09-10-2008, 06:07
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Remember...
Some dates shape our past, present, and future...and, yes, we must remember them all.
Richard
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No Exit
by Paul Greenberg
Strange the bits of conversation you'll overhear in passing. Especially as you grow older and hearing begins to fade. This one came from a lady talking about a book she'd read about the war in Iraq. She liked it an awful lot. Stayed up reading it till the early hours of the morning. Then I thought I heard her say, "Seventeen lost in one day. It was the worst loss in American history."
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulG.../09/10/no_exit
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09-10-2008, 06:15
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I live across the Raritan Bay from Manhatten. I had just retired, for the first time, a few months earlier. The second plane flew over my house enroute to the towers. We stood on the shore and watched them collaspe.....some things you just don't forget.
Mac
"What you think we aren't.....we are!" Confederate Bushwhacker 1863
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09-10-2008, 07:43
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Great article Richard!
Thanks.
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09-11-2008, 08:16
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Never forget...never forgive.
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09-11-2008, 11:51
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
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Find read Richard,.............
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09-11-2008, 12:42
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor
Never forget...never forgive.
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Agree Sir!
Holly
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09-11-2008, 18:04
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Once again the lights in NY will shine into the heavens as if searching for all those who were brutally murdered 7 years ago today. RIP my brothers and sisters.
Never forget.
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09-11-2010, 04:30
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
No Exit
by Paul Greenberg
Strange the bits of conversation you'll overhear in passing. Especially as you grow older and hearing begins to fade. This one came from a lady talking about a book she'd read about the war in Iraq. She liked it an awful lot. Stayed up reading it till the early hours of the morning. Then I thought I heard her say, "Seventeen lost in one day. It was the worst loss in American history."
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Considering the comment "worst loss in American history" I wonder the reporter not hearing well assumed the loss was in Iraq, since for some journalists it was the only war. I wonder because the woman commenting on an event from a book, it may have been "Lone Survivor" she'd read. I know the number is incorrect but close, the remark is very close to the statement in the book.
The book is indeed hard to put down.
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09-11-2010, 14:00
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Thank you all you Quiet Professionals, past and present, for what you do for our nation. I will NEVER forget.
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09-11-2010, 14:08
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
Some dates shape our past, present, and future...and, yes, we must remember them all.
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Rick Rescorla, U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, decorated, and Head of Security for Morgan Stanley. RIP Sir.
We will Never Forget, and Never Forgive!
Holly
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09-11-2010, 15:45
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Quote:
Originally Posted by echoes
Rick Rescorla, U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, decorated, and Head of Security for Morgan Stanley. RIP Sir.
Holly
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The man who predicted 9/11, and saved over 2000 people.
http://www.rickrescorla.com/
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09-11-2010, 16:37
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Yep.
Will never forget the morning of 9-12, in the conference room of my Morgan Stanley branch office, and our Manager, who was sockless, and wrinkled, annoucing the count of folks who were not known to be dead or alive.
Since we were the largest tenant in the WTC, it was the worst news possible.
Later we learned that thanks to Rick, only six people out of three-thousand MS employees died.
He made sure everyone got out, and perished trying to save those trapped.
Will never forget.......
Holly
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