Originally posted by FUNKED1
Amazing how we got worked up about stuff that didn't directly affect us. A few thousand people killed... Just a drop in the bucket compared to the slaughter going on every day around the world. But we went nuts for a while.
Out of the five families that lost parents, one was a very close friend, and the other was my best friends father you as*hole! A man who used to stay up late with us at sleep over's as a kid...a man who used to drive me to sport practices every day...a man who treated me no different then if I were his own son...Dont give me that bull about being directly affected....Oh yea, did I mention that his son, and my best friend Tom, graduated from West Point this past May? I really hope your path's cross one day funked....
Not affected huh....Does your father work in Manhattan? No? Mine does...For the past five years, and until retirement, my family always has to carry around in the back of their mind, that our loved one is working in the most targeted city in the United States for a terror attack, and even the most minute emergency, brings fear to us....
Not affected huh? My uncle is an airline pilot for United. He happened to be flying on 9-11-2001 during the attacks...My family now has to live with the lingering fear of what if in the back of our minds.......
AND NOT AFFECTED huh??????? On September 10th, 2001, I planned on making a living flying commercial jets....On September 12th, I decided to commission into the US Army after college graduation, and fly Army Helicopters, which I am a stones thow away from right now....
So dont give me your BS about not being affected