First lady: Turn off TVs on 9/11

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/08/ar9...ady/index.html

thoughts?

[Theophylact]

I beat her to it. Mine's been off for years.

Dumb idea.

[vass0922]

Well lets see.. I'll probably wake up at 2:30pm, be out the door by 3pm for work lol

No problem!

[korgul]

I will let mine watch it. Why would I try to hide from them the fact that the people that did this are real. That the people that did this want to hurt any and all Americans because they believe something differant. That the people that did this need to be found and held accountable for their actions. That the effect that this has had on all americans was to pull them together, to make us a more united, United States of America. I am proud to be an American I will not be terrorised by some group of idiots. I will teach this to my children. I will stand tall with them and declare proudly that we have not fallen because of these actions. I served my Country once and would gladly do it again if I could. I will teach my children what it means to be an American. There is no better example of this than what happened after this act. We came together, not as white, black, yellow or any other color. We came together as Americans. A group of proud people that when pushed to far will react with swift and mighty justice.

I have a poem at home I found on the net, it is titled " The day I lost my hyphen". I will try to find it and post it tonight.

korgul

[originel]

i have mixed emotions. first of all, i (obviously) don't have kids, so i don't have a parents perception of it. but at the same time, while i do think that it is terrible and, at times, hard for me to watch much less kids, they do need to know about this. i think every American does. The old saying "Ignorance is Bliss" doesn't apply anymore, hasn't for years IMO. it was feelings like this that led to 9/11 in the first place. So while i don't think it's a good to just set the kids in front of CNN all day, i do think that parents should sit down, with their kids, and watch some tv with them, in order to help them understand what it all means.

[Mike]

I think that's ridiculous. I agree with korgul, kids NEED to know what is going on in the world today.
Besides the fact that shouldn't they be curious why everyone is lighting candles, reading the newspaper, etc.

[Brainchild]

"Don't let your children see the images, especially on Sept. 11, when you know it'll probably be on television again and again -- the plane hitting the building or the buildings falling,"

too late Mrs. Bush, mine watched it a year ago
Well said korgul

I agree
BC

[vass0922]

Originally posted by Mike

Besides the fact that shouldn't they be curious why everyone is lighting cameras, reading the newspaper, etc.

Mike Mike settle down... no need to go out lighting cameras on fire

[Toadman]

Hey Korgul, I have something similar to the hyphen poem:

You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. So I just thought I would write to let them know what an American is, so they would know when they found one.

An American is English, French, Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the
world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each man and woman to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan. The best products, the best books, the best
music, the best food, the best athletes.

Americans welcome the best, but they also welcome the least. Lady Liberty welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed.
These in fact are the people who built America. Some of them were working in the Twin Towers in the morning of September 11, earning a better life for their families. I've been told that the people in the Towers were from at least 30, and maybe many more, other countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did
General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

So look around you. You may find more Americans in your land than you thought were there. One day they will rise up and overthrow the old, ignorant, tired tyrants that trouble too many lands. Then those lands, too, will join the community of free and prosperous nations. And America will welcome them!