tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052112857453370442.post8333302302269666653..comments2024-02-28T05:21:29.322-05:00Comments on THE NUTMEG LAWYER: 9/12Adrian M. Baronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09834139062043181558noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052112857453370442.post-14560727721885609752011-12-13T06:51:25.558-05:002011-12-13T06:51:25.558-05:00I remember getting my hair cut when all of the TV ...I remember getting my hair cut when all of the TV stations switched over to Breaking News of the Twin Towers. It was the most shocking and surreal thing I have, and probably will ever, see and although I had no relatives or friends to worry about that day, it deeply affected me emotionally. I still think about it from time to time with sadness and regret for all of the people that were lost.Olliershttp://www.olliers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052112857453370442.post-70595615825148484472011-09-18T13:30:25.672-04:002011-09-18T13:30:25.672-04:00For those of us who have traveled abroad in places...For those of us who have traveled abroad in places where Americans are not liked or even blatantly hated, 9/11 was no surprise-it was expected. The surprise for us was that it took so long in coming. I fully expected it 25 years sooner. I suppose these people needed the cellphone technology to pull it off-I don't know. The jet aircraft have certainly been there. Crowded places and government buildings have always been there. <br /><br />What WAS breathtaking was the speed of the media coverage and the scope of the attacks. My computer screen was live with the scene within minutes of the first hit and recorded the second. THAT was unbelievable and unforgetable. <br /><br />Yes-people hate us. They have for a long, long time. Having walked the streets of countries and seen the stares of people over their machine guns, you have no idea of how good it is to see that flag at our embassy or to get home. <br /><br />The song says our flag "still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away." Well-yes, they can-if we aren't careful. And they want to do exactly that.Ellen T. Wrightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052112857453370442.post-29891285011700804192011-09-13T05:48:19.419-04:002011-09-13T05:48:19.419-04:00You don't need help remembering 9/11. Neither ...You don't need help remembering 9/11. Neither do I. But your post reminds me of all those politicians who must wear a flag pin on their lapel. I don't need one, I wear the flag in my heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052112857453370442.post-85101066839008049392011-09-12T12:26:15.796-04:002011-09-12T12:26:15.796-04:00Thank you, Adrian. It was very good, very personal...Thank you, Adrian. It was very good, very personal. Moving.<br /> I was in about the 3rd grade the first time I heard someone hated America. I knew about foreign enemies, the Nazis, "the Japs," but John Wayne helped my dad defeat them. <br /> It happened when a new boy transferred into my Catholic Elementary. Like a few other classmates, he was an immigrant. The others were from Europe or South America. He came from the mid-East. Lebanon, I think. After some long forgotten class discussion, he explained to me how his uncles back home hated America. I was shocked, after all, I said: "We're the good guys!" Then he said something I didn't quite get, something about Israel.<br /> All those decades later, come 9/11, what surprised me, was that so many were so shocked. Didn't they know the world can be an evil, violent place? And that some people hate us? Haven't they heard of the Holocaust? The Cold War? The Killing Fields?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com