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Post by millar70 on Sept 11, 2019 8:42:49 GMT
18 years, can you believe it? 18 years since that awful day. A child born on that day can now join the military if he or she chooses, and fight in a war that's still going on since the events of that day.
Regardless of how one feels about what took place, who was behind it, or the truths and non-truths of it all, it's a day that should never, ever be forgotten. It's a day that that truly changed the world, everything in it, and all of us. There's no doubt, there's the world before 9/11, and a different world after it.
Whatever your beliefs are, maybe take a look up at the sky today, and remember all of those affected by 9/11. Obviously the thousands who died senselessly, but also the many thousands of relatives and friends who felt the pain of losing a loved one.
Peace, friends.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2019 8:51:14 GMT
Please spare a thought for all the hero dogs who worked tirelessly searching the rubble, for days on end, in awful, dangerous, conditions, trying to locate survivors. Remember, all 300 of those often overlooked furry heros is now dead... Run free now 🐾 RIP 🌈 🐕  |
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 11, 2019 11:06:05 GMT
I still think I was the last person to know. My wife went to stay with her mother for a few days (stepfather had surgery). I had just started my new job and was getting used to working nights. I was alone and shut off the phone (no cell). Woke up at 11:30 and noticed the freezer in my apartment was broke. Called my landlady to tell her I needed an new one and I wouldn't be home for the rest of the day. She asked me "What do you think about what's going on?" I said "What's going on?" and she said a plane crashed into the WTC. All I could think of was "accident", like the B-17 that hit the Empire State building. I showered, read the paper gathered anything in the freezer and drove to my parents house to use their freezer. never turned on the TV, computer or radio. Got to my parents, who weren't home, threw my stuff in their freezer, raided their fridge and turned on the TV. At 3:45 pm, the last clueless person on Earth found out what was going on.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 11, 2019 11:33:05 GMT
I still think I was the last person to know. My wife went to stay with her mother for a few days (stepfather had surgery). I had just started my new job and was getting used to working nights. I was alone and shut off the phone (no cell). Woke up at 11:30 and noticed the freezer in my apartment was broke. Called my landlady to tell her I needed an new one and I wouldn't be home for the rest of the day. She asked me "What do you think about what's going on?" I said "What's going on?" and she said a plane crashed into the WTC. All I could think of was "accident", like the B-17 that hit the Empire State building. I showered, read the paper gathered anything in the freezer and drove to my parents house to use their freezer. never turned on the TV, computer or radio. Got to my parents, who weren't home, threw my stuff in their freezer, raided their fridge and turned on the TV. At 3:45 pm, the last clueless person on Earth found out what was going on. I bet there are thousands (millions?) of people who still don't know it happened.
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Post by Zos on Sept 11, 2019 12:04:26 GMT
Where's Diablo to scream "false flag" and "actors" when you need him.
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Post by NJtoTX on Sept 11, 2019 12:21:05 GMT
We're getting to the point where it's ancient history for many. This year, it's probably anyone 21 or younger. Though when I was a kid, we didn't have the crystal clear footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 11, 2019 12:27:19 GMT
The original ESPN short about Crowther was incredible, it won an emmy. It used to be on youtube but I couldn't find it today for some reason. Relating to sports, the first 'Red Bandana Game' (dedicated to Welles) where BC upset #9 USC is still one of my favorite sporting events ever. That crowd was electric (not something you can usually say about BC football), there was no way they were going to lose that game.
RIP to Welles Crowther and every other victim of the 9/11 attacks, we haven't forgotten you and we never will.
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Post by Beardy McJewsenheimer ESQ on Sept 11, 2019 13:12:37 GMT
I was thinking about this the other day and thought about something similar to what you mentioned. Tomorrow is September 12th (#Math) There are about 360,000 people born a day, maybe a little less 18 years ago. So tomorrow, there are gonna be hundreds of thousands of adults that were not alive on 9/11. Millions in a week or so. And that just feels weird, cause it doesn't seem that long ago. It doesn't seem a whole childhood and teenage-hood ago. But it was. Maybe cause I remember it so vividly it doesn't seem that long ago.
I remember those 2-3 months where everyone was together, none of this partisan bull shit. That was nice. But after a couple months it was back to "You're a baby killer!" "You're a bigot" "You hate America!" and it was like "Oh fuck, we're back. Oh well, it was neat when it lasted"
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Post by klawrencio79 on Sept 11, 2019 13:56:20 GMT
18 years, can you believe it? 18 years since that awful day. A child born on that day can now join the military if he or she chooses, and fight in a war that's still going on since the events of that day. Regardless of how one feels about what took place, who was behind it, or the truths and non-truths of it all, it's a day that should never, ever be forgotten. It's a day that that truly changed the world, everything in it, and all of us. There's no doubt, there's the world before 9/11, and a different world after it. Whatever your beliefs are, maybe take a look up at the sky today, and remember all of those affected by 9/11. Obviously the thousands who died senselessly, but also the many thousands of relatives and friends who felt the pain of losing a loved one. Peace, friends. Lost a handful of friends that day, namely 2 very close friends who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, the company that lost 658 of its 960 employees. It's crazy how long ago that was but just how vividly I remember that morning and the night before. As you say and as Beardy echoed, the one solace we can take is that today, as horribly tribalistic as our country has become, here is one day where we can at least remain on the same side and recognize that at the end of the day, we're all in this together.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 11, 2019 14:10:47 GMT
I don't want to get too political here, but it's not like everything was great immediately after. The government took advantage of the situation to pass the 'Patriot Act' (because who was going to vote against that title at that time), which tears up the constitution.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 11, 2019 15:30:54 GMT
18 years, can you believe it? 18 years since that awful day. A child born on that day can now join the military if he or she chooses, and fight in a war that's still going on since the events of that day. Regardless of how one feels about what took place, who was behind it, or the truths and non-truths of it all, it's a day that should never, ever be forgotten. It's a day that that truly changed the world, everything in it, and all of us. There's no doubt, there's the world before 9/11, and a different world after it. Whatever your beliefs are, maybe take a look up at the sky today, and remember all of those affected by 9/11. Obviously the thousands who died senselessly, but also the many thousands of relatives and friends who felt the pain of losing a loved one. Peace, friends. Lost a handful of friends that day, namely 2 very close friends who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, the company that lost 658 of its 960 employees. It's crazy how long ago that was but just how vividly I remember that morning and the night before. As you say and as Beardy echoed, the one solace we can take is that today, as horribly tribalistic as our country has become, here is one day where we can at least remain on the same side and recognize that at the end of the day, we're all in this together.
I have a good friend who worked at the WTC at the time. When I found out about the attack, my second thought (after “this has to be a joke”) was for her. As I watched the news and saw the towers falling down, I thought “there is no way anyone could have survived this”. I sent her an e-mail, fearing the worst, and was greatly relieved when she answered several hours later.
She was at work on the second building when the first plane crashed. The alarm sounded and she immediately went down and started walking away. She didn’t even find out that her building had also been hit until much later in the day. Many of her co-workers ignored the alarm, thinking that what was happening on the other building wouldn’t affect them, and ended up losing their lives for it.
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Post by NJtoTX on Sept 11, 2019 15:41:39 GMT
Lost a handful of friends that day, namely 2 very close friends who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, the company that lost 658 of its 960 employees. Lost a second cousin on the 100th floor of the south tower at Aon. No one survived on the 103rd floor of the north tower, where I'd worked for 2 summers in the mid 70s.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 11, 2019 16:15:31 GMT
I didn't personally know anybody who was at the World Trade Center at the time, but I do remember how badly my school handled the whole thing by trying to keep the students in the dark all day meanwhile pulling kids out of class whose parents worked downtown. We all sort of knew what was going on but it was especially scary for those classmates of mine who had to leave school and wait to hear back from their parents. A strange day for the country at large and the world at large, but particularly for those of us in the area.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 11, 2019 16:22:45 GMT
I still think I was the last person to know. My wife went to stay with her mother for a few days (stepfather had surgery). I had just started my new job and was getting used to working nights. I was alone and shut off the phone (no cell). Woke up at 11:30 and noticed the freezer in my apartment was broke. Called my landlady to tell her I needed an new one and I wouldn't be home for the rest of the day. She asked me "What do you think about what's going on?" I said "What's going on?" and she said a plane crashed into the WTC. All I could think of was "accident", like the B-17 that hit the Empire State building. I showered, read the paper gathered anything in the freezer and drove to my parents house to use their freezer. never turned on the TV, computer or radio. Got to my parents, who weren't home, threw my stuff in their freezer, raided their fridge and turned on the TV. At 3:45 pm, the last clueless person on Earth found out what was going on. i was on the golf course, when i maid the turn i noticed no one was showing up, odd. so after 18, no one was around, i had the whole course to myself, so i played 36....
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 11, 2019 16:23:07 GMT
I had a friend in the tower. He later wrote a letter about what happened that day. He said he finished his coffee, covered his computer and then headed for the stairs. All they knew at that point was that they were told to leave and the elevators were not working.
Firefighters were rushing up as they were coming down.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 11, 2019 16:25:42 GMT
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Post by poutinep on Sept 11, 2019 18:28:21 GMT
I heard about it from my mom. She said "We were caught with our pants down!" I was just like... huh? need cereal...
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 12, 2019 5:46:41 GMT
Mild side: listening to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast latest season this spring/summer, discussing memory of shock (to say the least - news, health, career, etc). He called his friend who was with him that morning & they could not agree on their details, much at all whatsoever.
I was woken by my mom who was on her way to work 'Better wake up, the world's gone crazy'. It's been years since I've recalled if I was watching live when the 2nd plane hit or not. All's I remember was listening to Howard Stern on my way to my then g/f's, nearly had to pull my car over when John was telling Howard the WTC towers were gone, the skyline is empty. I don't remember anything else that day until I had to go to work, retail, for an evening shift.
The star telethon was memorable a few weeks later, as well as Letterman's return to tv. I did watch WWE, they were all in being the first collective live audience arena/stadium event of its kind post 9/11, within days.
2005 was the first time it felt long ago, like holy fack 4yrs already?! The 10yr memorial was very big, the most genuine large scale wave of emotional reconciliation or something. I think the 20th in 2021 will be another tangible feel.
What comes to mind about 9/11 as culture is all the mobile/cell vids of the morning in NYC & all these years while we've notably upped our tech, the actual approach of the event still feels recent - because online, devices, 24hr news (which as we know it today began that morning & has never ceased).
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 12, 2019 8:00:01 GMT
Please spare a thought for all the hero dogs who worked tirelessly searching the rubble, for days on end, in awful, dangerous, conditions, trying to locate survivors. Remember, all 300 of those often overlooked furry heros is now dead... Run free now 🐾 RIP 🌈 🐕 I will take a moment to remember these slave animals that humans made for their bidding and not giving these dogs the chance to just be themselves as dogs but instead put them into dangerous conditions where they were exposed to toxic air with no choice. Fuck humans. We really are the worst species on earth.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 12, 2019 8:03:22 GMT
I was exercising when I thought about the date.
Looked in the mirror and reminded myself that I am still alive and to keep on keeping on and I did!
Then went out for a very nice hike and since then forgot all about the date of 9/11 which everyone needs to fucking get over it already.
In other words, big fucking deal.
The USA reaps what it sows.
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