On Saturday as a mark of respect to the victims of 9/11 Stu locked all the boards for a minute.
My dad lives in New York and his office is next to what used to be the twin towers, and we knew had workers/ friends that died there. It was good that everyone stopped to think at that time.

Today at 11am UK time there is a European minutes silence for the people who were killed in the Russian School Siege in Beslan.
As a parent this hit home to me as it was first day back at school for my kids too, and it make you think how lucky I am really.

If you don't have kids, it probably won't mean as much to you as those with kids, but imagine for 1 minute your niece, nephew, brother, sister, mum, dad, all under seige, by some crazy fckued up mad men, who are going to kill people regardless.

If we have a minute silence, think how lucky we really are.

Cheer Chris.

I'll get off my soap box now- scared of heights

 

 

 

 

PassionFord will be closed for 1 minute at least and replaced by this notice:

PassionFord is Closed for at least the next 60 seconds in respect of the European 1 minutes silence for the victims of the Beslam School Siege in Russia.

They were celebrating the start of the new school year with parents and staff on the morning of Wednesday, September 1, when a heavily-armed gang took them hostage.

The crisis ended in massive bloodshed with the deaths of at least 368 people, including 30 rebels and 11 members of the special forces after bombs rigged by the hostage-takers went off inside the building, and Russian troops moved in. Half of the dead were innocent children, who were celebrating their first day of classes at Middle School No.1 when the rebels attacked their school in the town of Beslan in the North Ossetia region bordering Chechnya.

Please respect our 1 minutes silence in tribute to all the victims, with a special thought spared for all the innocent little children who were slaughtered.

PassionFord Staff


But it will be centre tabbed.. i cant do that in a post

 

Lets show our respect people.

 

 

 

i will be doing this. lets hope other people observe this as well, as even though its not in our country etc, it was awful what happened, and we shouldnt be narrow minded about it. we should all, as a world, observe this.

 

 

Thoughts are with them, RIP.

 

 

A little more than 1 min offline.

Thank You everyone.

 

Thanks.

 

 

Well done!

Glad we had a 1 min silence on here to as i think this goes down as one of the worst terrorist attacks ever

 

Thanks Stu

 

Very nice thought.

 

 

Nice post,

 

Why not for the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan. They Chechens? The Palestines, The Israel's? What about the children killed at Dunblane (can YOU remember the date?) What about the Omagh (sp?) bomb, that was in a packed shopping centre. Think a few children persished there as well.

The events you mention were TRADEGIES. I will not condone or seek to nulify their impact on the people affected. But 100s of Children die every week in countries around the world. Through starvation or infection or civil unrest. Yet we dont shut up shop. If anything we change the channel, or ignore it. We forget just how lucky we are in the 1st world. How our children dont die before they reach 15.

I can understand relatives of those who died remembering it. But to me (at least) I have no link with them. And sadly I cannot generate all the faux sorrow for them simply because the media thinks I should.

Flame on, as I realise that a lot of you enjoy that...

 

Rich w you hartless insesitive prick

 

Not at ALL!

Wheres your sympathys foir the people I mentioned? What are you doing to show solidarity with the children of Sudan who have a damn sight less than you and me?

Waht about when the US dropped Nuclear fucking bombs on Japan? Daresay a few innocents died in that

 

Rich W that is your opinion and in some respect you are right. I guess if we had a minutes silence EVERYTIME a tradegy happened we wouldn't get any work done

You don't have to take a minute silence, its out of respect.

Sums it up nicely

I was asleep at the time, and i'd like to think i respected the minutes silence.

 

please dont turn this post into trash as theres tradegy allover the world but this is fresh in peoples minds

 

It was 3 years ago. And I did respect it the week after it happened. But Im not going to let it impede my life. Im not going to alter the way I am just because of some terrorists plan. I will not let them win!

O/T slightly. I hate when any post on this forum just turns into a slanging match. I dont agree with a lot of what I read on here. But I dont feel the need to slate every one for their views. I try to remain attacking the view with a counter argument, not just saying "you're a prick"

 

Dont reck this post!!!! start another one!

Oh and that above properly ended up saving a lot more lives than was lost in the droping of the bomb!

 

What was 3 fookin years ago?

perhaps read the damn post before gobbing off

 

No gobbing off Stewart!

September 11 2001.

I know this thing was TODAY 14/9/4 but...

Ah fuck it, try and put a different view accross and you get jumped on by emotively charged children...

 

Rich

instead of spouting your beliefs try using a bit of restraint at a time when people are feeling sensitive towards these things after all there is a time and a place to speak and a time and a place to pay your respect

simon

 

No it was less than two weeks ago Rich, this post is for the russian school children/familys

 

Hmm..
Do you perhaps wish to do as i suggested and READ THE FOOKING TOPIC and then perhaps tell me what september 11th has to do with this particular 1 min silence?

Emotively charged children eh? ROFLOL.. at least us kids can fookin read

 

Damn.. you spoilt the surprise now....

 

hardly a surprise, if he actually read it in the first place eh Rich

 

Hold my hand up time

Im still going to try and salvage this My points ARE valid for when you locked it on Saturday. 3 years on I dont PERSONALLY agree with. I started to digress onto the 11 September thing becasue I was trying to find the picture for the other post.

As for Russia. Same point remains. Wheres the symapthy for others who died around the world today, and yesterday, and the day before. What about the 47 Iraqis that died today? The estimated 100 Sudanese kids who died TODAY.

Are we going to mark this event next year? Bet not one of you will remember!

A2D I feel.

 

Rich W, it's a simple one, it's out of respect. that's all. If you don't agree then fine, just don't post. There are So many other post on this site that I am sure you would rather read and reply to! Simple isn't it?
Oh, and and as far as the Bombing of Japan. What would you call a surprise attack on a country that was trying to make peace with them? I can go on, but I won't Respect for all the families that have lost loved one's under "TERRORIST" attacks.

 

hi

without reading the thread

i lost work colleagues in this diaster, i also lost my job

but what about peeps lost in the probs in india in 1984, wheres the mins silence for them

no one heard there crys

just my pennies worth

 

Well you should read the post, unless your work colleague were around 13 years old, and you lost your job 2 weeks ago

 

russ

that has nothing to d with it

age has no barrier

 

so did you loose your job as a result? no
did you loose work colleagues as a result? no

so read the bloody post before posting

this happened 2 weeks ago, same as when the Bhopal incident happened i'm sure as heck they had a minutes silence!