Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Have You Forgotten by Darryl Worley
Mr. Quinnel played this song in class last week. Mr Worley seems that he is all for protecting America and its citizens. I agree that we should always protect our homeland first. I rememberI was in 9th grade when tradgey struck America. I remember watching the planes crashed into the buildings. I remember seeing people jumped out of building to save their own lives. As I sat at my desk and cried for the Americans we had just lost. I wonder what went on in their mind that morning and what were those Americans last thought. I wanted someone to pay for the pain that America had endured. I was only 14 than. My first gut reaction was to punish whoever was responsible. I rememeber seeing soldiers dying and crying for America's lost once again. Thats when I realize that an eye for an eye isn't the mature way to handle things. I feel that pure emotion is what drove Mr. Worley write his song. I agree that he has a right to be angry. I just do not believe that acting on pure emotion is a logical thing to do.
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Amanda Winn posted this
I must have missed this song in class.
what's up with that Mr.Quinnell?? Our class didn't get a song!!
All of the classes will get songs, they just haven't all done so yet. Activities vary by class as to when they get done. Maybe tomorrow and Friday...
I was baffled for a minute, I know that I try to pay very good attention in class. Then I taught that I just missed the mark on this one. Thanks for dragging Mr.Q., out Kristen.
We listened to the song today and I agree with Mr. Worley. It does feel as if people have forgotten. People complain about this war as if we went in there for no reason. I think if we had not done something we would have seemed weak and that would have been a bigger mistake than "going into this war blindly" as some say.
And as far as pointing out logical fallacies, this is a song...something made for entertainment. I wouldn't expect anything less than for him to act on pure emotion. Doing that is what he gets paid to do.
The biggest fallacy with the Worley song, which no one mentioned in class is that it engages in confusion of correlation and causation. The Iraq war has nothing to do with 9/11. The Afghanistan War was a response to 9/11. Iraq is completely unrelated.
I remember being in class during the attacks...walking into world history class. I walked in, drowsy from the last period, and saw the tower 2 get hit by the plain. Teachers were shocked, students were shocked...they kept saying how there was no reason for this to happen, and that we would never do something like this to another country. On the other side of this, my wife's cousins are in the SEAL special ops. They have chatted on and on about state sponsored killings and covert missions where horrible things happen too. People, understand that the rest of the world (many countries) don't like us for a lot of reasons, but these spec op missions you will never know about are pretty much there 911s. Be lucky that no government called out the US and be glad that this event was all that happened. It could have been much, much worse.
Jd White, you mix 2percent truth with 98 percent hipe, aslo known as fluff, stuff, waste, garbage and none investigated matter. As a Marine in "special Security Forces, Advanced Infantry/Hand to Hand Combat and A Member of the Walking Dead 1/9 Raider Battalon." We went six month deployments at a time with the "Navy Seals." The seals missions were covert in the fact that it was their job to infotraite areas to "detroy communication ablities and to penatrate the perimeter defenses." When their mission was complete, We the "Marines" would secure the beach and take over, we were an amphibious unit. I say this because No one knew the seals were there because their main purpose was demolition and destruction of things object like, Phone towers, mine fields, sonnar, security survalence, etc. We WERE NOT as you say 911s our selves. Most of our missions were to help the military to learn how to protect their government officals and Diplomates.
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