TERRORIST ATTACKS ON TRADE CENTER/PENTAGON-

Earlier today, two planes collided at the World Trade Center Twin Towers and later at the Pentagon. Many are relating this to PEARL HARBOR, and many can make the connection easily. Casusalities, no doubt, are in the thousands, and some figure more than Pearl Harbor ever saw. An AMerican tragedy, and some say, the start of our newest war.

I am watching the news as I type and I am sure you can all keep yourselves updated, but if some of you artists care to share here, please do so.

I hope none of you had any family members injured.

God be with you all, and this is certainly a day in history to remember.

Now let's get down to business, Mr Pres, and kick some terrorist ass !

The foogtage of the actual plancrash on the second tower is just mind boggling.

I appreciate the first couple of comments this post has recieved. Even though this AN board is a constant source of jokes, laughs, and a good time, I am so glad to see warm, serious emotions of care and concern for others. God bless.

Jenner--thanks for sharing the story. I am glad that animator's relative made it ok.

Let's keep each other posted as needbe and let's keep each other, and those most directly associated with today's event, in our prayers.

If I am out of line, somebody stop me, but I think whoever did this,...they'll be getting their payback soon enough.

Still watching the news....

$400 million in damage (just the two NY towers alone). The human losses, at over
10,000, are -no question-priceless.

Again, and again, God be with us and those more directly afflicted.
There IS light at the end of this tragedy's tunnel.

The innocent people in the planes, the people in the WTC buildings, the people trying to save themselves by jumping out of the top floors, the people in the Pentagon, some of the palestinians celebrating....
It's terrible.

..But on the other hand you see the NYC people helping one another, the firemen,policemen and paramedics risking their lives...
There's still some humanity.

Here on LONG ISLAND alot of people were just being sent home. The LIE was terrible.

U.S. policies have had devastating effect on MANY innocent people. It was only a matter of time before the table was turned. I wish to hell it hadn't but maybe a few of you will wake up, turn off CNN and the ****ing Disney channel and see your country for what it REALLY is. You keep spouting this patriotic **** about god and freedom, but that supposed freedom (and if you REALLY believe you're free then you're very naive) has come at the expense of others.

Today, I am breaking my silence, momentarily, to tell our friends in America that we are with them with our thoughts in this difficult hour. I hesitate to say "feelings" because the things that we have been seeing and hearing all afternoon (your morning) have been so spectacularly tragic that, for the moment, I feel numb. Its all so surreal that it will take a while to sink in. We sincerely hope none of our friends in America have been touched directly by this tragedy.

We here in this country are by now used to living with terrorism- just yesterday, a human bomb blew himself up, taking two policemen with him and sending several bypassers to the hospital. (Now that's something I can grasp, and grieve over.) But the horror America experienced today, my brain still refuses to accomodate. It's so vast and multi-faceted, and the evil that caused it so unfathomably great, that even a superficial thought about a single aspect of it sickens my soul. Our condolences to all!

Violence is the last resort in a successful revolution, and the first resort of a falied one.

The goal of a revolution is to bring about change. The only way to truely do that is to create more people that belive in the cause than those who follow the current beliefs. A revolution attempts to do that by killing off enough of the opposition that the rest change their ways.

Violence has the opposite effect of intended when used against a majority: Those that were undecided or possibly leaning towards another's cause shun the extreme and move closer to the opposite end of the spectum for protection. We see that with abortion clinic bombings, suicide attacks in Israel and Palestine, and the riots at the major world economic conferences.

All I can say now is that hopefully this horrific incident will serve as a reminder of our addiction to apathy that we see on our television all the time: the Reality TV junk, MTV idiocy, the crude humor and (as we all know) the atrocious state of animated cartoons.

I am with you all in this undeniably grief-stricken day. Thank you and best of luck to you all.

I keep reading posts "let's get those bastards". Why? What will it solve?

Would it really make you feel good to drop a bomb on them?

The ball is in our court now. We can serve up a war that will only cost more lives, or we can take this as a tragedy, condemn it, move on.

Fooksie...please read more carefully. No one anywhere here said that anyone deserved this.

I did not for a second say that there was a GOOD reason for this...but I'm certain there was a REASON. The U.S. probably thinks (for example) bombing Iraq to protect those poor poor 'democratic' Kuwait people was a GOOD reason...and I'm sure that whomever did this felt they had a good reason too.