Remember 9/11

[stretchypanda]

Shouldn't we be remembering the people lost in 9/11 everyday of our lives and not just on one day of the year. Seems pointless to devote just one day to it.

Well, of course there are those among us who will remember everyday the lives that were lost, but we can't just drop everything everyday in honor of the fallen. Setting aside a single day lets us take a moment to appreciate what has happened and what we have been left with.

[Kilgamayan]

The only thing I ever remember from this is that the media just wouldn't shut up.

Yes because terrorists hijacking planes and flying them into buildings/the ground and killing 3K people is such a common occurance.

[jewpinthethird]

Second week of High School. I remember not having any homework for a week because all anyone did in class was watch the news.

I wasn't affected by 9/11 personally, so it didnt really have that big of an impact on me. But it's too important of an event to forget about. I mean, I really think it is impossible for anyone to forget about 9/11.

[blargherness]

I didn't hear about it until about a week later. I was on a school trip (overnight for about a week) and the crash happened during that week. They (being the counselors and teachers) had only hinted us that a major accident had happened. So I get back home, and my mom tells me. Firemen are truly awesome.

Oh yeah, late post. Didn't pay attention to that, sorry.

[QreepyBORIS]

F-16's came to my town and chased airliners away. I missed it, though.

I don't remember specifically when 9/11 happened, but I think it was some 6th grade math class.

[Squeek]

Yes because terrorists hijacking planes and flying them into buildings/the ground and killing 3K people is such a common occurance.

Even so. Overcovered.

~Squeek

[Tasselfoot]

I don't remember specifically when 9/11 happened, but I think it was some 6th grade math class.

You should remember... its like my mother telling me about things like, "I'll never forget where I was when man first landed on the moon (she was in Argentina)" or "I'll never forget where I was when JFK was shot"...

This is the same thing. You should remember where you were during history.

and dontcareaboutmyid... frankly, I don't really care. If I did, I'd have made a topic. But frankly, as I said... I live in NYC. I hear about it all the time. Compared to events happening regularly around the world, one attack on our country isn't much. I'm thankful that we've only had ONE attack, even though it was major.

PS - Qreepy... 6th grade? Stop making me feel old. I was in 12th. Was driving from my college class (took a class at the local PSU campus) back to school and heard about it from Howard Stern. I stopped off at my home to check CNN to find out what happened, told my mother about it... we watched CNN for 10 minutes, then I drove to school. Told the principal what happened, went to my 3rd period class (appropriately it was Government) and informed all of them. A few minutes later, said principal announces what happens over the PA, and the rest of the day was spent going from class to class listening to the radio or watching tv, depending on which class. Discussion was also mixed in, along with alot of confusion.

[stretchypanda]

I was a junior in high school, my friend and I were walking to the office when we bumped into another friend, who said something about a plane hitting something in New York. We thought she was joking until we walked by a classroom with its door open and saw what they were watching on TV. It was pretty intense.

Then one of my best friends, who had just signed up for the Marine Corps Delayed Entry Program called me that night and told me he'd been informed that, if needed, the Marines would pull him out of school, give him a diploma, and send him off to a whirlwind training camp so he could be shipped overseas.

[evilbutterfly]

Oh, another thing I remember is how everybody thought I was a bastard for the things I'd say about it. Everybody would be watching and saying stuff like "this is so horrible!" and "what a terrible thing!" while I'm like "dumbass, you shoulda flown the plane lower. Half the damn people can get out, now, idiot!"

Yes, I WAS saying these things as it happened and not afterwards. If people said now that we were lucky the terrorists didn't hit lower or during the day, nobody would care, but when I said it as it was happening everybody freaked out on me. And like, in physics class one time we watched a video about it and the teacher was saying how calculated it was and how smart the terrorists were, knowing how to attack the building and all. They weren't smart about it. Any idiot knows that if you fly a giant plane into something it's gonna do some damage. The terrorists got lucky. Most people don't know this, but the towers were actually designed to withstand a plane crash from something that big. They were also designed to withstand large fires. However, they weren't built to withstand both. The crash of the plan knocked loose the anti-fire insulation (or whatever it was) so the intense fires warped the metal, which caused the eventual collapse of the tower.

PS:

Qreepy... 6th grade? Stop making me feel old. I was in 12th.

haha, I'm right between you guys!

[FishFishRevolution]

haha, I'm right between you guys!

Me too!

My Spanish teacher was a bitch! She was like "Well, we have a quiz today, no we won't be watching TV, the world goes on, but we still have to get things done!"

Maybe it was my english teacher who said that. One of them languages.

[Tasselfoot]

I thought similar things eb. But, my thoughts on it were that they weren't trying to get casualties so much as getting the towers to fall. Hitting lower wouldn't have collapsed the towers, I believe. They had to hit high to get them to fall.

Or, something like that.

Also, there are other tall building in NYC (400+ ft), in the same area as where the towers were. It would have been damn near impossible to get the plane that low because of the other buildings. The towers were taller than all the other buildings by a few hundred feet, so the tops were unobscured.

[Snapps]

My dad called me on the phone at around 6 AM when I was still sleeping. I was what, 9? I'm bad with dates. Probably 10. So anyway he calls and I wake up to answer and he tells me that a plane crashed in the buildings. Little me knowing that it was some serious shit, I went back to sleep.

Well hello i'm 10 and a plane crashes into a building. Do you really think I cared?

Well after the fact I still didn't really care but I had more of a thought and affection to what happen.

[esupin]

Re: RE: Remember 9/11

3. Was I the only one who remembered?!

@my av since the tenth.

I know someone in my school whose mother was on one of the planes. I don't hear him talking about it in school, but I don't know him well. He probably would rather keep things between him and his family.

[180digi]

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I remember that day, I was in fifth grade.

Now, our town is just across the river from NYC, its in New Jersey but its right across the Hudson River from the city. There are ferries that usually take commuters across the the city. And on that day, we were hearing lots of ambulances going by the school building (it was on a main street) with sirens screaming. So one of us says, whats with all these ambulances? And the teacher told us we were going to have an assembly and that wed get answers then.

We didnt.

At the assembly theyre just like..well....something really bads happened to our country.... Of course when i heard that i didnt think about a plane crashing into world renowned buildings, I thought it wasnt something all that important, you know, at least not on a scale like that. I think to myself this is stupid and i raised my hand and said 'What actually happened??' and they actually told us that they 'didnt know.'

Like hell they didnt know, but i kind of understand why they didnt tell us. Someone's parents might have worked in the buildings, and if they said the buildings collapsed and thousands of people are dead then there might have been some freaking out going on..but, i didnt actually find out what happened until i got home. Still, it wasnt that big a deal to me because i really didnt know much, and nobody i or my parents knew had gotten killed in that. Couldnt watch TV on most channels for a few months after that because the signal beacon was on the south tower hehe im kidding dont flame me..

[Tps222]

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6th grade lunch I found out. I didn't think people were serious at first. They did overplay the actual crash itself though.