Lest We Never Forget . . .

[loplop]

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[Jatz]

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[Caster13]

Damn, 8 years.....

Hopefully something like this will never happen again, at least in our lifetimes.

[Spadesy]

I remember the day it happened. Was a freshman in high school, during English class in the morning. The radio was on, nobody could really believe what they were hearing. I didn't think it'd affect me that much at the time, boy was I wrong.

[Caster13]

I remember the day it happened. Was a freshman in high school, during English class in the morning. The radio was on, nobody could really believe what they were hearing. I didn't think it'd affect me that much at the time, boy was I wrong.

Wow, you're only one year older than me. I was in 8th grade during Math class. I saw the towers fall on TV. Then - oh you're gonna looooove this<_< - all of the teachers in school decided to turn off the TVs in all the classrooms and said "Alright we'll check what's going on later, lets go back to doing work!" :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm: Meanwhile 3000 people just died in an attack against this country and they wanted us to have a normal school day.....DO THEY THINK WE'RE RETARDED!?! 3000 people just died and they want the school to act like it didn't happen!!?!?

A few hours later parents were yanking their kids out of school. And the teachers still wanted people to act normally. :facepalm:

[Spadesy]

It's a common thing in America. People are usually indifferent to the world around them until it personally affects them, when they're forced to care.

Fight indifference, y'all, fight indifference...

[RecentMidget]

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You know what pisses me off about today? A movie is coming out. On 9/11...

AT LEAST GIVE THE DATE 10 ****ING YEARS!!!

Also, I thought about the possibilities of connecting a 'conspiracy' into it, but the truth is, some ****-nuts decided to crash some planes in New York. You'd think Japan would've spread the word not to piss off the American government. It's either that or Japan thought it'd be funny to see someone else get their face ripped off, put on life support, and somehow make the person see their face shoved up their ***.


I even remember the day it happend. School wasn't called off, but we saw it on the news, and classes went on like normal. I respect the teachers for being able to go on, with all the confusion going on, and that's gotta be hard to do, unless you're so ignorant and/or stupid to think "nah, its a prank". The walk home was terrible. And when i got home, I could tell my dad had been crying. MY DAD. I was in 6'th grade at the time. Imagine the person you not only fear, but respect the most, crying. And he was like a rock most of the time.


So I look on to this day, as my generations' mournful day. A day to remember for the rest of our ****ed up lives.

[seba_boi]

Grade 11... I remember my school was cancelled early here in Vancouver... It was such a surreal sunny day, as if time had stopped while I was walking outside...

BTW: I thought it was "Lest We Forget"...?

[KT Kore]

Does time ever fly. 8 years already?

[Shiroiyuki]

....lord. Are we still on this?

*sigh* Now I'll have to give military discounts at work again, I bet you anything. I hate when that happens; some vets are such asswads. They're like, "WHERE'S MY 10% OFF??@?!@?! DID IT TAKE 10% OFF?A?A?E#@?!?!!"

"Sir, I'm waiting until I scan your...item?"

"I DON'T SEE 10% OFF!?!?!!!!)00"

"*sigh*"

"WELL?@?!!!"

"*gets paper, writes '10 % OFF', hands to customer, scans first item...*"

"DOES THIS REFLECT THE PRICE ON THE SCREEN?!!! *RAHR*"

"...."



Damnit.

[autsiticanime]

I was in grade six whilst during a production when 9/11 hit.

I found out on Tuesday morning (Monday night in the US-I was having a week off from school) when I saw footage littered all over television.

On reflection, it didn't affect me too much then and I didn't undertstand the importance of the trade centre, but it's still one of the most powerful images I see today.

[Old Ape Face]

Recap to last years 911 and you'll know where I was. :P

I ain't sayin it again.

[tenshi_a]

I was at work that day. Web developing like a good little spider, when it started to happen. The BBC news site went down and then the other news sites started going down, and we don't have a TV or radio in the office so people were heading to pubs to watch the TV and find out what was going on.

"Oh god, there's another one now? The pentagon? WTF??"

I was really shaken and shocked by it, and the world felt cold.

One woman at work, whom I didn't particularly have any fondness for and was a fairly bad employee, was extremely worried because a friend of hers was an air steward she thought was likely to have been on one of the flights. A morbidly obese guy in sales whose name I can't remember (all I remember now is his horse fetishism) was making terrible bad taste jokes about it all.

Both people left the company soon afterwards.

A few days later it turned out that a woman I was collaborating on a creative project had been due to have a meeting at the top of the WTC that day but it had been cancelled, and she had been pissed off about it until all this happened. So she and the partners involved managed not to get involved. The woman's name was Lucky. It was a nickname due to the brand of cigarettes she smoked. Soon afterwards she disappeared after declaring she wanted to move to New Orleans with her husband and with her male lover (who got along surprisingly well).

I felt very sad about it all for quite a while, mainly because the victims had been ordinary people on their way to work in their ordinary everyday lives. I'd heard about this all as it unfolded which was mid-afternoon here, so I'd been at work for hours already.

I listened to the news on the radio that night.

The most terrifying thing that day was: "How will President Bush Jr react? Are we going to have WWIII now? I think someone's just signed the death warrant for their entire country".

In the weeks following the disaster, I did feel like people in the media and politics were trying to exploit my sorrow and the sorrow of others and I found that a little sickening.

You guys are making me feel old. -_-;

[Nutmeg]

I was a college senior studying for a test with my friend. Someone walked over to turn on the TV and I was thinking, "Please Do not turn on the weather channel." (That's what it is usually on). Then my friend got a call from her Dad and she was like "Conspiracy? Dad, what are you talking about?" And then we saw the towers fall on TV.

Needless to say, our test was postponed. The other class I had we talked about Crisis Management for about 20 minutes and then I went home and watched CNN with my Dad. It is a day I will never forget.

[Black Cat]

i'm preeeeeeetttyyy sure anyone who knows of this event isn't going to forget. unless they somehow develop amnesia. remember the columbine shooting? virginia tech? Kenedy assassination? holocaust? people don't forget big events like these. so im pretty sure no-one has forgotten or will forget 9/11 any time soon

so why the hell do we have to have JESUS CHRIST LEST WE ****ING EVER FORGET 9/11 OK??? shoved down our throats every single year..

RELAX, no one has forgotten anything

[tenshi_a]

remember the columbine shooting? virginia tech?

I forgot where I was for those two already, they weren't really huge international news the way this event was. [sorry]

[Black Cat]

who cares where you were or what headlines they made?? you haven't forgotten the events

[tenshi_a]

who cares where you were or what headlines they made?? you haven't forgotten the events

um.... um.... some people got shot? at... the places where the events are named after....? maybe...? [feels terribly guilty]

Actually, I remember the VTech one but I only really have vague memories of Columbine. I think I remember that a video game got banned for simulating it... or something...

I think you'd be better off asking a goldfish to remember it rather than me... :(

[Black Cat]

so you DO remember the Vtech and Columbine events? what the hell are you arguing about?

these lest we forget campaigns are to remind people about the 9/11 events, not where you were or what you were eating and every single specific detail.

I'm saying no-one forgets big events like 9/11. I used the shootings and holocaust as examples for "big events". they obviously aren't as big as 9/11 (the shootings that is) but it's besides the point

[Soluzar]

It's strange how an event like this can cause the exact circumstances of a day in 2001 to imprinted on my mind. There aren't many days from 2001 I could tell you exactly what I was doing...

I remember that a friend of mine didn't have a CD burner, but I did. He wanted to record a CD of some of his favourite music for a girl at work, so I had taken my CD burner to his house. About half way through the lengthy process of selection (he rather liked this girl) his housemate got a text message telling him to switch on the TV, and we all gathered around to find out what the big news could be... to see the unthinkable.

[tenshi_a]

so you DO remember the Vtech and Columbine events?
I totally don't remember hearing about Columbine on the news or anything, and I'm slightly panicking about the hole in my memory. I kind of have an idea about what happened by logical deduction. :(

It ought to be there since surely I was old enough to remember that kind of thing? I'm sure I must have heard about it somewhere before it became a videogame controversy item.

Sorry that my suddenly discovered amnesia looks like I'm arguing with you. :(

[Black Cat]

you're throwing the thread way off topic.. just keep re-reading my posts until you understand

[Neko]

I was in 7th grade, and stayed home sick from school that day. I was asleep all day without the TV on, so I didn't find out until I went to school the next day. I didn't know what in the world was going on then. Everyone looked at me like I was stupid. :(

[Vaikyuko]

I remember everything I did that day, and won't ever forget for the rest of my life.

[loplop]

i'm preeeeeeetttyyy sure anyone who knows of this event isn't going to forget. unless they somehow develop amnesia. remember the columbine shooting? virginia tech? Kenedy assassination? holocaust? people don't forget big events like these. so im pretty sure no-one has forgotten or will forget 9/11 any time soon

so why the hell do we have to have JESUS CHRIST LEST WE ****ING EVER FORGET 9/11 OK??? shoved down our throats every single year..

RELAX, no one has forgotten anything

Actually, I wasn't referring to the events themselves.

To me Remembering 9/11 is about remembering the sacrifices made by First Responders and other emergency personnel who did nothing more than their jobs on a Tuesday morning in both New York and at the Pentagon.

Remember the 343 . . . (http://nyc.gov/html/fdny/media/tribute/tribute.html)

[Fobb]

Wow, you're only one year older than me. I was in 8th grade during Math class. I saw the towers fall on TV. Then - oh you're gonna looooove this<_< - all of the teachers in school decided to turn off the TVs in all the classrooms and said "Alright we'll check what's going on later, lets go back to doing work!" :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm: Meanwhile 3000 people just died in an attack against this country and they wanted us to have a normal school day.....DO THEY THINK WE'RE RETARDED!?! 3000 people just died and they want the school to act like it didn't happen!!?!?

A few hours later parents were yanking their kids out of school. And the teachers still wanted people to act normally. :facepalm:

I was in 8th grade too...

It was still pretty early, I was getting ready for my first day of school, since I had just moved to the area. My aunt from Canada called I think, and I remember thinking "What a hell of a way to start my school year."

I can still remember it as clear as day.

[Trefellin]

:lol:

"Lest we never forget."

The word "lest" basically means, "for fear that." This thread is titled, "For fear that we never forget" and quite the opposite of what was intended. :lol:

*sigh* I love you guys. :P

Also, yeah... Terrorist attack was really bad. I was in 8th grade too, I remember it was a sunny day. Very clear sky. We didn't have televisions in our classrooms so we had to wait until we got home. Today is also the wedding anniversary of my parents.

[waltsoph3]

:(........

I will never forget this day because I truly believe this is the day that changed my life forever.

It was very early and I get a call from a friend I haven't heard from in a long time. She tells me whats going on and I was stunned. And after that if you didn't have cable..all that week..all that week thats all you would see and hear. Some would probably be like..come on get back to my shows..but I knew it was more. Historic...sigh...

I had a friend over the day this happened and he was like..we're gonna get some payback..I saw it as something else. I was like.."you just get it do you?
Things are about to change forever." And change did indeed happen.

I've always hated war. Espically this one.

Now I'm not gonna get all political on this topic because this is indeed a very sensitive topic so I'll end it with this:
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Take some time to thank the troops if know any that served...or anyone that serves this country and just tell em thank you for what you do. I pray that all our troops come home safely some day. That is the day I truly wait for.

RIP to all that fell on this following day 9/11/01.

[Meggles]

I was in second grade. When I got off the bus, my mom told me what happened. A lot of people my age went through a period where they thought that the terrorists would attack again at any time. The constant state of fear as we've grown up hasn't been fun. We have policies in place at school so students can't bring in bombs.

Our school TV/news program played a tape of a woman on the 83rd floor talking with a 911 operator. You could hear her saying, "All I see is smoke and it's very hot, are you sending someone?" "Everyone knows, someone's coming." At the end she asks, "Am I going to die?" and the operator says, "Say your prayers." I was fighting to not cry for the rest of the morning.

[animeotaku99]

Vtech and Columbine are NOTHING compared to the tragedy that occurred on 9/11

I was in My government class in high school and teacher poked her head in and said that aplane had just hit the trade center tower. WE turned on the Television. I had no idea that it was a terrorist attack I thought that it was an accident. Then the 2nd plane hit. The news ticker was reporting of fires or something at the Pentagon.
Even the manliest men shed tears on this day.
Remember to fly your flag at half-staff today. If it is not on a pole that is raised of lowered. Tie a black ribbon the width of one of the stripes and as long as the flag above the flag.

[goddessofanime]

I was listening to Howard Stern of all people on the radio that morning while getting ready for work while I also had one of the news channels on. Someone called into the radio show and said that a plane just went into the WTC. I thought it was a joke until I turned on the tv and yelled to my roommate "HOLY SH*T SOMEONE JUST CRASHED A PLANE INTO THE WTC!"

Minutes later another one came and we all like, "Something's up. That ain't no accident."

Nothing was running that day too. So I got stranded.

[Caster13]

Is anyone else pissed off because it's been 8 years and we STILL haven't caught the ****er who's responsible for this?

[Shiroiyuki]

^You mean our government?

(oops)

[Caster13]

^:facepalm:

Walt is gonna go nut with this now.

[Trefellin]

Is anyone else pissed off because it's been 8 years and we STILL haven't caught the ****er who's responsible for this?

I'll tell you why Mother****er! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8NMSi5HwGo)

Warning for harsh language.

[animeotaku99]

: Sigh :: it was NOT our Government. I really hope that was sarcasm. It was a bunch of ****ing durkas.
Oh and Bin Ladin was in US custody during the Clinton Administration.

[Mikosage]

Take some time to thank the troops if know any that served...or anyone that serves this country and just tell em thank you for what you do. I pray that all our troops come home safely some day. That is the day I truly wait for.

RIP to all that fell on this following day 9/11/01.

Actually, Walt, I agree with you this time.

This one goes out to my best friend, Pvt. Justin Hargan, who was just sent to Iraq a few weeks ago. He was always like the brother I never had, and I hope he comes back safely...he has a fairly high risk position (one of two airborne sent off this round) and the last thing he ever said to me was "I doubt I'll be coming back, so I'll see ya when I see ya, man."

Let's hope for the first time since I've known him he's wrong.


911 didn't really affect me too much. I was in middle school and my biggest concern was throwing french fries at girls, so I didn't really understand.

[superplough]

Shirichan is right on the money here. The US government needed a reason. So they created one.

[Arnold]

I was starting the fall semester in college, I was making the commute to classes on the highway and was listening to Don Imus on the radio, which I usually didn't. They talked about a plane hitting the WTC, I first thought it was just some single engine plane with a couple of passengers, not a commerical airliner.

I was trying to get to classes, which I was late for, so I couldn't really watch the whole thing unfold on TV like everyone else... I just heard the details secondhand, and everything just got worse and worse. I was trying to locate my class, which was a journalism class, and I couldn't find it (it turned out that they went outside to observe the chaos themselves, I live not 20 minutes from uptown Manhattan and from certain vantage points you could see everything).

Going home that night was crazy. The highway I use to commute leads directly into Manhattan via the GW Bridge, so what usually was a 45 minute drive turned into three hours.

I know people who were indirectly affected by it. My brother's childhood friend lived not too far from Ground Zero and had to leave his apartment for several days. My cousin actually worked in the WTC but was fortunate enough to take the morning off.

It's crazy, thinking back to all that went on. A couple of years back I got the movie United 93 on DVD. Great, very honestly and sincerely made film about the fourth plane that landed in Pennsylvania. Maybe I'll pop that in the DVD player tonight.

[Black Cat]

whoever it was that orchestrated the attacks are bathing in cash right now

[Trefellin]

whoever it was that orchestrated the attacks are bathing in cash right now

Bin Laden wouldn't do that. He's not a party animal kind of guy. He's straight edge too.

[Black Cat]

you mean that skinny afgan guy who denied he did it? is he even alive

[CrossboneGundam]

I would have posted a link to a video called "tribute.wmv" but the guy who posted it on youtube ruined it by saying "yakkety sax makes anything funny" in the description.

[Samurai Drifter]

The 9/11 attacks at best represent a horrendous failure of an incompetent government and the lead-in to one of the most senseless wars in history. It was the beginning of the second era of McCarthyism and terrorist witch hunting which have plagued this country for the last few years.

At worst... it was the first stroke of something larger and much worse.

At any rate, I pay my respects to the memory of the people who died on that day. However it happened, whoever was responsible, their murder was one of the worst tragedies in American history.;

[LadyWhiteWolf]

It's hard to believe it's 8 years already. It's feels like just yesterday.

[Old Ape Face]

It's hard to believe it's 8 years already. It's feels like just yesterday.

Actually to me it feels like to happened a decade ago.

It's ancient history to me, like Pearl Harbor, and I wasn't even alive during Pearl Harbor.

The 9/11 attacks at best represent a horrendous failure of an incompetent government and the lead-in to one of the most senseless wars in history.

How exactly could we stop something like that?

no one was prepared for it, we couldn't have possibly been able to stop it. No matter how on the ball our Government was.

[Caster13]

Actually to me it feels like to happened a decade ago.

It's ancient history to me, like Pearl Harbor, and I wasn't even alive during Pearl Harbor.



My uncle was, and he still won't talk about it. I don't blame him, many NYC firefighters and police are no doubt the same way.

How exactly could we stop something like that?

no one was prepared for it, we couldn't have possibly been able to stop it. No matter how on the ball our Government was.

That's my point. Just ignore him, he's not worth arguing with.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Probably the most tragic day in American history. One of the saddest and most exploited days in history.

[Caster13]

Probably the most tragic day in American history. One of the saddest and most exploited days in history.

Pearl Harbor has been pretty exploited too. If you say history, I think you should say modern history, because human civilization is has gone on for a long damn time. We don't even know how exploited some stuff was in the past, because we have almost zero idea about that event, or maybe we don't know if it even happened at all. 9/11/2001 was only 8 years ago, 50 years from now when it just becomes another day in history to learn about in school something else may happen somewhere in the world that has the same impact and same reaction. I'm sure that Pearl Harbor has been equally exploited. And don't go saying that modern technology like the internet makes it different, any form of media can have a huge impact.

But in terms of most exploited days in all of history, I'd say Christmas has been the most exploited, by far. That happened around 2000 years ago and it was being exploited before the past few decades.

[Ridley-X4]

Xenu did 9/11. You heard it here first, folks.

[loplop]

Actually for once, I agree with you Kenpachi. I don't think the OP had government bashing in mind when he made this thread.

I guarantee that I didn't. As I said earlier in the thread, This was about the people who lost their lives on that solemn day. Especially the 343 First Responders and other Emergency personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty. A cousin of mine, who was like a older brother to me, was among the those killed that day. . . .

[goddessofanime]

I guarantee that I didn't. As I said earlier in the thread, This was about the people who lost their lives on that solemn day. Especially the 343 First Responders and other Emergency personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty. A cousin of mine, who was like a older brother to me, was among the those killed that day. . . .

I'm sorry. :(


A neighbor of mine at the time had a friend whose sister was killed at the WTC.

This has been the only time where I've been riveted by the news so much to the point where I was sobbing.

[Caster13]

I know someone who died in the towers too.

And I needed to say that. Just to tell you though, I held back.

[Arnold]

I live not too far from the city. One of the most haunting moments I can recall from that time was seeing the flyers posted by family members of the victims looking for their loved ones... Seeing that on TV was one thing, looking at them up close was something else.

[taily]

R.I.P to all those who died in the attacks.

[fujyoshi]

Probably the most tragic day in American history. One of the saddest and most exploited days in history.

I agree. They DO overplay that on the TVs and stuff. I mean don't get me wrong it was a huge and alot 'a people died, but the first year was ok second year ok yea but how many 8 years and they still take a whole 3 hour segment just for some person to be reminded that they're family member is dead. Oh yea don't say I'm heartless because theres other people who also agree wit me /swt My point is like this, ok yea other crap has gone on and last time I checked we got people still dying and crap overseas. So if they took and literally over exploited every single catastrophe that occurs in the world then what would it be like o_o

Pearl Harbor has been pretty exploited too. If you say history, I think you should say modern history, because human civilization is has gone on for a long damn time. We don't even know how exploited some stuff was in the past, because we have almost zero idea about that event, or maybe we don't know if it even happened at all. 9/11/2001 was only 8 years ago, 50 years from now when it just becomes another day in history to learn about in school something else may happen somewhere in the world that has the same impact and same reaction. I'm sure that Pearl Harbor has been equally exploited. And don't go saying that modern technology like the internet makes it different, any form of media can have a huge impact.

the first thing in probably forever that I ever agreed wit you on.

[taily]

Xenu did 9/11. You heard it here first, folks.

Everyone's being serious and sombre and a serious and sombre issue and Ridley comes blundering in trying to be funny.

The saddest part is that it's not in the least suprising.

[Ridley-X4]

It is serious. What isn't serious is the fact that people think there's some kind of government conspiracy, like their whole lives are Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Besides, there's been worse events that have occurred all over thte world with more fatalities. Many people are upset only because 9/11 caught America off-guard. We were being so prideful with our beautiful flag waving around, thinking we were an invincible nation. It was not true, and that pissed us off a lot.

What about the Holocaust? Or all the people who died under Stalin? What about Darfur? The fact is, people die. That's life. All they had at my school on 9/11 this week was a minute or so of silence. That's it. Everyone just went about their usual business. The best thing Americans can do is keep the event in mind but don't break down into tears whenever you hear about it, because being afraid of terrorists is exactly what a terrorist is supposed to do. It's even in the word itself.

[taily]

Because people have all forgotten about the holocaust.

[Ridley-X4]

Because people have all forgotten about the holocaust.

And so will people with 9/11, especially since it killed less than 1/500th of the amount of people in the holocaust. 9/11 didn't take place over several years like the Holocaust did. 9/11 wasn't started by a dictatorship, or even an actual country. It was started by a couple of Arabs screaming "ALLAHU ACKBAR" with some box cutters, people were too afraid to do anything like a bunch of sheep, and it ended on the same day. Boom. Nothing. Screw 9/11. Compared to what's happened in the past and even some things that are happening now, 9/11 ain't jacks***.

[Haro!]

I've already stated where I was and what I was doing before (last year's post), so I won't mention it again. I do find myself agreeing with Prons and Kenpachi that it has become a date exploited by the media and people trying to push their politics. I wasn't going to make political statements but it pisses me off when people like Glenn Beck going around with his 9-12 Project and spewing nonsense in the name of the victims and "patriotism". I am willing to bet that most people that agree with that garbage were not affected by those events. They saw it from the relative comfort of their television set. They didn't have to be constantly reminded of the attack by the cloud of smoke that was there for days. They didn't have to smell the fires and smoldering ruins. They didn't have to stand up to people that bullied their friends because they looked a certain way. They can go about their lives without looking out their window, or taking a walk and not being reminded that there is something missing there. I remember that there is something missing there and I hate that I've gotten used to it. And it still pisses me off that there is still a hole in the ground and nothing worthy of the victims and the people of the city that moved forward after this attack has taken its place.