It Has Been Five Yaers Now,sept 11 2001

[Hellion]

I have not much to say,even though I have noticed all the things that have changed since the attack happened 5 years ago,considering how tough airport security is now,and going to Canada is more oa P.I.T.A. now.let alone the economy.

share your opinions.

[Paper Hearts]

I think mainly, the danger was there all along...and it's still there. But the attack came, finally, and it tested the metal of a freedom loving people. Immediately, thank God, we had a President with the brains to deduce that in order to preserve freedom that we needed to give it up. And , I don't know, it's just something natural that freedom loving people do when they get scared...they don't demand 'Give me liberty or give me death', like pansies. Because of course, we don't need to worry about having to live under absolutism, ever...because our president loves freedom and so will all the rest to come...and that's why we need to give W complete control. I think the next thing we should do is censor the Constitution, because it's offensive.

Alright, I'm being facetious.

Mainly Americans have changed.

[BrassFusion]

Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

News had just come over

We had five years left to cry in

News guy wept and told us

Earth was really dying

Cried so much his face was wet

Then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies

I saw boys, toys electric irons and TVs

My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

And all the fat-skinny people

And all the tall-short people

And all the nobody people

And all the somebody people

I never thought I'd need so many people...

A girl my age went off her head

Hit some tiny children

If the black hadn't pulled her off

I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm

Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest

And a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor

Drinking milkshakes cold and long

Smiling and waving and looking so fine

Don't think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor

And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

Your face, your race, the way that you talk

I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, what a surprise

Five years, stuck on my eyes

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

Five years

Five years

Five years

Five years

[phee]

To be honest... I have changed personally so much in the last 5 years.... it is hard to tell...

I know our Government is hated by most of the world... which is nothing new... but for a few months their right afterwords... we actually had a lot of support... now we are hated more then ever.

Hmmm.... I know that we are more closely monitored by our own government then before.... not sure it that is bad or good yet... jury still out.

What else...

Not sure...

Harder to travel....

More stereotyping...

[JaneDead]

for me personally nothing has really changed. my day to day life is exactly the same. i have not travelled since then so i have yet to see the security measures at the airport and all that.

when it first happened i noticed a lot of changes in my neighborhood. changes that didn't last though (high increase in gas over night, people lined up down the street to get gas. shortage of bottled water, toilet paper and other basics at my store. i would see people in there with a cart just FULL of toilet paper or water. it amazed me. it was like it was the end of the world)

and then somehow, slowly, things just got back to "normal". it was talked about less, i saw it less on tv, gas went to normal prices, people were not freaking out and stocking up.

i'm aware of what HAS actually changed, that's for sure. but no, my day to day is exactly the same. i just have 2 more kids now

[Steven]

Pushing through the market square

So many mothers sighing

News had just come over

We had five years left to cry in

News guy wept and told us

Earth was really dying

Cried so much his face was wet

Then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies

I saw boys, toys electric irons and TVs

My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

And all the fat-skinny people

And all the tall-short people

And all the nobody people

And all the somebody people

I never thought I'd need so many people...

A girl my age went off her head

Hit some tiny children

If the black hadn't pulled her off

I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm

Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac

A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest

And a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor

Drinking milkshakes cold and long

Smiling and waving and looking so fine

Don't think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor

And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there

Your face, your race, the way that you talk

I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, what a surprise

Five years, stuck on my eyes

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

Five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, what a surprise

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes

We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Five years, that's all we've got

Five years

Five years

Five years

Five years

this would make a great rock song Brass. Steal it from you I would if I could.......

[LuluVox]

this would make a great rock song Brass. Steal it from you I would if I could.......

It already is a great rock song. By David Bowie.

[BrassFusion]

this would make a great rock song Brass. Steal it from you I would if I could.......

heh. i'm very complimented that you thought i wrote it.

[Scary Guy]

Some things never change however.

Like I still don't care...

[Dubh Aingeal]

Until we stop policing the world like our own shit is perfect (which it is so far from not) we will always be hated and attacked.

[Msterbeau]

I found myself unusually emotional about 9/11 today. Hmm..

[Head Wreck]

5 years... has it reaLLY BEEN THAT LONG

[Hellion]

:devil Our freedoms,have changed drastically,IMO

[Steven]

It already is a great rock song. By David Bowie.

dang.

[Steven]

heh. i'm very complimented that you thought i wrote it.

despite your torrid reputation I've become a fan.... (dont get cocky)

[BrassFusion]

despite your torrid reputation I've become a fan.... (dont get cocky)

of WHAT? lol, i haven't posted any of my horrendous poetry, right? and i'm sure you've never heard me sing

[Steven]

of WHAT? lol, i haven't posted any of my horrendous poetry, right? and i'm sure you've never heard me sing

...of your torrid reputation....

[Liberal Larry]

9/11. An occasion not for partisan bickering or political finger-pointing, but a time to honor those who lost their lives while Bush read a story about a pet goat to a bunch of kindergartners. 9/11 should be a National Day of Mourning, reduced to a meaningless slogan and covered by a protective layer of schmaltz. But quicker than Bush knocked down those towers, he was on the boob tube monday exploiting 9/11 for his own advantage.

Democrats were understandably outraged. The Jersey Grrrls took time out from campaigning for John Kerry to blast Bush for politicizing the tragedy. Michael Moore cut short a special screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 at Hugo Chavez’s place. Ted Kennedy was so upset he could hardly keep his car on the road. Bush’s sickening invocation of 9/11 on 9/11, of all days, was a slap in the face of every decent, red-blooded American. And quite a few liberals, too. His insistence on constantly using the attacks (if there actually were any) to justify his illegal and immoral War on Terror not only insults the memory of the fallen, but places Democrat leaders in the awkward position of either siding with America and our troops, or being branded as unpatriotic douchebags. Thus, the 11th of every September becomes little more than a free campaign ad for Republican politicians who consider national defense to be a priority.

The American People deserve better.

In order to preserve our democracy, steps must be taken to create a more level political playing field and restore the Spirit of Bi-Partisanship our Founding Fathers envisioned when they wrote it into the Constitution. The logical course of action would be to abolish 9/11 altogether, jumping straight from 9/10 to 9/12 each year. An extra day could be added to the end of the month to make up for it, or we can put it after April 22nd and turn Earth Day into a two-day affair.

However, in the Spirit of Bipartisanship, Democrats may have to scrap that idea and offer up some sort of compromise. For instance, Repugs could keep their precious 9/11, in exchange for their cooperation in passing a Congressional resolution that would effectively prohibit all right-wing blogs, hate radio jocks, TV pundits, and politicians from speaking or writing about 9/11 in a manner that makes Democrats look like a bunch of limp-wristed weenies more concerned with protecting the enemy’s feelings than crushing him.

In addition, Bush and other Republicans leaders will refrain from implying in any way that Iraq is a part of the War on Terror. Saddam didn’t attack us. The guys in Iraq who want to chop off our heads, rip out our intestines, dismember our corpses, and then convert us to Islam are an entirely different group of people than the ones who supposedly flew planes into our buildings. Therefore, the War in Iraq is merely a distraction. Since 9/11 happened not in Bagdhad but on our own soil, Bush should confine his silly War on Terror to a 13 block radius in Lower Manhattan.

I’m sure that those who died on that fateful day - if they really did die - would join together with me in the Spirit of Bipartisanship and agree with everything I've said.