New 9/11 pictures from the air

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Amazing. Chilling. How quickly people forget.

Which people are you talking about, exactly?

I can't think of anyone who would have forgotten about that day, except maybe 10 year olds.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

Which people are you talking about, exactly?

I can't think of anyone who would have forgotten about that day, except maybe 10 year olds.

I guess it was sort of a general statement that I believe that we are still an extremely vulnerable nation and need to keep our guard up. Sort of *sigh* moment for me. I think our nation is not as focused on the issue as we use to be, but that could just be me. We are currently obsessed with our other issues and I fear people may be taking their eye off the ball.

[bluecuracao]

I am relieved that people are not obsessed with this issue any more. It was stressful and aggravating living in DC after 9/11, always being reminded by the news and flashing signs that the city was at Threat Level Orange.

They could still be at level orange for all I know; we moved away in 2004. But no one was really taking it seriously by then, because after you got your stash of duct tape and plastic tarps, what were you supposed to do about it, anyway?

[TheMercenary]

Tape your windows shut.

[bluecuracao]

I'm pretty sure you wait until Level Red for that. Not that it would make a difference.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

I'm pretty sure you wait until Level Red for that. Not that it would make a difference.

No doubt. It was among many of the stupid things that the Republickins said and did in those 8 long years.

[tw]

Originally Posted by bluecuracao

They could still be at level orange for all I know; we moved away in 2004. But no one was really taking it seriously by then, because after you got your stash of duct tape and plastic tarps, what were you supposed to do about it, anyway?

Those Orange alert were more often issued when the politics needed it. Eventually that became an open conflict between Tom Ridge and the neocons. So the neocons drove Tom Ridge out as director of Homeland Security - simply because he would not issue any more Orange alerts on phony information.