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TyeDye75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 06:40 PM
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UK plans 3 minute silence
The BBC is reporting that there is a 3 minute silence planned in the UK next wednesday out of respect to those suffering and dieing in the Asian Tsunami disaster.
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Sannum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 06:41 PM
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1. We should too.
I have heard that the Queen has donated a "substantial" amount. Do ya think Bush will ever send a penny of his own money?
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laruemtt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 06:43 PM
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2. the world did it for us after
9/11. it's the very LEAST we could do.
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TyeDye75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 06:56 PM
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4. I remeber the silence the day after 9/11
In my school playground... I was holding back thetears (I never would have lived it down if Id actually cried) but if I had forseen what was to follow I probably wouldent have been able to stop myself.

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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 08:14 PM
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7. Remember "We are all Americans now"
- the world refrain after 9/11.
Time for the US to join/ rejoin the world.
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Truman01 Donating Member (733 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 06:45 PM
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3. Good idea. nt
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 07:54 PM
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5. US plans coronation
US plans coronation.


Whoops strike that.


US plans coronation.

US plans 350 minutes of silence.

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meisje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 08:00 PM
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6. and we are only giving one minute
wah! wah! what wlse can I wine about?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 08:21 PM
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9. Sour grapes?
:evilgrin: :shrug:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 08:20 PM
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8. Next Wednesday, I'll be British for three minutes.
Good show. :thumbsup:
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 08:39 PM
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10. I think that a few minutes of global silence would be apropriate.
Silence should roll across the globe like a new years cheer. I also think that it is apropriate to celebrate New Years Eve. We must always celebrate life.

What time are they planning to do this?
What time did the the first wave reach land?

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TyeDye75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-04 08:55 PM
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11. From what Ive seen on the news i
it looks like most New year celebrations are having a silence.
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bin.dare Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 12:58 PM
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12. how many minutes for the dead iraqis they murdered?
over a million persons during the 1990's and in the vicinity of 100,000 since march 2003 murdered by UK and US.

Hypocrits with their 3 minutes of silence.
14 years of silence is what they have given the iraqis.
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 01:10 PM
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13. Painfully true
Edited on Sat Jan-01-05 01:11 PM by Tinoire
We know full well that those behind the slaughter of the Iraqis won't be joining in the 3 minutes of silence. But still, there are many people over there who tried to stop this criminal war and are just as ashamed of their government as we are. Their gesture is welcome...

The war supporters- I hope they seize the opportunity to spend those 3 minutes searching their empty souls but fat chance I'm sure.

Blair and Bush will probably have a 3 minute telephone call about where to drop the next litter of cluster bombs.

14 years of silence? Kind of a low estimate seeing that they destroyed an entire civilization.

On edit: hope, we, they, all have a better new year. One with a miracle towards peace.
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