Anniversary Of 9/11

[ZeGermanBastorD]

Yea it's one of these days you will never forget. You will know exactly where you was & what you did.

I had a free day, breakfast, played some rounds Insurgency on PC, then I relaxed under my tanning bed to get a bit crispy & listend in the meanwhile to a local radio broadcast. I was very relaxed, close to fall asleep.

Then I heared the special news on the radio "Plane crashed into the WTC". I thought, "what have they just said, plane & WTC?" Went over to my TV to check out the news channels, thought it must be already all over the news, and it was. Looked not very impressive & they said it was probably a small plane. Mkay, back to my tanning bed.

Continued to enjoy my "fake sun" & followed the news on radio. Then they said another plane crashed into the towers. I thought "WTF? What's going on there???" Knocked accidently my head on my tanning bed as I heared the news, then went over to my TV. I saw the 2 smoking towers, then the replay of the 2nd plane crash. And I couldn't believe what I just saw. It wasn't a small plane, it was a fat jumbo jet!

From there on it was clear that it was for sure no accident. Followed from there on the news for the next 4-6 hours, saw fire, people on the top floors, some jumping out of the windows & then the buiding collapsed, followed by the 2nd one. I couldn't believe it. "This just happens, it's not a frakin' movie, mate!"

It was for sure the most disturbing moment in my life & I saw the world for the next week with other eyes. The first days after I thought all the time "what happens next?".

 

[Crumpet]

I only learned about this tragic day about a year ago, I was 4 when this happened. I remember my parent's keeping the TV off for a few days. I still can't believe this happened to this current day. There are many things still unanswered, such as the mysterious deaths of the more severe witnesses and holders of private information...

R.I.P to all the people killed, and my heart goes out to those who lost loved ones.

 

[CAM]

His name was Felipe something, but what he did was string a tight rope across the two towers and walked on it until police arrived, it was like 2 or so hours that he walked in between them.

Phillippe Petit. I've studied him, he was only up for about 45 minutes but walked back and forth about 8 times and did maneuvers. I thought you meant a guy walking on the ground between the towers when it happened and scratched my head a little. If you have the means, go on Netflix instant streaming and watch "Man on Wire." Fantastic movie, all about him.

 

[Prince.M5]

I remember watching it on CNN when I was 7 years old with my late grandpa. It was a school holiday so we had a chance to follow the report all day and night long. Out of all, I can't forget the picture of the second plane hitting the tower and they kept repeating the footage.

Rest In Peace to all the victims, my condolences goes to the families of the victims.

 

[kenny355]

I can't remember what I did that day, I was only 5, but every time I watch a documentary on it, I always have dreams of similar things happening (plane hijacking, terrorist attack on a large building), it's quite disturbing . R.I.P to all of those that lost their lives on that day.

 

[Cano]

I, as many, also remember exactly what I was doing. I had just arrived to Uni when I met a friend coming back from the store with a donut. He said "Come, the Twin Towers were attacked, it's the third war!"... that was like WTF, I had to search a bit in my head to relate what Twin Towers he was refering to.

We arrived at the multiple use room where the school had set up a TV and there were dozens of people watching... then the second plane hit. I... I remember slight screams and expletives, then silence... like 30 seconds of silence, and a couple girls crying, silently. We, no one could believe what we were seeing. It was absolutely, impossibly surreal. People started talking about a third world war in two minutes.

Then the first tower came down. Then the second. I don't remember another day in my life that was as paralyzed as that one. We did NOTHING in the entire class morning but to follow the reports. It also generated intense debate troughout, bein' a communications career, on how it was maybe the first event of such a world-wide impact being presenced absolutely live on Tv by billions around the globe. That thought has been with me ever since.

 

[RacecarBMW]

9/11 is pretty much the only event that genuinely freaks me out. It is one of the major historical events that really shows the darker side of humanity.

Yep my list would be the following in order of which one is darker

1. World War II
2. Wars in the Middle East
3. 9/11

 

[Peter.]

I was only 4 at the time. Remember hearing about it the day, and then seeing a big picture on the newspaper the very next day of the towers.

 

[terminator363]

they interviewed the Man Who Walked Between The Towers (I forgot his name) and it was just terrible seeing what it did to him.

What are you talking about?

 

[CAM]

What are you talking about?

Phillippe Petit. I've studied him, he was only up for about 45 minutes but walked back and forth about 8 times and did maneuvers. I thought you meant a guy walking on the ground between the towers when it happened and scratched my head a little. If you have the means, go on Netflix instant streaming and watch "Man on Wire." Fantastic movie, all about him.

A wirewalker who walked between the Towers in the 70s.

 

[Machate-man]

The structure to be built on Ground Zero, albeit made of lego

I heard rumors that they were going to hit NY as well as SF on that day, so they sent me home (4yrs old at the time)

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

I remember it as a staggeringly sad day. Even as a 14 year old I had a sense of foreboding about what was to come following the attacks.

The party that was the 90s was closed down with a tremendous impact and the 2000s we came back to reality as a Western community of countries.

They talk about a 'war on terror" but the real truth is that the terrorists won a long time ago when those planes went down. Look what it's done to America and civil liberties this decade.

Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.

HOWARD ZINN, Terrorism and War

 

[karl53]

I was 4 at the time, me and my parents where on holiday and we got back from the beach as the 1st tower came down
I didn't know exactly what was happening, only that it was very bad

RIP all those lost

 

[carsonc10]

my teacher was telling us that she was in the north tower, i think, the day before. she came back home to Vermont and was on her way on the 11th to go again that day. if she had stayed overnight she would be dead.

also have you ever listened to phone calls from people that were in the towers at the time? bone chilling.

RIP

 

[CAM]

Also have you ever listened to phone calls from people that were in the towers at the time? bone chilling.

They released those? That's very surprising to me, I would consider that private. I guess the families must have released them.

 

[carsonc10]

They released those? That's very surprising to me, I would consider that private. I guess the families must have released them.

yees they did. i was very surprised too. it was a 911 call. search them on youtube if youd like

 

[CAM]

I'll pass. That would absolutely ruin my day, I don't think I could handle the emotion.

 

[Crumpet]

I've searched them up, if you want a happy day, please don't follow on.

 

[CMvan46]

10 years old. Sitting on the edge on my mom's bed watching t.v. waiting to go to school as it was early here on the west cost. Breaking news came through my show. I watched the 2nd plane crash. Even at 10 I knew what a horrible thing that was, I remember sitting in shock to know that was real and not a movie.

I remember all the planes flying here because they couldn't enter US air space anymore and I remember raising money for a family that a teacher in our school knew who lost their dad. What an awful event and it still shocks me to this day.

I don't remember much from when I was 10 but I can still see that tv and exactly where I was to this very day.

Edit: to those youtube videos. They should be taken down, it is disgusting anybody wants to listen to those. Those people lost their lives that day and for what? So you can listen to their last moments with their families? Those are private and always should be, another example of the dark side of humanity.

 

[Villain]

My sister woke me up before school and told me "America has been attacked, we're going to war."

I thought she was being dumb but then I went downstairs and saw the towers burning. The first one went down right in front of us (on TV) and then the second one fell when I was en route to class. I was a freshman in HS and we had it on the news in every classroom. I remember being nervous because my Aunt works in the Pentagon and she was too busy with meetings and such to call us and tell us she was okay for like two weeks.

My father works in a high-value communications building in downtown L.A. and he was evacuated and came home. If you take out his building then Southern California loses phones and internet (major telecom firms have their servers in that building).

We live pretty close to Ontario International airport and it was weird to not have regular flights overhead. I was so used to growing up with planes flying by and I think it was 3 weeks before they opened air travel again. Then that first plane I saw flying over my school gave me a really weird feeling. I'll never forget that.

 

[Crispy]

I heard a chilling news report the other day. Apparently the terrorist groups say they will get revenge for Osama's death, and with the 10th Anniversary coming up, I can't help but think something bad will happen.

 

[Sam48]

I remember that day better than any preceding day within that decade. My mom was about to record something on tv when we came across the news channel to find Tower 1 on fire. I happened to be homeschooled at the time, so I watched for about two hours as the second plane hit, and then watched as the Pentagon was hit as well. I also remember being told by my parents not to go outside for the rest of the day.

What made this quite scary for me was the fact that I had just seen the Towers in person for the first time only a few months prior.

 

[DromeGT]

I remember that I was on the bus to the swimming pool when the radio was on and the first I heard about it "A plane has hit the WTC". RIP to all those (apart from the terrorist scumbags) who died.

 

[xX_F Alonso_Xx]

I was 5 years old but I remember that day like it was yesterday.

I was coming back from a dentists appointment when my mum told me about what had happened. We got home and I couldn't believe what I was seeing on the news.

 

[GT5_X2010]

I was 6 and had come back after school and was quite frankly very annoyed that the programme I was watching (art attack) was not on and instead it was the news. Took me a few years until the scale of it all sinks in as you get older.

Hoepfully the tradegy of this event will mean that another never happens.

 

[CAM]

Oh my god.. You guys have to read about this guy.

Welles Remy Crowther.

Whenever I see a person like this it always makes me feel like a terrible person inside, yet makes me proud to be an American. After watching an ESPN special on this I literally cried for about 15 minutes. He saved at least 18 people in the South Tower on 9/11 and wasn't even a firefighter. He went back up those stairs 3 times. I just can't believe the courage and honor he had.. This man is an example for what all of us should aim to be in life. I know I'm going to go about my day differently tomorrow because of this man. Just amazing. There really must be angels among us, whether you are a religious person or not. Please excuse the emotional post, it hit me pretty hard on TV. Tune to ESPN quickly if you want to see it. I recommend it.

Rest in Peace, may you be remembered forever by those you saved and all of us.

 

[Mr. S]

I remember the day...tuesday...a few days into my apprenticeship and I was sick. Sat in front of my computer in the afternoon when someone on QuakeNet (IRC) said "damn, a small plane has just accidentally flewn into the wtc! turn on the tv!". everyone knows what happened a few minutes later...

Yet, I was glad when my cousin (he's born in the US) called at like 3 or 4 am the next day - he used to work in the towers back then. He joined the Marines a few weeks later.

 

[gogatrs]

Oh my god.. You guys have to read about this guy.

Welles Remy Crowther.

Whenever I see a person like this it always makes me feel like a terrible person inside, yet makes me proud to be an American. After watching an ESPN special on this I literally cried for about 15 minutes. He saved at least 18 people in the South Tower on 9/11 and wasn't even a firefighter. He went back up those stairs 3 times. I just can't believe the courage and honor he had.. This man is an example for what all of us should aim to be in life. I know I'm going to go about my day differently tomorrow because of this man. Just amazing. There really must be angels among us, whether you are a religious person or not. Please excuse the emotional post, it hit me pretty hard on TV. Tune to ESPN quickly if you want to see it. I recommend it.

Rest in Peace, may you be remembered forever by those you saved and all of us.

Wow.

 

[dxm8975]

I was merely 7 years old(2nd grade-year pupil of a Japanese elementary school) at that moment and I still clearly remember watching the news as regards to the "terrorism" involving not only innocent people aboard on the plane, but also in/around the lofty towers which were directly crashed by two aircrafts skyjacked by Arabian aerial criminals.(Aithough it was midnight when I knew about the occasion because we were hit by two typhoons respectively engulfed Tokyo and Okinawa and mad-cow disease was on the topic.. )

I was not pretty sure what was going on in America while I was little - so I wasn't much horrified to be apprised of that elegiac event through TV, later I realized it was the turning point of American history following termination of cold wars once in campaign for a few decades murdering lots of people caught up in the accident, also in point of their provocation against the U.S. nation could've led to breakout of another conflict...

 

[sumbrownkid]

It's been 10 years already?

Wow, how time flies by so fast when you're growing up.

I was in the sixth grade when the towers fell, now I'm in my 4th year at College.