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6 years ago, two planes were driven into the world trade center, thousands of people were killed in the towers, and people occupying the two planes were as well.



NEVER FORGET.

And now a moment of silence...

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<EDIT: ACE is right. If you're trying to be serious, "Never Forget" would be a lot better>

buhubs, why are you doing this?

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We post holiday threads? Why not days for rememberance? Even though, may not have the same happiness as a holiday would bring.

I agree with buhubs. This is a sad day in history.

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You're trying to be serious in this thread, right?

If so, I would do away with:

It seems inappropriate to me.

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I move we move this to R&P.

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I remember where I was when I heard about the towers being struck:

I was walking from PE to orchestra class, & as I passed my PE teacher's office, someone inside said something about the Twin Towers being blown up or something. As the day went on, we watched the news on TV in our other classes, and we freaked out.

As for where I was when the towers were struck, I was walking from the bus to the front of school, and walking around inside getting ready for classes.

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ITG, So do I, man, so do I:

I was done dropping something off at a friends house, on the radio in the car I heard "We just got news that a plane has hit one of the Twin Towers." We drove home as fast as we could and turned on CNN. There it was: The burning buildings. About a minute after we got home, bam, Flight 175 hit. I clearly remember during the interviews with eyewitnesses hearing a distinct "Thud" which was a body hitting the ground. I instantly knew something was wrong as soon as jackets were being waved out the windows. We stared in awe as the South Tower came down. Once that top floor caved in, I knew people died. And again, and again, all the way to the bottom.

As you can see in my encounter, this day is once again, the worst in US history.

Lest we forget.
Passengers and Staff on flights 93, 175, 11, and 83. (I think. Whichever one that hit the Pentagon)

Fire fighters of Rescue 1 and others that were lost doing their job saving others. And those who sacrificed their life to save others.

Workers in Towers 1, 2 and 7.

May you rest in peace.

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Will be on and off the forum for a while!

I remember where I was, too. I think I was in bed. When I got up, I noticed that my parents were watching the news, which they usually don't do first thing in the morning. I'm pretty sure the first thing I saw on the TV was the footage of the tower with all the smoke coming out of it.

That was also the month where I later had to go on a plane ten times.

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"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."

I was in my dorm room.
The alarm went off and the people on John Boy and Billy were talking about some towers or something. It was too early to understand. Eventually, I woke up enough to know what was going on and turned on CNN. About that time, the Pentagon got hit.
I was pretty freaked.

I got ready for class.
I remember talking to a girl in the elevator that was totally clueless about what was going on.

When I was sitting at the bus stop, someone told me they were evacuating the towers and that one was about to fall. Across the street, I saw them laying the first piece of steel for the Mass Media and Technology Hall.

When I was in class, the towers fell. My professor ended up letting us go. "Right now, I think it'd be best if you all went home or at least called your families" was her line.

Walking back to my dorm, I thought about how weird it was that I'd seen construction start on a building on a day when 2 famous ones fell.

I also remember talking to my dad about it.
That was weird. I'd never heard my dad's voice crack. He was doing everything he could to keep from crying.

Yeah, that was not a good day.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

My memory is so bad that I have no idea what I was doing when I heard about it.

Uh, that's not really appropriate, but it's true. I'm sorry.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

I was in Art.

Now, I am in R&P.

I was in Mr. DeMartino's second grade class...I think...

...How old would that make me if I was a year ahead and my birthday is near December?

Anyway, yeah. 9/11.

CAN WE PLEASE MOVE ON??!!?&,:;%${}

I mean, seriously.

I think this might be my first post in R&P.

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Move on?
We've all moved on. There's nothing wrong with looking back. We're not living in the past, just remembering it.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Okay. I get it.

I just didn't get it before.

Thank you.

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Here's where I was.

I was in 3rd grade, putting my backpack away, and Carolyn Boveri is all "zomg sum guise blew up a building". I also remember my teacher telling us what happened, and the importance of staying patriotic. :/

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Didn't we have like three threads exactly like this from 2005 in Off Subject?

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Eh, whatever. I'd rather use this one.

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I was in a hiker hostel in Gorham, New Hampshire. I'd just done 20+ mile days through the White Mountains, and needed rest, so I took two days just sitting in town not doing anything. I was getting packed and ready to hit the trail again, when other hikers started gathering around the TV. I could see the TV from the door to the room where my bunk was, so I'd peek out and look now and then. I'd see what was going on and pack faster, and see more and pack faster... the news was playing it up like the end of the world, so every new development made me want to get the heck back into the woods ASAP. Nothing was gonna stop me from finishing this hike, not even the end of the world.

The towers fell, the Pentagon was hit, speculation was rampant, and then the false news reports. People saying there was a bomb over there or a fire over here when there wasn't anything. The news reported a bomb at the State Department. My mom works at the State Department. No way I was gonna leave town until I found out if my mom was alive. But the entire 703 area code was busy (obviously) until mid-afternoon, so I rested a third day.

The next day, in the trail registers, a good handful of people who'd come a long way had written in saying they tried to keep going but couldn't. They felt like hiking right then was a waste of time and they felt they could be more useful enlisting. These were people who'd walked almost 2000 miles and were practically almost there, almost done. And they left.

[political rant deleted before submission: gist of it- there's no "post 9/11 world" if you were expecting it to happen because you actually paid attention to the news]

Anyway, yeah. Was in the woods, didn't want anything to do with it.

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I was sleeping when the first towers hit. I woke up and was getting ready for work when my mom called and told me to turn on the TV. I turned it on and a few minutes later saw the second plane hit live.

I worked for DirectTV at the time, and we had TV's all over the place so I remained glued to the news for the next few weeks.

People who have forgotten what terrorists can and are willing to do frustrate me. I'm not saying we should live in a constant state of fear, but to discount terrorism entirely is foolish, IMO.

Anyway, I'm all for remembering the thousands who died that day for no reason.

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I was sleeping. It was earyl, here is Washington. I was woken up, and I watched as I saw some stuff on TV. Didn't really know what was going on. (I was in 1st grade.) And no one really talked about it at school. they were all as clueless as me.

I learned later what happened.

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I think this is the first time I agree with Lahi.

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I was in science class when they told us. We were confused at first as to why break was called in early and then class didn't start, but then two of our teachers stood up front and related to us what had happened. We were all in shock, and not many people spoke for the next while. I spent the next hour or two just staring out the window with glazed eyes, wondering where my dad was, hoping and praying that he was still alive, that he wasn't in the Pentagon when the plane hit, that the damage wasn't that bad, that I wasn't the man of the house, that my life wasn't over.

Then he called. He was in the other office in the Army-Navy annex when the plane flew drectly over him and then hit the pentagon next door. Now he and the rest of his office was over there helping clear people out of the wreckage.

I won't forget 9/11.

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I think it was afternoon here in Sweden when that happened, so I was probably just playing with the computer or something.

Anyway, I think this terrorism thing is a bit exaggerated. According to Wikipedia, "only" 2 993 people died during 9/11, and 229 866 people died in that tsunami in 2004. That's about 76 times as many, still you hear more people mouring 9/11 than the tsunami.

I know, 9/11 was caused by people and could happen again anywhere, but natural disasters can be unexpected, too. And look at these numbers... ouch.

Besides, there's not much you can do to prevent terrorism. Anybody who can read and have access to the internet is a potential terrorist since you could look up how to make a bomb out of easy-to-get stuff.

Yeah, I remember that day too. We were driving to piano lessons, and we heard something on the radio about some towers. I thought at first somebody had set some tower on fire.
When we got to our piano teacher's house, she showed us what was happening on TV. It was a sad day.

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No disrespect intended to the victims, their friends or families, or anybody else; I'm just explaining how I feel about 9/11, myself. I was mostly unfazed by it... I was scared at first that they were going to take us out somehow -- of course now I realize they don't have that sort of power, but when you're in the middle of something like that, it's hard to think rationally -- but I didn't have the same reactions most people did.

Part of the reason is that I live in Oklahoma City, and as you may know, our federal building was bombed on April 19, 1995. I was safely miles away, but the blast was still powerful enough that it shook the school annex I was in at the time. It was tough dealing with it then. I didn't even know any of the victims or their families, but it still hit too close to home in more than one sense. I think that, even today, Timothy McVeigh is the man I hate more than anybody else.

I guess the experience hardened me to that sort of thing, because when 9/11 came around, I thought to myself, "Well, I've already gone through all this before, and I don't want to go through it again." So I didn't. I wasn't bottling up my emotions; they just... weren't there. That sounds cold and callous, but it was nonetheless how I felt. I'm not saying that I didn't feel anything at all -- that would be impossible -- but it wasn't anything like most people's reactions, or like how I felt after the OKC bombing.

All that said, I do agree with the sentiment of this thread. Never Forget.

- Kef

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When I first heard something was going on I was getting home from school. My grandmother had the TV on and one or both of the towers were burning. At the time I was in grade 4 (give or take), so I just went about my business, playing around outside. I never really gave much reaction until school next day when the topic of everyone's discussion was what had just happened. Since I was a kid most of it was just stupid stuff that wasn't really based on anything. We had an assembly about it later that day, but most of it was just explaining what had happened.

...And that's pretty much it.



Yeah, I know tons of people like that.

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Aaaanndd... what? It seems you have a point here but you're not very clear with it.

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I'm saying you're assuming the worst of people. How many people do you know that have actually said something like "Terrorism's no big deal"?

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Number A: I said "people who." I didn't say "most people" or "everyone." I just said there are individuals who believe terrorism is not a threat at all.

Number B: I have personally heard people say this to my face.

Therefore, I'm not assuming anything.

Thanks for playing.

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