17th year anniversary of 9/11. Where were you?

[Deleted]

I'm not American so.. I don't remember.

[unbound]

Downtown DC working with a client. I arrived shortly after the first plane hit. The client I was working with had TVs everywhere, so I was able to keep informed at the next planes started hitting.

I was the on-site manager for my team, and it really became a tough decision on what to do. While history records what happened, what wasn't recorded is what caused a lot of problems in deciding whether to send my people home or to stay in place.

At the time, news was reporting that gas was released on the metro (which is how I got to that workplace, so I couldn't metro back to my car), bombs may or may not be going off on the mall, the State Department was definitely hit by something, and a few more rumors happening. Landlines were completely locked up, so I couldn't reach anyone and my wife couldn't reach me. Cell phones were relatively uncommon, but I had a texting pager that was also useless. VoIP wasn't in wide use, and the physical telecom switches simply couldn't handle the load at the time.

Eventually I decided to send my people home hoping that I made the right decision in the face of what was "known" at the time. I went with one of them as they were going to meet with a friend picking up his wife at GWU. I recall walking to GWU hearing the fighter jets flying around and wondering if that was a good thing or a bad thing. Was it ours or someone elses? Even assuming they were ours, were they there as a precaution or were they fighting something? We eventually were able to meet up and drive back into Virginia...I still remember seeing all the black smoke pouring out of the Pentagon as we crossed the Potomac. Ultimately, it took me 6 hours to get home.

[AeneasBK]

I was at work.

If you reread your post the reason no infraction was given is in there, beginning with T and ending in T.

[Castration]

I was in an airplane flying into NYC, then suddenly everything went dark. Not sure what happened.

[Ryme]

I think I was in school, we were too young and far away to really care.

[Adam Jensen]

Threads like this should be closed since they always get infested by people who can't comprehend that some events are more important to some people and not other people, and those people can't respect that.

I get it, some of you don't care about 9/11. It's fine, not everyone here is American. But you can't at least respect the fact that it affected some people more than you?

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I was at work.





No infraction is visible at this point, seems like you forgot.

You know what I find hilarious about that? He's used that language, got infracted, and we'll hear from him later about how the mods are mean to conservatives on this site.

Gee, I wonder why.

[AeneasBK]

You know what I find hilarious about that? He's used that language, got infracted, and we'll hear from him later about how the mods are mean to conservatives on this site.

Gee, I wonder why.

I think Maklors point is that the bolded, did not in fact happen.

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I get it, some of you don't care about 9/11. It's fine, not everyone here is American. But you can't at least respect the fact that it affected some people more than you?

I think its more the "Oh poor us" that goes along with it like you haven't spent 17 years since shitting on the rest of the world and leaving us to deal with a lot of the consequences. By now most people think you guys got off easy with the towers attacks. So when Americans AGAIN start with the "Oh woe is us, what tragedy, what shame, what senseless loss of life" a lot of people are just like "Pull the other fucking one, its got bells on you bunch of massive hypocrites"

[Thage]

In class listening to a boring lecture before the PA came on, informing that the school was to be immediately evacuated. (At the time, I was in middle school and said school was near enough to the NSA that if they were hit in a pre-emptive strike, we'd have been caught in the blast radius). And while it was tragic, it happened almost twenty years ago. It's time to let that wound heal, constantly ripping it back open is only going to make it fester.

[Mehrunes]

As far as I remember, I was staying over at my grandparents at the time. Learned about it only the next day at school.

Just for clarification: A war is an armed conflict between two nations. It can be many things, but never illegal. It can be unprovoked, actions can be taken within it that are illegal, but a warm by definition, can never be illegal.

Which is why things like legality of the Iraq war or Afghanistan war are subject to debate in legal circles going all the way up to UN (With UN Secretary General - at the time - declaring Iraq war illegal for example).

To be fair, legality would only be determined by the winner.

Well, UK's own official inquiry into Iraq war didn't exactly give the results the government wanted.

[Dakhath]

Hungover and buying a tv before my next class. Saw the footage on a wall of TVs and thought it was a movie preview.

18 months later I was in Iraq.

[Hottage]

Busy playing a video game, probably one of the earlier Command & Conquer or Civilization games.

Family kept telling me to come to the TV because "something big had happened", didn't care enough and didn't even see the second impact live.

[smokii]

i was in a sex shop in amsterdam - i was wondering what kind of weird porn action film with collapsing buildings was playing on the main TV in the shop, seemed odd. wasn't until my Ex got a text from her sister a few minutes later that we understood what had happened.

We went back to the hotel and got there just in time to see the plane crash into the second tower.

[kail]

I was a 5th grader, they set up a TV in my classroom, watched the whole thing and then the school sent everyone home.

5th grade class as well. The teacher there did get emotional and had a hard time explaining the situation. Soon after, many kids were called to get picked up by their parents early. It felt very strange that day.

[Jonnusthegreat]

Yes, it was illegal.

There is no law that states whether a war is illegal or not.

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Get a grip on basic education, because a war can certainly be illegal.
If the war is started by vote of the people and it turns out that vote was manipulated or the information given by the government was incorrect, it is illegal (There were no WMD's in Iraq).

In the case of the United States, any attack needs to be approved by congress after a period of 90 days. If it is not approved, it becomes illegal.

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The quote doesn't really say anything about what you should and should not care about. You're allowed to care about both 9-11 and the events of 1973, but the point is that nobody cares about what happened in 1973 because the western world was not the victim there, so it was "justified".

So who broke the law when we went to war? Which law? Please be specific in your citations.

[Tiwack]

Celebrating sisters b-day

[the game]

[Cruor]

I think Maklors point is that the bolded, did not in fact happen.

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I think its more the "Oh poor us" that goes along with it like you haven't spent 17 years since shitting on the rest of the world and leaving us to deal with a lot of the consequences. By now most people think you guys got off easy with the towers attacks. So when Americans AGAIN start with the "Oh woe is us, what tragedy, what shame, what senseless loss of life" a lot of people are just like "Pull the other fucking one, its got bells on you bunch of massive hypocrites"

You do understand that Europeans have done way worse right? Yet they got too weak to effect anything outside their own boarders (they didn't grow morals, they just got weak) and now say "oh you evil Americans, leave other countries alone!" Its utterly hilarious and pathetic.

[Uselessrouge]

i was in the plane from new york to paris , took pictures from the twin towers 1 day befor when i was on the fairy to the statue or liberty

funny thing is i was going to go to school in the US and just had to go back for my visa , but after that it all kinda fell apart .

[dacoolist]

I was sitting in my living room watching tv when this all went down. I couldn't believe my eyes what I was watching on my tv screen. I phoned all my famiy members to turn on their tv's.

The whole experience is hard to explain at the time. I didn't leave my apartment for 24 hours until it all unfolded.

Rest in peace to all the victims and thanks to all the heroes that day.

I was in iStep testing (it's an Indiana [USA]) step to pass high school, but you take it in 10th grade (out of 12 grades... it's weird and really dumb to be honest..) ANYWAY

I was in a testing room when the intercom asked everyone to stay in their rooms.. I was somewhat concerned, but the teachers in the front of this big lobby stated "everything's fine we will be back" and then we finished testing, and as I walked to my class, all of the TV's were on.. Nobody was speaking.

A plane had just hit the first tower, and nobody knew wtf was going on "was it an accident..?!" Then legit, as we all watched, the second plane smashed into the second tower.. and everyone knew that was a changing point for everyone: A ton of people just died right in front of the entire nation.

Everything was fucked that day, planes were grounded, my parents could barely get home.. streets, gas, stock market - everything was absolutely destroyed that day.

[Kaeth]

I was working as a pharmacy technician in a Rite Aid. We moved a television onto the pharmacy counter so that employees and customers alike could watch the live news broadcast. We didn't fill a whole lot of prescriptions that morning.