9/11

keverton · September 7, 2011

Coming up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11. What are people thoughts and opinions 10 years on? Still get quite upset to be honest and angry. There has been lots of disasters and mindless acts of violence in my life however this is the one that really hit home. Think it has something to do with the fact that i loved new york and still do and go most years and went there for the first time in the summer of 2001 and fell in love with the place.
Never forget

Alio · September 7, 2011

I've been watching all the shows in the past week or so, still can't believe it really happened. The show on BBC1, I think, last night about the "Twins of 9/11" was heart breaking

Totally fascinated with 9/11 in all honesty, I guess it's the most talked about thing in the news in my life time, I can remember everything about it on the day it happened, where I was, who told me etc. Such a sad tragedy, goes without saying obviously

I've never been lucky enough to go to New York, but I'd love to, even more so now to see how the rebuilding is coming on ground zero

johnnydawg68 · September 7, 2011

Never been that emotional in all my life. Anger, sadness, mixed with inspiration and awe at some of the goodness and bravery that was brought forth out of that pure evil.

keverton · September 7, 2011

Alio said:
I've been watching all the shows in the past week or so, still can't believe it really happened. The show on BBC1, I think, last night about the "Twins of 9/11" was heart breaking

Totally fascinated with 9/11 in all honesty, I guess it's the most talked about thing in the news in my life time, I can remember everything about it on the day it happened, where I was, who told me etc. Such a sad tragedy, goes without saying obviously

I've never been lucky enough to go to New York, but I'd love to, even more so now to see how the rebuilding is coming on ground zero

Yeah i watched that mate was very sad and if you get the chance mate i highly recommend it as it's truly unique place

johnnydawg68 · September 7, 2011

Alio said:
I can remember everything about it on the day it happened, where I was, who told me etc.

Me too. And it's shocking to me that is was 10 years ago.

For me, I got up and checked the computer before leaving for work and there was a small blurb on Yahoo about a plane hitting one of the twin towers. This was right after. I assumed it was a small plane or something, an accident, etc. Drove to work listening to music as usual so no clue at that point. Walked into my office and no one was around. Dropped my stuff off and headed to the break room for a soda, and there were 50 people crowded in there watching the television. I saw my friend Darlene and said "what's happening?" She just looked at me and said "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? LOOK!" About 30 seconds later the second plane hit.

It's hard for the mind to process something like that. When the first building came down, I just remember thinking "so many people just died right now in one instant".

Nordecke · September 7, 2011

Right after the second plane hit was the moment I decided to join the Military.

I don't agree with stirring up the sadness every year with emotional videos though. Honor the dead yes, but a smart man can see these 3-4-5 day media coverage every year is propaganda to fuel the war machine.

And that's not okay.

johnnydawg68 · September 7, 2011

Nordecke said:
Right after the second plane hit was the moment I decided to join the Military.

I don't agree with stirring up the sadness every year with emotional videos though. Honor the dead yes, but a smart man can see these 3-4-5 day media coverage every year is propaganda to fuel the war machine.

And that's not okay.

Completely agree. And if I was a few years younger at the time, I would have quit my job and joined up. A buddy of mine tried to and signed up but his wife told him she would divorce him if he went through with it.

I'm not really proud of how I felt at the time, but all I can tell you is I wanted to go kill people. I was that angry.

Nordecke · September 7, 2011

johnnydawg68 said:
Completely agree. And if I was a few years younger at the time, I would have quit my job and joined up. A buddy of mine tried to and signed up but his wife told him she would divorce him if he went through with it.

I'm not really proud of how I felt at the time, but all I can tell you is I wanted to go kill people. I was that angry.

I was 18 and single. Recipe for destruction.

Alio · September 7, 2011

10 years ago, it's just unbelievable

I remember someone in the warehouse I was working in at the time, just popped up and said there had been a plane crash at the World Trade Centre, listening in on the Radio. I wasn't even sure what the World Trade Centre was at that precise moment, then there were more reports coming in about the second plane and suddenly the word Terrorism was obviously being used. I couldn't picture the buildings, but when I heard it was the Twin Towers it obviously clicked, I was just amazed at the size of them. Every film in New York, or Episodes of Friends shows them. As a pretty simple 20 year old, I was thinking WTF is going on? I had about 15 calls from various friends sat at home watching it on the news, where all I had was a Radio. Then there was the Pentagon and the plane they brought down....unreal

It wasn't until I just got home, that they then fell and I watched it live on TV. It suddenly seemed even more unbelievable

The panic that then followed it was also incredible, friends on Holiday suddenly stranded all over the place as every plane was grounded

ToffeeMark · September 7, 2011

I was working in banking, "investigations" where you phone banks and track down missing money, we had a trading floor with tv's etc. Was called over to see the screens, papers in hand. I thought it must have been a sight seeing tour plane or small jet and thought "It'll be really hard to put that out".

Second plane hit and there you go.

Kept some of the messages from the banks sent in the days after saying that their investigations dept's moved to different sites etc.

Had gone to new york to meet a girl from one of the banks. Luckily she worked in upstate new york.

Alot of guys I dealt with were ok, some were quite shaken up on the phones in the weeks later. Messed up.

Still remember things like which banks had staff that didn't make it.

Being as it was a similar working environment to mine really made it hit home. I know what kind of things those guys would have been working on. We used the same messageing system etc.

I'll never forget, and what you see now isn't as bad as what you saw and how it felt "Live".

RIP and lets hope the world changes one day so stuff like this doesn't happen ever again.

johnnydawg68 · September 7, 2011

Nordecke said:
I was 18 and single. Recipe for destruction.

If I had been 5-10 years younger I would have been right there with you. Actually if I didn't wreck my knees in high school playing football, I would have joined the military out of college and made a career of it. But I didn't think I could pass the physical or handle the running part with my knees.

RFUS · September 7, 2011

I was only 8 at the time and I remember being in school as the teacher turned on the TV in the classroom, after another teacher came in to tell them.

With hindsight, mid-class in front of a load of 8-9 year olds maybe it wasn't the best thing for a teacher to put on TV. I remember it quite vividly anyway, especially seeing the second plane hit.

Crazy stuff. I think the bit that got me most was the firefighters though. I have some family members who are firefighters and have always had respect for the job, but damn, it takes some balls to run into these gargantuan buildings as everyone else is running out, knowing full well you may not come out.

Warzycha's Caterpillar · September 7, 2011

Horrible stuff indeed. Though I'm still shocked at how people claim this came out of nowhere. This was a watershed moment, not because we had suddenly been dragged into something, but for the first time our aggressive foreign policy had led to something happening on our own doorstep rather than seeing it happen to other people on TV from the safety of our sofa. It was always going to happen, just a question of when