I will never forget the people I saw walking back from the area. I was watching the fire, and space where the towers stood from across the river. I remember when the first load of people were coming back, especially one man. He was still dazed and walking around covered in ash from head to foot in a daze. He walked listlessly down the street, with his briefcase in his hand. Everyone who had been talking about what happened, all of a sudden stopped and just watched this guy walking toward his home. For days afterwards the fires burned and smoke billowed. It was something I, like many here, will never forget.
I won't look at that picture and i'm sickened that you would disgrace that person in such a way by rubber necking over their mutilated body.
Have a little respect for the dead and their families please ~ gawking at disfigured bodies should not be a part of the discussion.
That wasn't my point at all. The point was to reinforce how brutal the attacks were and to give remembrance to those who lost all.
Look, don't preach to me about how I should respect someone. What I choose to look at is my own business. If i came back here and told everyone to go look then maybe I would warrant your response, but I didn't. So take it somewhere else, like I mentioned earlier.
Fair enough. ________________ Space City no need to try and start an argument about this ~ consider the matter closed.
God, I just did the google search. That was the most disgusting thing i've ever seen. But imagine what was going on inside the building to make someone jump, rather than burn? What did this innocent person do? If someone has a problem with the US, attack an army base, attack soldiers; threatening children, attacking innocent civilians and forcing people to their death is truly evil and we must do everything within our power to destroy those that would attack us. I never posted anywhere besides the Rockets Page before September 11th, but that is when I, like many others, had so much emotion built up that this is a place that I released much of it. And I thank everyone here. Sometimes it is difficult to express one's emotions and opinions based on the culture we live in and to have a place to discuss things without about social correctness is great to have. I will never forget September 11th.
RIP to the 3000 victims and their families with particular kudos to the firefighters who ran into and stayed in the towers even as it became clear that they might not ever leave alive. I honor our fallen heroes.
That jumper picture is disturbing / sad / horrible, but I don't think it is from 9/11 -- I can not find where I saw it debunked, but you'll notice the light is regular daytime light -- not billowing smoke 9/11 fog -- and the people are standing around fairly casually, not in a state of panic. I mean, it is awful, but I am pretty sure it is not 9/11, it does not really make sense. I can not imagine a moment during 9/11 where that scene could have taken place. I have taken work off the last two years on 9/11 and watched video, looked at pictures, listened to the Howard Stern broadcast, watched the Letterman return speech, etc. all day. Sorta done the immersion thing until I am totally back there. I don't feel as compelled to do that again. But I think saying that no one will forget it pretty obvious. That was the most acute feeling of horror and helplessness I have ever felt.
I was watching CNN's coverage when the second plane hit. And stayed riveted to the TV the rest of the day and night, and for a long while after, as I'm sure many of us here did. I watched as the buildings collapsed, and will never forget the feeling of disbelief as it happened. Like Pearl Harbor, it is a day that will live in infamy.
I still can't believe it happened. someone said something about a plane hitting the WTC before my 9:30 class that day and that one of the buildings was down. i didn't even think of terrorism at the time i heard about it and i couldn't really even believe that one or both of the buildings was actually down. i mean, these were the 1300 foot tall World Trade Center buildings, they can't be knocked down. but when i got back to my dorm building and saw everyone staring at the tv by the elevators in complete silence (even though i couldn't see the tv), then i knew it was real. i pretty much just went up to my room and watched the news the rest of the day trying to make sense of what had just happened. i pretty much just watched the news for a solid week after it happened. the only silver lining was how unified everyone was afterwards and all the outpouring of charity and compassion and emotion that followed afterward. i can only hope it's the worst thing that will ever happen to the U.S. during my lifetime.
It will always be one of those events where everyone remembers exactly where they were at when they found out. Being from Midland...Bush's hometown, there was alot of people worried about us being attacked because of our oil. Everyone heard that Bush was on a plane but that no one knew where he was headed to for safety...all i can remember is everyone here praying that he wouldnt come back here LOL. I will never forget that day and the lives lost. A tragedy that we as a nation must never forget.
What a horrible day and thing for everyone to have to remember. Here's to hoping something like this never happens again.
I was up there several times in the years before it happened...in the "Windows of the World" restaurant...it is horrible to think of the poor people who were there at the time. On 9/11/01, every person in the civilized world was a New Yorker.
I was in a seminar at the time and by the time everything was shut don and I was able to re-connect with my wife (only she had a cell phone at that time, we both got new ones the next day) and got home everything was already over. We were glued to the TV all day, but after that I couldn't watch any more so avoided the television. Now, whenever anything related comes on I switch the channel. Yesterday was the first time I saw an image of someone falling when I clicked on this thread. Didn't really appreciate that and don't understand people's obsession, but oh well.
