do with the atrocities. As a matter of fact religion had a lot to do with what happened. There were believers & critics who said as much then, & there are now. But so many of us refuse to listen, which is perplexing. If you are willing to turn airliners into what were basically guided missiles & murder thousands of people who had nothing to do with your grievances (or train your followers to do so), I would assume that whatever statements you make in defense of your acts are quite sincere.

That was not the only factor, of course. You could point to certain aspects of American foreign policy & you would probably have valid points. (We still have military bases in many parts of the world, & questionable alliances as well.)

But none of the above justifies the attacks. Period. To argue otherwise is risible.

(Before anyone says it: Yes, I've looked into the conspiracist "Loose Change"-type narratives for 9-11 & found them lacking.)

What do I do to commemorate the 9-11 attacks? I remember the dead, yes. But what I also do is turn to some of the books I have amassed over the years since then...they're mostly about history. History of wars, of expansion, of mass displacement, of oppression of whole peoples based on theological premises (plus economics--who doesn't like money, especially when you don't have to work for it yourself?), & of slavery & slave-dealing...& no, I'm not talking about our antebellum South.

I remember; I read; I remember encounters in real life & online both before & after. More than anything else, I remember that while every religion has its fanatics & fundamentalists, while every religion has stains on its record, not all religions are equal or the same in that respect. I remember that the ultimate reasons for 9-11 emerged well over a millennium ago in another part of the world, centuries before our nation began. And I will not pretend otherwise.