9/11 + 5 years

[Maengelito]

hey guys

i dont mean to be debbie downer *waah waaaaaahhhhh* but its been 5 years as i post this ~9am. just take a minute to remember those that have fallen.

[PDenbigh]

CNN.com has an "As it happened" TV report that's pretty powerful.

[Sijray21]

CNN.com has an "As it happened" TV report that's pretty powerful.

listening now...it's long (2 parts - each 1.5 hours long) but it is quite powerful

my roomate woke me up and immediately turned on the tv and we watch the second plane hit. it was unbelievable day.

[Andy]

I was eating Corn Pops, watching CNN and getting ready for my 9 O'Clock Psych Class. My roommates and I were trying to figure out whether or not this was real life or a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.

[Kaan]

I was coming back to my dorm room after a 8am meeting with my thesis prof. I read on a dry erase board "WTC hit by plane". I ran to my room, turned on the tv, fired up both computers... patched into nypd and nyfd scanners (that has since been taken off the internet)... I sat and watched. My girlfriend at the time was from NYC... i blew up her cell phone until she came home from class. She sat with me as we watched... she was on my cell, her cell, and my room phone trying to call people in NYC.

On Sept 12th, we found out a friend of ours was a first responder. He was an EMT and died when the buildings fell. His dream was to be NYPD and walk a beat in Queens NY, where he grew up. I'll never forget that day.

[JohnC]

Watched it in the Medialab, then the ISAT auditorium. Chan told me about it when
I came in to work, I laughed because I thought he was joking.

[Ginger]

Watched it in the Medialab, then the ISAT auditorium. Chan told me about it when
I came in to work, I laughed because I thought he was joking.

I did the same thing when my friend told me in the halls of my high school.

Everybody blew off class and watched it all happen on tv. My Dad came and took my sister and I out of school because of it's proximity to the Pentagon.

What a day. Our CEO sent out a letter of remembrance this morning.

[Jewels]

I was at home with my dad, getting ready to go to class. We turned on the TV and it immediately came up with the Trade towers falling. Then we found out about them being hit with planes, and then the Pentagon. So I tried to call my mom, cause she worked at Government Facility- Mt. Weather. Couldn't get her, so I freaked, then we called my aunt to try to find a cousin who worked at the Pentagon. Luckily he wasn't hurt, but his office was in every picture taken of the Pentagon. He survived only because he was down the hall in the Admiral's office watching what was going on in NY. I just remember how sureal it felt, and sometimes still feels.

[mrbaggio]

I was walking to D-Hall when I heard about it. Everyone on the sidewalk was talking about what had just happened.

[CaptainHenreh]

Well, I was getting ready to go to work (we didn't have a TV) when my brother called my mom, and said that someone had flown a plane into the WTC. I thought "Damn, that's stupid! How do you miss a giant damned tower?" Thinking that it was a prop plane or something. I hopped in the Talon and skeetered off to Deep Creek Lake, listening to my crappy stock DSM CD player.

When I got to work, I turned on the TV, and decided to head to CNN to see if anyone had found out about the pilot of this "little plane". Because in my mind, a jetliner was a total impossibility.

Wow, was I in for a shock. I'm not ashamed to say I shed a tear when I realized what was happening.

[BLINGMW]

Chan told me about it when I came in to work, I laughed because I thought he was joking.

heh, yeah, every now and then I'm telling the truth!

[G.Irish]

I was getting ready for class when my roomie (Natasha) told me a plane crashed into the WTC. I thought it was a prop plane too but as I watching I found out it was a jetliner. Then we were watching the broadcast live when we saw the second plane hit. One of those moments you'll never forget.

[Jess]

I was getting ready for my morning class when I saw my suitemate's TV reporting that a plane had hit the WTC. My first reaction was also "what the fuck how do you hit a 100+ floor tower?" I left for class, and about 10-15 minutes into class someone delivered a note to my thesis professor and he announced the second plane and the pentagon. The rest of the morning I sat watching the TV in TDU with one of my friends. That day was surreal...

MSNBC is also re-broadcasting their Today Show broadcast from that day.

[Ryan T]

I was sitting in my high school chorus class when they announced what had happened over the intercom. We spent the rest of the day, in every class, watching the news.

[Evan]

ugh...
driving on my way to work, running a little late. I heard on the radio, Elliot in the AM.
I thought it was going to be like WTC 93, scary, with some damage but not too much loss of life
Never could have imagined the towers would come down

Today really brought back a lot of the feelings from that day, and reminds me how determined we must be to eliminate the fascist muslim movement without regard to political correctness or other bullshit

[Jess]

Today really brought back a lot of the feelings from that day, and reminds me how determined we must be to eliminate the fascist muslim movement without regard to political correctness or other bullshit

+1

And "booo" to ABC for editing the 9/11 miniseries in order to not show Clinton treating this as a "law enforcement problem".

[karmapolice]

I was in high school I believe during study hall.

They let everyone go home early. I remember thinking it was all some kind of joke or mistake. I also remember being reeeeeeeeeeeeeally angry.

[Goodspeed]

I was just walking in the door coming home from school when I saw the whole thing on CNN. I think I sat there all day after walking in, then we had no school the next day and for the whole week afterwards all we really talked about in class centered around the attacks.

Today really brought back a lot of the feelings from that day, and reminds me how determined we must be to eliminate the fascist muslim movement without regard to political correctness or other bullshit

I could go on forever about how we should do exactly that...its extremely important one recognizes the difference between Islam and this extremist BS, they are far from being one and the same. I think we actually made the nature of extremism worse in both the short and long terms though.

[ScottyB]

has it really been 5 years?

geez. terrible images, but i want them burned in memory. you can never count your blessings enough.

[G.Irish]

Today really brought back a lot of the feelings from that day, and reminds me how determined we must be to eliminate the fascist muslim movement without regard to political correctness or other bullshit

I could go on forever about how we should do exactly that...its extremely important one recognizes the difference between Islam and this extremist BS, they are far from being one and the same. I think we actually made the nature of extremism worse in both the short and long terms though.

That's why Evan said "fascist muslim" movement. While fascist is probably the wrong word the describe the terrorists that be, extremist would probably be more appropriate. Some of the groups like the Taliban could probably be said to be fascist but I don't think they have all the elements of fascism.

At any rate we must capture and kill those in terrorist organizations at every opportunity while simultaneously practicing intelligent foreign policy that will lessen hateful sentiment against us and our goals. We've got to fight a war of ideas to remove popular support for extremism just as much as we need to wage war to eliminate enemy combatants.