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olejoedad
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DEC 07, 10:09 AM
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And not a word anywhere in the media.....
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MidEngineManiac
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DEC 07, 10:40 AM
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Yeh, well..
Freedom is no longer in fashion, comrade.
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Jake_Dragon
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DEC 07, 10:52 AM
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Most young people wont know, middle age people wont care.
Here I am stuck in the middle with you.
When even the twin towers are reduced to a joke, I have no idea what has happened to our younger generations.
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rinselberg
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DEC 07, 11:15 AM
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williegoat
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DEC 07, 11:24 AM
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I did hear a brief mention on the radio this morning.
The attack was 13 years before I was born, but the way we saw Japan even when I was a kid was so different from the way kids see it today.
I wonder how the war, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, is discussed in school these days. The whole time I was in school, we never really talked about Russian involvement in WWII.
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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DEC 07, 11:29 AM
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Only heard/saw references to it in relation to a possible nuclear 'Pearl Harbor' in our future...
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Blacktree
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DEC 07, 01:30 PM
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To many people nowadays, WW2 is ancient history. Out of sight, out of mind.
Ironically, the WTC attack was successful for basically the same reason Pearl Harbor was successful. But people forget. Then they make the same mistakes again. Now we're busy forgetting the lessons learned at the WTC attack.
| quote | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--George Santayana |
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rinselberg
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DEC 07, 01:43 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Blacktree:
To many people nowadays, WW2 is ancient history. Out of sight, out of mind.
Ironically, the WTC attack was successful for basically the same reason Pearl Harbor was successful. But people forget. Then they make the same mistakes again. Now we're busy forgetting the lessons learned at the WTC attack.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
--George Santayana |
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Is that a reference to intelligence information that is compartmentalized in such a way that the people within the national intelligence and defense community that most urgently need the information to prevent an attack do not receive the information?
"Stove piping."
(I misfortunately just discovered online that there is a particularly unsavory alternative meaning for that phrase.)[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 12-07-2020).]
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Jake_Dragon
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DEC 07, 01:54 PM
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LitebulbwithaFiero
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DEC 07, 02:40 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
"Stove piping."
(I misfortunately just discovered online that there is a particularly unsavory alternative meaning for that phrase.)
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I have only heard that term with firearms, when the bolt or slide catches the poorly ejected shell. Leaving you with a stove pipe.
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