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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (3964)	9/18/2001 11:27:32 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Respond to of 27666

IMO they didn't "die", they were murdered going to work - doing their best for their families. Equating this with a solider on the battlefield is not apples to apples IMO. Sure people make the allegory of this being "a new war" and "the battlefield is everywhere" but its still different. We as a society don't go off placing ourselves in harm's way everyday but soliders do. We don't wake up each morning knowing that today I could be called upon to sacrifice my life for my country but soliders do. When my supervisor calls to me and orders me to do something, I bet it will never be to place my life in danger. To me, there's a difference. Last week, people were murdered in the attack, they didn't die for something - they were plain murdered. There's a difference. Regards, Peter J Strifas ps - this dying for a reason stuff seems strange to begin with. Its a need we developed to justify sending young people off into harm's way and in most cases, die to either protect others or gain for others. It creates a noble cause out of something that unimaginably horrible.