Does anyone here personally know anyone that was killed on 9/11?

Question

For those of you that do, how do you feel about the way the way it has or has not changed the country and about the war on terror. Or anything you feel would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I had an aunt that died in 9/11. Seriously, I feel that our country is still not ready for disasters ever since George Bush got into office. Just look at Hurricane Katrina. How does it take a week to get down there? He has private jets up the a** and they can get to places faster than airplanes or any other jet on Earth. I seriously think he is lazy and he don't want to help anybody but himself and people he only knows. He doesn't care for anyone else. That's the way I feel.

Answer 2

A couple of my dads friends died there.

I'm English and live in UK and I find the whole "war on terror" disgusting. It's a smokescreen to impose an ideology (capitalism) and gain capitol. There is nothing egalitarian about it at all, and it's made the situation around the world infinitely more unstable than it was. It seems like, to a degree, Bush used it as an excuse. He started banging on about this so called "Axis Of Evil" which contained such obviously innocent parties as Iran and North Korea, who were never even suspected of harbouring Al Qaida (Iran are also a long standing enemy of the Taleban). He then (with Blairs help) brings Iraq into it. Why? What train of logic could actually justify an invasion?

Bagdad now, according to one very experienced war correspondent, is "The worst place [he] has ever seen".

No good has come from the war on Terror at all. I won't even start on Guantanamo, because that is one of the most horrendous abuses of human rights since WW2.

Answer 3

I am not aware that anyone I personally knew was killed on 9/11, however, since I lived in New York for over 30 years - it is very possible that people I knew were in that building. So, though no close friends or relatives were there - possibly former classmates and co-workers, former neighbors, etc. were.

Even if my closest relative had died in that tragedy, I would still not believe that war is the answer. The political leaders need to get together and work things out among themselves. They are the ones at fault.