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Have you Forgotten. Have You Forgotten?A Fine Line A clear blue September sky,
not a cloud in sight to mar the natural beauty of the day. ...
... This is a moment of life expressing a moment of truth? now. What can you say? What
do you see? What do you feel inside, or have you forgotten how to feel? ...
... Well, Heathcliff have you forgotten me?” He gets very offended by this and runs
out the door saying “I shall be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty ...
... is the fact that both the daughters feel neglected by their mothers, and this is
shown very well in "A Taste of Honey": JO: Have you forgotten I'm leaving ...
... It is better to have lived and forgotten than never having the chance to forget. ...
You may regret her name think what could have been, but you are content ...
Submitted by dchottie on November 27, 2006
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Have You ForgottenÂ…A Fine Line
A clear blue September sky, not a cloud in sight to mar the natural beauty of the day. The bright morning sun was slowly rising above Manhattan, as the people began to awaken and go about their day. The honking of horns, of polished shoes and beat up converse on the pavement of New York City, and children heading off to school. A whirring sound was heard above, a plane going over the city. Something was wrong. It was too low; was heading straight towards a rising towerÂ…one that had risen above the Manhattan skyline since completion in 1977.
The horror deepened as the plane continued it's fatal course. Suddenly a huge roar and the scream of metal scraping against metal as the airplane crashed with momentous force into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
Six years, two months and seven days ago, twenty one men who felt that by instilling fear and attacked our country, they could bring down the United states of America, hijacked four planes and crashed three of them in to the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon. The fourth plane never made it to its destination due to the brave Americans on board Flight 93. Today, the leader of the terrorist group who planned the attack is in hiding, or else dead. Our country has gone to war twice, both in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the war is continuing today. And people have forgotten that day. Forgotten the sacrifices made. Pretended that the horror never occurred. Yet, our entire lives are wrapped around security measures put into place because of this attack. Searches and seizures at airports, wiretapping, suspicion of ones neighbors, ones friends, of racial and ethnic groups. And then, the Act, the Act that has stirred up controversy like nothing else has since pre-Revolutionary War. The USA Patriot Act.
The Patriot Act was first passed roughly one month after September 11th, 2001, and over the last six years, it has been ‘buffered up' at least...
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