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Hearing the stories this morning as I drove pass the VP's house brought me to tears and I thought of this song in a bit of anger.

Is It For FREEDOM?


SARA THOMSEN

Rulers of the nations as you fuss and fight
Over who owns this or that and who has the right
To design, build, sell and store and fire
All the bombs and guns to defend your holy empire

There are children hungry, children sick and dying
There are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers crying
They're only pawns in your play of power and corruption
Slowly starve them, your new weapon of mass destruction

CHORUS:
And prove to me America, that you care
And prove to me America, that you're aware
Who's dying for your freedom in this land?
Who pays the cost for the liberties you demand?

Is it for freedom, or our comfort and convenience
Is it to profit for big business we pledge our allegiance
Are we prisoners in the land of the brave and the bold?
Held by indifference or hearts grown hard and cold

CHORUS

Children of the world, you have the right
To sing and dance, run and play, let your dreams take flight
As the innocent die you rulers carry the shame
And if we stand idly by we share in the blame

And oh, America, do we care?
Oh, America, are we aware?
Who's dying for our comfort in this land?
Who pays the cost for the convenience we demand?

Children of the world, you have the right
To sing and dance, run and play, let your dreams take flight



Peace

PatrickBateman

I remember that day like yesterday. Puts a damper on my mother's birthday

nuffingman

PatrickBateman wrote:

I remember that day like yesterday. Puts a damper on my mother's birthday

and my Sister's. She doesn't feel right celebrating anymore.

Happy birthday Sis

xavier mcdaniel

nfanel wrote:

i was at work in philadelphia. a coworker IM'ed me and said "something bad happened." i was busy running a call and was annoyed, thinking he was being dramatic. shortly after that everyone was in the conference room watching it all unfold on tv. got on a conference call with our coworkers in arlington, va. who then told us about the pentagon.

after that the rumors started flying in about all of these other attacks.... now we have the hindsight, but at the time it was pretty terrifying to be in a skyscraper anywhere on the east coast since the rumors were flying in about all of these other attacks (most of which weren't true). our director told us to go home but they evacuated the high rises in philly shortly afterwards anyhow.

was chaos in the streets here...people running to catch trains, sitting 4 people in 3 people seats. spent most of the day trying to get in touch with my friends in new york, having a general nauseous feeling, and feeling like i was going to wake up from a bad dream.

i had nightmares for weeks. i remember the first time a plane flew by our window at work and everyone in the conference room just kind of stopped and looked and then let out a sigh. really thought nothing would ever be normal again and remember it being so refreshing to play with my young nieces/nephews since kids were the only ones that were innocent to it all and carried on with normalcy.

my heart goes out to everyone who lost family and friends.

I had the same thing with the dream. It didn't hit me until the next time I went to work in Jersey City and the smoke and rubble was easy to spot even from across the Hudson River.

EvilMerlin

I was in my freshman year of college and I was up watching it on TV getting ready for class when saw the second plane hit. I went to my European History class and my professor had it on the TV for about 5 minutes, then gave a quick lectue on his initial thoughts before cancelling class. All classes after that were cancelled for the day as well.

He talked about how this will be implanted and burned into our brains, and that we're watching history happen and that he doesn't mean to be insensitive within such a short period, but he felt that it was going to be the beginning of many overreactions by the people of our country and that it will probably be used to get more power into the hands of our administration if we don't step back and take a look at this and analyze slowly. The quicker our decisions to act, the worse the outcome will be and the farther it'll spread around the country and/or world.

A few students were pissed off and left, others spoke their mind back to him and others were still in shock of what was happening.

For a while after, protests began and rallies to protest the protesters began, and racial tensions grew stronger. I witnessed many middle eastern students get jumped right on campus.

angie76

I can't beleive it's been 7 years okay. I remember every detail about that day.

iamica

Crazy, sad day. I was a junior in college. I woke up to the phone ringing at 8 AM; one of my friends had called, hysterically saying that a plane crashed into the WTC. I sleepily turned on the TV, thinking that some pilot had completely screwed up and gotten a bunch of people killed, and then I saw the second plane hit. I remember taking a shower, getting out and hearing the newscasters announce that a plane had just hit the Pentagon, and for the first time on live TV I saw a room full of newscasters stay completely silent for at least 10 seconds, in shock. I was stunned.
My classes were canceled that day. No one knew how to react; there were local reporters everywhere interviewing people. Everyone knew this meant war, we just didn't know when.
At the time the theatre department at my school was performing Macbeth, and MacDuff has a line that says, "What, all of my pretty ones, dead? What, all gone, in one fell swoop?" The final performances of the show were a couple of days after 9/11, and I remember hearing gasps and weeping from the audience when he said that line.
Sad, sad day.

Allie

jimed14 wrote:

No, I wasn't supposed to be there that day ... the folks in NYC, the finance folks in all our business units, actually reported up to us in Boston. But, one of our subsidiaries was actually in the WTC ... sadly, two of the people lost were the CFO and VP of Finance for that sub.

Part of my job after that day was to reconstruct their financials as all their records were completely destroyed. I also had to somehow construct a financial plan for them as well, and deal with the insurance claims. Immensely grueling as at times, I was forced to sit down and talk to people about the finances of the company ... and it just brought up horrific memories.

You're right about the "hawkers" .... the observation platform they put up at one point, and the visitors that would come and look, turned my stomach.

whoa, I can't even imagine having to do that job.
whoa.

and black diamond! Whoa. I am so sorry.

NY PJ, where is he? Did he get banned again? I believe he lost a lot of friends and family members. I just remembered, I worked with this poor woman, a nurse, she had just had a baby, he was a little one, and her husband worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. We all went to his funeral and she somehow had the strength and courage to eulogize him and stand up with their son. It was one of the saddest things I'd ever seen.

Bathgate66

while it is important that we all Never Forget ,


its just as important to Always Remember.

even 2 days past 7 years gone by ,
& the next 363 days to come till it'll be 8 years ,



Not sure how many heard it , but here in NYC , a local radio station ( Q 104.3 ) held the on air moment of silence, they then went uninterupted right into this , a most appropriate song from the album that says it all , The Rising , with every track on it.



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I woke up this morning
I could barely breathe
Just an empty impression
In the bed where you used to be
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to the empty sky

Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky

Blood on the streets
Yeah blood flowin' down
I hear the blood of my blood
Cryin' from the ground

Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky

On the plains of Jordan
I cut my bow from the wood
Of this tree of evil
Of this tree of good
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to an empty sky

Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky












for my friends:

NYC Firefighter
Eugene Whelan


NYC Firefighter
John Heffernan




You're Missing
Shirts in the closet, shoes in the hall
Mama's in the kitchen, baby and all
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
But you're missing

Coffee cups on the counter, jackets on the chair
Papers on the doorstep, you're not there
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
But you're missing

Pictures on the nightstand, TV's on in the den
Your house is waiting, your house is waiting
For you to walk in, for you to walk in
But you're missing, you're missing
You're missing when I shut out the lights
You're missing when I close my eyes
You're missing when I see the sun rise
You're missing

Children are asking if it's alright
Will you be in our arms tonight?

Morning is morning, the evening falls I have
Too much room in my bed, too many phone calls
How's everything, everything?
Everything, everything
You're missing, you're missing

God's drifting in heaven, devil's in the mailbox
I got dust on my shoes, nothing but teardrops