[NFBofSC] 911 message"

[Charles Black]

regurgitate:  to give back or repeat, especially something not fully
understood or assimilated:
to regurgitate the teacher's lectures on the exam.

On 9/11/20, Doug Hudson via NFBofSC <nfbofsc at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I don't think you were saying egurgitate?
>
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> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 4:50 PM
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> Cc: Charles Black
> Subject: [NFBofSC] 911 message"
>
> On this day, we remember 9/11. Where were you on that infamous day?
> Where are you now? Is the feeling of patriotism in you? Let us reflect
> and regurgitate on these questions together. Let us take lessons from
> the past and allow them to guide our future.
>
> On 9/11, I was in college, trying to better my life and improve my
> position in American society. I was in the computer lab, doing
> homework. Then, the unthinkable happened, on tv, I saw one of the twin
> towers fall. I stood there in amazement. Who would dare attack our
> country?
>
> It did not even occur to me that it would be another nation state.
> Then, another tower fell before my eyes. Anger flared up in me, a
> feeling of helpful helplessness was a thought in my mind. Whoever had
> done this had to pay, was all I could think. As a nation, we heard who
> had done this and vowed that their cost would be worse than our
> sacrifice. Our military was mobilized with one thought, they must pay.
> In that time period, we all had one mind set, we all had one goal,
> take out those who dared to attack us just because we were different.
>
> Today, our nation is so divided. Each person is out for their selves.
> Each person has their own goals. When I reflect on what would happen
> today if such a traumatic event occurred, I can see each person having
> their own ideas about how we would react as a nation. Half would want
> to attack the perpetrators while the other half would be saying that
> we deserved the transgression. Some would be saying that the glass was
> half full while others would be saying it was half empty. There are
> things that we can agree on while there are things we will never agree
> on. Why do we not go silently into the night and understand that there
> are things that we will disagree on, but we can live together.
>
> Let us take this day and decide to live together while being
> different. Let us take our similarities in direction and walk
> together. Events of the past tell us that there are people ready to
> destroy our way of life. Let us not help them by destroying it for
> them. Like the gentleman on that flight said from Pennsylvania 19
> years ago when the terrorists high jacked their plain, “let’s roll”
> and get behind our government.
>
>
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> Charles E. Black, MS.
> charleseblack126 at gmail.com
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