I'd like to remember all the people I knew of who worked in the towers. I worked there, and my father had worked there. Repression and killing abroad by our government planted seeds that bore bitter fruit. Sadly we have not learned our lesson yet. I remember a woman who was a friend of a friend. Her husband was a vault guard and they found him in an armored car full of money almost 6 months later. I remember this cop (I canned him uncle joe) I knew who got hurt in the city helping on 9/11 and as the years passed he became a pale, deathly grey color, probably poisoned by the fumes. So today, I remember and hope for peace to come again.
I can't believe it's 11 years ago to the day, shocking events. Even from the UK the country went silent as we all tried to grasp the gravitation of the situation. It's changed so much in the world that we really only see when sitting down to think about it. R.I.P brave Americans.
That's exactly how I would word the same feeling I get in relation to it. R.I.P. those lost eleven years ago today. One can only hope that their families and friends are getting there knowing it takes a long time to try and be able to cope with such a loss.
9/11 is quite literally the most horrific thing I've ever witnessed in my entire life. Whenever I see footage of that day I find it hard to believe what I'm watching is actually real, it's just so surreal and horrifying. I can't begin to imagine what it was like to live through it for real but I've got a very good idea and I hope nobody ever has to go through that again. My heart goes out to all the families who lost someone that day and may all those who were not only victims of that tragedy but risked their lives to save the lives of others rest in piece. RIP
Me and the family from Germany were watching tv when the broadcast was interrupted with this horrifying news.
I agree I remember being in the pub when it happened and the live news coverage was on a projector screen as it was all unfolding.. I never heard such a quite place. My thoughts with anyone that had to suffer (Im also from UK)
It was terrible new, I still get goosebumps when I think of it. I was only 12 at the time, but I had been interested in architecture a lot and had been quite familiar with the WTC in particular, so it seemed really unbelievable to me that this building with so many people just ceased to exist. The news of 9/11 had a similar impact on me as the 2011 tsunami in Japan. I will always know where exactly I was when I heard the news. My mom told me while I was playing games with a friend on the PC in the basement at around 9pm on 9/11. (noon in NYC). I heard about the tsunami at around 1pm (European time) on the radio when I was just driving up to the residential area where me and my parents lived at the time.
I'm just going on as if today was any other day. Not out of disrespect. But because if I acted any differently, the Terrorists won.
I know a guy who worked at the pentagon at the time of the incident. Most days before going to work he would buy a 16 oz. bottle of mountain dew. Well, on that day, he happened to have drank 2 mountain dews instead of one. So, his office was right on the part of the pentagon that was destroyed during the attacks. Right before the the plain hit the building, he had gotten up because he had to urinate after drinking two mountain dews. The nearest bathroom was quite far away from his office, and the plane hit while he was in the bathroom. So, if he hadn't drank an extra mountain dew, he wouldnt be alive today.
I remember the day too, quite a weird experience. RIP to those who perished, and RIP to those who have perished in the shadows of that terrible event.
I will respect the fact people died without a good reason but I too go about my day like it is any other. To drop everything and treat it any different would be to disrespect those lost and of course, the terrorists win.
How do the terrorists win? Of course people who were affected/involved/touched by it can NOT treat it like any given day, but that doesn't make the terrorists the big winners. They don't win because people grief, they win only if the US were economically or socially affected and unfortunately that was more or less the case. Look at TSA and their humiliating rules, that's the true win for terrorists yet it still doesn't benefit them or their ideology in the least. Proclaiming complete neutrality towards this day is as if you would ask for someone to forget a genocide, just because that would make the offenders "win" because they thought killing people should change their peoples mind. It does, but remembering a sad incidence won't make anyone a winner, it's just a logic and inevitable consequence.
R.I.P. to the people who lost their lives. That is the only decent thing I can say about 9/11. Since I remember that day because I had a fucking head ache, and I could for two years predict thunder afterwards. When there was to much electricity in the air. And my brother in-law made a joke about, if I also was wearing a tinfoil hat and shit. But his mouth was shut, when he found out it was a GIANT fucking thunderstorm I had predicted thank to my headache that night. So R.I.P. To the innocent people who died .
The TSA is your example? That's a drop in the ocean compared to the Patriot Act, Guantanamo and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a way this was a win for the terrorists since it lowered the rest of the world's opinion of the US, and especially Guantanamo proved they could also stoop to using non-humane tactics despite being the "land of the free".
