Your Sept 11

[VetLegion]

i loathed religion before 9/11. now i wouldn't mind seeing the genocide of their entire people.

Whose people?

[Inverse Icarus]

*muslim slur deleted*

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by UberKruX
he didn't see the images then. he didnt account for the jet fuel. he was wrong.

the day went on. i was in social studies. the teacher got a call, and i was called down to the office. my dad wasn't answering his cellphone, or pager. he was unaccoutned for. i was to leave school early and go home to my family.

my mom is completely destroyed, a f*cking wreck. i told her dad would be fine. that he got out. that nothing would change. i was wrong. everybody was wrong. the world is hell. lifes a *****.

I'm hesitating between and That's truly a cruel story

[Straybow]

I worked the night before and happened to wake up around noon (Eastern Time). Normally I'd just roll over and go back to sleep. Or maybe turn on the radio. But for some reason I turned on the tube, and there it was.

At first I thought it was a movie trailer. I said to myself, "There would be screaming crowds in a movie scene. This is real." It still took a bit to sink in.

[Zero]

he didn't see the images then. he didnt account for the jet fuel. he was wrong.

Nobody did. We had some engineer majors drinking with us and somone mentioned why the building didnt explode with such an impact and they were talking about how much force would be necessary to take down WTC blah blah

Looks like I was the only person who had an unemotional 9/11

[Spiffor]

Actually, my Sept. 11 was pretty emotional, as I was more concerned by my everyday life than by what happened on the other side of the pond. I have clear memories of this day because I was aware it was a historical one, but this very day, the terracts were little more tahn an annoying and repetitive background noise on the TV.

It is surprising you had an unemotional Sept. 11 for a NYer

[MRT144]

My dad woke me up about 2 hours before i had to go into work at Round Table Pizza. I watched it for a bit and then went into work for about 8 hours, and then came home and watched some more news. pretty uneventful because literally 5 people came in that day to eat.

[Shi Huangdi]

Went to school, started out as a normal day. Then out of nowhere in AP European history I had it announced. I didn't grasp the whole thing of what was happening. We talked about all throughout class that day with the teacher. We went on to the next class, where they still didn't teach and we discussed the implications. We still weren't sure what was happening, whether this would lead to war or not. Some didn't think so. Others had already suspected OBL was behind this and predicted that we would be embark on some sort of war on terror. Some friends who had family who worked in DC were concerned for their safety, as we were hearing reports there were 11 planes still in the air. Finally we were evacuated from school. I ran home, and began watching the terror and the horror on TV. I also spent time on Apolyton then..... Most of Apolyton was united, even the communists then spoke of rallying behind america, with the exception of a few posters like Saint Marcus and Eli who either showed no sympathy in this hour or were still calling us warmongers even on that day.

[Lancer]

I had worked all night splitting freight. My co-worker and I took a break and flipped on the tube, the first tower was burning. We sat there trying to assess the damage when the second jet flew into the second tower. The implications of that were obvious, and I started getting angry, really angry. That anger is still there, but now I'm determined too. I want the guys found that planned this thing. I want them to pay with their lives. I want those nations that support the terrorists through training camps and refuge, crushed. I want those countries that obstructed the US to pay as well, France particularly. France worked actively to undermine US policy in a time when we needed our allies. France stabbed us in the back, and the French supported their government. Any American worth a damn will remember...

France will pay too.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Spiffor

It is surprising you had an unemotional Sept. 11 for a NYer

It wasnt all that strange. Everyone around me wasnt really in a caring mood that day either.

But we were a bit concerned with friends who had family in the building. But thats about all.

[Victor Galis]

So I rolled out of bed (ok, I actually climbed out of it, had I litterally rolled out I would have been in the hospital), I start to check my e-mail, when i notice the headlines (yay, for that screen on AOL that you can't make go away) about how a plane crashed into the WTC. The first thing that reminded me of was this episode of the Lone Gunmen where the federal government plans such an attack. In a way, my mind just refused to deal with the fact that a plane had actually crashed into the world trade center. So I went down to the student centre to meet my friend who was visiting me and other friends before going off to college himself. He hadn't heard, so we crowded around the TVs in the student centre (only thing that's drawn so many people around those TVs since was a cricket match). Then downtown was ordered evacuated so I went home for a bit. Me and two other friends (who all lived fairly close to eachother were riding the subway homewards discussing how this would strengthen Bush, how he was going to do something stupid, and how none of us really knew anyone in New York, and how sickning amounts of patriotism would spontaneously spring up).

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I was in the hospital. I'd just been run over a couple of days before, so I was still on a pretty heavy morphine dose. But even given that, I still remember it. We were watching the Today show, when they started talking about getting reports that a plane had hit the WTC. I knew that it was intentional as soon as they said it, but I never imagined the second plane, or the third, or everything else...

That's the only thing I remember between arriving in the emergency room and about a week later when I started getting out of bed again.

[Lord Merciless]

I got to work at 9:30AM and saw all my coworkers clustering around TV sets, some visibly upset. In our cafeteria, a projector was showing the CNN live coverage on a big screen. I saw my former boss crying there.

[CapitanGarlic]

Woke up. Ate breakfast. Saw it on TV. Drove to school, heard it on the radio. Saw the same thing over and over for the whole damn day. Nothing else happened at school.

[Harovan]

It was a working afternoon, I was sitting behind my desktop and coding, when I got a SMS notification about an incoming mail from a friend from Florida. She wrote, that America is at war, NYC and other places under attack, the WTC towers and the Pentagon destroyed.

I immediately looked up the web for news, and borrowed the radio from my bosses room (he was away this day) to hear the news. After I did, I answered her, that it sounds more like an act of terror, like by OBL, Ghadafi or Hussein (the first names that came to my mind), that it's terrible of course, but I think it's over now and won't grow into a war. I offered her a chat later on at my private IRC server, and the next evening (9/12) we talked for 2-3 hours.

Later I talked with my colleagues, and I remember me saying "They (the US) have one war free without me complaining." That was later the Afghanistan campaign. As promised, I didn't complain about it as a whole, however I didn't like the way it was fought. As a matter of fact, it achieved next to nothing. OBL is still free, one city is liberated (is it really?) and the rest of the country is still in the hand of islamistic and militaristic fanatics.

Overall September 11th was a tragedy not only for America, but for the whole world. Terrorism continues and there's no hope it's going to end soon. The US administration as well as a lot of others (including ours) went mad. The years to come will be not nice.

Uber: I knew before about the fate of your father and I feel very sorry for your loss, as well as for all the other victims and their families. You have my entire sympathy. I respect your feelings. Find those who did it and burn them at the stake, and although I decline death penalty, in this case you'd get a thumbs up from me. But by no means this is a reason to let a whole people and their religion suffer for the deeds of a criminal network.