plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

To Quote Sandy Dahl, the widow of the Flight 93 pilot, Jason Dahl, once said, “If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short, and there is no time for hate.” Therefore Fish on and Tight lines to all our fishing friends out there and please be thankful and enjoy what you are able to do today.

plumbob

kprzybyla

Amen sir.

jimbofisherman Loc: Edgewater Florida

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fishfinder Loc: Phila , no, eastern shore va

We will never forget those who lost their lives that day

Iafierman

Yes, all this is true I agree completely. But, be right with God first for it is truly the most important because our time may come faster than what we think.

catfish catcher

Amen Brother

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

AMEN!

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Amen

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Well said and very nice, plumbob, so true and I thank you.

RippedLip

Amen

HLONUMN Loc: Missouri

Amen brother!! I thank God every morning for the day he has created and may I walk through this day the best way I can to honor him. We shall never forget what has happened on this day, ever!!!!!

bojo Loc: South East South Dakota

Great comments by all. Including the Amens.
AMEN!

JimCT Loc: Connecticut

We should also remember those who were attacked at Pearl Harbor. Yes this is a special day. I was at a conference in Florida with several hundred of my work colleagues on that fateful day. Many of my colleagues worked at World Financial Center across West Street from the World Trade Center. Many of them had spouses that worked for companies in the World Trade Center. One member of my sisters work group, indeed one her most valued employees ,her husband and their two children were on the flight originating out of Boston going to visit the kid grandparents in California . Seeing as all flights were grounded, the company I worked for at the chartered a fleet of buses to take some 700 people home from Florida to all parts of the country. I live in Connecticut. We managed to hit the New Jersey Turnpike near Elizabeth just about after sunrise. The silence on the bus as we viewed the smoking remains across the wetlands of New Jersey across the Hudson River into lower Manhattan is a site and scene that I will never forget. It is regretfully instilled on my memory. I would thank god for my life but I am not sure what to thank him for. My life and not theirs? That would be awful selfish. It is entirely conceivable I could have been there. I was in those office buildings several times a year. Thank him for the absolute horror the first responders had to go through? Those who ran to escape the horror have even more harsh memories and nightmares of escaping the scene while some of those around them could not or did not. Too easy to explain things on god and not use our brains and intelligence to make a better place.

Yes as you have gathered, I am not particularly religious. But I also completely agree in this world there is no room for hate , and I firmly agree in Jefferson’s line in the Declaration of Independence “All men are created equal” even tempering that with definition of man at the time. It is however something we should all carry with us with expanded definition to indeed mean ALL people. And I do treasure your life. I never leave the house in the morning without kissing my wife goodbye, even if I am going out fishing at 5:00 AM in the morning . We hug first thing when we get home in evening . When traveling for business the day starts with a good morning phone call and ends that way. You just never know. Yes my heart goes out to everyone affected by the tragedies of that fateful day, as it does to all the victims of mass killings in this country as well to other victims of senseless murders of all kinds in this country. It bothers me that many more have been murdered in this country since that day by other means than actually died on 9/11/2001 . That to me is the real tragedy. Yes , treasure life and work toward a better world. Leave it better than you found it.

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

At this time being the day after my post, there was only 80+ views and 13 replies. I can only hope that out of the 80+, it will spread as a few have mentioned, that we will never forget those who can not fish today. No matter what the reason is that they are in our not with us in body, they will always be in our hearts.

plumbob

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York