Is this satire? Or do you really remember it as some sort of utopia for 24 hours? The only difference was that immediately after the attacks the major media outlets nearly uniformly took what was fed to them by government officials as gospel, as opposed to only taking one party's words as gospel.
I had a 11am job interview that day so I slept in. Woke up via my radio alarm with some female reporter crying and saying "the tower is just....gone." Had no idea what she was talking about until I went in and turned the TV on. I'm glad I didn't see the 2nd plane hit live like so many others did. It RIPS MY HEART OUT seeing these pictures of these 9/11 families that were taken before 9/11. They all just look so happy. So many kids having to grow up without a parent. So many spouses having to go on without the love of their life. I can't even imagine.
I was in 6th grade when 9/11 happened. Went to a middle school where a lot of my classmate's parents worked at NASA (which we all thought was another target). With that being the situation at hand, a lot of my classmates were picked up from school. I was too young to understand fully what had happened. Looking back at it now, if anything like 9/11 hit again, I don't know how I would handle it. Living in Houston, I feel that I (among many others) were fortunate enough to live in such a diverse area. There were very limited racial attacks on Arabs/Pakistanis/Indians (since ignorant people cannot differentiate the three). Hearing all the hate crimes that were happening across the US around that time, I was and am fortunate to live in Houston. May today be a day of remembrance of everyone who was taken unjustly, whether it be those who were in the towers that day, the servicemen that were lost helping save people from ground zero, and those who were lost due to hate crimes following 9/11.
not much to say here that hasn't been said every year. but the one thing I vividly remember was being on my rooftop in East Harlem 10 miles North of the tragedy, and seeing and smelling the toxic smoke in the air. my neighborhood was a ghost town, not a cop in sight. a lady was crying for anyone who would listen, pleading with the community to stay strong and not to loot or riot while the first responders were downtown...
This is so true lol. As for thinking about lives lost, and the impact of those lives lost on others' lives.. Why does it take this event to remind people that life is fragile? thousands of people die everyday yet we only seem to voice our grief over those that died that day
Tell it to all the "suspicious" looking Americans that got beat up, ridiculed, accused, and/or killed.
The day when everything and nothing changed. I remember going to bed that night after watching the Giants and Broncos play Monday Night Football. I think Ed McCaffrey was seriously injured in the game and I was wondering who was going to fill in for him for fantasy football purposes. Woke up and the carnage had already hit, then it was just watching in horror along with everyone else, people jumping out of buildings to their deaths, not knowing where the hell the President was, it was a day of pure, raw nerves, just absolute chaos and genuine amazement as to what was being witnessed. I remember reading the Hangout thread and wondering if some of our NYC posters were going to make it or not. Everybody was touched by it in some way it seemed. Nobody felt safe that day, and it shook everyone to their core. I'm not going to comment on the political aspects of what happened after 9/11. Not going to talk about the Patriot Act, Dept of Homeland Security, or the TSA, because ultimately none of that existed on that day. A day nobody can shake.
I remember waking up around noon and seeing the news on tv.. I was thinking to myself what movie is playing this time of day.. once I realized it was real I was in a state of shock and disbelief... I will never forget that day.
Are we seriously going to have this exact same thread every single year on 9/11? You could dig up the thread from 1 year ago and it would be exactly like this. P
You must be white. I was born in India and the few weeks after 9/11 was pretty bad at UH. People looking at me as if I headed Al Qaeda.
the first American who died to anti Islam sentiment (after 9/11/01) in the US wasn't even a Muslim. he was a Sikh business owner in Arizona who was murdered in cold blood by a fanatical nutjob. the sentiment in NYC was one of solidarity, but certainly not around the nation unfortunately. mosques were vandalized, lives were threatened. sadly, not many lessons learned on that front....
I was in the third grade watching it happen on tv. My neighbor picked me out of school. I remember getting on aol to read an article about it.
I was a sophomore in high school and didn't know what was really going on until third period. We had a radio on in first period, but it quite wasn't clear what was going on. All we really heard was that there was an incident in New York. Second period was gym, and we ended up going outside to play baseball so everyone in that class was clueless to what was going on. I walked into third period and the TV was on to CNN and then everything started to make sense. I really couldn't believe what I was seeing and knew that it would be a day I wouldn't forget. We did nothing in class for the entire day for all my periods. I remember through out the day there were less and less students going from class to class. It felt eerie by the time seventh period rolled around, there were practically no students left in the school. The bus drive home felt just as bad.
What a terrible day to remember. My significant other called me at home from work and said, "A plane hit the World Trade Center!! I'm not kidding! I think it was a passenger jet. It's on the news!" I immediately turned on CNN and started watching the coverage, wondering how that had happened, unsure, but initially assuming that it was a horrific accident. Then I saw the second jet hit. Instantly, I knew it was an attack. One could have been an accident. Two? No way. Then I watched the tragedy play out. Who can forget it? Madness!
Here's something that will piss you off: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2012/09/infuriating_horrifying_911_twe.php I don't get people that complain about people remembering 9/11. Even idiots in this thread are doing it. If for some reason it really interferes with your life to see people remembering one of the most significant days in our country's history, then why not just ignore it?
Quit trying to score racial pity points in a thread discussing the greatest disaster in American history.
