Today is 9/11

[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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

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

[DaShiznit]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[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]

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



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