Where were you on 9/11?
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I think I was in Grade 4 or 5. I didn't even know what the towers were. I hadn't heard about them before. I'm Canadian though so...
I think this (shell) was in junior school. It remembers a TV being turned on when news had reached the country.
Think i was in year 8 or 9... school just finished and when i walked in the saw, my entire family were sat round the TV looking somewhat horrified... just said to me something like "Someones attacked America"...
What was weird was that I guessed that the first plane crash wasn't an accident and that being that there were two extremely prominent towers the second one would get hit later that morning as part of a coordinated terrorist attack. So, when the second plane hit I wasn't in the least bit surprised. I wasn't even that surprised that the U.S. had been attacked given that it had spent 50 years making enemies around the world in its dumb fight against Communism. The fact that both buildings collapsed so suddenly when the Empire State building has survived being struck by an aircraft years earlier was really just a testament to the shoddy workmanship of the 1970s. I later saw a documentary where this fact was confirmed by one of the World Trade Center's construction engineers who had complained at the time they were being built that the fire-retardant coating wasn't covering everywhere it should in the internal lattice of the superstructure, but then that's Capitalism for you.
Of course, this isn't meant to suggest Communism is better. They are both extremes. The U.S.S.R. has had a lot of its people die in earthquake zones in buildings that were constructed out of poorly mixed concrete, that would have otherwise have survived. In their case, people weren't given any incentive to do the job properly so botched it. Personally, I think the U.S. is slightly worse here as it was deliberate cost-cutting not laziness.
By the way, OP, I don't think that you should say that "Al-Queda allegedly hijacked 4 airliners" as there were reports that Osama had a guest over listening to the radio and the guest was very pleased when the plane crashed into the first tower. However, bin Laden said words to the effect:"wait... there's more" which has been recorded on tape, so he must have had knowledge of the second plane ahead of time. Linking the pilots to al-Qa'ida and from this "global terrorist network" back to its "mastermind" Osama, is a bit too far-fetched and James Bond for me - in a way Bush's Axis of Evil has just done this loose affiliation of malcontents a big favour where they can blow up a Bali nightclub and then say it is the work of al-Qa'ida and ride the coat-tails of the elaborately coordinated "one-off" 9/11 attack (which I'm confident was only as spectacular as it was because the airport security was lax at the time, the FBI watching the foreigners train as pilots didn't intervene when they could have done and whoever planned it knew that security would ramp up hugely afterward - so: better make it as big as possible; I don't know that al-Qa'ida ever need to try to replicate or surpass this attack, so the whole Department of Homeland Security, War on Terror, illegal invasion of Iraq and hunt for Osama in the caves of Afganistan turning into a protracted policing mission is all just a bunch of willy-waving to make the outgoing Republicans look manly and spread enough fear amoungst the U.S. people they worry about that more than their failing economy or their lack of basic healthcare.
Of course, this isn't meant to suggest Communism is better. They are both extremes. The U.S.S.R. has had a lot of its people die in earthquake zones in buildings that were constructed out of poorly mixed concrete, that would have otherwise have survived. In their case, people weren't given any incentive to do the job properly so botched it. Personally, I think the U.S. is slightly worse here as it was deliberate cost-cutting not laziness.
By the way, OP, I don't think that you should say that "Al-Queda allegedly hijacked 4 airliners" as there were reports that Osama had a guest over listening to the radio and the guest was very pleased when the plane crashed into the first tower. However, bin Laden said words to the effect:"wait... there's more" which has been recorded on tape, so he must have had knowledge of the second plane ahead of time. Linking the pilots to al-Qa'ida and from this "global terrorist network" back to its "mastermind" Osama, is a bit too far-fetched and James Bond for me - in a way Bush's Axis of Evil has just done this loose affiliation of malcontents a big favour where they can blow up a Bali nightclub and then say it is the work of al-Qa'ida and ride the coat-tails of the elaborately coordinated "one-off" 9/11 attack (which I'm confident was only as spectacular as it was because the airport security was lax at the time, the FBI watching the foreigners train as pilots didn't intervene when they could have done and whoever planned it knew that security would ramp up hugely afterward - so: better make it as big as possible; I don't know that al-Qa'ida ever need to try to replicate or surpass this attack, so the whole Department of Homeland Security, War on Terror, illegal invasion of Iraq and hunt for Osama in the caves of Afganistan turning into a protracted policing mission is all just a bunch of willy-waving to make the outgoing Republicans look manly and spread enough fear amoungst the U.S. people they worry about that more than their failing economy or their lack of basic healthcare.
I woke up and started preparing for school. Mom had the TV on which had the news report looping endlessly and she explained it to me as I had never heard about world trade center before. I assumed I was going to hear about it in school and sure I did, the TV in the corridors was looping it as well with an unusual amount of attentive viewers. The teachers in the first lesson briefly told everyone but then it was a normal day with people casually talking about it.
Seriously? Allegedly?Echer123 said:
So someone told you that one day and you just believed it? Really? How about I tell you the moon is made of gold and mooninites walk all over it, but the goverment is covering it up because they want all the gold for themselves.NIHILHATE said:
Finally someone else called out one of the conspiracy nuts that have so far posted.thiosk said:
I had fairly recently joined the US Air Force, when it happened. I was through training, and at my first base. I remember thinking days later I really joined at the wrong time didn't I.
I can't remember though there was a TV and I was annoyed that my tv shows where being stopped because of a plane crash. I though it was quite silly there was such a fuss if I remember, sure it was a tragedy but there where always tragedy's happening and at least they kept to their 8:00 news slot.
I was in third grade in my math class at the time. They announced the attack over to the school AND MADE ALL OF THE STUDENTS STAY IN THEIR CLASSES TO GO HOME LIKE NORMAL ON THE BUS. What the hell? We didn't even get like a free day, we still had to do multiplication and shit. It sucked, and I didn't realize how serious the event actually was until I got home and started playing video games (I remember it was a Total Annihilation game on the PC) when my dad kicked me off and made me watch the news. I was all look "cool those buildings are on fire".
I feel so bad now.
I feel so bad now.
I was outside playing football and when I saw it on television my first reaction was: Cool!. I still feel bad about that by the way.