Originally Posted by Grits
On that morning, the sale at Keeneland was cancelled. Sheikh Mohammed's 747 remained on the runway, but by nightfall it had been taxied up to the tarmac, just beyond the air traffic controller's tower. It remained there, uplite--from the ground--with lights so stong that it could be seen for miles.
He remained there aboard the aircraft for what was maybe 36 to 48 hours. When the plane left Lexington . . . left the country . . . on board were well connected citizens of the Middle East, dignitaries, and diplomats that feared remaining in the U.S. at the time. The Sheikh was their safe haven.
To see this aircraft sitting those 2 nights, uplite and huge against the night sky was one of the most foreboding, the most distressing sights I have ever witnessed. My blood has never felt like ice, though it did then.
I wasn't in NY or Washington on 911, and I did not lose family members or friends, nor do I have either fighting on the ground now in Iraq or Afganistan.
This world is different now, and Linny had an excellent contribution to the thread yesterday. We could all be sitting in our shorts, with hoods on, and no one would know, otherwise.
You all do not know me, nor do I, any of you. I am a loyalist to a fault, and I will back you until proven not worthy, which I hope does not occur with anyone that means something to me.
I have lived long enough to know that blood is thicker than water. And a lot of blood has run on the streets in Middle Eastern nations, imminently close to this tiny little country on the Arab Pennisula called Dubai.
To my mind, I was not the one that -- didn't get it. It's all though, just a matter of opinion. And this is just a message board, where none on this really matters.
And once again, I'm sorry that I have been nothing but trouble since registering here.
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