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To: Jim Noble
Healthy societies don’t memorialize getting their asses kicked.

Really?

"Remember the Alamo" - The Alamo is located in San Antonio
"Remember the Maine" - The Maine was raised and taken out to sea and sunk, but it's crow's nest occupies part of Arlington cemetery where those sailors were laid to rest
"Remember Pearl Harbor" - the Arizona memorial and a dozen smaller plaques around Pearl Harbor recognize Dec. 7th.

While the Alamo is unique as the men knew they would die, none of the men on the Maine, or the survivors of the attack on Pearl knew they were going to die that morning.

Neither did the people who were just going on with their lives that September morning.

That is why 9/11 is memorialized and the tragedy of the vermin who took those lives are remembered.

19 posted on 09/10/2019 11:05:25 AM PDT by Wizdum (The Dems are not afraid a wall won't work, the Dems are TERRIFIED a wall WILL work.)
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To: Wizdum

“Remember the Maine” - The Maine was raised and taken out to sea and sunk, but it’s crow’s nest occupies part of Arlington cemetery where those sailors were laid to rest.”

Old joke: What’s the longest ship in the world?

The Maine - its mainmast is in Arlington and its foremast is on the USNA campus.


24 posted on 09/10/2019 11:33:50 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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