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September 11th, 2001.

I still remember it like it was yesterday.

I was... 6. I was in 1st Grade - I didn't understand what was going on then. My mom picked us up early, and she didn't say why. So I asked her. I remember exactly what she said. "Some bad people have done some bad things". We used to have a small TV in our kitchen; It's one of the first things you see when you walk through the front door. I walked inside, and the first thing I saw was a replay of the North tower collapsing. I stood there, mouth opened wide. I had seen The World Trade center only in books... It was a dream of mine to go there.


I recall watching the TV and hearing hundreds of beeps. I asked Mom what it was, and she said, "I think it's just the signal going out". Years later, I learned the truth. An instrument a fireman wears will beep when he/she stops moving, and some beep when their heart stops...


Today, now that I understand the seriousness of 9/11, it still makes me angry. What did we do? What did THEY, the people in the towers, do? Nothing. They did nothing.


I watched the show "Inside the Twin Towers" the other night, and I'll admit it, I cried.


I think we should take some time to honor those who died 5 years ago.




I'd also like for everyone to remember, along with the other flights, United Airlines Flight 93. This flight was warned ahead of time by family members about the hijackings, and they took action. A man on board knew how to program auto-pilot, and they were going to break into the cockpit. Unfortunatley, the terrorists (or as I like to call them, cowards) drove the plane into the ground in a field on the edge of a small, quiet town in Pennsylvania. All 44 passengers (including the "cowards") were killed on impact. By the audio recording taken from the cockpit, some believe they broke into the cockpit and killed one or two terrorists. A food cart was used as a battering ram. The plane was supposedly going to hit the Capitol building, but because of 93, the flight that fought back, lives were spared.

It is said that the terrorists' purpose was to hurt us, to bring pain to us, to weaken us. If this is true, they have most definetly failed. We were hurt the first day. But the next day, it seemed the same like any other. I got up, brushed my teeth, dressed, went to school, had my classes, just the same. I came home, did my homework, ate dinner, just the same. I brushed my teeth, put my pajamas on, and went to sleep, just the same. If anything, the 9/11 attacks have only made us stronger. At least, I know I have been more appreciative and patriotic then I ever have been before.

All those who lost your lives on September 11th, 2001, I salute you.

My father was very close to the building.. thank God he made it.. He caught a document from the sky.. i'll upload it one day...

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I remember it. I was nine. I remember hearing one of the distraught witnesses on the radio on the way to school. Everyone was saying it was the beginning of world war three...

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I was ten. When I first heard about it, it scared the crap out of me. I remember I started hating the country out of fear.

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Dormar and I were in Mass when the attacks happened. It was a usual mass, but during the petitions they said "Pray for all those in the World Trade Center." I thought it was a little odd for the Catholic Church to be praying for Capitalism. After the mass was completed, our Principal told us all what happened.

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i've always wanted to see the world trade centre. i knew so little about it. i didn't even know what it did.

Yeah, it was scary. The entire day we just spemt watching the TV's in our classrooms, just watching, and wondering why.

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I was packing my backpack in a hiker hostel in New Hampshire, and the news was on a TV in the other room for some reason. When the second plane hit and everyone realized what was going on, I started packing faster.

Then as I watched, one of the towers fell. They had been talking about the possibility of 25,000 people being in each of those towers. I thought "I just watched 25,000 people die..." So it wasn't that much in the end, the fact remains: much of the US and the world watched live as 3000 people died. When I think about that, watching 3000 people die... it's just surreal. And they repeated the clips over and over. Whenever you watch a clip of one of those towers falling, remember: you're not just watching some building fall. You're watching the deaths of hundreds people. That's not to be taken lightly.

Then the Pentagon was hit, and the media went into panic mode. They started running any report they got, most of them false They said someone had car bombed the State Department, where my mom works. I stopped packing. But the phones were jammed into the 703 area code (northern VA) so I had to wait five hours before finding out if anything had happened to her. She said she came home to my brother, who had been let out of school early, in tears. He thought she was dead.

I got back to hiking the next day. All along the hiker registers in Maine, there were notes left by people who had come almost 2000 miles, only to get to the last state on the Appalachian Trail and decide that hiking was a selfish thing to be doing; they needed to be with their families or join the military. I wondered what it would be like to feel that way, and I envied them that they could feel that way about something. It was weird, being out there with only the other hikers then. We were so disconnected from everything that after a couple days it was like nothing had happened. I always wonder what it would have been like to be back home in the middle of it all the whole time. Would things seem different to me now?

To all those people who laid down their plans and money and time and lives to dedicate themselves to the greater good because of these attacks: thank you. I stand in awe.

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Not to be a grammar nazi, but: fateful day in September*

I was asleep. Over here on the west coast, it must have been about 5 or 6 in the morning when the first tower was hit, which was way earlier than the time my alarm sounded. Even when the second one hit, I felt sorry and everything, but from 3,000 miles away you can't help but feel a little detached from those events. That is to say; it didn't really affect me.

I was 19 and asleep. Didn't have to be at work until 10 and I'm in the Mountain Time Zone. My mom was out shopping and called the house to tell me to turn on the TV. I don't think she even told me what had happened... just that I needed to turn on the TV. So I dragged myself to the living room and flipped the set on... I was really groggy at first, but after seeing the video of the first plane hitting the Trade Center, I woke up fast.

I also remember the reports that there could be 20,000 dead... that was just shocking.

I was a news junkie even more than usual for the next few weeks... watched CNN or whatever almost non-stop for my waking hours. I worked for DirecTV, and they had TVs up around the cubicles for us to watch as we took calls.

Rather large miracle more weren't hurt, in my opinion.

Good idea for a thread, ninti.

Lest we forget.

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no offence, but i feel extremely happy we don't live in america. i'd hate to spend a day hearing beliefs my loved ones were dead. plus, my mom's job has something to do with the government.

Terrorists haven't limited their attacks to America, prime time.

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i rememebr the morning... just walked into school, right after the pledge... teachers started running around in a panic saying someone crashed a plane into a building. and all mornign we watched TV. i saw the second plane hit, and both towers collapse...


Wait... didnt i post this somewhere before???

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For me, it went by like a normal day.

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On September 7, 2001, I was in New York City. I was boarding a cruise ship, and I got pictures of the towers. They aren't digital though, so I don't have them on my computer. Those two pictures are still up on my wall, in my room. I look at them everyday, and remember.
On September 11, 2001, I was at Peggy's Cove, in Nova Scotia. We woke up in the morning to the news of the attacks, and still continued on with our day. At first, I thought all the crashes were just sheer coincidence. Later that day, I learned they were an act of terror, and since I was only nine, I didn't really have any real thoughts to it. It didn't mean much to me.

Now though, it does. Looking at those pictures everyday, reminds me of those images. All those magazines I saw, showing men and women jumping out the windows to their imminent deaths, and just remembering how hard it hit me. So many people lost their lives on that day. Innocent people. And I honor them everyday. By giving a few moments of silence in their honor.

I will never forget.

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Honestly, I don't remember what happened on that day. I knew I was six and in first grade, but....that's all I have, really.

It's also great that it happens right after my birthday. Go from celebrating to feeling like a jerk for doing it.

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My second cousin was working for a security firm in North Tower at the time. I thank mercy that he decided to take his holiday that week.

I'll never forget that day. I was doing work at a care centre that day, and I remember that they interrupted Ricki Lake to bring the news. Both towers were hit at that time. We were all just crowded around the television in sheer silence, and some people ran off to make frantic calls to loved ones in New York. Just unreal.

But for me, the morning of July 7th (the day London was bombed) was even more memorable. I turned on the radio that morning, completely oblivious, and I was greeted with was someone saying: "WE URGE FOR EVERYONE TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES. DO NOT MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL, AND TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION NECESSARY."

And I was like . I was living in England at the time, and I was thinking OMFG! Has someone declared war on us? Has there been a missile strike or dirty bomb somewhere. OMG! My brother was working in London, and would have passed through King's Cross, so I made the usual desparate phone calls. He was already at work, and had to spend the night there. But if the terrorists had struck King's Cross two hours eariler, they might have gotten my brother.

And I'll always remember how frantic a Spanish workmate of mine was when Madrid was attacked.

I was in third grade and eight years old. Everything was going on normally until I left the school, and my mother picked me up. That was odd. She asked my something about the world trade center, and I asked her, "What about it?" She told me what had happened, (explaining terrorists terribly: she said "religious," I was afraid of Christians for a while.) I was numb for the rest of the day. I went shopping with her in silence, and I remember the Stop N Shop being packed and the people being panicked. It was a terrible day.

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i still don't get it.
what did the world trade centre do? why did they want it destroyed? why did they attack it first? wouldn't the white house be at the top of the list?

1. ...hm?
2. They thought it was a symbol of our peace.
3. Huh, dunno.
4. Maybe they wanted to scare us(and maybe they knew Bush wasn't even in the White House on that day.)?

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This was my friend's birthday. He said he was in the middle of a party, and his mom was watching TV, and the other kids had to be sent home. War and terrorism is bad. nfortunatley, everyone steryotypes other countrys. I do it. I try not to, but I do. Those countrys think that we are a one big grup of people who think the same thing, but of course, no one is.
Also, its sad, but innocents who haven't done anything are often caught in the middle of war. We can't just shoot people here, but if we go into another country, we can shoot anyone, and you get a medal for it.
You can't force people to think the same way, but I think many of us want world peace.

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The World Trade Center was the symbol of American economic power. They went after it because one of the things they don't like is how the US economic model is spreading around the world, bringing US culture in tow. They really don't like the culture, and they blame our brand of capitalism for it. So instead of campaining in their own societies for traditional values like legitimate human beings, they go and blow stuff up here.

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I don't really remember it happening all that much...

I remember I went to school, and I heard about it, and it wasn't really explained to me all that well...

And the day just continued as normal.

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Didn't you have a ceremony or anything at all? We had a flag half raised. I don't know why. It kinda seemed stupid...

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Not that I remember. The whole thing is really hazy.

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I ws eight, in 3rd grade. I didn't find out what had happened until after school; apparently our principal thought that she could hide it from us. I didn't really udnerstand it, though. We had to write in a journal every morning at school, and I remember writing about it the next morning like it was nothing; the seriousness of it didn't click for a few days. Maybe it's because I didn't actually see it happen or see any footage on the news (All I knew about it was from my mom talking to me. I think she put it in a way to keep me from worrying (While still telling the truth), which was probably good)

The terrorists wanted to scare us, and they succeeded, but fear comes from the unknown, and after a few weeks, when everyone knew the situation at hand, it can be seen that September 11th did not weaken us, but made us stronger. Those who were killed at the world trade center will always be remembered, as will those heroic people on Flight 93. It is horrible what happened that day, but they will not have died in vain. They will never be forgotten, and their memory will keep us fighting.

Yes yes, I know, I put "faithful" instead of "fateful". Sorry.



Why is it stupid? A flag at half-mast means it's honoring the dead, right?



I'm a little confused here... Do you mean Americans go into other countries and shoot civilians and get medals? 'Cause they don't. I'm pretty sure that's a war crime. Which is bad.



Thank you!

We discussed this in school. Someone came up with the idea "stop reminissing, that is letting the terrorists win."

I don't fully agree with that, although I do believe they should stop talking about it on tv. The guys who did this will be proud of themslves when they see it on tv.

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Lets see, I was ten, I had never heard of the Twin Towers before, and when I was on my way to school my mom told me to come see this thing that was happening on TV and I ignored her because she's always bugging me to come see Funny things that are on TV.

Everyone else at school seemed to be worried about something, but really I hated everyone and didn't really give a care what they feel.

So pretty much I didn't really find our what happened until tomorrow.

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By most accounts, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania (Flight 93) was meant for either the Capitol building or the White House.

As for "Why WTC?", I think it had to do with those buildings having symbollic value as a "center" of capitalism, although the New York Stock Exchange is more important in terms of economics. Also, I almost feel like the attacks were one group trying to succeed where another failed. Back in the 90's, the WTC was attacked with a truck bomb. I think the destruction of the WTC was meant partly as a way for one group to say "hey, Osama, we did good where others failed you", or something like that.

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