Anniversary Of 9/11

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It's coming to about that time of day for me when it'll soon be the 11th.

In memory of those souls from around the globe who lost their lives on this day in New York, and for anyone anywhere who has meet with an unfortunate, untimely death. May your memory be kept warm in the minds of those who love you.

R.I.P
Brothers and sister.​
 
shem
It's coming to about that time of day for me when it'll soon be the 11th.

In memory of those souls from around the globe who lost their lives on this day in New York, and for anyone anywhere who has meet with an unfortunate, untimely death. May your memory be kept warm in the minds of those who love you.

R.I.P
Brothers and sister.​
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same here i am really sorry about it.
 
PHCharls
same here i am really sorry about it.
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Don't be sorry, you weren't involved with taking lives Charls, although I understand your sympathy. Let us not morn their deaths but celebrate their lives. If it was me, that's what I would want. 👍

Co-workers of my good friend went down with them towers. I'm sure they would want our thoughts of remembrance, not our pity.
 
Was that supposed to be put for the 10th memorial of the 9/11 terrorism before the championship began for this year?
 
My sincere condolences to the victims and the relatives who lost someone in this horrific attack. One of the most tragic days in the World's history.

Not only did we all lose 3000 of our fellows, we lost the right to the little privacy we had left. Look what society has become. A tragedy in itself :(

I was a five-year-old at that time, though I hardly remember anything except seeing it on TV. I guess a child's mind isn't able to fathom tragedies on the scale of this one.

Jai
I was only informed about this last year..
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Overprotective parents?
 
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I remember for a little while after that how this country was unified. People threw their differences aside and got along, making true to the phrase "United we stand, but divided we fall." Besides the tragic loss of lives that is what will be imprinted in my memory from 9/11.
 
I remember where I was as well, and then years later reading the 9/11 Commission report and saying to myself "well...that can't be right" but I digress

CMvan46
Exactly how was 9/11 complicated? I mean it's pretty cut and dry to me.

Anybody who wants to spend their time thinking up about how it was the governments secret plan and that crap is doing a massive disservice to those who lost their lives that day.

I agree with Mike. The US and on a larger scale North America really hadn't been subjected to terrorism up until that point, quite unlike England and Europe across the pond.

Also as powerful a country as England is it simply isn't the world super power that the US is. When things happen in the states ripple effects are felt around the world nearly instantly. As an example, in New York after 7/7 were there major changes to how the subway system works to improve safety and security? Nope. After 9/11 were there major changes to security checks and protocols at every major airport around the world including London? Yep.
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You sir need to brush up on your American history...cause we were a massive subject of Terrorism. 9/11 just seems to overshadow that and as far as the government conspiracy goes...it's obvious two planes crashed into the two towers and they fell...this is obvious people who say they were planes with no passengers or terrorist tend to be looney. Yet there are other things that don't make sense at the end of the day.
 
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I know some people think its a conspiracy. For the next two days, can we not argue about it and just remember the victims, the firefighters, those in the Pentagon, and those who died in the field in Pennsylvania. Conspiracy or not, real people died.

We Will NEVER FORGET.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
You sir need to brush up on your American history...cause we were a massive subject of Terrorism. 9/11 just seems to overshadow that and as far as the government conspiracy goes...it's obvious two planes crashed into the two towers and they fell...this is obvious people who say they were planes with no passengers or terrorist tend to be looney. Yet there are other things that don't make sense at the end of the day.
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And you sir need to reread my post and what was said before it. I don't believe it was a conspiracy in anyway whatsoever. We were talking at the time of my post about the impact of 9/11 compared to 7/7 in that 9/11 was more of a shock to the states in that they hadn't really been exposed to terrorism before 9/11 whereas for people in London it was different. 7/7 didn't cause the mass scale changes that 9/11 did.

I don't believe any of that conspiracy crap whatsoever. Infact it states that in my post... 2nd paragraph.
 
CMvan46
And you sir need to reread my post and what was said before it. I don't believe it was a conspiracy in anyway whatsoever. We were talking at the time of my post about the impact of 9/11 compared to 7/7 in that 9/11 was more of a shock to the states in that they hadn't really been exposed to terrorism before 9/11 whereas for people in London it was different. 7/7 didn't cause the mass scale changes that 9/11 did.

I don't believe any of that conspiracy crap whatsoever. Infact it states that in my post... 2nd paragraph.
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I'm not talking conspiracy crap and I was pointing out that that was false, that we had been exposed to terrorism domestic and Al Qaeda oriented in the decade alone before 9/11. The shock factor was that people would be so wild and insane to take four planes and try to place them into various buildings to do large scale damage. You compare that to what we've been alerted to this weekend which is a truck with explosives...then yeah that's a big shock to see planes go into building. 7/7 wasn't massive scale not because people are use to attacks more so just what was used. It is the tool of the attack that shocked people not that we were attacked. Also Negligence isn't conspiracy it is fact and you should once again do you history work and find out.

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Also Oklahoma bombing caused change.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
I'm not talking conspiracy crap and I was pointing out that that was false, that we had been exposed to terrorism domestic and Al Qaeda oriented in the decade alone before 9/11. The shock factor was that people would be so wild and insane to take four planes and try to place them into various buildings to do large scale damage. You compare that to what we've been alerted to this weekend which is a truck with explosives...then yeah that's a big shock to see planes go into building. 7/7 wasn't massive scale not because people are use to attacks more so just what was used. It is the tool of the attack that shocked people not that we were attacked. Also Negligence isn't conspiracy it is fact and you should once again do you history work and find out.

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Also Oklahoma bombing caused change.
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Don't insult my intelligence or lecture me please. It's simple geography really. We in North America live thousands of miles from the Middle East. We are sheltered over here across a massive Atlantic Ocean. People in Europe are literally neighbours with that region and are in much closer proximity. You have your opinion and I have mine and I believe (along with Mike who my original post was in response to) believe that part of the shock and panic that ensued are both due to lack of previous exposure and in which country it occurred. Yes there were other factors such as the planes, target, and so on but in my opinion which has merit it has a lot to do with what I've pointed out. Don't insult me because I don't agree with you. I'm not saying your wrong; I'm saying I believe what's occurred since 9/11 is largely due to what I've pointed out.

Before 9/11 if you watched CNN at night how much coverage was given to the Middle East? Not much. This was likely different on the BBC in England simply because the Middle East is "closer to home."
 
I was sitting in class when the principal came on the PA to make the announcement about it. I vividly remember looking over at the girl to my right, Carol M_____, who started crying.

Oh wait, that was the Kennedy shooting.

I don't recall what I was doing, but I was home by myself when my neighbor knocked on my door to tell me about it. I went over his place where we watched the second plane hit the tower.
 
CMvan46
Don't insult my intelligence or lecture me please. It's simple geography really. We in North America live thousands of miles from the Middle East. We are sheltered over here across a massive Atlantic Ocean. People in Europe are literally neighbours with that region and are in much closer proximity. You have your opinion and I have mine and I believe (along with Mike who my original post was in response to) believe that part of the shock and panic that ensued are both due to lack of previous exposure and in which country it occurred. Yes there were other factors such as the planes, target, and so on but in my opinion which has merit it has a lot to do with what I've pointed out. Don't insult me because I don't agree with you. I'm not saying your wrong; I'm saying I believe what's occurred since 9/11 is largely due to what I've pointed out.

Before 9/11 if you watched CNN at night how much coverage was given to the Middle East? Not much. This was likely different on the BBC in England simply because the Middle East is "closer to home."
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Actually there was alot of coverage during various aspects in the 80s and 90s where CNN and other respected media like 60 minutes and Frontline covered West Asia if you want to talk to geography. Also you missed my point, I was only saying that the States had been a big target from Al Qaeda and other groups during the 90s that hit close to home due to how many Americans were killed prior to 9.11.01. Yes I agree with you, you have merit but it seems more of an insult to say people weren't exposed when it was the nature of the attacks that scared people off planes, or kids when they saw low incoming planes. It seems more insulting to say America wasn't aware of an area that already filled the school history books...

Sorry to make this some debate with you, but when some one doesn't have all the facts right or tries to claim it was a shock becasue of where the people came from...that just seems like an insult to me an Educated American citizen. The attacks impacted us all and at the time made me afraid to fly, now the Gov't does a good job of making me afraid to go to the airport alone.
 
I don't mean to debate on something so tragic either and I'm not saying American's weren't exposed prior to that event, not at all. I was just saying that in my opinion it played more of a factor in 9/11 than in London's 7/7. I don't dispute that the method with which it was carried out played a massive part.

Just when the most technologically advanced nation in the world had that sort of event happen so far from where the attacks originated it was more shock because it's not something any North American is prepared for. Not that Londoners are but in my opinion it would seem more likely to happen in Europe and as a result the fallout would be less.

Believe me when I say I'm not disrespecting American people in any way; I have a fair bit of family in Oregon and California actually. I don't doubt that planes and air travel are much more significant than subways but these are just my opinions and by no mean were they ment to disrespect the American people, anybody affected by that day, or any of the people who's lives were taken that day. I'm sorry if it came across that way to anybody.
 
I was 3. I don't remember much, only an interview with some firemen. A few years ago my mum said she took me out of the house when it happened, so not to scare me, and there was nobody driving or anything. People had stopped in the middle of the road listening to radios etc. A terrible day, and an event that would change the world forever.
 
It is a sad day today, yet the healing can now begin for those whom lost loved ones on that day....

2,235 human beings were never found in the aftermath of the twin towers demise...

What we all can do is to take time for a silent prayer for all that were and still are affected by this terrorist attack on our way of life, that being, to live our life, in freedom in the greatest country on this earth...

Let the "healings" begin on this day

Peace/love
 
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Well the skyjackers were brain washed into thinking allah wants you to murder in his name and the murdering will absolve when america invaded the holy land.

But a part of me does not understand why america went to war from the attacks.

A country going to war cause of 1 man who was not acting on behave of the other country is crazy to me.
 
Grayfox
Well the skyjackers were brain washed into thinking allah wants you to murder in his name and the murdering will absolve when america invaded the holy land.

But a part of me does not understand why america went to war from the attacks.

A country going to war cause of 1 man who was not acting on behave of the other country is crazy to me.
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By not responding what message would have been sent to every terrorist cell in the world? Although at the time I highly doubt anybody would have imagined it would have taken 10 years to find him.

The USA along with most other major countries want to send a message that if you want to screw with them there will be consequences and you will pay for your il-advised actions and doing so it acts as a deterrent. I don't think they had a choice not to respond.
 
I know that a message has to be sent that we dont tolerate terrorists, but Bin Larden was not Afaginistan.

But i don't bother paying attention on things relating to wars as i find them stupid.

Mainly cause america was went from after Bin Larden to after Saddam.
 

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