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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I was in Jr High school that day. I remember being stunned, but I definitely did not grasp the gravity of the situation until much later.
I wonder if America would have been much different if there was a Dem administration in power, or even a Rep like Romney or Ron Paul.
I will say the memorial was tastefully done, and the sheer size of it commemorates the magnitude of the tragedy. It's huge, but not obnoxious. It's an interesting experience going there knowing what happened at that spot and what has been happening since then because of that attack.
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Doubtful, the pressure to react strongly and the desire to react strongly would have been overwhelming and at that point if a President had merely fired a couple of cruise missiles into Afghanistan and left it at that he would have been crucified by both sides of the aisle, the media and the citizen base.
Sometimes people forget that the transition from fear to outright anger and rage and revenge was pretty close to overnight.