News Hooray! Osama Bin Laden Is Dead!!!!

[Heather]

September 11, 2001 over 3000 Americans lost their lives when terrorists hi-jacked 4 planes and rammed them into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washinton, D.C. and the fourth plane never making it to it's final destination (although speculation being the Capitol Building) landed in a field in Shanksville, PA.

This was one of the darkest days in U.S. history. This was a day that changed America forever.

Osama Bin Laden represents the number one face of evil for so many Americans but today that number one enemy of America has been killed!

 

[Mina]

Oh, WOW. I just checked CNN and Fox News for more details...not much information, other than he was supposedly killed a week ago by a US bomb, and the delay in announcement was due to a DNA test to confirm his identity. I really hope this isn't a hoax, because it's some great news!!!!!

 

[ronin47]

Meh. I'll take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Sqweak]

I'm glad that this guys era of terror is over but I don't find any pleasure in celebrating someone’s death no matter how awful or well deserved it is. I read that people were singing the American national anthem outside the white house; which makes me giggle- and a little queasy. I hope we can get up and out of this war soon. I'm not interested in loosing any more friends and family members for no good reason.

 

[Heather]

Does anybody remember where they were on September 11, 2001? At the exact moment they heard the towers had been hit? I DO.

I was in Florida at Walt Disney World. We had to be evacuated from Animal Kingdom because they thought it might be a terroist target. We couldn't get home because all flights were grounded. We had to take a bus back to Connecticut. We spent 27 hours on a Greyhound bus into Newark, NJ. Then we drove past New York City and I SAW THE SMOLDERING RUINS OF THE TOWERS AND THAT WAS ONE WEEK LATER. THE SMOKE WAS STILL RISING!

I also know someone whose son DIED in the towers. So, I don't take this lightly.

I'm glad he's dead.:) Good.

 

[Sqweak]

Enjoy..

 

[caliaviator]

Good job operators :) Score one for the SpecOps warriors.

Unfortunately, this war was never about getting UBL. It's against the terrorist organizations around the world; always has been. From the lowest insurgent to the master planner, each and every one of em are as equally guilty as UBL in their attacks against us. We've got a lot of work to do.

 

[ktmarie71]

I remember where I was on 9/11. We were stationed in Colorado. It was early morning and my husband had come home to change from his PT uniform to his BDUs. He woke me up and said "some idiot flew a small plane into the world trade center. How could you miss that tower?" I was so tired I could not really comprehend what he was saying. I turned on the news while hubby went to shower.

The news was confusing and then suddenly the first image of the plane hitting the first tower were shown. I was stunned. It wasnt a small personal plane; it was commercial jet. I stood up to run into the bathroom to tell my husband but I was stopped dead in my tracks when the second plane hit. I let out scream.

My husband ran into the room dripping wet and wide eyed. "It was jets" I said, "another one hit the other tower." The phone rang...everyone was on alert. My husband dressed quickly and while pulling on his combat boots he gave me instructions to contact our families. "We are going to war over this" he said and kissed me, then headed to his unit.

He was right. We were going to war and our lives would never be the same. Tonight my husband and i watched the news that Osama was killed. We held eachother and smiled. It feels like some small measure of justice has been served.

I have no sadness for Osama's death, just as I had no sadness for Saddam Hussein. My family and friends have sacrificed so much since 9/11 and I have been to far too many funerals, held the hands of too many widows, and watched the war rage on in so many lives. I am unappologetically joyful.

 

[ronin47]

Ten years, trillions of dollars, 5,000+ American troop and God knows how many Iraqi and Afghan lives, and one broken and decimated country later, one man is killed.

Was it worth it?

 

[KP the nut]

I'm glad that this guys era of terror is over but I don't find any pleasure in celebrating someone’s death no matter how awful or well deserved it is.

Yes he was evil, but as Squeak says, I can't celebrate anyones death.

Is this the end? No I don't think so. As long as young men and women are vulnerable to become targets to turn to extremism no one is safe. IMHO

 

[catjudo]

"I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." - Mark Twain

 

[ktmarie71]

Ten years, trillions of dollars, 5,000+ American troop and God knows how many Iraqi and Afghan lives, and one broken and decimated country later, one man is killed.

Was it worth it?

I can see how someone might have this point of view. I respect your right to have it. It just feels like a slap in the face when my family has sacrificed so much and we are actully very happy about finally getting Osama Bin Laden. The offense may not be intentional; in fact, I dont think anyone is really trying to hurt us like that, but it feels like we can't have any victory because there is always someone trying to hit us over the head with politics and their version of the facts. For every soldier I know its all far more complicated than that.
My husband brought the war home with him and likely this will be our lives from here on out, but even we can see why this is a big deal, and such statements forget that soldiers are not just killing people over there.
My husband's unit walked little girls to school so they wouldn't be kidnapped and raped. They built a school, restored electricity when the insurgents kept blowing everything up. They protected families who had been singled out by insurgents by giving them jobs with the americans and housing them. They took pride helping bring about the first true elections in Iraq. Some guys were killed because they were protecting civilans, not because they were mowing them down. I have seen military men weep about not knowing if a kid they helped, after a roadside bomb went off, survived. I know few people know this, because it doesnt seem to be media worthy and its true that many horrible things happen in war too, but maybe this is more complicated than budgets and statistics.
I suspose its stupid to feel proud of anything these days; perhaps we are just simple people looking for something to ease our losses. I guess its possible we are not qualified to judge this given our investment in it.
I just would like to see my husband feel pride again without anyone knocking him down for it. I know people will say the comment isnt directed toward us but sometime its the unintended stuff that is the hardest to deal with.