To my son, You are only 3 months old, so you don't realize what happened yesterday. Your "world" was still the same: Mommy was gone to work before you woke up, but Daddy fed you w/ the milk Mommy left in the fridge. He changed your diapers (over & over), changed your clothes (drooled on, or worse), talked to you, maybe sang, washed a few loads of clothes, watches some TV....if he wasn't laughing w/ you, you didn't notice. You didn't care that Mommy didn't play w/ you as much as normal, when she came home to nurse you on her lunch hour, that she held you just a little tighter & a little longer before going back to work. You probably noticed that when Mommy came back again, Daddy didn't go away like normal, but you just enjoyed that Daddy didn't have to "work" today. Your world was still the same.

So today I will make you this promise....

When you are older I will teach you about what happened yesterday. I will save the newspaper for you to read & let you watch the video your Dad made from the news reports. I will try to explain to you how God can let something so awful happen & how people can be so evil. I will try to explain how some people in the world will hate you, simply you are *fill in the blank - it doesn't matter what exactly you are or do, someone will hate you for it,* but that we should not judge others that way. I will teach you to be an American. I will teach you believe in this country, we may be wrong (& probably often are), but we try to do are best. We do not hide our faults, forbiding our citizens to disagree w/ the government, pretending to the world that we are perfect. We admit our problems, we discuss them at work, at school, on the internet, & the evening news. I will teach you to read the papers & watch the news so you can discuss our country intelligently.
I will teach you to stand still w/ you hand over your heart & sing proudly "The Star Spangled Banner" at sporting events. I will teach you respect for our flag & fly it on our house for all to see. I will teach you to repsect the men & women who are willing to put themselves & their families second, who risk their lives to protect the rest of us & I will teach to encourage the government leaders to increase the salaries of these brave people - firemen, police, rescue medical & the military don't do what they do for the money, but it is one way we can try to thank them.
I will teach you to give to your community. You will not understand yet, but you are going w/ me when I give blood on Saturday. Hopefully you will be a good baby & I can spend a couple hours helping answer the blood bank's phones. There is always a way to help, with your time, money or thinking of other ways. I will encourage you to give blood, sign an organ donor card, & get listed on the bone-marrow registry. I will teach you first-aid/CPR.
Your father & I named you after a man we both believe was the greatest general in the American Civil War. I will teach you that you should respect life (even in war) & try to avoid hurting innocents, but that sometimes war is necessary....a short period of ugliness for the greater good, & that if you choose to serve in the military (like your daddy & I did) that you behavor honorablely in whatever situation you find yourself.

I promise you that Mommy will do everything in her power to help you grow up to be a strong, kind, intelligent man. I pray that when you are older, you can help fight the evil we humans sometimes unlease upon ourselves. Not quite a year ago, I started crying as soon as I realize that I was pregnant, not because I had any doubts of having a baby, but I because I realized that you were a gift from God. Nothing I have every done, or ever will do is as important as helping you to become a person who will make the world a better place.

The English language is far too limited to capture what my mind, heart and soul are experiencing.

Single handedly, this is the most grotesque and horrific sight that I have ever had the displeasure to witness. A day later, and still I am awestruck and dumbfounded. Slowly, ever so slowly does the bile of disgust and retribution work its way up my throat and into my mouth.

As Bob Dylan sings in one of his songs:

"Even Jesus, would never forgive what you did."

~Maurice Cloutier

I have read many threads, here and other places. Most folks are saying we need to hold those responsible for their actions, as we are speaking of individuals. We are not talking about individuals here folks. We are talking about a whole society. The society that celebrates in the streets while thousands of Americans are killed. The society that harbors those that are directly responsible. The society that sheds crocodile tears for us on TV now, while secretly cheering on those who perpetrated this heinous crime. Benjamin Netanyahu was recently interviewed on Fox News and pointed out that no terrorist activities have occurred anywhere in the Middle East since this incident. Is that a coincidence? No. Why? Because there is a “society” of international terrorism that controls terrorist activities in the region from centrally located places. I am not talking about Muslims as a whole, just those who condone this type of activity. The society is made up of those who perpetrate the crimes, the governments who support them, and the people who support those governments. The scope of “who is responsible” for this crime is huge. We are not talking about just Bin Laden and Afghanistan here. We are talking about the PLO, Syria, Iran, Iraq, the Hamas, and the Hezbollah. They are all to blame here because they support and condone these activities. I am not saying that the causes that these groups/countries support are all bad. Their methods are bad. To remove the threat of International Terrorism we have one course of action, dismantle this society. Make the governments in these countries understand what the repercussions are. Economic, socialistic, and military actions need to be levied on these groups and governments to make them understand that the civilized, free nations of the world WILL NOT BACK DOWN. Simply putting Bin Laden in jail or using cruise missiles to destroy two training camps is not going to solve the problem.

Here again I have sat and watched the action of people that really dont care what happens to others( I sat and watched the bombing in Ok.City and was horrifed( Not as horrified as we all saw it was one of us Americans that did this to thier own Counrty and people(
I have read all that has been posted. Yes I agree to some that the worse thing we as Americans can do is go bomb nuke kill whoever might have done this. They dont care what happens and would turn around and do worse than what took place Tuesday( THEY DO NOT CARE! For what ever reason they have in doing what they have done will really never be known(
That is what makes it sad( Those who were left behind to suffer for the rest of thier lives at the lost of love ones that were not asked to be a part of tourist terror will never know the real reason behind the COWARDS that did this to them, and all of us here in America!
Prayers to all!

I feel that all our thoughts and prayers should be with the survivors, loved ones or relitives, and people who weren't fourtanate enough to make it. First and formost we should lend a hand, and strive to over come this horrible matter. We however do not need to provoke the horrible innsane people who caused this act. If you rember high school history WWI was set off by the assasination of Franz Ferdinan, the Arch duke of Serbia. A fanatic killed him and that lead to Serbia declaring war. Allies were sucked in and the war became a great tragidy. If America were to start pointing fingers, which it already has unfourtanatly, it could cause another world war. This would just cause more destruction. As Albert Einstien said "War has never been the creative sollution to a problem." I understand the great anger does that mean we should go ballistic and start another World War impacting billions of people, leading to a cataclismic death toll?!?!? War is not the answer. Let America stand tall. Let us be the ones to not provoke. What if we wern't just some big, ethnocentric, bully all the time? What if all the other countries looked up to us for peace and help. Isn't that the world we all dream of? You may think what you want i am not telling you to not be upset, or saddend, but please don't try to cover bloodshed with more bloodshed. My heart goes out to those who knew or loved someone killed or seriously injured by this horrible event. My deepest symapthy for all of you. If you disagree i would be willing to discus this matter over a few e-mails please respond and post your e-mail one this thread.

Geez... what can I say here that hasn't been done already? I mean I can understand an attack on the Military, the Pentagon but that too is horrid, but what can be gained by killing INNOCENT people? Oh yeah, we can kill people who have done nothing? Oh great thing to celebrate. I hope those who read these posts will know how angry Americans and such, hey I'm german/russian, and getting us angry is like pissing off a hive of killer bees. A VERY bad idea. I hope we find who the hell did such an atrocity and all their harborers and informants, drag them onto the street, and shoot them... quite a few times.

Jasassis 5th Iksar Warrior
Gabbil 11th Halfling Rogue
Kendaini 6th Half-elf Ranger
Armantaro 9th Ogre Shadowknight

Today I heard the most pathetic thing a truely pissed person could have heard, the Afganastan government begging. " Do not bomb us, the poeple of Afganastan are already in misery and an attack would only make the Afgan poeple hate you more" (this is the brief version as I remembered it trying to steer my car back onto the road). It is time we replace the hate with fear, real fear. They will never like us and obviously dont fear us at this time. Nostradamis has been quoted numerous times today and so be it, If WW3 is to begin , let it begin now while 90% of the world is on our side. Lets win it, decisively, violently, permantly. Leaving no doubt...

Obviously terrorists think with no consequence for their actions, and it seems to be humurous to see all these terrorist sects all firmly denying any responsibility. Guess they didnt realise that if their plan went through..and it unfortunelty did..they are going to be facing declerations of war not only from the world superpower America. But England, Germany, Russia and all US allies.
Today a member of congress made a remark to US Citizens not to be offended when our retalitory attacks take out civilians. I would be DISGUSTED to see any hippie liberal to condemn any action of ours when..and it WILL..kill civilians. Watch CNN..and look at all the ages of the people dead..2 years old, 4 years old..teenagers..Then watch the Palestinians dancing in the streets. Any country who is responsible for harboring these terrorists be fore warned. Carpet bombing will comence...And I have no mercy to any country who would sponsor such a inhuman act. These hard line islamic terrorists are not human, they do not have a civilized human soul. I equate them to a tribe of monkeys swinging in trees. Freedom will have its revenge and justice served.

I never thought someone would be so evil to kill that many people. Whoever the coward is who did this, I hope that they are killed soon. I never really want a person to die, but this is no ordinary person. This is an evil person, a madman, and they need to get what they deserve. I don't want war, but it looks like that might be what we are coming to. I just hope justice is dealt to all those guilty. My heart and prayers go out to all the victims and their loved ones and I know that we will prevail, as we always do.

September 11th was probably the worst day of my life. As I watched the events unfold I remembered some of the same feelings I felt when the Space Shuttle exploded, disbelief and sadness. Then as the day went on a burning rage against those person(s)behind this. Death would be too quick and easy for those who have no regard for any human life and unfortunately the U.S. is too squemish to follow through with the continual torture that my imagination could conjure up. Today, the rage still burns but it has been tempered with resolve and commitment.

Everyone has been comparing this to Pearl Harbor but this is nothing like Pearl Harbor other than it was an unprovoked and unexpected attack. Yes, we used nuclear weapons to end our war with Japan. We didn't use those weapons to get revenge for Pearl Harbor but to eliminate Japan's ability to continue fighting and force them to surrender unconditionally. After the war ended the U.S. was one of the first countries to help rebuild Japan.

I hear a lot of people saying "turn the middle east into a glass lake" or "nuke them back to the stone age" but how can we (U.S.), the symbol of freedom and democracy, justify genocide against an entire people because of zelots and fanatics who can only spew hatred and terror. I believe JUSTICE must be served but revenge only reduces us to the same level as those who perpetrated this evil. The best revenge would be to become more of a light for freedom, humanity, democracy in this world and to never let the actions of terrorist deter us from our beliefs.

The terrorist that did this believed they would be a Martyr to the cause and go directly to heaven. To me the only Martyr's were the people on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania and the firefighters & Policemen that were lost in NYC. They died fighting for humanity and should never be forgotten.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of the victims.

To my family and friends I want to let you know how important you are to me and thank you.

Kadlac Dawhammyshammy
Mob Shaman / Saryn Server

I have read some of the posts and I see myself at first, like many was angry and vengeful. I am an Air Force Pilot and you have no idea how sad it made me feel to be flying Caps over our capitol. I felt completely weakened and dishonored, that I had failed. My first instict was that if I had a full ordinance load, I was gonna launch everything I had into the middle east until I was empty, then go back for more. As of this point, the rumors in the service point to that spinless old pric Bin Laden. I know now that even if Afgahnistan is harboring him, due to his help with their civil war and the war on the Israelis, that it is not the Palestiniens fault. They may hate America, but that doesn't mean they did it. America has to be the big kid, we cannot sink to the level of terrorsists, they are slime that I scrape off my boots when I walk down the street. We must show the world that we are the bigger man here and still deal swiftly with these bastards. If they find out that Bin Laden did do this, Don't expect him to live long. We have some of the most highly trained and efficient killers and warriors in the world. And for all of you, something to make you smile in this time of sorrow. Withtin 12 hours, every free terrorist was so scared of our godly power, that they made a public statement appauling the incident. We have them Running Scared folks, and they damn well should be. Blessing to all the families and victims under whichever god/gods you worship.

"No blow will ever topple us, it only makes us more pissed off"