September 11th

[Ennui]

7 years ago today, the world changed dramatically in the course of half an hour.

This thread is to remember the 3000 odd people who were killed and share memories and thoughts on the matter. No conspiracy bullshit please under threat of ban, we don't care who you think is responsible.

I was 12 and I remember it very clearly, walking into my social studies class just after the second plane hit. A friend of mine (now incidentally my roommate) was standing just in front of me looking at the TV over the door as I walked in with a very strange look on his face, I said "What's up!" and began to say something but when I turned and looked at the TV the words died on my lips. Pretty intense day, it's really sad that it's only caused more deaths as the result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, too bad Bush was in office.

 

[unozero]

It's almost impossible to wrap my around how this event has changed our World-or rather taken off our pink colored eyeglasses.





I was still sleeping when my Sis came in and said that the U.S is at war...I was like:"whatever let me sleep"
2 hours later I couldn't believe what I saw.

 

[MJ12]

I recall switching to my math class in 6th grade when it happened, but I admit I was too naive at the time to fully understand the impact.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I was in homec class (bake things), pretty unbelievable. 8th grade.

 

[Kamikazie]

I was sitting in my math class at 11 years old. My teacher got a call from one of her friends and we turned on the tv to see the second tower get struck. I was speechless for the rest of the day because my uncle worked in the South tower, but I didn't know for sure if he was at work. Once I got home my parents told me that he was and I was devastated. I remember not talking for the next week or so, just out of anger and sadness. It was the worse experience of my life having to come home to sadness and go to school with sadness everywhere.

 

[VirusType2]

I woke up and started to play Phantasy Star Online on my SEGA Dreamcast, and my girlfriend came into the lobby with her brother and told me to turn on the news...

D:

 

[kineaesth]

My mother's friend who is a journalist called us at 2 in the morning or something.

I didn't get it for a while, until I was at school. And I said to my best friend 'this is probably going to be quite important huh'.

 

[Shamrock]

I was sitting in my math class at 11 years old. My teacher got a call from one of her friends and we turned on the tv to see the second tower get struck. I was speechless for the rest of the day because my uncle worked in the South tower, but I didn't know for sure if he was at work. Once I got home my parents told me that he was and I was devastated. I remember not talking for the next week or so, just out of anger and sadness. It was the worse experience of my life having to come home to sadness and go to school with sadness everywhere.

I'm sorry to hear it.

I remember walking into my English class in 6th grade? The hell, I don't remember what grade I was in, but I remember walking in someone telling me, and me just not caring at all. Honestly, I didn't know what the hell the Twin Towers were, and it really didn't bother me that many people were dead because of what happened.

I was shit back then, and I still am but at least I try now to care about what happens. ha..

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I hope that Osama pays for it. (you don't know how close that 's' was a 'b', coincedentally)

 

[lefty]

Was 11. Was all ready to go to school, went into my parents' bedroom and they said we were staying home that day. I asked why, they wouldn't say. Looked at the TV, maybe I saw the news showing the towers falling, maybe my memory is skewing it for continuity. Got to stay home from school.

This reminds me of something my APUSH teacher told me... on days like that, when the towers were bombed, or (the example she gave) when Kennedy was shot, everybody remembers where they were and everybody has a story.

 

[OmegaX]

I was also in 6th grade during class. We turned on the TV and saw what was happening. I don't think I truly understood how bad it was though.

 

[delusional]

I remember walking into my English class in 6th grade? The hell, I don't remember what grade I was in, but I remember walking in someone telling me, and me just not caring at all. Honestly, I didn't know what the hell the Twin Towers were, and it really didn't bother me that many people were dead because of what happened.

Had the same reaction. Only difference was that it was at the bus stop in 7th grade.

I remember a lot of people were saying "lets just nuke the middle east". Oh how stupid we were...

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I bet security will be up today at work when I go in.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I remember a lot of people were saying "lets just nuke the middle east". Oh how stupid we are...

Quite delusional

 

[delusional]

I remember a lot of people were saying "lets just nuke the middle east". Oh how stupid some people are...

Hey I'm not that delusional anymore

 

[soulslicer]

I remember a lot of people were saying "lets just nuke the middle east". Oh how stupid we are...

That'll probably burn a hole through earth, with the shit-tons of oil they have and all...

 

[highlander]

I still remember staying up late that night and hearing about this. shocked me.

 

[kirovman]

I remember I was in the Gym when I heard about it.

My mate said that Israeli fighter jets flew into the Sears tower. So no, I wasn't well informed until I saw it on the news.

 

[Jintor]

I woke up early one morning (like, 4 am) and the TV was on. The TV is never on in the morning. My parents were sitting there staring at it, open mouthed. I began to ask why the curtains weren't open, turned, and saw a plane hit the second tower.

I went to before-school care that morning (Grade six), and all the kids and teachers were just sitting there, watching the TV, and the adults were talking in little hushed groups. That was the prevailant mood for the day.

I don't remember much else of what happened - I was too young to understand any implications really - but I remember feeling dazed for about a week afterwards.

 

[Operational]

Woke up in the middle of the night to hear about it on the Radio. I got up and just watched the news on TV for ages.

 

[Cormeh]

I was working at Tesco's that day. When I was on my final afternoon break someone came into the canteen and announced a plane had crashed into one of the towers.

Nipped home after my shift and sat in front of the news that day. Well, sat in front of any channel because they were all covering it. It was such a bizarre day.

 

[kineaesth]

My mate said that Israeli fighter jets flew into the Sears tower. So no, I wasn't well informed until I saw it on the news.

I almost never laugh at stuff on the internet, but this cracked me up D:

 

[Reginald]

On my 4th day of Year 7, just remember loads of sixth formers talking about it and I thought it was a joke, then I got home from school and turned the TV on and got the apple juice out of the fridge. Couldn't believe what had happened. Then I saw the second plane hit and dropped the apple juice in shock. Cliched. Probably watched the news coverage from 4:30 to about 10 that night.

 

[Combine_Advisor]

not again...

 

[Sulkdodds]

I think I have a pretty common story. Came home from school and, as usual, watched TV - only this time there seemed to be this kickass really kind of verit-ay disaster movie on the box, so I sat down to watch it. It did take me about ten minutes to realise it was the real news.

 

[bbson john]

I don't quite believe it has been 7 years. Those horrible images are still within my mind clearly (probably due to Bush's propaganda). Time really flies.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Got home, did some stuff, my dad came in to my room and told me to come see something on the telly, there be a picture of a burning tower. We thought what a terrible accident until the second plane hit. We watched it for a bit and ermm... I don't remember, I expect we got on with our lives after that. Must have cast a cloud on my parent's wedding anniversary though, but on the other hand, now I always remember it.

 

[Solaris]

I remember being quite young and hearing about it and not really caring and going swimming. Didn't really understand what happened till a few days later.

 

[Dynasty]

Its an unimaginable disaster yes, but im amazed at how people blind themselves as to what the US did in the Middle East which is basically what caused these events in the first place, a sort of 'retaliation'.

Dont dish it out if you cant take it imo.

HOWEVER, it is of course no excuse.

I remember being sat on a minibus on the way home from school when it happened, my mate nudged me and said 'somethings happened to the trade center in New York' (I hadnt heard it on the radio, dont know how he did come to think of it). Got home and saw my mum watching it on TV sat on the sofa in disbelief, funnily enough as I walked in, I hadnt even put my bags down and the 2nd plane hit. Was kinda shocking.

 

[The Monkey]

I was sitting playing GTA II with a friend when my mom told me that the WTC had been it by planes, and that rumours circulated that Bush's summer house had been bombed (there was lots of cracy speculation like that right after the attacks). It was a pretty weird feeling, seeing as I had been in one of the towers less that a year earlier.

 

[Smoke]

I think I was skipping school at the time, got a phone call from my mom to turn on the news, I did. Just as I turned it on the second plane hit, didn't really know what to think.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I actually still have the newspaper, and I have kept it since in my cupboard.

But man, I totally forgot its that day again.

I think it was my second week of starting college

 

[Escaep]

I was in 3rd grade. Surprisingly no one told the students at my elementary school what had happened. That day, my parents were out in the boat and were up on a beach and some guy with a radio told them that the towers had just been hit. I came home and my parents told me what had happened. I didn't really know what to think at first but i remember going a bike ride and sang a song about something then watched the news. My parents also frantically wanted my sister who was in college at the time to come home.

I think that was the event of my generation.


I remember feeling a lot of anger watching pictures of middle eastern kids chanting and cheering. THAT pissed me off.

Then in October my mom had gone up to Detroit to see my grandpa and that is when we started the war and i remember my dad being worried about my mom being in the air with the war just had begun.

 

[Dodo]

I was lighting up a fat joint ( i was 14 i think) when the first plane hit. Then i turned on the television, spaced out, after which i saw the second plane hit... i remember think something like: "****".
This friend of my mom already speculated that it was most likely Osama and his gang..
What a weird day that was.

-dodo

 

[Solaris]

I feel what Tony Blair said on the day of the attacks is very accruate:

"September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life."

 

[Seppo]

I was 15 when it happened. I came home from school and my mom told me that a plane had hit a building in New York. I didn't immediately realize how huge the whole deal was, because I thought it was just a rando maccident. But when I turned on the TV I understood. I actually thought that this would change everything. I thought the US would nuke half the planet, that this was the end of the world. But in the end, it didn't change much. Just another war.

 

[Dog--]

I still don't understand why this is such a huge deal, I mean it should get some attention, but shit, alot worse stuff is happening/happened then this, the only reason this is so big is because it happened to the U.S., if some tower got bombed in Iraq or some country far away from the states, I guarantee it'd have a thread here, then we'd forget about it in a week.

Don't get me wrong, it's terrible, blah blah, but it feels like it's being exploited, and I'm sick of hearing about it. Didn't someone create a thread about the exploitation of 9/11?

 

[Seppo]

That's the point. People realized that they're not safe anywhere. Terrorists became global threat.

 

[Solaris]

I still don't understand why this is such a huge deal, I mean it should get some attention, but shit, alot worse stuff is happening/happened then this, the only reason this is so big is because it happened to the U.S., if some tower got bombed in Iraq or some country far away from the states, I guarantee it'd have a thread here, then we'd forget about it in a week.

Don't get me wrong, it's terrible, blah blah, but it feels like it's being exploited, and I'm sick of hearing about it. Didn't someone create a thread about the exploitation of 9/11?

It was the start of so much, democracies throughout the world came under attacks from Islamo-facism. Britian has come under attack, not once but three times. With many other plots, including efforts to bringdown air planes foiled. Spain was atrociously attacked at the railway station bombings. Plots have been foiled throughout the west.

These people have made it clear, it's not enough for us to just leave them alone as they slowly destroy countries like Afganistan. These people want total control, they cannot tolerate our democracies, our freedom of expression becuase these threaten their ideology. They demand a wordlwide Islamic fascist state. And they will keep attacking us until one of us is destroyed.

We have met this challenge and must continue the fight, becuase it will never go away until our enemy is destroyed. We don't want the fight, they have started it.

 

[Seppo]

Wow. I'm impressed.

Solaris you should pursue a career in the politics!