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A Time of Rememberance

Darren VanBuren — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:31:56 +0000

You probably already know, but as I write this, it is the day of the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the United States by terrorists. September 11th, 2001 was a day that changed all of America, for the rest of time.

What prides me about this country is that as a country, we did not strike back with the same violence that struck us. We instead did something good for the countries that were home to the terrorists. We sewed the seeds of democracy, in hopes that their lives would improve. Many people would have simply dropped bombs on the Middle East, but we took this approach of inducing peace.

This year as well, we found and killed Osama bin Landen, founder of the extremist group, Al Qaeda. While many people applauded his death, with many shouting “USA!! USA!!” in D.C. after news arrived of Osama’s death.

I’m glad I live in such a proud country, and I’d like to pay my respects to the soldiers that worked to defend our freedoms, those who just were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and killed by the plane crashes, as well as the families who lost loved ones 10 years ago.

We will never forget.

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Happy 4th of July, 2010.

Darren VanBuren — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:59:36 +0000

Ah, yes. Summer. No school, sunny weather, freedom. Let’s just scratch the sunny weather part.

This is the Pacific Northwest. We have rain all the time. We have rain as I write this, despite it being a rather gentle mist.

Our good friend, Matt Ventura, is planning to again set off his questionably legal fireworks, starting at 19:30 PDT. He plans to get some videos, which I’ll gladly repost.

Also, despite Chase killing Seattle’s Family 4th, people have donated enough money to save it. You’ll be able to see it tonight at 22:00 PDT, both live at Lake Union and on KING5.

My plans tonight are questionable. I have no clue what I’m doing, other than watching Matt’s aforementioned videos and likely the Family 4th on TV.

Happy 4th of July!

Darren VanBuren — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:57:28 +0000

It’s the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated for the independence of The United States of America. Lets go over what all the authors at OKS Blog are doing:

G. Liu: As I write this, he just investigated a fire at Ridgewood Elementary School. See http://twitpic.com/9cdbv and http://twitpic.com/9cdgz.
Matt Ventura: Firing questionably legal fireworks. See these posts on his blog: A Big Boom, A Quick Home-made Firecracker.
Darren VanBuren: Launching fireworks. Nothing really special.

So have a safe & fun holiday, from all of us here at OKS Blog!