May I suggest our own silent memorial for 911 tomorrow? (page 4)

clarity

Snoozy ... Love is coming to you from me in Canada. I'll be thinking of you. So sorry.

clarity

BizzyBee

I'll remember. That's all anyone can do.

agonus

I wear Old Spice myself... AND I don a fedora. Been complimented on both more than once.

Whattya think Serenity? A youngish Harrison Ford? Eh? Eh?

;)

AGuest

Please pardon the intrusion, but I'm confused (may you all have peace!) and so perhaps someone can enlighten me::

Why 9-11? Why not, say, April 19th (anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing)? Or September 15th (anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing)? Or August 7th (anniversary of US embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam , Tanzania)? Or October 7th through March 31st (anniversary of the bombings of civilians in Afghanistan)? What about August 6th... and 9th (anniversary of the bombing that caused near-total destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- where approximately 140,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed)? And all of the other dates where bombings of some sort took the lives of the innocent?

Am I saying no "silent memorial" for 9-11? No. I am asking why that date... what makes that date more "special" than any other date where innocent people are caught between the "warring" factions of their fellow humans... and none of the others?

Just asking... and still confused... but I bid you all peace.

A slave of Christ who doesn't see the difference, really...

SA

BizzyBee

Good point, Shelby. And a good reminder that it is all relevant. What was so shocking to us here on US soil on 9/11 is a regular occurrence in other places - often at our own hands.

agonus

I'll tell you why 9/11 is so relevant for me: It was "my generation's" Pearl Harbor/Titanic/Hindenburg/JFK assassination/moon landing. In my thirtysomething years in this country, I've never experienced anything quite so earth-shattering. I remember talking to my wife on the phone when it happened. She was pregnant with our first child and I remember her crying and saying she couldn't believe what she was seeing. I actually thought - for ONCE in all my years as a JW - "well, this is it. Armageddon is finally happening..." I was working at a PC customization facility and I remember all the radios in the building broadcasting the same story. It was utterly surreal, like something out of a movie.

Again, if you're not a youngish American, it may not mean that much to you.

BizzyBee

Again, if you're not a youngish American, it may not mean that much to you.

Au contraire, young agonus - your perspective is a little off. Make no mistake, this was unequivocally the pivotal event for everyone in the US since 1963, age 10 or age 90.

Nothing will ever be the same.

Sam Whiskey

I'll be having hot sex with the Mrs. from 8:46 am - 10:28 am EDT...in mammory to the victims....

Tatiana

I remember waking up that morning as usual. Sending the boys to school. The oldest at home was 12. The youngest was 9. I was alone that morning and didn't have the TV on. I had the computer on. I walked by and noticed a picture that looked like news of one of the towers burning. I thought it was a trailer for a movie. I went to the bathroom, came back to the computer with a cup of coffee. Sat down and turned the volume on the speakers up. What I heard shocked me so badly I could not move. By the time I figured out what was going on I was out of the door running to the school to get my sons.

I went home and sobbed and kept on sobbing for a week. I taped every channel and every news announcement. I taped over the O.J. trial. That certainly didn't seem important anymore. I still have the tapes. I kept my sons next to me all day and night for a week. I could not stop crying.

Yes, there is war and murder and atrocities and horrible incidents all over the world...we humans are masters at hurting one another. Many times for no reason at all. I ache inside when I think of all the children who are suffering and all the innocent people who die in the diamond mines and in the drug 'war'...this just hit far too close to home.

I will observe this time of silence for all the innocent victims who die for our ignorance and apathy.

X 1,000,000,000,000,000

AGuest

A couple/few questions, dear Tatiana, if I may (peace to you!), and I mean them in all sincerity:

Why did this particular atrocity affect you more than any of the others?
Has any that has occurred since affected you similarly and, if so, will you be observing a moment of silence for such?
Why did you fear for your sons?
Will you observe any other times of silence for any other atrocities resulting from our ignorance and apathy... before... or since?

My questions are sincere, truly. I am just trying to understand why THIS event really IS so much "different" for some... than any of the others.

Again, I wish you peace!

A slave of Christ,

SA

May I suggest our own silent memorial for 911 tomorrow?

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