You're wrong again in this thread. The hell the WTC wasn't a "strategic target" for the hijackers!! The intent was simple, try and disrupt the World Economy. They damn near succeeded. However, they did not target only "Americans". Citizens of over 90 countries lost their lives in the attacks. It seems the "other countries" get lost in shuffle in 99% of the conversations relating to 9/11.
I almost lost a cousin in the Pentagon attack. Her original office was consumed by the nose of the plane, not a missile. A USMC guard, risked a Courts Martial, to retrieve her purse from her meeting room (In another wing until that wing's construction was complete) so she could get her cell phone.
You are obviously too young to be replying to a lot of these threads.
I didnt leave out the other countries. Notice how I used civilians instead of americans. I used it in big capital letters too. I'm sorry I didnt have time to list the 90 other countries in my post.
And thinking about it and looking at it, yes, it was a brilliant strategic plan. The only problem is, It did NOTHING. The only thing it ACCOMPLISHED was killing alot of civilians. It's not about what it was planned to be, it's about what it actually accomplished. And it accomplished absolutely nothing.
Imagine if flight 91 made it to washington and they ended up killing the president. I wonder what the war on terror would have been like with that angry SOB cheney at the helm.
Anyway...
My parents were both in the NYPD and were emergency responders to Ground Zero. They were then rescue workers after the towers collapsed sifting through the rubble for survivors.
They didnt end up going back to their normal jobs untill early 2003. They worked as cleanup and rescue workers for the entirety of the WTC cleanup.
Some close family friends were lost when the towers collapsed. My mother's partner was killed along with one of my mother's old friends who was working as a firefighter at the time.
Needless to say, the WTC attacks left a lasting impression in our family. When we see that a mosque is being built so close to what we view as sacred ground, especially when there's almost no muslim populace living on manhattan island. It's an insult to NYC, to the victims of the WTC attacks, to the United states, and most of all, to the surviving families of those killed that day.
I take it as insulting, that's my opinion. If I were to build a mosque in NYC, I would build it where the muslims live. How about brooklyn? You know, where the majority of that populace is.
In case you've never been to new york city and have never seen the commute to manhattan at 3:00, let me assure you, it really really sucks.
And please, youre from Michigan. You werent there, I was. You dont live in New York, I do. The opinion of the peanut gallery is not wanted.
Youre obviously not mature enough to be replying to this thread.
