What are you proud of? (503 hits)
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Submitted by Zandy1123 (View user info) at 2004-09-21 18:42:05 EDT
If you live in the United States, it's hard to drive anywhere these days without seeing some kind of patriotic bumper sticker. Without a doubt, 9/11 did more for the bumper sticker industry than, say, the invention of the bumper sticker!
Unfortunately, however, I can't seem to think of any real positive things that have happened as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
9/11 was a terrible day. I can remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. I was at work. I remember being able to get onto CNN.com seconds before it was so clogged with hits that the server shut down. I remember the terror I felt when I realized that 2 of my good friends and co-workers had taken the train into Manhattan early that morning for a meeting downtown. I remember not being able to hold back my tears when I went home for lunch and saw the footage of the twin towers falling. I remember regretting that I had never been to the top of either building, even though I lived so close. I guess I thought they would always be there...
In the hours and days after the attacks, I remember the fear and pain and uncertainty. But I also remember the feeling of hope. I remember thinking to myself, "There's no way that the world will stand for this! The whole world will be at our side...who could possibly argue? The world will join us...the world will help us...this is the kind of tragedy that could unite us all..."
Because that's what tragedy does. Tragedy causes pain, death, suffering, sadness, fear...but it also unites people; it brings people together. The events of 9/11 were so great in scale, so far-reaching that they offered that hope for unity.
So...where's the unity? Where's the solidarity?
I see people with their "God Bless America" and "Proud to be an American" bumper stickers and I can't help but feel ashamed. Don't get me wrong, I love my country, my home. But the attacks on 9/11 and the events of the past 3 years have merely served to divide the country - even the planet - when we really needed to come together as one.
I'm ashamed of us all for missing that opportunity. We're all to blame.
So, tomorrow, I'm taking the stance for unity. I'm going to make every concious effort to promote brotherhood. Because there is no peace without solidarity...I'm getting a new bumper sticker made:
"Proud to be Human"
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Submitted by Asylem (user info) at 2004-11-03 14:16:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
wow! It's good to know that people other than Canadians, have the same thoughts as I do.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2004-11-03 13:52:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Jabba_the_Shit (user info) at 2004-10-28 09:45:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
AUTO Zandy -2.
See? It's easy!
Submitted by Schwarzes_Glas (user info) at 2004-09-22 10:33:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I hear you man. It's almost like this ardent patriotism lasted as long as the cheap bumper stickers it was printed on. Everything you speak of is a result of 9-11. It's amazing how quickly people forget. And it's not like "Remember and mourn!" anymore - it's "Remember the gall" or "Remember the audacity!"
Problem is, once Americans speak negatively about their country, every bitch across the world (countries like Germany, France, Canada - fucking CANADA!) decides they have the balls to speak out against us. People forget so quickly...
Submitted by AwesomeJohnson (user info) at 2004-09-22 10:18:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I don't wanna go on a RANT here but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowolf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenstrates it's like Raskalnakov filibuster dioxymonohydrostinate.
thank you, family guy
Submitted by Zandy1123 (user info) at 2004-09-22 10:17:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
wow...someone missed the point altogether.
good job
Submitted by WhatTheHell (user info) at 2004-09-22 09:27:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
OH FUCK YOU DOUCHENOZZLE...
I hope a fucking plane flys up your ass you tard.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2004-09-22 08:42:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Firstly, I think you gloss over the primary thing to be proud of, that being the unity that we ALL shared in the days following 9/11. You have to remember what it was like on September 10th. We were almost as bitterly divided politically then as we are now, but suddenly all that was forgotten in light of what was really important.
The resurgance of patriotism was a good thing, in my opinion. The fact that people would go out on the street and talk to their neighbors, that they would stand in line to give blood, that young men and women signed up for the military for reasons other than getting college paid for . . . all good things. There was a rekindling of our understanding of "duty" and renewed appreciation for just what makes this country great.
Now that's all disintigrated and been forgotten, but for a time it was beautiful.
Submitted by Butler (user info) at 2004-09-21 19:54:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Proud to have low self esteem!
Submitted by oddity420 (user info) at 2004-09-21 19:48:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:47:55 (#)
Ranking: 1
Next time the entire world supports you, maybe you could try not insulting it because it doesn't follow you in a war that have nothing to do with 9/11.
Congratulate your president for taking a huge steaming dump for the unprecedented support the US recieved on after 9/11.
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The war wasn't directly connected to 9/11 no, but the war had everything to do with what we were trying to do because of 9/11. That is to try and rid the world of terroism. I personally don't believe that terroism will go away, but the rest of the world turned there back on the US, save for england, and a few other allies.
Submitted by SwissCamel (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:48:40 EDT (#)
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Nothing positive? Cheap flights man! Newspaper sales?! People who sell 'security' equipment. More good than bad!
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:47:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Humanist
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-09-21 18:47:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Next time the entire world supports you, maybe you could try not insulting it because it doesn't follow you in a war that have nothing to do with 9/11.
Congratulate your president for taking a huge steaming dump for the unprecedented support the US recieved on after 9/11.