In Honor of 9/11

[Nightmare]

Yup. It's that time of the year again folks. This day, seven years ago, terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airliners, and intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, causing both buildings to collapse within two hours, destroying at least two nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington D.C. Nearly 3,000 people died that day.

I know we had a thread like this several years ago, but let's take a little bit of our time here to honor the dead and remember where we were on 9/11, and how it effected us.




The morning of September 11th, 2001, I was only about 11 years old. I was asleep on the couch and was awakened by my parents talking about the news, where it had shown an "accident" where a plane crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings. I didn't think much of it other than "Oh man, that sucks." and got up and got ready for school.

Shortly after we got to school (we being my brother, sister, and I) our teacher turned on the news, and we saw that the second building was hit. That was when it became evident that this wasn't an accident, and the teachers were all talking about terrorists. When I got home that afternoon, I learned about the other two planes.

Now me, being a proud American, I wasn't about to let us get killed and sit by and do nothing about it. This is why I support our War on Terrorism so much. Many people seem to have forgotten about 9/11. I haven't. I'll admit, the war on Iraq has little to do with 9/11, but we're not here to talk about that.


May those who died be remembered, and God Bless America.

[Fusion]

I remember the day this happened. I wasn't at school that day, and my grandmother was the first to comment on the happenings, so I flipped on my TV and watched. I wasn't very shocked, but I was more into finding out about the situation, though all they showed for a while was the planes hitting the building and they only talked about that.

[Sorrum]

I didn't even hear about 9/11 until 9/11/2002. (a year after it happened o.o;)

Why? Not one of my family members watches The News any, and I was only 8.

[swimstud600]

"Ah yes, 9/11. The day that the U.S government took some planes and flew them into our own buildings so the public would rally together and support a corrupt president's war for personal gain."
*kills the fudgeing conspiracy theorists*

My mom told me later that now 30 seconds after I left for school the images started appearing on our TV. I was 13, in 7th grade at the time. I first heard about it from my social studies teacher, a funny old man who loved practical jokes. To this day he's still my favorite teacher. When he told me we were attacked... I thought it was all a joke until 7th period that day when the principal went over the intercom and made the same announcement. That was when the news sank in.

I can't believe its really been seven years... I can't believe how these seven years have changed my life. My best friend and I developed a name for Bin Laden and his followers, we called them Sand-monkeys, or Sams for short. It became a type of insult that we'd throw back and forth at each other, much like dumbas* or moron. "Oh yeah, well you're a sam!"
Nobody knew what we were talking about of course, which made it all the more fun. For seven years, we both referred to one another as Sam, hardly ever using our proper names. We dubbed our brothers Sam as well, and they back to us, sufficiently confusing our parents. Its died down a bit over the last year now that I'm dating a girl named Samantha... I'm not the only one who thinks that's funny. And this name for friendly insulting one another is of course only the tip of the iceberg in terms of how these last seven years have changed me... Its interesting to stop and reflect and wonder about how life would have been, what kind of person I'd have turned out to be otherwise.

In any case I'm glad a thread like this was made, I'd actually forgotten what day it was. But the people who died in the plane crash, the firefighters who rushed heroically into the building... I won't forget that. God Bless America.

[Ztrl]

9/11 from an entirely different perspective:

OUTER SPACE
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1171.html

[Professor Fann]

It has been very long, true. But the first time I watched it on TV I was like "Whoa ... crap ...." And unfortunately that was about it. But I do wish to share this sentiment that the US President will not bombard planes into his own peopel for selfish gains. This is a very serious issue, as it concerns lifes of the thousands.

May the departed souls rest and let there be justice for the innocent.