Greetings to you all. Let me first apologize for the long hiatus I had to take. This last week was insanity. This post is going to be more of a rant than a lesson, but I think you will understand why I was upset. As many of you know, I work 2 jobs. My main job as a Department Manager for Menards, and as a crew member at A.C.E.S. flight simulation (clearly my favorite).
Well, over the weekend I was working at A.C.E.S. What we do there is give people a great experience by running a flight simulation for them. This past weekend, I had a group of kids who wanted to fly the F/A-18 Hornets. We got them in and they were on their way to dogfighting history. As their flight progressed and they flew farther away, one of the pilots came on a city. He then rammed his aircraft into a building (deliberately) and was screaming "Twin Towers! Ahhhhh!" All the while laughing maniacally. What the hell have we been teaching our kids that a horrific tradgedy like the events of 9/11 would be comical. Do these children understand that nearly 4000 American men and women were murdered in a completely unprovoked attack on OUR SOIL?
I was so angry. I understand that they are there to have fun, but was that really necessary? So for all of you out there, never forget 9/11! It was a tragic day in our history not to be forgotten, and certainly not one to find comical. Sorry about the rant, I'll have a new history lesson soon.
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Sounds like you led up to a new history lesson! :) How about a quick runthrough on our relationship with Saudi Arabia, why we're friends, how we really ticked them off after the first Gulf War -- and why the attack wasn't necessarily "unprovoked", though certainly ridiculously extreme.
ReplyDeleteI knew I should've put in a caveat about that. I'll hit more on 9/11 and the provocation leading up to it soon. Thanks oZ
ReplyDeleteWow.... That just makes me sad.
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