9/11

[greaves]

Monday is 9/11. Any thoughts?

 

[looseliam]

Aw, hell. I didn't even realise.

Any thoughts? Hmm. Yep. "Wow, 5 years."

That's about it. Looks like Monday will be a TiVo day for me.

 

[treanir]

I won't do anything out of the ordinary, I think.

Of course that's what I say now. I bet that I'll be watching a shitload of 9/11-related stuff on TV, Youtube and anything else I can get my hands on...

 

[Kuja]

Thoughts? Many. None directly connected to the incident though.

 

[Tongue_Me]

I just can't believe it's been 5 years. That's the scary thing about it. Nothing has really changed.

Also I saw a documentary the other night about the survivors of stairwell B. I was close to tears a few times listening to what they must be going through on the anniversary.

 

[GL]

I remember that day very clearly. It was horrific in its scope. It was mind-bending in that I couldn't believe it had happened. In fact many times I wondered if this was just some really nasty nightmare. It was also weirdly addictive in that you couldn't take your eyes off the TV. The one thing I remember the most though is standing outside of my apartment with my next door neighbors as the sun was setting. All we did was talk about what had happened, giving voice to the disbelief we all felt. We wondered what kind of a world their little girl was just born into (my Goddaughter by the way) and hugging one another. There were many restless nights for a while thereafter.

 

[looseliam]

I thought it was a joke, originally, on the radio station that morning.

I remember driving downstate that night and passing O'Hare airport: blackness. It was so erie.

 

[pjlikesporn]

I'm taking a long weekend trip tomorrow. I would have flown back Monday, but it felt to eerie, so I'm coming back Tuesday.

I always thought 9/12 was more of a day to commemorate anyway--the day we all kinda woke up and realized we were all still okay, the day we all volunteered, the day we all realized how much of a community our seemingly-fractured nation actually is.

 

[DiaryOfAMadman]

Hey on 9/11 I'm heading down to Washington DC to see the first Monday Night Football game on ESPN ... Redskins / Vikings. That's the only thing I'm going to be thinking about come this Monday night and as far as everyting else goes, well thats the past. Its someting no one, espically living 10 mins away from NYC will never forget so why shoulld I have to sit an remember it, when it never goes away for us in the first place. We have no choice but to "never forget" how can we, but I'm going out Monday to have a good time and enjoy it like any other day. That's the way it should be, and I'm sure no one who died on that day would object to it.

 

[beafous]

I can't believe its been 5 years. Every thing else that happened to me that year seems so distant now, but 9/11 is one of the ose events that stays so fresh in the mind. I suppose because of the media and whatnot.

 

[DiaryOfAMadman]

How about for a day everyone drops all this Conserative vs Liberal BULLSHIT and just worry about the 2,997 families that lost loved ones on that day. Everyone could at least stop arguing about politics for that one day, NO?

 

[ross_1986]

I can't believe it's already been 5 years!! That's craziness.

 

[Just_Believe18]

Here we go again. Another sentimental trip. Its still just as real in my mind as it was five years ago. I don't need another "moment of silence," anniversary news special, new movie, and especially a patriotic speech of "staying the course" by the President to remind me its September 11th.

 

[okstatecowboy]

I have been at ground zero in April 2006.

In 2003 while I was visiting NYC for the first time I refused to go there and see it. I thought it`s not right to visit it like a part of a "sightseeing tour"...

This year it was on our way and I made the decision to go this time...

To stand there was very touching, to watch the pictures at the fence, read the reports...to look around, to remember how I was sitting in front of my TV at that time here in Germany...actually not able to believe what I saw.....

I walked around there like on thin ice...slowly, careful...
I admit I hate it to be emotional in public...but I had tears in my eyes and it was hard not to start to cry...

I'm the same way about the OKC/Murrah Building memorial.

I still can't fully comprehend everything that led up to/caused/created the situations for either terrorist activity.

mikey

 

[NedNickerson]

I just found this tribute to the Flight Crews of all the 9/11 flights... Sometimes, we tend to forget them... Nowadays, flight crews are taught to be on the lookout for suspicious behaviour, but those people really were caught unaware on September 11, 2001... It's still difficult to imagine how they were overcome by just a few men on each flight, unless the rule back then was to be complacent and await instructions from the control towers...

I remember there were conversations between control towers and stewardesses who said people were dead, or the pilot was dead, that they were try to boil water to throw on the terrorists, etc... I also remember hearing on one radio news broadcast that during cleanup in New York, on one of the rooftops, they found a pair of woman's hands, bound at the wrists with duct-tape, which indicated that the terrorists had duct-taped at least one of the stewardesses...

Anyway, here's the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUETWFJP0fM

 

[chance1]

I will remember and honor the victims - the people at the WTC and the Pentagon and on the flights and especially the police and firefighters who responded, many whom died.

In this tragedy, there was great courage - of the responders, of Rudy Giuliani and his team, of everyday Americans who went to the site to help. To the hospital workers in NYC. So many heroes.

I will remember the families of the victims who I'm sure 5 years later still grieve their real loss.

And I will not forget the bastards who did this. No, not the Republicans, like some above have written shamelessly about. But Al Qaeda and Osama who perpetrated this attack with no regard for human life.

 

[wastingmymind]

9/11 is when my school starts. 9/11 is when my friend's mother is giving birth and she might die from it.

It's the story of our lives. It's our Franz Ferdinand or our Bastille. Sorry to be morbid, but I think the only way for society to forget this tragedy is if the people who see it are gone. Which means, we don't and we shouldn't.

 

[blackbeltninja]

My mom phoned from work to tell us and we tried to get to CNN and Yahoo news, but I guess so was the rest of the world and the sites were jammed. I remember watching it on tv here in the lab. The entire department standing there, gobsmacked, as the towers fell down.

All pretty surreal stuff.

I visited the site very briefly (tight timeline, you see) on my first day in NY last year. I thought it would give me more of a jolt of some sort than it actually did - it seemed very sterile and I was left with prettty much no emotion of any sort.

-d-

 

[chance1]

Republicans believe their 9/11 theory is the only right one. Because Dubya told them so.

Just because that's my opinion doesn't mean it's "shameless". However, I have no apologies for speaking my mind. Just like republicans have no apologies for being gullible (for use of a word I'd rather use), and shamelessly proud of it.

<---waiting to be called the usual broken record "anti-American" slur! LOL Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

911 was a horrible day - for the victims and their families

that your first thought is an anti Repub/Bush rant - just seems cruel, misguided and inappropriate

there is a current events section

 

[Rule-Of-Thirds]

It's five years later and still PLENTY of unanswered questions.

I don't believe the official stories of the details of what happened. I only know that the end results were horrific... not only because of the deaths of almost 3,000 people but because of all the other long term effects that were a result. Constant fear-mongering by the current administration and media, a restriction of civil liberties for Americans, little or no rights for "enemy combatants", unnecessary wars that have killed thousands.. and still no Osama Bin Laden. I am beginning to question if he is just our "Emanuel Goldstien."

With the history of events that has unfolded after 9/11 and how the military industrial complex (as well as plenty of corporations) have profited as a result of the attacks, I cannot logically see them being "accidental."

Ask questions, demand answers!