Tell Us Your 9/11 Experience

[Reg]

Don't feel like saying. I live in NY. Was chaotic.

Pretty much my sentiment. I watched both towers fall in person and don't really like reliving the chaos of that day.

[Sorrior]

I cannot fully recall I just know I stopped watching because I knew it was messing with me and was pissed for weeks it meant I missed several episodes of Digimon season 3 which was semi early on(it was the one where terriormon fights gorrilamon) among other things

[RickJamesLich]

I remember my roommate in college woke me up and told me what happened but I was so sleepy I closed my eyes but then saw a bit of it on TV. Was really weird seeing it, like it didn't register what really happened. I remember telling a few people that thought I was joking at first about it too, everyone was wondering how this could possibly have happened. Now that the details have been known for years it's not really a big surprise, but the idea of people training to learn how to fly airplanes, strictly so they could go on a suicide mission in this type of manner, is just a very disturbing thing.

[Dadwen]

Was at work and reading one of the Everquest forums (one of the PVP Zek ones) and someone asked if anyone heard about a fire at the trade center he could see it from his windows, was a few more comments about it then a few minutes later I started getting all kinda of calls from teachers saying they could not get to any news sites CNN etc.... (was a aid doing some tech support at a school).

[Deleted]

Of course not, but some tragedies, some attacks are so large and spectacular in scope and scale that you can't forget them. The 9/11 attacks claimed almost 3,000 people, and set into motion a chain of events that had a huge, significant and immediate impact on culture, politics and world events, and still continues to shape policy. You can argue that this impact is less in the Netherlands than it was in the ME and the USA, but it still impacted your foreign policy and immigration. It continues to do so. I guarantee you that while the refugee crisis wasn't directly caused by the chain of events 9/11 set in motion, it sure as shit is one of the ripple effects.

No one is arguing that bad shit doesn't happen elsewhere nor that 9/11 is the only thing worth remembering. What I am saying though, and I think it would be pretty fucking hard to say I'm wrong, is that nothing else in recent history, no singular event has been anything like what happened on 9/11/01. Two major cultural icons (the Pentagon and Twin Towers) were either fully or partially destroyed. All flights were grounded, which almost never happens. Wall Street was shut down. An entire nation geared up for war and radically reshaped two other nations after destroying them. Nothing has even come close in terms of the body count, nor the financial or cultural impact, and honestly, I hope that remains true.

What I am saying is that 9/11 was uniquely and spectacularly memorable. It's an event that anyone who lived through it and was old enough to appreciate it is not ever going to forget it. Whether they cared that it happened or not is irrelevant; it's one of those rare events that everyone in the developed world at least saw and felt something, whether that something be shock, anger, indifference, etc. And I find those perspectives to be very interesting to read on the anniversary of the event.

At least, perspectives that aren't blatant race/nation bashing or stupid fucking trolling.

How about this special snowflake syndrome over here.. The only reason people can't seem to forget this is because you people keep bringing it up. This attack did not chance one thing in my country, you know what did make these changes?? The crap that came after it, you know, the wars, the warmongering, but that is not somehow important right..

You claim you want to hear what other people think, but you really do not. All you want to do is have another circlejerk on how it was oooh so horrible, and that nothing compares to it. And to top it all off, when people point out the obvious fallout that this had then they are "bashing murrica".

If you really are concerned with terrorist attacks then i suggest that you morn the recent ones, but that would be to much to ask, right? Just like you do not give a flying crap about all that, the rest of the world gives just as much shits about your precious 9/11. And no, im not some 15 year old who doesn't remember it, i am a guy who has seen all this shit gone by and can only shake his head and facepalm when i read the drivel you keep posting in this thread.

[Fencers]

I'm feeling the same way even though I was born in 1985. Reminds me of this comic. :P

http://www.darklegacycomics.com/527

That's is EXACTLY how I feel. The accuracy is tremendous. Wowza.

[Deleted]

Don't cut yourself on that edge.

Actually the whole "they deserved it" view was pretty much everywhere outside the U.S. during that era.And that's because of the American role in Yugoslavia and the middle east.
I don't say that I agree with that but I can understand how some people felt.

[RaoBurning]

Freshman year. I got up after it had happened. It was on the news at my house but everyone had already gone off to work so I was only paying attention in passing. In a moment that, in retrospect is the absolute peak of my youthful ignorance and naivete, I thought to myself, "how weird that some other country has a city called New York." Shortly thereafter I realized my error and felt like a humongous asshole and I try really, really hard not to... I guess you could call it "think out my ass" anymore.

I went to school that day but nobody in any of my classes got anything done. We were glued to the news until well into the afternoon when my Geometry teacher finally decided we should do something productive. We tried our best, of course. It was an honors class.

[Ryme]

Was about 11 and living in the UK, so I didn't really care or really get what was happening.

[Deleted]

Heard on the news some planes crashed in Murican towers, lots of Muricans died, same old stories repeated on tv Evey year. Caring a whole lot less one year after another.

[Blobfish]

I had just split from my Girlfriend. And was sleeping on a mattress in the living room.

The phone rang at 6am.. My Mum was on the phone saying NY was under attack , switch on the TV.

We where a bit concerned as my older brother was working as a diplomat at the United Nations in NY

It was horrible. And I remember going to work, in a tallish building in Sydney and we fought the same thing could happen to us in Sydney.

It was a very eerie , surreal day in Sydney. Quiet!

[Heathy]

hmm i remember it being on the news and I got a ps2 that day so i was trying to play gta 3 but was stunned by the images on the tv 'its like watching an action movie wtf'.

[Deleted]

Fifteen years ago I was 12. I remember being at the birthday of my nephew, my grandfathr came rushing in to change the TV to the news. And from that moment we didnt stop watching. It was a very strange day but still after 15 years I can tell everything me and my family saw on TV. Visited the memorial last Februari. And it felt really strange walking there. Especially on the WTC memorial pools. Were you can read all the names. especially all the ladder/engine/police/ambulance personal. All those people who tried to help people! #NEVERFORGET

[Themius]

How about this special snowflake syndrome over here.. The only reason people can't seem to forget this is because you people keep bringing it up. This attack did not chance one thing in my country, you know what did make these changes?? The crap that came after it, you know, the wars, the warmongering, but that is not somehow important right..

You claim you want to hear what other people think, but you really do not. All you want to do is have another circlejerk on how it was oooh so horrible, and that nothing compares to it. And to top it all off, when people point out the obvious fallout that this had then they are "bashing murrica".

If you really are concerned with terrorist attacks then i suggest that you morn the recent ones, but that would be to much to ask, right? Just like you do not give a flying crap about all that, the rest of the world gives just as much shits about your precious 9/11. And no, im not some 15 year old who doesn't remember it, i am a guy who has seen all this shit gone by and can only shake his head and facepalm when i read the drivel you keep posting in this thread.

Wait so 9/11 had absolutely no huge change on foregin policy the world over?

[Adam Jensen]

Actually the whole "they deserved it" view was pretty much everywhere outside the U.S. during that era.And that's because of the American role in Yugoslavia and the middle east.
I don't say that I agree with that but I can understand how some people felt.

I find it hard to stomach that nearly 3000 American civilians "deserved to die" for foreign policies pushed by the government. Foreign policies that most of the victims didn't even have an ounce of influence in.

[lonely zergling]

Its the day I learned what a moslem is. Before I didnt know anything about that religion.

[Tackhisis]

Foreign policies that most of the victims didn't even have an ounce of influence in.

USA is a democratic state. If the government kills innocents on the foreign soil, all the citizens must take blame for that: those who voted for that people, or didn't vote against. As I said, there is no innocents in USA, all are complicit in USA and USA proxies' atrocities.

[zenkai]

I was at work when a security told me, "come down stairs and look at the TV there has been a bombing" Was watching coverage of it and then when I saw the second plane slam in I thought "holy ****!".

[Deleted]

Wait so 9/11 had absolutely no huge change on foregin policy the world over?

9/11 it self, no, not a thing, all the wars America started after that, yes, those did have an impact.

[ItachiZaku]

Working at a casino, got off work early AM and was getting breakfast in out breakroom. Only one plane at hit at that point, went home to stream watch what was going on and boom, second plane hit. Felt like a movie.

Then they fell.

My IMs and phone were going nuts cuz that was the early days of the internets and people only new "he's from new york" but most people didn't (and still don't) realize that Buffalo is a 8-9 hour drive from NYC (It's a big state, people).

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USA is a democratic state. If the government kills innocents on the foreign soil, all the citizens must take blame for that: those who voted for that people, or didn't vote against. As I said, there is no innocents in USA, all are complicit in USA and USA proxies' atrocities.

Yep, that's why we'll be in big trouble after the election, either way, Clinton or Trump will thrust us back into more war.

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I find it hard to stomach that nearly 3000 American civilians "deserved to die" for foreign policies pushed by the government. Foreign policies that most of the victims didn't even have an ounce of influence in.

3000 is a pretty small number. Felt like it should have been a ton more. Why I say this? 110K (ish) attend the annual Michigan/Ohio football game. It was a symbol of what the twin towers represented, not so much the HKs earned.