For me, the best car speakers are the ones that provide the best combination of fidelity and power….

Six years on, and reading the comments above, it seems like 9/11 has become a Rorschach test where people find profound reinforcement for feelings they already possessed: maybe we are too empirial, maybe we took for granted our isolation, maybe Islam has to be dealt with, maybe we need to go to war, and so on.

Two of the many questions that I’ve had over the past 6 years.
1.)Are we taking too much comfort from our best-in-the-world military engaged with an enemy that is unconventional and only in some aspects itself military?
2.)While Bin Laden was behind 9/11, do we continue to do enough on “defense” in case another attack is not from the Islamic world but from a different small group of well-organized fantatics.

As we remember today,September 11,your President,George Bush
is an honest honourable man,he’s right for job,and he is right for the time.

The left has spent more time,appeasing muslim fanatics
and a campaign of hateing George Bush,then actually
fighting the WOT,but to be fair,left and right are
Americans period.

With all the idiot comments from some Canadians in the media
I would just like to say that Canada is an ally and friend.

So today I salute you, GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Those of you who mentioned a movie about Rick Rescorla, I have not seen it but I want to catch it tonight. The History Channel is showing the docudrama The Man Who Predicted 9/11 about him this evening at 11:00.

INC on September 11, 2007 at 7:03 PM

Thank you so much!

I’m headed for the TIVO right now. Much appreciated.

Prof B, thank you for the links to Rick Rescorla.

Those of you who mentioned a movie about Rick Rescorla, I have not seen it but I want to catch it tonight. The History Channel is showing the docudrama The Man Who Predicted 9/11 about him this evening at 11:00.

Today is September 11. We must never forget nor fail to learn the lessons of that horrific day in 2001 when the al Qaeda attacked. More from Hot Air and A Blog for All. Picture from Adirondack Base Camp….

Today is September 11. We must never forget nor fail to learn the lessons of that horrific day in 2001 when the al Qaeda attacked….

Today is September 11. We must never forget nor fail to learn the lessons of that horrific day in 2001 when the al Qaeda attacked….

I think it was just past two o’clock in London, after lunch. I heard that a plane had hit the World Trade Tower, and I thought of that light aircraft that had crashed into the White House, back when Bill Clinton was President. That thought didn’t last very long.

Silence on the London Underground, on the way home. I still have masses of Teletext screendumps and television captures on my hard drive somewhere.

And then there were anthrax attacks. And a month later it seemed as if it was all happening again.

the goddess anna on September 11, 2007 at 4:09 PM

Glad to know that DLI isn’t an open base anymore.

Small world – I graduated from the Russian program at DLI in June 1991.

Indeed it is. (1992 for me.)

Small world indeed.

the goddess anna on September 11, 2007 at 4:09 PM

Small world – I graduated from the Russian program at DLI in June 1991.

I didn’t even know they were still cranking our Russian linguists by 2001 – I was in Edzell, Scotland after 4 months at Goodfellow AFB, and by the the CCCP was already falling apart and boring us all to tears.

Even when I was at DLI, the Arab guys were already getting all the action (I was actually there when Desert Shield/Storm kicked off). I always wondered what it was like for the Arab linguists after 9/11.

I actually went through Monterey with my wife a couple years back, and I was really saddened to find out that I couldn’t get on the base anymore to show her around. When I was there, it was pretty much the main highway for all the locals going up the hill and over to Pacific Grove. I can’t believe it’s now a closed base. I think in 1991 we had exactly zero security; I think they stuck a couple soldiers by the gate when a few hippie protesters showed up in Jan/Feb 1991.

Like I said, small world.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/09/first-you-must-.html

And here’s a petition that’s going around to have Pres. Bush award him the Medal of Freedom (although I think it ought to be the CMH … regardless of his active duty status at the time):

http://www.petitiononline.com/pmfrick/petition-sign.html

Six years ago, I was at DLI in Monterey, CA. My barracks-mate recieved a phone call as we were getting ready for muster. I remember rushing to the only room that had cable to watch billowing smoke 3000 miles away. Still, I had class, and my Russian instructors (sadists all) would only let us watch the news through the New York Russian station. Our military instructors warned us to be nice to the Arabic teachers, the Farsi ones were apologizing left and right, and the poor Marines pulled double duty on our then open base. I cried when I called my mom, thinking the next logical place for terrorists to hit would be the military’s language school. I was 18, but I feel that I aged 10 years that day.

My Soviet-born & bred teachers couldn’t have cared less at the time, and I remember distinctly the admonishment that ‘we must continue on’ with our scheduled lessons. At the time, it hurt. Now it hurts that there are people who believe that my friends and former coworkers, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere are the terrorists, and would blame our government for the actions of a foreign threat. I didn’t lose anybody on 9/11, but I have known people injured going after those SOBs, and I sincerely hope we hunt them all down before it’s too late.

Thanks for letting me vent.

csdeven and Limerick: I have sat at my computer and cried for the last hour looking at pictures of my cousin meeting her children at the airport yesterday. She finally returned from Baghdad and I just can’t get over the flood of relief that she’s home safely and the beauty of her gorgeous children running into her arms with their little American flags. Please know I’ll be thinking of you and your families. Thank you and please thank your boys.

Shortly after 9-11 my husband joined the army.

Brat September 11, 2007 at 3:05 PM

Rescorla is the perfect candidate for a movie. Hello Hollywood? Anyone there want to make a movie about a real hero?

I guess this one wouldn’t interest Brian DePalma!

dbdiva on September 11, 2007 at 3:33 PM

Yup, long gone are the days when the residents of Hollwierd loved America or were patriotic, now they are to America what AIDS is to individuals.