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AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY Wednesday, September 16, 2009


Somehow my blog-habits have been deteriorating.
The last time I posted was the fourth of September, which is nearly 12 days ago. Correction: 12 days ago. And bloody hell, I missed the anniversary of 9/11 and the other anniversary of 9/11.
I don't suppose you have any idea what I'm talking about.
Right. On the 11th of September in 1944, the first U.S. troops crossed the Rhine and set foot into Germany. That's a good thing. Which is a vast difference from what happened 57 years later.
I'm sure you've all heard that story.
You know, about this 9/11 thing. Every time you mention that you get a "oh, Osama Bin Laden" did it or "The US government did it. It was a conspiracy". But aren't people focusing on the wrong thing? I mean, sure, we all want to know who did it. But I think it's more important to remember who died in the attacks. Like George Bush said, "The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbours." They were just normal people. Not politicians or anybody that important. But the fact that they were normal, just like you and me, makes it all the worse.
Josef Stalin knew what he was talking about when he said "the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." J.F. Kennedy. A great man cut down too early. Everybody mourns him. At the same time the Vietnam War was just getting started and already a lot more people were getting killed than just one man. But no one remembers them. Anne Frank. Just because she wrote a bloody diary means everybody thinks about her when they think about the Holocaust. But how about the other 6 million people who died? We have to try our best to remember these people.
On that September 11, 2001 'a great people were moved to defend a great nation'. The New Yorkers justified that statement about 'a great people'. Firefighters, policemen rushed in to the building when others were rushing out, to save strangers. Bus drivers forgot about the fee and brought people wherever they needed to go. Inside the buildings themselves, workers helping people they don't know to get out, at the risk of their own lives. When the buildings collapsed there were ambulances driving into the smoke, not knowing what awaited them. But they did it. Because they knew that inside that smoke, people needed saving.
In a hitherto unknown place called Shanksville, Pennsylvania, United Airlines Flight 93 had crashed as well. Its target had been the White House, but thank God for those passengers on the plane because they revolted and brought the plane down. I'm sure the passengers knew that they would die earlier if they brought the plane down earlier, but heck, they must have said, we're going to buy it anyway. We should save the President and as many people as we can. And they did.
The name of the youngest person who died in the attacks is Christine Lee Hanson. She was 2 years old.
The oldest person to die was Robert Grant Norton. He was eighty five years old.
So why don't you pause in your busy life for a while and close your eyes. Think of all those people who died. The policemen. The firefighters. The workers. The people on the planes. Forget Osama. Forget Bush. These were the real heroes of Nine One One.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/lists/by-name/ (list of names of people who died)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Dg2eEhB30 (video of 911)


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Right. Let's see. I like WWII, Band of Brothers, and anything to do with either of them. And Writing.

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-Get a story published
-GO TO EUROPE/AMERICA
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-Get as many books as possible
-Watch all WWII movies

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-No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
-Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are gonna die. Now lets get the hell outta here.
-Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
-We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.
-You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.
-War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
-Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who'll fight.
-Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
-If you are going through hell...keep going.
-Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
-In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
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