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John Byrne
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Posted: 11 September 2025 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
…since 9/11, and if anything our Nation has only gotten worse.
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 11 September 2025 at 2:12pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I guess I'll appear like a "grumpy old guy" myself but I'm struggling to come up with a list of ways America has improved since 2001.

Um... that shit decision Lawrence v. Texas was overruled.*

And, ah, uh, um... hmm.....



*Churns the stomach to think that the anti-gay laws the overruling kiboshed might come back under this Supreme Court.
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 11 September 2025 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Early that morning, I decided to stick with my usual 12-8 shift at the last minute and not go in early by taking the 8am express bus from Mill Basin. If I did, it would have dropped me off in front of the WTC at 8:45am.
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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 11 September 2025 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I think you're right, JB. Things really have gotten worse.

Even as we honor those who died that day our nation is
more divided. So sad.

-C!
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Posted: 11 September 2025 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
I remember being on this forum shocked, hurt and angry and I would never have guessed how the US would change in the decades after.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Growing up in the 90’s, there was a brief window of time in which I thought we were moving toward a better future, one where intolerance was an artifact of the past, where peace and equality were the future’s certainty. 

Those illusions fell away along with the two towers.
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Posted: 12 September 2025 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Whenever I hear “peace on Earth” I think When was that?

The history of human life is one of conflict. Even when we speak of a society’s “Golden Age” we invariably mean for a select few, while the rest of the population struggles and fights.

Any sense that we are moving away from that is delusional.

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 12 September 2025 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
I remember the discussion about the first IRON MAN movie, about moving the conflict from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Unfortunately, now his origin will never look dated!
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