Jamesbuk From United Kingdom, joined May 2005, 3968 posts, RR: 5 Posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1799 times:
Hi guys and girls,
Im absoloutely disgusted, today as we know is 9/11 nearly 3000 innocent people died 5 years ago due to a very few people.
My school decided it was not "appropriate" to have a 2 minute silence simply because america wont have one for the 7/7 bombings, they were the only place not too in the town, the local hypermarkets stopped checkout, every other school had one and all meetings had one yet our twit of a head teacher thinks its wrong to have one!
Any one think i should go in and make a complaint tommorow?
Rgds --James--
You cant have your cake and eat it... What the hells the point in having it then!!!
Azza40 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2006, 1052 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1781 times:
Quoting Jamesbuk (Thread starter): My school decided it was not "appropriate" to have a 2 minute silence simply because america wont have one for the 7/7 bombings
Just what my head of year said. Complaining didn't work. I really wanted to pay tribute, especially because my freind lost his Dad on 9/11.
Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33 Reply 6, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1781 times:
My university supposedly had a moment of silence at 8:46. I don't know, I was still sleeping. Choosing not to have a moment of silence doesn't really bother me, but a lame excuse like that one does.
YYZflyer From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 3636 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1742 times:
We didn't have one at my school either. Though my class was outside running.....
Quote: =Azza40 Reply 4): What is wrong with the world!
I guess some teachers think that paying respect to those of 9/11 is a waste of time and teaching 2 minutes extra of their lesson is more important. ? What a stupid excuse
ANITIX87 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 3233 posts, RR: 14 Reply 9, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1736 times:
Quoting Newark777 (Reply 6): My university supposedly had a moment of silence at 8:46.
We did?!?!? I was ashamed of our school today, Harry. They had candles lit last night in honor of the victims and this morning, on my way to class at around 8:45, I pass by our University Center and there was trash bags with papers and the candles from last night in them, just lying on the ground waiting to be picked up. I was appalled.
As for not having a moment of silence, I'm fine with it, because everyone will remember the victims in their own way. We need to call for change, not keep silent and fidget uneasily, not knowing when the "moment" ends until someone has the guts to awkwardly say, "oooook, let's get back to work".
I didn't pray for the victims as I'm not a religious person, but I certainly looked back and reflected on the horror of the day and the terrible job our administration did. I definitely hope the people who lost loved ones have found some sort of closure (even though complete closure will probably never be possible) and I called my personal friends who lost loved ones to once again give them my support if they needed it, as I have done every September 11th (and on countless other occasions) over the last 5 years. I guess that was my way of paying my respects.
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Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34 Reply 10, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1695 times:
Quoting Jamesbuk (Thread starter): My school decided it was not "appropriate" to have a 2 minute silence simply because america wont have one for the 7/7 bombings,
Bullshit of the highest order.
My college had a ceremony starting at 9 and went until about 11:00, most students actually stopped and watched and I even know a couple who were late because they stayed...
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SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 11, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1690 times:
America cannot have a moment of silence in schools for fear that some student somewhere might think of God or Heaven or some form of afterlife then the ACLU will be all over the schoolboard for the insult that does to some Atheist somewhere.
No, I am not joking.
Our sincere condolences for your losses on 7/7 and thanks for thinking about us on 9/11.
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Diesel1 From UK - Wales, joined Mar 2001, 1625 posts, RR: 12 Reply 12, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1666 times:
Quoting Jamesbuk (Thread starter): My school decided it was not "appropriate" to have a 2 minute silence simply because america wont have one for the 7/7 bombings
Rubbish.
The government decided that there would be no 'official' silence in the UK today because the families of the British people lost in the attacks said they didn't want any kind of national rememberance.
I'm more than happy that that is an appropriate reason not to do anything on a nationwide basis.
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1658 times:
9/11 is an American tragedy, we can sympathise of course but to have public displays of mourning is a little tacky. Are we going to have 2 minutes silence for the tsunami victims on Boxing day ? That was 200,000 people after all.
Azza40 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2006, 1052 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1654 times:
Quoting Diesel1 (Reply 12): he government decided that there would be no 'official' silence in the UK today because the families of the British people lost in the attacks said they didn't want any kind of national rememberance.
As heartless as this may sound, the fact of life is that life goes on.
It is completely understandable and warranted that moments of silence should be held in the United States.
It is completely appropiate if in different countries around the world some sort of memorial is held to the victims (and after the attacks, there were such memorials in most countries in the world).
But it can't be expected that schools and places of work all over the world would hold a moment of silence. The blunt fact is that this attack happened in the US and not elsewhere. I doubt people in the US hold moments of silence for terrorist attacks in Spain, Britain, Bali, Buenos Aires, etc... not because they are heartless but because it's human nature. The same with the fact that today in other countries, life went on. It is just the reality of things and not done out of malice.
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Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33 Reply 16, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1632 times:
Quoting ANITIX87 (Reply 9):
We did?!?!? I was ashamed of our school today, Harry. They had candles lit last night in honor of the victims and this morning, on my way to class at around 8:45, I pass by our University Center and there was trash bags with papers and the candles from last night in them, just lying on the ground waiting to be picked up. I was appalled.
I really didn't mind, they were beautiful when they were up, but in the end they were just paper bags with candles.
As for the moment of silence, I saw various signs talking about a moment of silence, but I didn't think too much about it because I don't have class until 10.
DTManiac From Germany, joined Aug 2004, 689 posts, RR: 16 Reply 18, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1621 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 13): 9/11 is an American tragedy, we can sympathise of course but to have public displays of mourning is a little tacky. Are we going to have 2 minutes silence for the tsunami victims on Boxing day ? That was 200,000 people after all.
Quoting Derico (Reply 15): As heartless as this may sound, the fact of life is that life goes on.
It is completely understandable and warranted that moments of silence should be held in the United States.
Enough said. There have been tragedies of similar extent in the worlds history and I cannot remember when we had the last mins of silence here in Germany. This is a strange day though and I have to admit that.
Planesarecool From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2001, 4096 posts, RR: 13 Reply 19, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1621 times:
As far as i can remember, we had no national rememberance for the Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, where 100,000+ people died, so why should we have one for 9/11? While it was a sad event, and the recent programs on the BBC about what happened on that day are pretty moving, unfortunately, disrespectful as it may sound, life goes on.
And if you wanted 2 minutes of silence, why not just have your own 2 minutes of silence? There must have been a quiet place in your school, even if it was the bathroom.
KPDX From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 2526 posts, RR: 3 Reply 20, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1577 times:
Never even had anything in tribute to 9/11 no silence, nothing, about 9/11 at my high school, never even heard anything from anyone mentioned about 9/11.
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Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34 Reply 21, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1554 times:
Quoting Derico (Reply 15): , the fact of life is that life goes on.
Indeed, I was still stuck in an art class for two and a half hours
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GAIsweetGAI From Norway, joined Jul 2006, 883 posts, RR: 7 Reply 22, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1496 times:
Wow. You're complaining that you didn't have your minutes of silence.
And I was complaining that I had to observe one.
Then again, I sometimes come up with insane reasonings, and I hate the Bush administration.
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MD-90 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 8418 posts, RR: 13 Reply 23, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1416 times:
Big deal. 3000 innocent Iraqis (and plenty of not-innocent ones, too) die every month in Iraq due to the war that the Bushies started. Where's the memorial for them?
Thom@s From Norway, joined Oct 2000, 11949 posts, RR: 50 Reply 24, posted (6 years 8 months 2 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 1386 times:
My school arranged a 1 min silence a day or two after the attacks, but since then it has to my knowledge not been marked in any way since.
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25 JAGflyer: We had our normal moment of silence (after Oh Canada) and it was shorter than normal. Like 5-6 seconds. The principal just annouced "let us reflect on
26 Nosedive: Well MoS'es, with "voluntary prayer," were outlawed in schools under Wallace v. Jaffree (1985) on a 6-3 verdit. The grounds for the verdict was that
27 AerorobNZ: Having a public display means bugger all. The point is, even without a ceremony every year it won't be forgotten easily by anyone who was affected. As
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