Let's not forget 9/11

At the time I was welding on a new cross-member to my Land-Rover chassis, I had the radio playing in the workshop, as the news broke, I couldn't believe it was happening, the rest is history.

 

I also saw the second tower get hit and both collapse live.

Even now I'll see a clip or picture on the net or tv and it just makes me feel sick. I cannot imagine what a horrible decision it must have been. To stay in the building and be burned or jump to certain death.

When I found out later that it wasn't a long enough fall to even black out, that those people were awake and conscience right to the last milisecond. That just makes my stomach turn.

I was a freshman in college, and 2 of my friends had already joined the army out of high school (before the attacks). One of them was in basic training when the attack happened. He said they told them of the attacks, but wouldn't even let them watch the tv.

 

I was in school too at the time, but it was the last class of the day being 5 hours ahead of New York (Religion - a waste of time of a class). I didn't hear anything about it until I got home (must have been 4pm), and when I came in I just heard the end of a news report on the radio - it sounded like a riot or something. Then I turned on the TV...

 

I guess I'm really the only one who wants to try and move on from the tragedy and all the hate that's been created around it, but I'm just absolutely disgusted about how America continues to celebrate it like a goddamned holiday.

 

I feel the same way too that we should move on. This day should not renew the hatred but the determination to stop another attack like this from happening.

 

You are not the only one. But quite frankly, I expected it to be declared a national holiday by now.

 

I'm with you there, man. It's a horrible thing that happened, and it should never be forgotten - but making it some sort of celebration and using it for political gain or to justify government actions is acting against the memory of the victims.

 

Back in summer of 1997, when I visited NYC, I saw the world trade center, but I never went up the buildings. I stayed at the bottom while my dad and my brothers went up. I wasn't afraid of heights, I just felt scared to go up. Its not like I knew they would come down, its just that I felt that they wouldn't be there in the future.

After the attacks, some of the muslim friends I was with back in highschool where all visited by the FBI and they interviewed the whole family. Some of them moved back to Saudi Arabia to avoid further harassment.

I also hope that the building they chose to build at ground zero does not get built. It is meant to look like a fort, a prison, and shows to the world that we are scared.

 

I agree that we need to move on from it, but it's not something we should forget, obviously.

I haven't really seen anyone "celebrating" it... In fact, I don't even think it was mentioned on the news here, but I don't watch much television so I would've missed it if they did.

 

several thousand people die, and they want to build the freedom tower on their graves, do everyone a favour, scrap the building, and place a monument instead...