General Remember day thread

[Ekaros]

So to continue on recent "trolling":
Remember: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_13
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

And some others who died on this date...

EDIT:
In nutshell: "**** happens!"

[Ekaros]

14.9.2004 # At least 45 people are killed and over 100 others are injured when a car bomb explodes in central Baghdad, Iraq. The blast leaves a three-meter (10 ft) crater in the road in a busy shopping area; many of the dead are Iraqi job-seekers who were queuing up outside a nearby police station. (BBC)
2005 :
    * 114 people die when a car bomb explodes in a Shia district of Baghdad called Kadhimiya. (BBC)
    * 17 people die in the town of Taji, near Baghdad when gunmen storm their homes. (BBC)

[pex]

Hi my name is Pex Becks and Project 9/13 is my new project
let us storm the steps of DC and call for some sort of change, a stagnance that government and liberals may have their hand in
100 thousand on steps
etc.
saw you there yesterday,
good show.

Poster to follow.

[pex]

Poster to follow.

i moment of silence for henry bliss
and i have asked my congressppl to spend time avoiding their oaths by repealing unlawful statues to instead name 3 post offices, 7 streets, and 4 bills after henry bliss
|henry bliss bill for the children to prevent cars with whistler tips| h.b. 6275 support it by contacting your representative

thank you.

[Ekaros]

15.9

1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.

[WhiteRice]

So are you posting these because you care about these events and the people involved, or to try and prove a point?

It comes off as pretty childish.

[Oqsy]

Yeah, it comes across as a very smartass euro-elitist response to the 9/11 thread.

I re-iterate my only post in that thread... I'm losing respect for more and more members here daily.  Surprisingly the few that I do respect a LOT happen to be politically polar opposites from me.  Go figure.

[ricercar]

I'd have to respect to be respected. In respect, I've hardly been respectful.

Remember the Alamo.

[ch_123]

Yeah, it comes across as a very smartass euro-elitist response to the 9/11 thread.

I'm going to have to agree too, but I think whether it be with 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Srebencia, the Holocaust or whatever, people who were affected by these things are going to remember it, and those who aren't aren't. When you start a thread in a discussion forum, you invite discussion. With things like 9/11 that caused so many ramifications, people will be very content to go on about whatever they felt about it without thinking of the tragedy. At the end of the day, there isn't a lot to discuss about the actual tragedy within of itself, 3000 people were wiped off the face in the earth in the space of a few hours. Such a thing is largely incomprehensible.

The point? People will react to the consequences and media coverage of a tragedy, and not really the tragedy itself because there's really nothing that can be said for something on that magnitude. Conclusion? Don't open threads on such things, and if one is opened, people aren't going to talk about the death and suffering.

[keyboardlover]

The point? People will react to the consequences and media coverage of a tragedy, and not really the tragedy itself because there's really nothing that can be said for something on that magnitude. Conclusion? Don't open threads on such things, and if one is opened, people aren't going to talk about the death and suffering.

The point of the original thread was to reflect on what actually happened, not the media coverage. And to reflect on every single innocent person who gave their lives that day for our country. It's not about the media coverage to those of us deeply affected by this tragedy. So respect that and if you don't like the thread, don't post in it.

And don't complain that the thread didn't mention other tragedies like the Bosnian war because it wasn't about that in the first place.

[Oqsy]

For once I'm not in the minority in an OT thread