Remember What is Really Important During This Game.
by iH8dallas on Sep 5, 2011 12:04 PM EDT
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We will never forget where we were 10 years ago Sunday. It was the day time stopped in America. September 11, 2001 was the day that the worst in people brought out the best in people.
Black or white, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Atheist or Agnostic, we all stood together united. It was the day I huddled in front of the television with complete strangers, hugged, prayed and cried with with my brothers and sisters.
When the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins kickoff this Sunday it will represent so much more than standings in the NFC East. This game represents two of the cities attacked and how we had to come together to help one another.
During this game take the time to think about what this day means. Take a moment to think about the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles that lost their lives that day. Think about the brave men and women that made the ultimate sacrifice to protect us. Think about the firefighters that ran into the towers selflessly to pull out their fellow Americans.
Whether you root for Big Blue or the Burgundy and Gold, stand together with them and remember what is really important and what this game is truly about.
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Whether you root for Big Blue or the Burgundy and Gold, stand together with them and remember what is really important and what this game is truly about.
Damn right, we all rep our other team’s colors…Red, White, and Blue.
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by BigBlueIntervention on Sep 5, 2011 2:06 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Screw that
I hope the Redskins annihilate the Giants. Its football. Besides, I think about 100,000s of dead Iraqis and Afghanis who died from bombing and who still are..people who had nothing to do with any of this. I guess that doesn’t matter because they are not Americans. Only the bombs that maimed and killed them. Its simply hard to pity the US or to sympathize when considering the response. Just start leveling everything.
I didn't know that Afghan or Iraqi lives were worth more than US lives.
Is it tragic that they were innocents that were killed as a byproduct of war? Absolutely. Does it pain me to know that they are suffering constantly? Yes.
Nowhere in this post did ih8dallas say to not root for the Skins to “annihilate” the Giants. In fact, he was relating ANYTHING to football. He simply stated that remember what this day stands for. Thousands of innocent lives were lost that day. He is simply saying remember that.
Neither did ih8dallas say anything about not sympathizing for the Afghanis or Iraqis. You are basically rejecting that what you are complaining about: that we are not sympathetic towards the innocents in other countries, yet you find it difficult to sympathize for the innocents who lost their lives just because they live in this country.
Good one.
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by BigBlueIntervention on Sep 5, 2011 6:44 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Supremely misplaced rant.
You make a point that, in my very strong and common sensical opinion, was asinine to post here.
I look at you as a fool right now.
I will be at the season opener NYG @ WAS with a few friends. If you are going and feel like looking up a fellow BBVer and having some fun, let me know.
Sunday, Sept. 11 2011 NYG 23 WAS 13
by tommy d. on Sep 5, 2011 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
-9112000 douche move
Not the time or place….not saying you aren’t correct in some ways…..but you are misguided in what this post was about. While defending innocent deaths in other countries….you just pissed all over ours! You also contradict your morals by hoping we annihilate the Giants instead of sympathize!
Blood is red, bruises are blue, but when Kerackpo is chasing you, you will be shitting on you!!!
by shvd98z24 on Sep 6, 2011 10:02 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Yup. I remember the dead Americans, and the dead Iraqis, and Afghanis.
"By far the worst performers on the (Redskins) are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
this is the mistake all ppl make here
look I’m not American, and I am probably whats seen as a Liberal (tho I think I am a centrist) but here is the BIG DIFFERENCE between the West and them
Yep we kill civilians, but we do it by accident and do everything within our power to avoid civilian deaths. Even Cheney was not made happy by Civilian deaths.
They on the other hand TARGET CIVILIANS, they go out of their way to kill them and they HIDE AMONGST CIVILIANS so that it increases the chance of us killing innocents. They use their OWN PPL as PROPAGANDA WEAPONS, they sacrifice innocent hard working muslims by launching attacks from amongst them so that when we respond we will kill some of them,
Difference is this, we make mistakes that have awful consequences, they deliberately choose to cause awful consequences.
Anyway can we just talk about football on here from now on, there are plenty of politics sites on the net for this discussion
Pommylee
by Pommylee on Sep 7, 2011 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Haha.
Yep we kill civilians, but we do it by accident and do everything within our power to avoid civilian deaths.
Whatever you say boss.
"By far the worst performers on the (Redskins) are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
Christ, are you me smuts?
‘Contrairiwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might
be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s
logic.’ — Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 10, 2011 1:40 AM EDT up reply actions
C'mon Pommy...
we’re the ones using drones to take out entire blocks surrounding suspected targets (that occasionally prove to be misidentified), the US Military does a lot of things very well, but this isn’t Call of Duty. Once the round is downrange, there isn’t a lot to be done if noncombatants are in the way.
‘Contrairiwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might
be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s
logic.’ — Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 10, 2011 1:42 AM EDT up reply actions
In the semantics of all this in military jargon it is called collateral damage.
by Jefferson1935 on Sep 10, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Call it what you want, but we still kill a hell of a lot more...
civilians than we should if the goal is to convince people that the US isn’t an imperialistic nation of baby killers.
‘Contrairiwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might
be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s
logic.’ — Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
by TerroristFistJab on Sep 10, 2011 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions
u miss my point mate
I know we screw up, but we never go out in the morning and say “U know what I am going to go and DELIBERATELY kill as many civilians as possible today as my prime objective” thats what they do, we kill civilians by mistake, now a death is a death granted, and if it was my family being killed I doubt I would care if it was by mistake or on purpose. But we spend billions of dollars making advanced weopans with the sole purpose being to carefully target militairy targets and do as little damage to civilians as possible, they deiliberately kill civilians, thats the difference
Pommylee
No, your point is crystal clear. We just disagree.
You’re arguing that intent is paramount.
I think in a war that killed 100,000 civilians, this is dubious ground to stand on.
Not only that, our justifications and rationale were so misguided, so deceitful, and so illegal, that it boggles the mind.
To me 9/11 is two tragedies.
The 3,000 Americans who died in front of my bare eyes here in NYC.
And the 1,000,000 Iraqis who died in OUR war in their country.
The two tragedies are two halves of a whole.
I can’t commemorate one and ignore the other.
"By far the worst performers on the (Redskins) are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
thats fair enough
just to be clear, I was and am against the Iraq war, though I thought Afghanistan was the right thing to do, tho I am starting to think that now is the time to get out, but that is such a mess there are no easy answers there anymore.
Politically I am a Clinton Democrat so I have no love for W whatsoever.
But anyway the thing I love about this site was just shown in this discussion, we disagree on an important topic but manage to debate it properly without descending to name calling, gees I love what Ken and Kevin have done here creating this community I really do.
GO SKINS!!!!
Pommylee
I could trash your argument apart
because you are blind. You are a chickenhawk. I am for war if necessary, and I am for other people fighting it.
by hambonejackson on Sep 10, 2011 6:12 AM EDT up reply actions
100,000+ innocents have died over there.... really... REALLY
by Dammit Cerrato... on Sep 7, 2011 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
estimated in Iraq alone
and the counts still growing
by hambonejackson on Sep 10, 2011 6:14 AM EDT up reply actions
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Blood is red, bruises are blue, but when Kerackpo is chasing you, you will be shitting on you!!!
9 11
My wife and me were in chicago,when the towers were hit,We will never forget 9 11.Big blue and the redskins represent the people that pulled together on that eventfull day,lawden is DEAD,we have them on their heels,so lets play some football,GOD BLESS THE USA!
9-11
is not over with. Its going on right now. Mourning? When does that begin? people are still dying. people are still suffering. maybe its over for some, but for people who only care about dead Americans, they are still coming back in coffins.
by hambonejackson on Sep 10, 2011 1:13 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
not really.
"By far the worst performers on the (Redskins) are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
Yeah, really.
Posting controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic comments in an online discussion forum (such as a Fanpost), with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion is textbook trolling.
You had me at Helu..
the original post - or the responses?
I thought you meant the responses
"By far the worst performers on the (Redskins) are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
It is clear that 9/11 is a private party
what is so sad is how easily people simply stop caring. I guess people just get bored too easily. Lets not forget 9-11. how can any one forget 9-11 when people are dying today because of it?
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