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Re: Thinking Out Loud...
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:53:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:
> Hello Eric,
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> > I have to jump in...
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> So do I. BTW, I think I understand at least part of the emotionality of the
> issue, but we simply cannot afford to let our action be guided by it, so
> here goes my response:
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> > What do you think pacifism at a time like now is going to get us?
> > All it will get us is more innocent Americans (among others) killed.
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> And your evidence for that is ... ?
Flight 93.
Thank *all that is worth living for* that the heroes on board that flight
*weren't* pacifists.
Would any of us have had the courage to do what they did, knowing that it
meant almost certain death, in order to save the country from a worse tragedy?
I would like to think so, but who can say for sure.
By the way, please consider writing your congressman an email, telling him
or her to support the resolution to award all the passengers and crew on
that flight the Congressional Medal of Honor that is being considered.
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| (...) You don't know whether they were or not. (...) I'd also like to support that, but I don't think your politicians would take much notice of me 8?( ROSCO (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I heard on the news today (unconfirmed, so it could be wrong) that the cockpit voice recorder on 93 has "clear evidence of sounds of battle in the cockpit just prior to the plane going down". Pacifists don't typically get involved in battles. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Hello Eric, (...) So do I. BTW, I think I understand at least part of the emotionality of the issue, but we simply cannot afford to let our action be guided by it, so here goes my response: (...) And your evidence for that is ... ? (...) Nobody (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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