9/11

[metalfex]

Its been 6 years today since the sad tragedy in 2001. It was a tuesday and today is a tuesday, i clearly remember that day as i was in my last year of middle school and everyone was panicing cause and getting all paranoid. They shut down the CN Tower here and all other office buiildings in downtown, toronto and they kept showing the footage of the twin towers all week long, it was very sad and my thoughts go out to everyone who was involved in this.

post your thoughts.

[oip]

I was inside the towers at the end of August 2001.... 2 weeks before that tragedy... My younger brother couldn't be with me that time and I said to him: "You will visit these towers next time, don't worry!"... We couldn't even imagine that coming tragedy....

[Sepu]

It's impressive how much fast I become old..., it was already 6 years ago!!

[Snow]

I can remember everything about that day 6 years ago, where I was, who I was talking to at the time of the first plane crashing into the tower, and remember thinking that it was an accident and then watching CNN, Fox News and Sky News when the second plane hit.

I remember feeling kind of empty and numb (there are people who would say thats nothing unusual there!) then thinking that the American military would being taking a swift and angry reponse to the threat, and yet nothing was reported about the mix up with military jets going the wrong way or anything.

Now I feel that "war on terror" seems to be on the back burner a lot more than in recent years, more is made of the situation in Iraq than stopping terrorists around the world, but I guess thats for another topic not this one.

Six years on and the anger doesn't seemed to have abated much, the need for retribution is still as strong, I think that the initial shock wore off after the first few weeks and was replaced with a need to blame. Now that blame is apportioned, is anyone better off? No I don't think so. But bear in mind that most non-Americans around the world aren't as up to date as the Americans whom this affected more and more, its not that we care less, just that we weren't as involved as you were/are.

My thoughts and prayers still go out to all the survivors, families of the lost and bereaved, and of course to all the Heroes of 9/11.

When I was in Las Vegas earlier this year I went to the memorial outside the New York, New York hotel and just walking past all the signed shirts and seeing how it had an impact on the Americans that were there was a moving experience. In six years I think New York has started to repair itself (not the people, the city) and I think that it will heal over time better than some of the people will.

[King_Nothing]

I still find it hard to believe that it has been 6 years.
Today in Winnipeg (city I live in) there were a bunch of protesters out around one of our main TV station buildings with signs reflecting that it was an inside job and were demanding the truth.
I will not post my thoughts/theories of 9/11 out of respect for all the dead, but those guys could of found a better date to do their protesting.
Anyways, inside job or not, there are still thousands of victims that died for NOTHING.
RIP NYC, Pentagon, Shanksville

[MetDream]

9/11 was significant for me prior to the Twin Towers incident in that we survived a category 10 hurricane: Hurricane Iniki when I lived on Kauai back in 1992. So this date just seems to be full of catastrophe.

When I heard about the Twin Towers I was listening to a radio show, Rob, Arnie, and Dawn and though they were playing a hoax and started yelling at them to stop that a hoax like that was not funny. When I realized it was for real, I was terrified. I was working my old job doing child protection services at the time and I had to go to a seminar about sexual predators that day. In-between the very graphic material presented to us, we were going into the next conference room where a TV was set up to watch the new. Not a happy day.

I still feel for the families of all the victims of this day. And as arrogant as this sounds: I still can’t believe that something like this happened on American soil. All my life, wars and terrorism always seemed to be things that happened elsewhere and we were insolated and protected from the horror of it all. Now I know that no one is.

[dmegametal#1]

i heard about it on the radio then was on a bus going to work..by the time i got there..the second plane hit and watched evrything unfold..which was a horrible thing to watch at work..RIP

[boltsi]

I also remember that day...and i remember how i heard about it.

I had just arrived from school and my friend called me and asked something like "are you watching TV?...put it on" and i was
just like "i can't right know...what is it?" and only answer that i got from my friend was like: "something really f*kin' sick is happening in the USA..you better put your tv on".

And then i turned my TV on and I didn't even realize what was going on. There was nothing but two burning towers.

Then i just sat in our livingroom and watched news. Whole night.


(sorry my english)