Lest We Ever Forget

[Jeff Schussele]

Let's all please find the time this morning to observe a moment of silence in remembrance of the fallen victims & gallant heroes who perished on this day 2 years ago.
And let's use this period of reflection to help insure that we never forget & that we continue to do whatever it takes to prevent these horrible tragedies from ever happening again, including healing the wounds & mending the mistrust that may have led to these heinous acts.

Remember that we must all live together on this beautiful blue planet & that if we aren't part of the solution, we become part of the problem.

May God bless each & every one of us.

Somberly,
Jeff

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I also would like to draw your attention to the murder of Mrs. Lindth yesterday, a minister in Sweden. Much like the political murder on Pim Fortuin in the Netherlands.

No needless. My thoughts are with the next of kin.

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[T G Manikandan]

Sure & thanks

[RAC_1]

Surely.

Live and Let live.

[Umapathy S]

Sure.
I wish this kind of events should not happen in future.

Umapathy

[Rob_132]

Jeff,

Thanks for taking the time to post this. 2 years and 4 hours ago, I was in a rest home about an hour after my Dad died. One of my sisters had commented that it would be easy to remember the date...."9/11". A few hours later, we watched the horror unfold that would absolutely assure us of never forgetting the date.

Many heroes died 2 years ago - let's not forget them or those they left behind.

Rob

[Massimo Bianchi]

Such events cannot and must not be forgotten.

Massimo

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

"No needless" should of course have been "So needless".

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Cheryl Griffin]

I'm with you.

[Robert Gamble]

N E V E R F O R G E T . . .

[harry d brown jr]

Definitely not a date I nor anyone will ever be able to forget. Two years ago I was at work, and only four days away from getting married on 9/15/2001. We continued our wedding plans and lit a candle in memory of those that were senselessly murdered.

We must vow to destroy terrorism, even if it costs more lives in fighting this scurge of the earth. Remember to thank your police officers, firemen, security guards, and especially your military personel. Urge your politicans to get involved in this fight to back the elimination of terrorist groups worldwide.

I wonder what the French would do if Bin Laden had attacked the Eifel Tower/Paris or what the Germans would do if he slammed a plane into Bonn or Munich? Being that I am German and French (plus Irish, English, Swiss and Dutch - OK, yes I am an European mutt), I am sadden in their yellow striped spine attitude - of course the word COWARD comes to mind. The world needs to wake up and start some major ass kicking, and when we have the terrorists down, kick them in the head just for effect!

A friend of mine just returned from a month in Baghdad visiting his parents and family, something he has been unable to do for over ten years. Before he came home to the US, he got the opportunity to swim in one of Sadam's palace pools while waiting for his visa to be cleared. He says things aren't perfect, but they are now free with the exception that the terrorists there need to be eradicated.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto famously fretted, "I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."

YA THINK????

Beware of the Sleeping Giant: http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2001/12/7/115906


LIVE FREE or DIE
harry d brown jr

[John Payne_2]

(My virtual moment of silence)
John

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

snap out of it Harry, you're mixing up politics where it doesn't belong. The Iraq affair is not related to 9/11.
Everyone understands that any loss of life is deplorable no matter where it takes place. Be they French/German or American.

[Steven E. Protter]

I woke up from a nightmare this morning.

Just like the one I woke up to two years ago.

I got sad and depressed again and then remembered.

At least I'm alive, when so many are not.

I stop myself from complaining about the security as they prepare a $7 million rennovation of the building I work in, a target so it can survive a truck bomb.

Thank G-d I'm alive to be protected.

I'm with Harry. I'm with Bill. I support the actions taken to protect us and I pray they can stop soon.

Today I'm weary. I can look at pictures of a cafe a block from where I took my kids two years ago on Emek Rafaim. When are we going to stop killing each other and get on with building a better life.

Do you look upon firefighters and police in your town with renewed respect? Do you still recognize that they'd charge into a burning buildinig to save you?

I wonder about myself. Would I have done anything that day? Would I have volunteered my rusty piloting skills to save flight 93.

The acts of bravery shall remain with me the rest of my life. The day I saw death. They day I learned to properly appreciate my life.

Remember.

Steve

[Sundar_7]

Let us pray for peace and also hope more & more people understand India is geographically different from Taliban, Afghan & Iraq.

[Geoff Wild]

We will never forget.



Believe it or not, but today is my birthday - so it hit me pretty hard when it happened....



Peace on Earth....



Rgds...Geoff

[Jeff Schussele]

Happy Birthday Geoff!

Yes it's a shame that people or things have to go & spoil perfectly good dates like - Sep 11, Dec 7 or even my birthday Apr 14 - the day that 1) Titanic hits an iceberg & 2) Abraham Lincoln is shot. Which is very ironic for me as I'm a native of Springfield Ill. But I'm understandably proud that he, arguably the greatest American ever, was a homeboy.

Cheers,
Jeff

[doug mielke]

Jeff,
April 14 is truly infamous. Lincoln's last day, Titanic's last day, and me staying up late to make the last day of Income Tax filing season.

As we ponder world affairs and conflicts, I'm cheered by the fact that we on this board, an international gathering of people with just a single common interest, constitute a loosly knit society. One that not only wishes no harm to one another, but one that makes the effort to help each other on a daily basis.




( of course, if you mess with me I'm gonna have to muss you up)

[doug mielke]

..I should add that that last quote was not original.

Bugs Bunny, I believe.

[W.C. Epperson]

Every morning at 9:00, as Chief of Systems Engineering here, I conduct what we call our "MOM/POP" meeting (Morning Operations Meeting/Preview of Priorities), with my staff standing in the area in front of my service dispatcher's desk and me working the agenda using her counter as a sort of podium.

Two years ago this morning, I started what I expected to be a routine meeting, but a couple of minutes in, the dispatcher, watching her screen, said "An airplane just hit the World Trade Center!". I recall saying something to the effect of "How could that happen?", and trying to go on with the agenda. A few more minutes went before she said "Another airplane just hit the WTC". At that point we knew there was no accident, but I stubbornly trudged through the agenda and dispatched the troops.

This morning, I walked in, sat down (I never do this) and told the staff that I was abandoning the usual format today. I asked them just to have a free form discussion of what was on their minds. About half of it was the sort of stuff we usually discuss, the other half about what happened two years ago and the people who died.

I'm very proud of our folks, and of all of you too.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

At the going down of the sun
and in the morning we shall remember them.



























Paula

[Martin Johnson]

Never forget.

Not me! I grew up less than a quarter mile from the WTC. I watched them dig the holes. I watched them slowly raise to the heavens.

I watched TV in horror as they came down. My father watched in person as he still lives less than a quarter mile from Ground Zero.

Marty

[John Poff]

So as I rush around today trying to get Sendmail to work
correctly on a Linux box to get e-mail working so that
a developer can test a system that is behind schedule,
and I rush to get two more systems on the network so that
our DBAs can load and configure some software, and as I
meet with some developers to try to convince them to use
the Bash shell and not the Korn shell on a Linux box, and
as I try to get ready to go out of town tomorrow, ...

I stop and remember those who lost their lives two years ago
today and I realize that maybe all this nonsense I fool with
today really isn't so important.

They are gone but they are not forgotten.

JP

[Jeff Schussele]

Well said, JP, well said.

[Michael Tully]

lest we forget ...