boston.com — Tomorrow marks a somber anniversary, seven years since the attacks of September 11th, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people from 90 different countries were killed that day, in New York City, at the Pentagon in Virginia, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Here is a brief look back, several views from today, and a peek into the future of these sites.
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mchoffaSep 11, 2008
it's not a party issue... both sides voted for all the bulls**t that has happened since 2001
atlien74Sep 11, 2008
There were a lot of lives lost that day, and we all lost a huge chunk of our freedom that day.
proelSep 12, 2008
I think there's a fine balance between "lest we forget" and the way the national media treats this as yet another thing to cannibalize and sensationalize. So while I don't agree with the media using it to make money, I do think it's something that we should keep in mind, if only because we need to draw lessons from it.And I do think that we shall overcome. I'm not sure why I was getting dugg down for it. Should we continue to dwell on it and have it affect our day to day life, or should we remember it respectfully but continue on with our lives? I'd think option 2 would be most acceptable. Apparently not.
paidhimaSep 12, 2008
I think maybe my cynicism came on a little too strong there. It had a profound effect, positive and negative, on a lot of people. It gave some people pause, and made them look at their fellow Americans as, well, fellow Americans. It brought out something much darker in others, and they confused patriotism with blind racism. For still others, it merely gave latent prejudices and hatreds a voice.If we're going to really remember things, we need to remember them as they were. It shows that we are capable of laying aside differences - even for just a few moments - and accept each other for what we have in common as opposed to deride each other for how we are different. But it also shows how easy it is to find ourselves with the attitudes that allow for such dangerously casual cruelty based solely on bad assumptions.I dugg you up, by the way. What you said was not incorrect.
boobsbrSep 12, 2008
@DulcetTonehuh?
Closed AccountSep 13, 2008
Yah but you're obviously stupid, so call it Vanilla ice cream for all I care about.
atlien74Sep 18, 2008
I'm not being disrespectful, I'm being patriotic. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. What they are doing is disrespectful, using that horrible event to siphon our freedoms away. Don't get it twisted.
kilobobaSep 20, 2008
9/11 was a false flag op. Two planes can not demolish three steel framed towers. WTC 7 imploded at free fall speed. Flight 93's crash sight shows a bomb crater. A plane didn't hit the pentagon the hole was to small. Our country has been hijacked by terrorists to implement the New World Order. The first responders are dying from the asbestos in the air and the Gov. spends millions on memorials. Watch fabled enemies and truth rising to see how the fire fighter's really feel about that day. Bombs going off everywhere!