9/11

[Jac de Molay]

Originally posted by MrFun
Are there any differences for anyone between the first anniversary last year, and this year's anniversary?

A lot more subdued, I think, than last year, but still somber. The usual hustle and bustle of a typical day is quieter. I see a lot of people looking introspective as they move through their day.

[MrFun]

I saw on CNN the readng of the names ceremony -- the playing of the taps made me choke with emotion a little.

[Estilpón]

Originally posted by OliverFA
Sadly we Spanish people knew terrorism since lot of years before 9/11/2001, and for that reason I understand the meaning of this terrible attack.

I wouldn't wish it even for the ungrateful governs of France and Germany.

¿uh? estoy alucinando, (si he comprendido bien)

[Timexwatch]

El no legustaria terrorismo en los gobiernos de Francia y Alemania aunque no aprecian el situacion de Espana, Los Estados Unidos, Israel y mas...

[MrFun]

Hables en ingles por favor!!

No hables en espanol porque poco hombres comprende espanol.

gracias

[Inverse Icarus]

"I hear you, the whole world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!"
- President Bush @ Ground Zero, in response to the crowd chanting USA, 9/14/01

[Timexwatch]

Lo siento, hablare ingles de ahora encendido.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
Lo siento, hablare ingles de ahora encendido.

ok -- in all seriousness, back to English


please

[Estilpón]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
El no legustaria terrorismo en los gobiernos de Francia y Alemania aunque no aprecian el situacion de Espana, Los Estados Unidos, Israel y mas...

first, he's from "new europe"

second, do you remember the Old Europe? do you remember Rumsfeld & Germany?

I think... he's thinking... about another

-----> ¿¿¿ungrateful??? <--------

[HershOstropoler]

I was at work when the two planes hit the WTC. It looked unreal, and all the web newssites inaccessible added to that. It was an act of mass murder, and it's a sad day of rememberance today. Everything else is a different issue, for today.

[MrFun]

Well, it was unreal to all of us, I'm sure.

I never saw the first, LIVE camera shots of the two planes crashing, but when I saw re-plays, it punches me in the gut.

[OliverFA]

Originally posted by Timexwatch
El no legustaria terrorismo en los gobiernos de Francia y Alemania aunque no aprecian el situacion de Espana, Los Estados Unidos, Israel y mas...

Completely right.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by MrFun
Are there any differences for anyone between the first anniversary last year, and this year's anniversary?

Last year was still too soon to think about it. I avoided TV and the media as much as possible because I was afraid of how horrible the maudlin treacle would be (think NBC's coverage of the Olypmics but for 9/11).

It still brings tears to my eyes.

[chequita guevara]

I was at work when it happened, coding some web page when I heard my know it all co-worker talking in the background about how terrorists hate us because we're a free society. He was answernig an Indian coworker who had apparently asked why someone would do this (this while most of the world still thought the crash was a horrible accident).

CNN was overwhelmed by hits, and no one could find out anythin at work about what was going on. I pulled up Poly on my pc, and began relaying news to people as you guys posted it here. That's how we were able to follow the news. Later in the day one of my coworkers discovered we could get to the finance section of CNN, which was running the same news, and finally we got a tv to get outside stations (it was tied to an internal channel).

Still, for a few hours, ACS OT was how the tech workers at Citibank stayed connected to the world.

[chequita guevara]

I had moved to Jaacksonville only a month before the atttacks. I was accutely aware of not being around friends and family. It was the day after I had moved into my new apartment from my hotel.

After work I went to Target to get some things for my new place. I spent a few hours watching TV in the electronics section.

I spent that night sitting in an empty apartment on an inflatable matress listening to NPR, which went to classical music at 8PM. That was one of the loneliest nights of my life.

Waking up alone the next morning was almost worse. It was the first thing I thought about when I woke up. It was real, and not some horrible, horrible dream. I don't remember anything else about that day at all.

Just about everynoe else in the country had people to relate to, to comfort and be comforted by. I didn't even have a phone. I have never felt the lack of human company so much in my life.