posted on September 17, 2001 11:36:14 PM new
Excuse me but I couldn't help notice the topic dedicated to people complaining about whether or not anyone should sell flags/pins at 'unapproved" prices. I don't mean to be blunt folks, but 3 planes were just driven through important buildings and another one driven 25 feet into the ground with handcuffed women and stewardesses with slashed throats. Plus more than 5000 people on the ground are dead.
The "express purpose" for these attacks was to divide this nation into a million little camps fighting about large and small.
Those who did it are probably waiting to see if we're going at each others throat.
Let's fool them. Let's let them know WE are the civilized ones with important things to do with our minds and our lives.
Do we really want them to think we have nothing better to do than take precious time for the purpose of passing judgement about private transactions between two consenting adults while some 450 children of NY's best went to bed again without their Daddy.
Once again, tomorrow morning, the early birds at hundreds of commuter parking lots will break into tears as they pull into the parking lot and again survey 1000 empty cars that haven't moved since Tuesday morning.
Once again, tomorrow morning, one man, operating on fumes, will direct the logistical nightmare of organising men and machines to move 500,000 TONS of debris so it can be sifted three times by the FBI. This along with the thousands involved with tracking leads, and all the rest of the most complex investigation in the history of the world JUST so people have the right to #*!@ about flag prices.
We have citizens who are stupid enough to drive their car into a mosque at 80 mph and others who argue about flag prices. The way to beat the bastards that did this evil last Tuesday is to resist caving to our own lowest common denominator and make our lives matter for something good that will matter 100 years from now.
SUGGESTION #1
I would like to suggest that you buy one of those overpriced flags and spend some time thinking about the fact that our young men and women will soon spill their blood to protect your right to buy another flag at whatever price the seller and you agree upon.
SUGGESTION #2
Take a ride to the nearest Red Cross, Salvation Army, Food Bank and do something to help others. It will be therapy for you and you'll wonder what the big deal was about flag prices on something is unimportant as ebay.
SUGGESTION #3
Get a second job so you'll be able to buy that $5.00/gallon gasoline we'll be getting from the Dutch (Shell).
SUGGESTION #4
Bend your knee and say that prayer of thanks for being spared the loss others now have to endure. And while your on your knee, bring our nation and its leaders into focus. The decisions being made this week and for a long time to come are the most complex and dangerous in the history of this GREAT land. Leaders need followers who can help. This is a great endevour in good times and we are not in good times.
Yes, we have to get back to work. But we must not get back to what has passed for normal. Everything was changed on Tuesday and blaming some guy in Cinncinati looks silly. All the rules have changed and this nation, as Vince Lombardi always said, needs to get back to fundamentals.
posted on September 18, 2001 01:55:32 AM new
AMEN.... couldn't have said it better myself. You really got me when you mentioned the children going to bed each night without daddy. I can't imagine being the wife of one of the firefighters either lost in the tragedy or even one who continues to dig through the rubble with the slim hopes of finding a survivor. Enough of this pettiness.... there's bigger issues on our plates right now.
posted on September 18, 2001 02:31:56 AM new
Folks,
We understand this is a difficult time for many of us but as per the Announcement thread we are requesting that all non-eBay threads be posted to the Round Table Forum.
