4 years already?????????

[101sissyhater offline]

OMG i cannot believe it. tommorrow marks the 5th anneversary of 9/11. I cannot believe its been only 4 years. It seesm like it happened decades ago. And now we are facing another catastropie. katrina. its been 4 long years. and then anopther tragedy. I salute all the people who lost their lives trying to save thos people. in the words of _______ (i can't remeber his name. he died keeping the plane from crashing into the white house.) "lets Roll".


101 says: i still cannot believe it. 2 catastrophies so close in days but so far in years.

[Ransomed_Heart offline]

Fours years, yet it seems like it could have just happened yesterday. I can remember exactly what I was doing when it happened, and all the emotions and thoughts running through my head. It pulled our nation together, and every year since we have grieved as one.

[Xx te*rs r*n c*ld xX offline]

9/11 was a great american tragedy... but if you think about it, even more lives are lost every day due to starvation in 3rd world countries. no one does anything about it though

[OB-waN offline]

No one will EVER forget that day. We have been a part of history that we can tell are kids about. This will be in there history books, when they go to school. It was a bad day for all of America and the World...but in started something that will live on forever.

[MY85 offline]

9/11 was a great american tragedy... but if you think about it, even more lives are lost every day due to starvation in 3rd world countries. no one does anything about it though

Absolutely. Corrupt presidents, rich pigs, low salaries, higher taxes, etc.

[SamBlob offline]

It's not as shocking that it was four years ago as it was (and still is) shocking in the first place.

Timothy McVeigh was executed earlier that year with no idea that his record for the greatest and most terrible single act of terror on US soil would be obliterated within the year.

The World Trade Centre was opened to the public in 1974... that's within my lifetime. It had a shorter life that I have. By contrast, the Empire State Building was opened to the public in 1931 and is still standing despite being hit by a Mitchell bomber during WWII.

According to Trivial Pursuit, the buildings contained two zip codes. I get the feeling that New York City might still be two zip codes smaller than it was before 9-11...

And I can still imagine two or three young engineers sitting around a study table, dreaming all this up, putting together a detailed study and a project proposal for presentation to the leadership of Al Qaeda. What sheer brilliance! What sheer madness! As horrible as it was, it was real out-of-the-box thinking. Completely unexpected. Frightfully effective. A work of insane genius.

[Little Vili offline]

9/11 was a great american tragedy... but if you think about it, even more lives are lost every day due to starvation in 3rd world countries. no one does anything about it though

Absolutely. Corrupt presidents, rich pigs, low salaries, higher taxes, etc.

All which I agree with very much...Bush needs to be smacked upside the head.

[GOGOLINIICHAN! offline]

I remember 9/11 really well. I was at school that day, in the 5th grade. The day started off fine until kids started getting dismissed left and right. There were announcements on the loud speaker about us having inside recess that day and for everyone to keep an extra eye out on the students, making sure no one went anywhere unattended. All the kids were trying to guess what was happening. For a while I thought there were just bad people in the neighborhood because my best friend's friend's aunt was raped about a week before then (yahh, I was a silly little girl then.. like so much terror could be caused over something as common as that xD). When the teachers were asked what was happening, they just said "crazy stuff in the world."

Finally, my mom came to the school and dismissed my best friend and I. We took my friend home and then I called her once I got to my house. We spent like an hour wishing there wasn't going to be a war. Scary, as like I said, we were only in 5th grade.

[Stephen (x1)]

I remember September 11. A happy day it was. I mean...

...Lemme just say, I was not at school, and it was f***ed up. Getting a call from my father in Fairfax, and having him barely audible, and yelling about terrorists isn't something to smile about. Especially since he was so close to D.C. ...

[DL offline]

damn...I remember the day like it was yesterday...my mom toook me and my brother out of school early...I can't believe that I was having a good day up to that point...after that we sepent the day worring about my dad, he was in Manhattan that day...not many things scare me but that did

[Enki offline]

I remeber bveing so pissed off that all the networks were playin news 24-7 cause I wanted to watch Transformers on Fox Kids. Sorry for being insensitive but thats how I felt at the time.

[MY85 offline]

I remeber bveing so pissed off that all the networks were playin news 24-7 cause I wanted to watch Transformers on Fox Kids. Sorry for being insensitive but thats how I felt at the time.

Haaaa!! You're not the only one, I guess... one of my best TvTome-LF friends hates off-topic on Cl boards, with events like Wojtyla's death (at TvTome) and that day London got attacked (at tv.com; on my part, considering this as cold because there are brits at tv.com)...

BOT, I remember Sept 11th... at school (I finished that crap by December 2002) they made us watch the Tv Reporting about that terrorist attack. Then I started to think that I could destroy the building I live in with just a helicopter... wicked thoughts, anyways...

[Ransomed_Heart offline]

I was in sixth grade, working on a history assignment, and my teacher had left the room. All of a sudden he came back in and told us to drop what we were doing and come over to one of the other 6th grade teacher's rooms. There were 3 classes, and we all huddled in there and watched the news. The teachers tried to explain it, but we really didn't understand much more than the idea that planes were ramming into buildings. They said that the 5th graders knew too, but we weren't allowed to say anything in front of the younger kids. It was eerie, becase us 5th and 6th graders were in the bus lines later, and a group of second graders walked by, and everything went dead silent.

[Lotho offline]

Yeah I think I was in the 6th grade too. That day really changed me. We first heard when out subsitute teacher got a call on her cell phone and and after she answered it she broke down, she started to cry. We were all wondering what happened and another person on staff came in and told us. They were like "A plane chrased into the twin towers". At the time I had never even heard about the twin towers so it didn't mean anything to me at the time. Then I got homw and my parents showed me it on the television. Then I realised that the world was not all good and I went underground in my search for real information.

[Doggiegal offline]

Hehe...I got confused because the Twin Towers were being called 2 names...and I had no clue which one really collapsed...My mom told me that they were the same thing when I asked her.

My favorite hope story 'bout 9/11 would have to be the one with the blind person who's dog led them to safety (at least, I think they were saved...)

[SamBlob offline]

I went to work that morning and my boss told me something about a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre. My first thought was "O.K., that ranks up there with the truck driver who ran over the most remote tree in the world..." Then he told me that about three 'planes had crashed into the towers and that it was a terrorist attack. One thought recurred to me for most of the rest of the morning: "Hell a go pop!" And of course, it has.

A news item from earlier that year: A summit meeting between the US armed forces and the Iraqi opposition concluded that Saddam Hussein could not be overthrown internally, that the only thing that would defeat him would be a US invasion, and that the American people would not support such an invasion. 9-11 and huge applications of spin later...

[Snarky Jargon offline]

Yeah. 9/11. It'll be the stuffs of textbooks and a huge bonding experience in this generation. I don't remember much of it, to be honest; it was 6:14 in the morning, I just woke up and my ears were even muddier than usual, so I heard something about a new movie about a plane crashing into the Twin Towers. I'm ashamed to admit that I went, "Hey, did you hear about the new movie? Something about Jackie Chan and the Twin Towers being rammed into by a plane" at 6:20 and then got a reality check around 6:23 or so. I heard that there was an evaluation of American cities and their vulnerability to terrorist attacks. New York was definitely on that list.

Bleh. Politics.