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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: Iraq-Americans Are Building the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial. |
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Inspirational. Click the link for the whole story.
From The Washingtion Post.
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The cantilevered benches arriving at Bucthel will be the memorial's central feature. Each requires nearly 100 hours of grinding, welding and polishing. Once the benches are complete, Yousif and his men will affix each with an etched nameplate corresponding to one of the lives lost that day -- the moment, Yousif says, when the metal "comes alive."
The weight of this responsibility could not be clearer to him. The Iraq-born Yousif and his 20-odd employees -- all immigrants as well -- are facing their own memories of tragedy and loss as they bring the memorial into being.
Yousif left Baghdad in 1979 at age 24, and he hasn't been back. But his 88-year-old mother is there, along with a brother and sister [...]
"Every phone call you get, you hope it's not from Iraq," Yousif said. "And you always wonder what is going to happen next."
That one of the most solemn, significant tasks of completing the Pentagon Memorial would fall to an Iraqi American might seem too unlikely to be a coincidence. But the Pentagon Memorial project did not pick Yousif because he was born in Iraq. In fact, it did not pick him at all.
Yousif is a longtime subcontractor for Metaltek International, the company producing the memorial benches in Missouri. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:46 am Post subject: |
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In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
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Keepongoing
Joined: 13 Feb 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
Do you have to be an "A" hole and turn this so quickly into an opportunity to release your resentments. Was the guy not politically-correct enough for you?
The reference of Iraqi-American just may have been because the nature of what the author is narrating. And yes, it is common in the US to refer to people from their country of origin, especially if they are first generation.
Anyway, it is futile to try to explain tis to you because your purpose here seems to solely be to flame. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| Keepongoing wrote: |
| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
Do you have to be an "A" hole and turn this so quickly into an opportunity to release your resentments. Was the guy not politically-correct enough for you?
The reference of Iraqi-American just may have been because the nature of what the author is narrating. And yes, it is common in the US to refer to people from their country of origin, especially if they are first generation.
Anyway, it is futile to try to explain tis to you because your purpose here seems to solely be to flame. |
You have read The Bobster's previous posts, non? The guy is a raving mad uber-nationalist. Sorry to break it to you.
My purpose here is not to flame, but rather to counter idiocy with idiocy. You do realize that people from different countries have different senses of humour, right? Why can't you be more tolerant of non-North Americans? I call discrimination on this! |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:20 am Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
I've often thought you were a little bit strange. Today, I'm sure.
Read the whole article, then come back and say something clear. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
I've often thought you were a little bit strange. Today, I'm sure.
Read the whole article, then come back and say something clear. |
Sarcasm. Wit. Satire. Puns.
Has your soju-addled brain not encountered these dark desires of dark delight before? |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
| The Bobster wrote: |
| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
I've often thought you were a little bit strange. Today, I'm sure.
Read the whole article, then come back and say something clear. |
Sarcasm. Wit. Satire. Puns. |
None of those 4 things exist any part of your post. You are VERY strange. Or high. (Which is fine, but you should warn people before you open your mouth.) |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I fail to see any connection between a random bunch of Iraqis and 9/11. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Are Iraqis believing this bull$hit now? I thought someone else attacked America. They did have a Q in their name so I can see how people could get confuzzled. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: Re: Iraq-Americans Are Building the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial. |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
Inspirational. Click the link for the whole story.
From The Washingtion Post.
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The cantilevered benches arriving at Bucthel will be the memorial's central feature. Each requires nearly 100 hours of grinding, welding and polishing. Once the benches are complete, Yousif and his men will affix each with an etched nameplate corresponding to one of the lives lost that day -- the moment, Yousif says, when the metal "comes alive."
The weight of this responsibility could not be clearer to him. The Iraq-born Yousif and his 20-odd employees -- all immigrants as well -- are facing their own memories of tragedy and loss as they bring the memorial into being.
Yousif left Baghdad in 1979 at age 24, and he hasn't been back. But his 88-year-old mother is there, along with a brother and sister [...]
"Every phone call you get, you hope it's not from Iraq," Yousif said. "And you always wonder what is going to happen next."
That one of the most solemn, significant tasks of completing the Pentagon Memorial would fall to an Iraqi American might seem too unlikely to be a coincidence. But the Pentagon Memorial project did not pick Yousif because he was born in Iraq. In fact, it did not pick him at all.
Yousif is a longtime subcontractor for Metaltek International, the company producing the memorial benches in Missouri. |
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I'm with Wo on this one. I'm just drying my tears. Afterwards Yousif is going to go back to his cramped apartment which he shares with another 10 'Iraqi-Americans' trying to live the American Dream. Cue rock ballad and smokey fade out. |
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Rumple
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
Most "hyphenated" Americans WANT to be hyphenated, because that hyphen is part of their identity. It describes who I am, because the word to the left of the hyphen makes me ME. If you ignore my culture, if you ignore my ethnicity, then you ignore an important part of me. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Rumple wrote: |
| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
Most "hyphenated" Americans WANT to be hyphenated, because that hyphen is part of their identity. It describes who I am, because the word to the left of the hyphen makes me ME. If you ignore my culture, if you ignore my ethnicity, then you ignore an important part of me. |
Rumple possesses wisdom, while most of the rest of you are still stuck in that cynical irony thing that was so trendy back in the 90s. Yawn. The world is not a bad place, not entirely. You're better off seeing it as it is, rather than in ways that are designed to simply make you feel superior because you somewhere got the notion that occasional positivity equals na�vet�. (Clue : Not always. Sometimes things happen and they are good things.) |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
In Canada people tend to drop the "Canadian". You're Korean. You're Italian. Don't matter if you're third generation. I have zero problem with people wanting to identify their roots. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I doubt it makes a shred of difference to 'Real' Americans. Black Americans are still considered second class citizens in their own country and they were born there. System worse than apartheid in the "land of the free." Still we can only hope, eh? |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
| Keepongoing wrote: |
| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
In your supposed 'land of freedom' that is responsible for the entire world outlawing opium, heroin, and cocaine, is it not wrong to call American citizens 'Iraqi-American', 'Cuban-American', 'Tool-American', etc?
I thought that all American citizens were equal; sounds like discrimination to me - no two shakes about it, pal - I'm telling my Greek-Swedish friends about this one! |
Do you have to be an "A" hole and turn this so quickly into an opportunity to release your resentments. Was the guy not politically-correct enough for you?
The reference of Iraqi-American just may have been because the nature of what the author is narrating. And yes, it is common in the US to refer to people from their country of origin, especially if they are first generation.
Anyway, it is futile to try to explain tis to you because your purpose here seems to solely be to flame. |
You have read The Bobster's previous posts, non? The guy is a raving mad uber-nationalist. Sorry to break it to you.
My purpose here is not to flame, but rather to counter idiocy with idiocy. You do realize that people from different countries have different senses of humour, right? Why can't you be more tolerant of non-North Americans? I call discrimination on this! |
Congrats Bob. On one forum you're "uber-nationalist" while on another forum you're a hippie commie. I suppose they aren't exclusive, but they certainly aren't closely related 99% of the time. |
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