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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 11 11:43:26 2023
    Today we remember the nearly 3,000 innocent lives lost on 9/11/2001 in
    New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 9/11
    was one of the darkest days in our history - but it also showed our
    remarkable resilience as Americans.

    https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1701211544506245516

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Sep 11 16:57:27 2023
    On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:43:26 -0500
    JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Today we remember the nearly 3,000 innocent lives lost on 9/11/2001 in
    New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 9/11
    was one of the darkest days in our history - but it also showed our remarkable resilience as Americans.

    Interesting article on the radio this morning about how your average
    military recruit - who's what, 18, 19, 20 years old - these days was
    born after 2001 and therefore has only faint memories of what s/he's
    been told about 2001. Also diminished is the raging sense of a war on tarr'ists and a new, lamer, less urgent sense of national security.
    Article said most folks going into the military these days are doing so
    for the benefits. Back in 2001, people were signing up so they could
    get training, equipment, and go kill some tarr'ists.

    Man, the George W Bush administration seems like one helluva long time
    ago, actually.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 11 19:18:01 2023
    On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:57:27 -0400, Retrograde <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    your average military recruit.. faint memories of
    diminished is the raging sense of a war on tarr'ists
    most folks going into the military...for the benefits.

    Classic Example - "Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air
    National Guard member, was taken into custody by heavily armed FBI
    agents. He's accused of posting hundreds of classified documents
    online...." PBS

    When Uncle Sam ended the draft, benefits and pay have been much/much
    better than during drafting days.


    RE: attitude on terrorists

    That's generation wide...they have not been educated, just like Trump supporters are clueless about his ways, or how his focus was upon ways
    to enrich Trump.

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Mon Sep 11 23:50:34 2023
    On 9/11/2023 4:57 PM, Retrograde wrote:
    On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:43:26 -0500
    JAB<[email protected]d> wrote:

    Today we remember the nearly 3,000 innocent lives lost on 9/11/2001 in
    New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 9/11
    was one of the darkest days in our history - but it also showed our
    remarkable resilience as Americans.

    Interesting article on the radio this morning about how your average
    military recruit - who's what, 18, 19, 20 years old - these days was
    born after 2001 and therefore has only faint memories of what s/he's
    been told about 2001.

    I'm 28, so do the math. I have vague memories of everyone in the school
    being rounded up and waiting it out in the library, until parents picked
    most of the kids up early. The 4th grade teacher told us stories and
    kept us preoccupied. In primary school, I was in a small private
    Christian school.

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