9/11/01 - 4 years ago and still with us

Wow, 4 years and somepeople still can't let it go? It happend, and no amount of grieving will bring the dead back, you only ruin your own life by never getting over it.
 
I remember it perfectly.I was in Social Studies, and my principal knock's on the classroom door. She calls over my teacher, and a few minutes later, my teacher walks in crying. She announced the World Trade Centers were hit, and that parents will be coming to pick us up shortly. I went home from school that day, and all of my neighborhood friends were outside, in disbelief. The 9/11 will never be a regular old day for me.
 
KU_ said:
I remember it perfectly.I was in Social Studies, and my principal knock's on the classroom door. She calls over my teacher, and a few minutes later, my teacher walks in crying. She announced the World Trade Centers were hit, and that parents will be coming to pick us up shortly. I went home from school that day, and all of my neighborhood friends were outside, in disbelief. The 9/11 will never be a regular old day for me.
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Can I ask why parents came to pick people up? Do you live in New York?
 
AntiAnto said:
I was twelve when it happened... couldn't understand the situation correctly. When I heard it, I was in the skatepark of my school joking with my friends.
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You have a skatepark at your school? :eek:
 
vegeta897 said:
You have a skatepark at your school? :eek:
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We used to... now they have destroyed it, because people were smoking pot there and doing evil things afterward, like discussing the multiple applications of the General Relatively theory. :flame:
 
SEE WHAT YOU POT SMOKERS CAUSE!?!?

... Um.. Sorry.
 
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Happy birthday!

Okay, that was pretty low... :(

I believe 9/11 was a very sad moment for all of us, it has deeply affected the entire world and sort of brought us into this new era of war on terrorism. I'm not sure how positive I am on the claim that US is protecting "freedom" by causing trouble in underdeveloped middle eastern countries, but we'll see what the future's got in store.
 
I can remember it very well indeed. I was at work, I worked for a Logistics firm at that time, in the warehouse. I heard it on our regional radio, breaking news update telling "breaking news, the world trade center in New York has been attacked", it then gave further detail that 2 passenger planes had been flown into the buildings, and that they were collapsing.

As soon as that story came online, i knew what it meant by the world trade center, (as i do pay attention to things in the world), i knew they were the huge skyscraping towers in new york city in America, and that they were indeed the buildings of the world trade. After hearing the beggining of that news report, i coldnt believe that what i was hearing was true, it seemed unbelieveble, i pictured the place and scale of what must be happening in my mind. My first words i said were "OMG that cannt be true" , than listening to that broadcaster on our radio, i heard his voice change pitch, like his throat was swelling up as he was telling it. I thought to my self and said "bloody hell, if that is happening, there must be thousands of people dieing".

One of my work colleagues was like "whats that" i told him how bad it must be, and how i couldnt wait to see the news.

I finished my day at work anyway, and when i got home at 6:00 i turned on the tv and the pictures of what had happened were real. It was terrible, i saw the pictures of people who were burning to death jumping out of the windows, firfighters being crushed by alling concrete, it was the worst single attrocity ever seen on the face of the earth.
 
School had just finished and i walked back into form so our form tutor could do the register. He was just sat there staring at the screen, along with the rest of the class, in silence. We sat there for like 30 mins watching it, and he just turned round and quietly said we should go home.

Went home and watched the news for like another hour.

Shocking day, i was only 13 at the time, one of the worst things i've ever seen :(
 
Absinthe said:
It's supposed to be the new "Freedom Tower", dedicated to the history of freedom and all that crap. My reaction? "**** you, assholes. This is about the tragedy and victims of 9/11. Not your ****ing banner in the War on Terror".
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I agree with Donald Trump; It looks like ass. :|
They should have just gone with the two lights shining in the sky. :dozey:
 
...was at work myself in the casino. Everyone was standing around the television at the bar. People stand around a lot, but this was different. One of the security officers says a plane hit the tower. I thought it was a legitimate accident. Then the second one hit, and then it hit me - it was on purpose. Call me callous, but this didn't affect me anymore than famines in Africa, floods in Bangladesh, Louisiana, Iraq, etc., etc. do. A lot of people died horribly, and it happens everyday. I ask you - why didn't everyone freak like this when it floods in Bangladesh and, what, a quarter of a million people die instantly, another quarter of a million will die later slowly, and a full million are homeless? What about all the other people dying violently in the world every day? How many truly innocent non-insurgent Iraqis have been bombed by us? Why doesn't this bother people the same way? Because it was American soil? Because we're somehow more deserving of pity when, what, 3000+ of us die in a single bombing? Please sell this to me - I'm tired of being called callous.
 
Yeah, its no big deal, only 2,700 people died. And even though "Americas Evil" to some, these are innocent people. We aren't all "Evil", and not every single american has to do with George Bush's decisions. We live our lives normally, we are nice people, not evil. You don't have to feel bad, but don't say you don't give a shit. That is so mean, that would make you evil and heartless.
 
Absinthe said:
It's supposed to be the new "Freedom Tower", dedicated to the history of freedom and all that crap. My reaction? "**** you, assholes. This is about the tragedy and victims of 9/11. Not your ****ing banner in the War on Terror".
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Yup. And neither is it for the 'history of freedom'.
 
I remember the first thing I thought when I turned on the TV and saw that burning tower was "that looks like a giant cigarette". You gotta admit, it did look like a giant cigarette.
 
diluted said:
I remember the first thing I thought when I turned on the TV and saw that burning tower was "that looks like a giant cigarette". You gotta admit, it did look like a giant cigarette.
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If the cigarette was square, made of glass and filled with people. You people smoke some strange shit!
 
Making use of your unbannage I see Raziaar :D

you silly, you told me you just wanted to read attachments :D
 
i was in sixth grade when it happened. i was at the teachers desk asking a question of a math problem that i didnt understand, there was a line of like 5 people at the desk and when i finally got up there she got a call on her cell phone. since i was senile at the time i was said "oowww, you have a cell phone on at school", i was about to say more until i saw the look on her face, it was a look of terror, and amazment at the same time.i asked her what was wrong and she amedently went to the tv and turned it to CNN, and when she finally got there we saw the second plane hit the south tower. i remember that i just thought that it was a tv show or something, then my teacher just started to fumble around with the remote to turn the tv off. i just stood there not saying anything because i guessed that it hadnt processed that it was real. my princpal came on the intercom and told the teachers to let the parents explain what was going on, but my teacher turned back on the tv (before the announcement) and was explaining to us that it would be all right and so on, and so on...

well thats where i was at the time and now im going to the Foo Fighters concert, i guess that its a 9/11 thing im not sure.
 
i remember it too, i was off school that day, and for some reason i was watching the news channel, i saw the news happening as and when =|
suddenly the BREAKING NEWS message appeared so i was one of the first people in britian to find out, along with whoever else was watching.

edit: ah yes i remember it was on a tuesday, the day i missed PE :D
 
I remember the day vividly. We had recently moved into our new home, and I wasnt employed at the time. I sat in the living room for like three hours watching the TV.
 
little.rebel said:
it was the worst single attrocity ever seen on the face of the earth.
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dont want to offend but things like this are like exagerated to me cuz even if it was tragic there hav been worst incidents before and I know that was tragic to the USA people but really they havent sufered so much like others countrys that hav more disgraces,so to the eyes of some peoples it wasnt so tragic as the USA people feeled
 
<RJMC> said:
dont want to offend but things like this are like exagerated to me cuz even if it was tragic there hav been worst incidents before and I know that was tragic to the USA people but really they havent sufered so much like others countrys that hav more disgraces,so to the eyes of some peoples it wasnt so tragic as the USA people feeled
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I dont think he was being serious. If he was, it was probably spoken out of naivety.
 
It happened when I was in 6th grade. So young. I walked into my math class and my teacher had the TV on, for a while I thought we were early to class and he was watching a movie to pass the time. Yea, then I found out what happened.
 
hard to believe i was just starting eighth grade at the time. now thats a ****ed up word, "eighth". anyhow, i remember waking up to catch the bus and turning the tv on for awhile and seeing breaking news, twin towers in flames etc. didnt think anything of it until later that day when people were screaming in the hallways and our teachers were shitting their pants.
 
Look back on the london bus bombing threads, look at the americans replies. Most of them are like "My prayers are with the families" and "I hope everyone is okay" and stuff like that. Not "I don't give a shit".
 
Snickers said:
Look back on the london bus bombing threads, look at the americans replies. Most of them are like "My prayers are with the families" and "I hope everyone is okay" and stuff like that. Not "I don't give a shit".
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So true, same with how in almost any thread about a murderer or child rapist people post "Only in America"
 
Snickers said:
Look back on the london bus bombing threads, look at the americans replies. Most of them are like "My prayers are with the families" and "I hope everyone is okay" and stuff like that. Not "I don't give a shit".
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To be fair, this topic was made four years after the even itself. That's plenty of time for disconnection to form.
 
They still read the names out don't they? Are they going to do that every year?
 
I remember it because we just got our new sky system put in. I remember watching sky news thinking “Jesus this can't be happening ".
Unfortunately it did happen.
Dreadful, just dreadful
 
I think they should made a momunent there or some statue thing
 
Ennui said:
i was in seventh grade when it happened.
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For some reason I thought you were older, turns out we're exactly the same age. You act too mature.

And remember this: remembering the people who are dead does no good to the dead, but it does good to us. If we can learn our history, we are no longer damned to eternely repeat it.

I have a question relating to 9/11. Why do moms feel safer having bush as a president when the only large-scale terrorist attack in the history of the United-States took place under his presidency?
 
I was in shock the rest of the day. Watched it on TV as it was occurring.

Horrible.
 
TheSomeone said:
I have a question relating to 9/11. Why do moms feel safer having bush as a president when the only large-scale terrorist attack in the history of the United-States took place under his presidency?
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lol is true
and sure bush was using a anti terror campaign in the elections right?
 
what the hell is it with all you people having televisions in your classrooms? you can all **** off thanks.


Stupid hobo highschool i went to... no tvs... godamn hobos
 
I flipped on the tv before going to work that day ..just in time to hear about the first plane hit ..went to work for awhile then went back home and was glued to the tv for 2-3 days


btw it's obvious america hasnt learned a thing from 9/11 ...and not just on how to deal with a disaster
 
xLostx said:
WOOOO HAPPY SEPTEMBER 11th!!!
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Imagine if terrorists killed 3000 people in Canada, you guys would dramatise it like crazy, and want pity. We would help you all like we always do. But when something bad happends here, nobody gives a shit. Like the reaction to New Orleans is like, "They are all nigs down there" and stuff. We donated so much money to the tsunami but we don't get much in return. Bummer eh?

My school is still doing tsunami relief fundraising!
 
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