Today is 9/11

[Navaron]

The faces and images you can not forget. (http://www.911digitalarchive.org/diganimbackup/americaattacked/index1.html)

http://www.trosch.org/mnu/9-11-2002%20cross-700.jpg

NEVER. EVER. FORGET.

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If there must be trouble, let it be in my life that my children may have peace. (http://www.fdnylodd.com/BloodofHeroes.html)

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[Biohazzard56]

:usa:

[firecrackerNC]

:love: :usa:

[Hamma]

:love: :usa:

[Doop]

Long live America.
/me gives a moment of silence.

[DaShiznit]

/me pauses Guns and Roses to observe said moment of silence
:usa:
God bless America. And everywhere else too.

[JetRaiden]

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[Infernus]

http://forums.bohicagaming.com/html/emoticons/usaflag.gif

:rofl: :rofl: I love it

[Mag]

:love: :usa:

[Dharkbayne]

:rofl: :rofl: I love it
:confused: :confused: :confused:

[JetRaiden]

that video had some of the most frightening audio Ive ever heard.

[SDM]

:confused: :confused: :confused:
He digs the little marine smileys. http://forums.bohicagaming.com/html/emoticons/usaflag.gif

[Triggar]

I will never, ever forget how terrifying and sad that day was.

It started out a regular day for me, as it did for thousands of other people. I grumbled that I had to get up early for work. I showered and got ready like every other day, and got in my car. On my way to work, I heard on the radio that a tower had been hit with a plane. I thought some n00b in a Cessna went blind or something, and figured the pilot probably died, but thought nothing more. Then I heard another plane hit, a jet. I felt the blood in my face go white as I turned around and somehow got myself home to be with my family. We were glued to the television when we saw that another aircraft had hit the Pentagon. It was at that point that we became terrified - we were under attack - what was going to be next? They were telling us that there was another aircraft unaccounted for, still in the air. We all sat with baited breath, wondering what the next target was going to be. We learned later on that the passengers onboard that aircraft had spared disaster and took control of their aircraft.

My whole family was glued to the television that day, watching in utter disbelief. Watching the people jump from the buildings, watching people run from the smoke and debris, watching that building just gracefully crumble to the ground. It was hard to believe that thousands of people were trapped inside those buildings, riding their way down to their deaths.

That day, I decided to become a commercial airline pilot. Let them try and break into my cockpit. Let them try.

I moved to New York City the year after the terrorist attacks, and I lived right up the block from the terrible, gaping hole. On 9/11 of that year, we had a candlelight vigil where we walked from my school past one of the fire stations who had lost so many men that day, down to the WTC site. We looked at the plaques of names, so many names. Looked at the cross formed by the building structure, looked at the crater in the ground where two majestic buildings once stood, and looked at eachother. Men, women, children, black, white, arab - we all cried.

I will never forget that day. I will never forget the incredible fear and sadness, and the determination that this will never happen again.

God bless each person who died, each person who helped, and each person who came together on that day.

:usa:

[Jekz]

Ran protect us.

Wouldn't the cross mean that God blew them up?

[Triggar]

Wouldn't the cross mean that God blew them up?

Get out of this thread, man. Have some respect.

[Jekz]

Just pointing that out to people who think that cross is all special.

I feel for everyone's loss as much as everyone else.

[SDM]

Just pointing that out to people who think that cross is all special.

I feel for everyone's loss as much as everyone else.
To some, that cross is "all special". Aparently you don't feel everyone's loss as much as everyone else. You apparently feel for everyone's loss except those who felt a significance to the cross. You're not Goth are you?

[Jekz]

Goth? Ick.

Nein.

[Doop]

Don't turn this thread into a fight.
(not talking to anyone in particular)

[JetRaiden]

I was in Algebra class in 8th grade. All the teachers were gone and everyone was sitting around talking. Kids were talking about some kind of terrorist attack or something like that. I told them that it couldnt happen. We simply would never allow it. It was a catholic school so they had a little emergency assembly in the auditorium to pray for everyone.
I didnt know what exactly happened until my dad picked me up from the bus stop. I asked him "Dad, what the hell happened? I heard the WTC got hit by a plane..."
He just replied "Theyre gone."
"Gone?"
"Yea, just gone."

Out of everyone I know, I think my dad was hit hardest by this. Hes not one to mourn alot, he didnt even cry when his dad died. He worked in the WTC for 10 years, had alot of friends from college and wall street buddies working there. He's never really told me who he knew that died in it. I can tell he's taken everything very hard. He doesn't seem very touchy about it, but Im know he's very sensitive about it on the inside. He just seems like he just needs to sit down and cry it all out.

[Glaynor]

Get out of this thread, man. Have some respect.

Well said.

I took my four month old son for his doctor visit today. On the television they had the 9/11 memorial services. I thought of how when he is older he won't be able to understand that day. It was one of the worst days for me ever. I remember the fear I felt since my wife worked (and still does) in Times Square. I thought they would attack there too. I wasn't able to get in touch with her for over half the day. I didn't know where she was, if she was safe, if she was at work yet, etc. She ended up stranded in the city overnight. I remember the sadness of learning my cousin, a Fire Fighter with one of the Rescue Squads was there and was in the South tower. He never came home. I remember the eeriness of the site when I went there a week later to see the destruction. I was able to gain full access because I was a prosecutor (we get badges) and an officer knew my cousin. A week after the event fires still burnt and after being there for a hour, I was covered in soot. People barely talked there, it was the most surreal experience in my life.

To all who have said they don't care (I have seen that on other boards) I hope you never have to go through that. Two other family members (other cousin [firefighter] and uncle [court officer]) have permanent lung damage from being at the site immediately after and helping in the rescue attempts. They will never recover, and we do not know what the long term affects on them are. The doctors are unable to identify what the substances in their blood are.

Never forget, never take your freedoms for granted. And most of all, treat your freedoms with the deferential respect they deserve. They are not a privilege for you to denegrate, insult and abuse just because you can.

[Kaltagesta]

One interesting thing was that one of the news presenters on one of the channels over here was reporting on it, but her husband was, at the time, on business in New York, and since no one could get in or out of NY, he acted like their reporter. But because it all happened so quick and live, they would ask him questions, he'd answer as best as he could and then at the end of the call, the news presenter would say "Ok, i love you, i'll talk to you later ok. The kids are fine" and all this kinda stuff. That really hit it home to me how these are real people.

[JetRaiden]

One interesting thing was that one of the news presenters on one of the channels over here was reporting on it, but her husband was, at the time, on business in New York, and since no one could get in or out of NY, he acted like their reporter. But because it all happened so quick and live, they would ask him questions, he'd answer as best as he could and then at the end of the call, the news presenter would say "Ok, i love you, i'll talk to you later ok. The kids are fine" and all this kinda stuff. That really hit it home to me how these are real people.

indeed. Ive never heard about that. especially since news anchors always seem so lifeless.

[Zodiac]

Never forget, never take your freedoms for granted. And most of all, treat your freedoms with the deferential respect they deserve. They are not a privilege for you to denegrate, insult and abuse just because you can.Well put.

:usa:

[Arctik#2]

:usa:

[Jekz]

:usa:

Just ignore me, I'm subconciously anti-Christian and I get worked up when people think that there's some being who cares about intraspecies killing. People are sick. It's a fact of life.

[martyr]

my dad's flying home from india today.

[Lartnev]

Never forget, never take your freedoms for granted. And most of all, treat your freedoms with the deferential respect they deserve. They are not a privilege for you to denegrate, insult and abuse just because you can.

People probably said that after the first world war and after the second world war too. Now is not the time for such words of freedom and all that, now is the time of rememberence for those poor souls who perished in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the fourth flight which failed to each its intended target.

Anyone who has even the vaguest comprehension of what went on in those buildings cannot fail to remember the images emotions felt day. One cannot help but think of the terror of those trapped inside, the desperation of people who had no other choice but to jump or the compassion of those who risked and gave their lives to save others.

I think it will be hard to forget what happened. What we must remember is why and how it happened and help to prevent it from happening again. May we pray that history does not repeat itself.

[Infernus]

I was in Algebra class in 8th grade. All the teachers were gone and everyone was sitting around talking. Kids were talking about some kind of terrorist attack or something like that. I told them that it couldnt happen. We simply would never allow it. It was a catholic school so they had a little emergency assembly in the auditorium to pray for everyone.
I didnt know what exactly happened until my dad picked me up from the bus stop. I asked him "Dad, what the hell happened? I heard the WTC got hit by a plane..."
He just replied "Theyre gone."
"Gone?"
"Yea, just gone."



Thats more or less what it was like for me...

It was the second week of 8th grade... and I can remember exactly what I was doing. I was sitting at my dek helping the kids in my group with our English assignment (vocabulary or some such)... when the teacher game in and put the radio on. He seemed quite hysterical liek soemthing was wrong, he told us a plane had hit the World Trade Center. They made an announcement over the intercom and we said a prayer, at the time it was only the one tower. We all thought it was a freak accident... I remember talking to my teacher about it, we both thought it was a jet that was forced to make an emergency landing, was trying for the river, but didn't make it.

Then we heard of the second tower... at this point my teacher ditched the radio and rolled the TV from the teachers lounge in. We watched the news of the pentagon... we watched the first tower fall... the girls were crying... hell I almost was too... all of us were. I lost the heart ot watch and got up and left... we had a prayer service that morning and left early...

I was terrified... I didn't sleep at all that night. My house lies right in one of the approach paths for landing planes at Philadelphia International, the sound of planes flying close overhead has become natural to me... that night... it was just to quiet.

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Word

[Onizuka]

Ran protect us.

Wouldn't the cross mean that God blew them up?

:rolleyes: sick.

:usa:

[Jekz]

Du bist klug?

[EarlyDawn]

My story:

I was in 8th grade at the time, when it was reported over the PA that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. The report was extremely vague, and they never really made the scale of the situation clear. Like many probably did when they heard word of this begin to circulate, I expected to see something rediclious like a turboprop plane sticking out of the side of one of the buildings on the 8'oclock news, and wondering what idiot did that.

Anybody who had family who worked there were told to come to the office. I don't have anybody who works there, although my parents had left for London the day before. Needless to say, I was a tad bit concerned, so I went to the office to contact them. Logically, I had figured out that they wern't even in the country, but I wanted to make sure everything was alright, and I partially just wanted to figure out what was going on. Very few in the school were even talking about it in the hall. It was just a regular day.

When I got to the office and was asked what my circumstances were, I was relegated to a low-priority call and told my parents were probably fine and in London, which sat logically with me, so regarding personal + family saftey, I was fairly reassured.

I was going to sit down (Office TV being on, of course), when somebody said something to one of the other staff and nodded to me. They obviously didn't want hysteria, so when one of them went to move me elsewhere, I... did something. I don't even remember what it was (Little details get lost in memory), but regardless, I wasn't forced to leave.

That was right about when the second plane hit. It was televised, so I naturally thought the whole thing was a replay. But everyone got real quiet. The first thing, and one of the most prominent things I remember from the day was the realization that anyone on that plane did not survive. Such simple concepts are shocking under such conditions. I asked, once people seemed to start wondering about what, exactly, we had just seen, if it was a replay. I had asked the question very generally to nobody in particular, so I didn't recieve an answer. Everyone was shocked. When I specifically got one teacher's attention, and asked "Was that a replay?", he told me he didn't know.

Just managed to get into my guidance councelor's office. Of everyone, I really felt bad for her. Her son worked in the building (I don't remember what floor, except that it was under 50. Be damned if I remember which tower), and she wanted desperately to call him, but the school was in crisis control mode, so students got priority. When I asked her what was going on, she told me that the repercussions of this wold echo for some time, and that just about everyone would know someone effected.

It's terrible to hear such things from an adult, but I understood it to be better then most of the bullshit "Everything will be fine" reports given from the rest of the staff.

I spent the rest of my time (Which was about five minutes) in the office reassuring one kid, who had seen the same things on TV as I that I was sure that his relative who worked in the tower (Father, I think?) would be fine, which did absolutely nothing for his morale, but freed up adults to talk to other people so I guess I helped, if only a little. Then I just went to lunch with my friends and told them what was happening. Even halfway through the day, the VAST majority of people had absolutely no idea of the magnitide of events that had happened.

Most were probably suprised, as I was, when their parents came to pick them up early, as mine did. (Grandparents)

Sorry, I just had to put that somewhere. Never really told anybody about what my experiences were on the day.

:usa:

[Triggar]

I think it's interesting, and good for us to talk about our experiences on that day. I personally am glad that you guys are posting your stories. In a strange way, it makes it that much more real. That it wasn't just a bad dream of mine.

[Infernus]

All in all the biggest thing I remember was when they let us out of school... ...I had tried to hold it all in... but I remember running to my mom and just crying... I didn't have family on the Trade Center or anything... no one on the planes... I just lost control and cried...

[EarlyDawn]

I think it's interesting, and good for us to talk about our experiences on that day. I personally am glad that you guys are posting your stories. In a strange way, it makes it that much more real. That it wasn't just a bad dream of mine.

Yeah, I agree.

I think the most deep-reaching thing about that day was it went from so normal to so surreal so fast. We'd been influenced to think we were invincible. Pearl Harbor would never happen again.

No warning, for civillians, and very little for local air defense. Everything just went so wrong so fast.

[Hamorad]

My imediate reaction: :scared:
My future reaction: :jawdrop:
My reaction now: :usa:

[Sputty]

I remember a few things, one being that military planes and helicopters were far more common around, and that civilian helicopters were replacing important plane flights.

[SDM]

I was watching it live on NBC. When the first hit, they thought it was an accident. It was surreal.

[MrShooter]

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:tear:

[MattxMosh]

On September 11th, I was on my second day of training to be a 411 operator for 3 cellphone companies.

Normally you go tthrough 2 weeks of training, learning how to search the multiple databases, and use the other functions, and listen in on other operators to learn what to do. Too bad thats not how it went for me.

after the first plane hit, the phones lit up, thousands and thousands in lay in wait. Nobody knew why at first, and they threw the trainies on the phone. I don't think I knew anyone personally that died, friends of friends and such, but that day an dteh next, I worked 45 straight hours. Some people may say Im an inconsiderate ass hole, but those who do didn't know me before that day. The sound of terror, panic, fear, grief sadness, the balls out screaming crying, from all those people forever changed me. I'm not in the mood for detail on this, but my third call of that day was from inside the first tower that was hit, and it didn't occur to me much later, but I may have been the last person to ever talk to that man. And how I wish I wrote down the phone number, so I could have informed someone. It still eats me up inside.

So I guess, despite teh tragedy, and how mental draining it was on me, Im glad I was there to give every effort to help that I could.

My heart goes out to everyone that lost someone.

[Kam]

I was in school on 9/11, when it happened we were called out of class to watch it in the Community Hall. Honestly, I have to say I wasn't that shocked by it, more like surprised. I knew something like that was going to happen, what with the FBI and CIA reports that were being released lately. I knew no one I knew was there, so I guess my calm reaction was one of relief. Later at home the magnitude of the attack revealed itself to me while I was watching the home movies of it on the internet. I did not make me sad, more like angry. It really made me want to go to the middle east and kill terrorists, now it really doesn't sturr any reaction from me. I did not even know today was 9/11 until I saw this posts title.

:usa:

[Zodiac]

I was watching it live on NBC. When the first hit, they thought it was an accident. It was surreal.Ditto. Kinda wish I hadn't been. Seeing the footage of the second plane hit, the towers collapse, the people getting covered by a wave of debris, peoppe jumping out of windows while holding hands, said people hitting the ground. Sad sad day. :(

[OfaLoaf]

It never really hit me hard... I knew no-one in the whole state of New York, my parents had maybe a few friends in the state, and I was 11. It just seemed like a big screwy disaster. I never felt for them. It worries me.

I do remember my teacher, Mr. Nickel, just about weeping though. Never found out if it was personal or just the whole humanity of the disaster.


and of course the obligatory :usa:

[JetRaiden]

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:tear:
thats fuckin incredible. I havent been there in so long Ive almost forgotten what it was like...

[Angel_of_Death]

/moment of respect

That Blood of Heroes thing almost brought me to tears.

[Mr1337Duck]

I was in sixth grade at the time. My schedule was:

AM Studies
Science
Algebra
Reading
Related Arts
English


I was in science at the time, towards the beginning, people were lounging, chatting, etc. when our principal comes on the intercom. Nobody pays attention at first, figuring it'll be just another announcement that someone needs to pick up on line 1 or something. She says "This is a national security alert" and everybody's heads snap over to the intercom box. Everybody's really quiet, going over in their minds what that could mean over a couple seconds. Are we being invaded or something, what happened?! She goes on to tell us how two planes have slammed into the World Trade Center, everybody starts conversing amongst themselves, and walking out to the commons (right outside the door to our room) to look at the TV, where they have the news on NBC, people from several classes show up to watch for a bit. We didn't do anything for the rest of the class. Ms. Smith goes and gets a radio out of the closet and we just sit there listening to it and discussing amongst ourselves. Come to think of it, nothing but that went on for the rest of the day.

When I got home we were just sitting in the study watching the news for most of the rest of the day. I spent some time at my current board talking with them. It was unreal, we'd pretty much lulled ourselves as a culture to believe we were damn near invincible. We weren't. It was a huge event for all of the kids at the school that day, and all the people everywhere in this country. I remember the following months after the attacks when we had moments of silence at mosst school events and everybody had american flags on their tshirts and it there was a shining moment for our country when we came together as Americans.





God bless America

:usa:

[Everay]

this happened around 8am for me, mabey it was 8am there and 7am here, i dont remember, i dont even remember how i found out about it exept my brother telling me, i think it was 8am my time, and he told me, two building just hit some buildings in new york, and my first thought was, wtf? he said, i just turned on the TV and i just saw the second plane hit, as they showed it live on goodmorning america. and i remember peter gennings or whoever does that news channel on ABC took over for the goodmorning america host, i remember him almost saying "those sons of bitches" i remember the shock, the anger, the knowlege at the time, that hey, this is a terrorist attack, 1 plane mabey, 2 planes, no fucking way, and i remember shortly after hearing about the pentagon, mabey 9am my time, and i remember wondering where the fuck that 4th plane was, and then, finding out it crashed, and being somewhat proud that they took the plane down themselves instead of letting the terrorists kill them all and ram it someplace.

all in all, it was shocking, so shocking that i even had one of them hysterical laughs as the buildings fell, fuck, it didnt hit me that there were people inside those buildings till after they fell, hell, it just looked like some bad ass demolition work from the outside to a casual observer, i remember seeing the replay over and over after i realised what just happened and it made me sick. mabey thats the day i knew i wanted to join the military, i dont know. the schools declared a lockdown, no one in or out until let out of the school day or their folks go and pick em up, so i didnt go to school that day, i just stayed tune to ABC NBC, MSNBC, Fox, CNN, you know, going through them all, trying to find out as much as i could. i asked my brothers girlfreind latter, what was she doing during the attacks? she replied, oh i was talking with my freinds, and i asked, wernt you watching tv? and she told me, no, it was on but i wasnt watching it. i lost any repect i had for her, which was nill, and because of that i pretty much treated her like shit, didnt make my bro happy, but i didnt care.

speaking of which, i talked to a Marine recuiter, he said get in contact with my senator, he also said that laser eye surgery should be fine, he knows some people that have gotten it, he also said i have to be clean of all medicine for 6 months before i apply, so that means i still need to figure out how to get rid of my migraines.

[Mr1337Duck]

I don't want to tarnish the other post with an update like this, so I'll post another reply.


Anybody who knows about the Democratic Underground knows that they're about the most anti-american sons of bitches to ever walk the earth. So now they're saying that everybody should just ignore 9/11 and pretend it never happened, that the only people who mourn those lost on 9/11 are evil facist republicans.


It is disgusting that anybody who claims to be an American would speak that way about their country and fellow citizens. Those people should just renounce their citizenship and catch the first plane to Cuba, leave the rest of us Americans, Republicans, Democrats, Indeps, Greens, whatever, in peace.

[Sputty]

They're "un-american" because they disagree with you

[JetRaiden]

I don't want to tarnish the other post with an update like this, so I'll post another reply.


Anybody who knows about the Democratic Underground knows that they're about the most anti-american sons of bitches to ever walk the earth. So now they're saying that everybody should just ignore 9/11 and pretend it never happened, that the only people who mourn those lost on 9/11 are evil facist republicans.


It is disgusting that anybody who claims to be an American would speak that way about their country and fellow citizens. Those people should just renounce their citizenship and catch the first plane to Cuba, leave the rest of us Americans, Republicans, Democrats, Indeps, Greens, whatever, in peace.

:rolleyes:

everyone has their theories. some say it was bush, some say it was the ****. whatever man, it happened, pointing fingers will never help anybody.

[Kam]

But we know who did it, for gods sake we even arrested one of the guys that was suppose to be on one of the planes a few weeks before it happened. The FBI was monitoring ALL of the involved terrorists as the flight schools they attended reported them to the FBI. One of the flight instructors quoted a terrorist, "I just need to learn to take off in a 747 and keep it at a steady altitude." Another one said, "I need to learn how to fly a plane into a building." The CIA had translated bank account messages and wires from known Al Qaeda in the Middle East to the men in the US. They even knew the money in their accounts came from one of Osama�s cover accounts for a business that didn�t exist. A few months before the attack a terrorist was denied entrance to the US by a customs agent who thought he looked suspicious. When he was being escorted to the plane back to the Middle East he said, �You can�t stop us, more will come.� Want to know why we didn�t arrest all of them?
1. The translator for the CIA that did the work noticed that the field translator was making mistakes. When she reported this to her supervisor she was fired. Her correct translations never made it to the field operator, or anyone for that matter.
2. The man in charge of the entire operation never sent some of the most valuable evidence to the pentagon. This missing evidence included letters between the terrorists that included blueprints of a 747.
3. The terrorist they did arrest was never questioned, just detained.
4. The overall communication between branches of the government was basically zero. No one was talking to each other.

I could go on, but you get the point.

[Triggar]

Today, Martyr and I were supposed to be at a memorial lunch for one of the pilots. Co-pilot David Charlebois who was onboard the flight that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11 was an Embry Riddle graduate, class of 85 I believe. He was to have been honored with a lunch in his honor as well as a fly-by by the Formation Flying team.

[QuakCow]

:usa:

i dont remeber feeling much but :huh: that day....

[DaShiznit]

I don't want to tarnish the other post with an update like this, so I'll post another reply.


Anybody who knows about the Democratic Underground knows that they're about the most anti-american sons of bitches to ever walk the earth. So now they're saying that everybody should just ignore 9/11 and pretend it never happened, that the only people who mourn those lost on 9/11 are evil facist republicans.


It is disgusting that anybody who claims to be an American would speak that way about their country and fellow citizens. Those people should just renounce their citizenship and catch the first plane to Cuba, leave the rest of us Americans, Republicans, Democrats, Indeps, Greens, whatever, in peace.
I am a member of the DU. No one there is anti-American. Please, let's keep politics out of this.

[HunterKiller]

God Bless America

:usa:

[Mr1337Duck]

I say they're anti-american because they think people shouldn't observe today, and that the people who do are all stupid texas republicans. This is an important event in our nation's history, and to say it is stupid, pointless, and facist-like to observe the third anniversery of the attack shows incredible disrespect to all of the innocents who died there.

[EarlyDawn]

KEEP


POLITICS


OUT




Please don't apply this to an agenda in this thread. It's totally disrepsectful to those who died.

[Hezzy]

The people involved have my respect.

[StrangeFellow]

:usa:
I was walking to Phy Ed from english on my sixth grade year when one of my friends comes up and says a 747 hit one of the twin towers. i had no idea it really happened, i though he was messing with me. later we were all sent to our homerooms where we watched CNN for the rest of the day. i had though america was invincible, that nothing like that could happen. I was wrong

god bless america
:usa:


please duck, keep politics out of this thread, it's ungodly disrespectful

[Glaynor]

As the day comes to a close I have some things I would like to say to everyone on this forum. As one of the many people who lived through the day and dealing with the death of family and more than one friend on that day, it has been difficult to cope on teh anniversaries. It becomes even much more complicated and difficult there are so many people who have politicized 9/11 and only speak about it to further their own agenda or to blame someone else. In my own family there has been sharp divides between my family and my cousin's widow to the point that we don't have any contact any more. All the surrounding bullshit only adds to the difficulty. BUT, seeing everyone here post their own stories, state their feelings and relating their own, very humanizing stories has done more to make this day easier to deal with than any bullshit tribute on television.

Seeing everyone at so respectfully and caringly on this forum has made this day remarkabley 'easy' to get through. I have checked this post at least 20 times today. Even though I am not one of the more 'active' posters I constantly read the forums and feel that I have gotten to know many of you through your words, and I would like to take this moment to say, "thank you for making today much easier and thank you for just being yourselves". I appreciate your words, even though it may have been inadvertent.

[Hezzy]

As the day comes to a close I have some things I would like to say to everyone on this forum. As one of the many people who lived through the day and dealing with the death of family and more than one friend on that day, it has been difficult to cope on teh anniversaries. It becomes even much more complicated and difficult there are so many people who have politicized 9/11 and only speak about it to further their own agenda or to blame someone else. In my own family there has been sharp divides between my family and my cousin's widow to the point that we don't have any contact any more. All the surrounding bullshit only adds to the difficulty. BUT, seeing everyone here post their own stories, state their feelings and relating their own, very humanizing stories has done more to make this day easier to deal with than any bullshit tribute on television.

Seeing everyone at so respectfully and caringly on this forum has made this day remarkabley 'easy' to get through. I have checked this post at least 20 times today. Even though I am not one of the more 'active' posters I constantly read the forums and feel that I have gotten to know many of you through your words, and I would like to take this moment to say, "thank you for making today much easier and thank you for just being yourselves". I appreciate your words, even though it may have been inadvertent.

:love:

[Triggar]

Indeed. Let us know if we can do anything for you :love:

[Zodiac]

:love: :love: :love:

[AztecWarrior]

It was like any other day.

We were going over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles in 8th grade when we get word over the PA that the first WTC tower was hit by an airliner. At this point, we have no idea what's going on, it's some sort of freak accident.

Unlike what I've seen from others, we continued the lecture until the end of class at around 9:30. At that point, we turned on the TV set, as normal, because we were usually supposed to watch a high-school produced news show, Channel 1. Instead, we put on CNN and saw the Twin Towers smoldering. I think by then the Pentagon had been hit, and eventually we found out that a fourth aircraft was down.

I don't know if it's distance between us and the affected areas, both physical and via relationships (Nobody I know is related to anyone who was affected directly), I didn't begin to cry, which I wouldn't have minded anyway. Nobody did. However, it was clear that this was a terrorist act once we turned the TV on, and I was aghast. I was astounded. I was horrified.


Who did this?
Those bastards have to pay.
Oh God, that tower's down. Thousands, dead...


The rest of the day we were watching televsion in each class. While the administration did not just close school, students could be picked up by their parents, and were. By the end of the day, classrooms were much smaller than when we had arrived. I was not picked up early: my mom went for the younger of my two younger brothers first, who was in elementary school. Traffic was astounding, and she arrived at the normal time.

God Bless America and its people, and the world, so that we may unite against terror, and achieve a final victory.

[Kam]

Damnit it's sunday, I hate sunday. On the other hand I don't want it to be yesturday again, I don't like that day. Ug, school.

[Jekz]

Kam, I luv you.

[Kam]

Lol

A Perfect Dark, now that was a game. (Your avatar)

[Hezzy]

Derail this thread and I will hurt you.

:love: for the people who have suffered.

[martyr]

i got in the elevator in the dorms and some cleaning staff told me a plane had hit a trade center tower, but they couldn't tell me what kind of plane; i turned on my computer and booted over to winME to use my TV tuner and watch the news. i watched for a few minutes, told one of my roommates "osama ... whats-his-name... he's gotta die. bin laden, that's it, osama bin laden. he's gonna get owned."

my roommate responded with "who?"

"i dunno, he's some asswipe who hates the US. even if he didn't do this, he should die regardless"

i ran to class which was cancelled, and we all headed into the big auditorium to watch the second plane hit.

the structures collapsed as i got back to my hall, i watched the second fall on my roommates' tv.

our flight line was naturally shut down for days, and we had FBI crawling all over the place, as one "mohammad atta" had graduated from my university in '97. he was soon discovered alive and flying in morocco.

[Bighoss]

They were tragic events, I just wish stupid country singers wouldn't make up songs about it that destroy the seriousness of it for none rednecks.