What are you doing for the 9-11 Anniversary?

[The Squirrel]

It's so messed up that you couldn't watch TV, both for the students and the teachers. How can they act like everything's normal and expect you to do your work in the midst of a national tragedy? When JFK was assassinated, my mom told me she remembers the principal informing the school over the PA that the president's been shot and for everyone, staff and students, to go home and be with their families.

Yeah I don't understand it either. I remember my last class that day was Algebra or whatever and the math teacher was a total ******* about it. As if his math lesson was more important than what was going on. I can tell you right now, I can't even remember what I learned in class that day.

Yeah, it was messed up. The Principle did come over the PA system to confirm the attacks, and to tell us that the day would be completed as normal.

 

[8wid]

It's so messed up that you couldn't watch TV, both for the students and the teachers. How can they act like everything's normal and expect you to do your work in the midst of a national tragedy? When JFK was assassinated, my mom told me she remembers the principal informing the school over the PA that the president's been shot and for everyone, staff and students, to go home and be with their families.

It's strange to imagine a school being let out today over the assassination of a President. They would lock them in an think it was a terrorist attack. But I suppose maybe part of the reason the schools were let out was to reunite families if World War III had started. Although I remember 9/11 being allowed to play live in the school I used to teach at and for the Obama inauguration.

 

[WildcatNC]

I've been trying to avoid television and all stuff about 9/11. I'm tired of hearing about it. I'll just be glad when I can turn on the TV or Computer and not have something related pop up.

 

[Venom75]

I'm kind of all "9-11 'ed" out at this point,but I have been watching alot of the shows about it over the last week. It's just something that I can't forget. Seeing the planes hitting the building,people jumping to their deaths and the sound they made when hitting the ground;etc,etc.
Even after 10 years,it's still hard to wrap my mind around this happening.

 

[8wid]

I've been trying to avoid television and all stuff about 9/11. I'm tired of hearing about it. I'll just be glad when I can turn on the TV or Computer and not have something related pop up.

I watched something for about half the day just to remember, but now I'm sick of hearing the same story repeat itself and turned it off. It needs to be remembered, but there's a point where the coverage gets redundant and ridiculous. The terror alert of two potential terrorists from Pakistan planning attacks on Washington D.C. and New York were completely bogus and this is an example of the media intentionally hyping it up.

 

[SpideyVille]

I've been trying to avoid television and all stuff about 9/11. I'm tired of hearing about it. I'll just be glad when I can turn on the TV or Computer and not have something related pop up.

Yeah, same here. I mean, I live in NY so I can understand why it's a big topic here, and maybe the fact that I wasn't directly impacted by it plays a part in that, but it bothers me when people suddenly act patriotic or just act like they're still dwelling on the past.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I was 12 and in seventh grade. I remember almost everything. It was a scary day, and I thought sure the world was coming to an end. I'll never forget those feelings and images though as long as I live.

 

[WildcatNC]

I watched something for about half the day just to remember, but now I'm sick of hearing the same story repeat itself and turned it off. It needs to be remembered, but there's a point where the coverage gets redundant and ridiculous. The terror alert of two potential terrorists from Pakistan planning attacks on Washington D.C. and New York were completely bogus and this is an example of the media intentionally hyping it up.

It always seems like this dripping, fake, sanctimonious, over reaction to me. I get treated like a leper sometimes for saying this stuff to people but its what I think. We are the Neo Roman Empire. As many people that hate us around the world were damn lucky more hasn't happened like that. Ask Israel if we have it so bad. I was angry and saddened when it happened to. Get over it. Don't forget, just get over it. Move on.

Yeah, same here. I mean, I live in NY so I can understand why it's a big topic here, and maybe the fact that I wasn't directly impacted by it plays a part in that, but it bothers me when people suddenly act patriotic or just act like they're still dwelling on the past.

I agree. It was a big event and I understand if you have a personal connection to it but most people don't. They are just falling in line with the prevailing expectation of a "God bless America" moment. Its just not genuine most of the time to me. It feels forced and expected, like the comments of a politician after a tragic event. A moment of silence is certainly appropriate, but not a full 48 hour news cycle from every angle. Its just overkill.

 

[SuperFerret]

I hate what people have made this day into. It's not "Never forget" anymore, it's "We won't even let you have the off-chance of forgetting". And don't get me started on the "Rah! Rah! America!" attitude.

 

[terry78]

Damn, all these people on here 1 year old or 4 years old when it happened. I was ****ing 23 when it took place, I feel old.

 

[8wid]

British piracy before War of 1812 - 1811
Attack on Fort Sumter - 1861
Pearl Harbor - 1941
9/11 - 2001

Look how many times there has been some sort of major foreign or domestic attack on the United States. It seems to be a once in a generation event to have something like this even occur. 9/11 wasn't even an attack by a foreign nation, imagine if it really had been. History is going to look back on the past two wars and the US government as extremely stupid for it vengeful overreaction to the attacks, especially if it spends it self into bankruptcy. It sort of looks like a gorilla trying to kill a fly by tackling it. Based on our history, there will most likely never be a large scale attack again for decades to come. Now a major undeclared war is much more likely on average every twenty-five years or so. See you in China in 2030!

 

[SpideyVille]

I was 12 and in seventh grade. I remember almost everything. It was a scary day, and I thought sure the world was coming to an end. I'll never forget those feelings and images though as long as I live.

Same here. It was literally my 3rd day at a new school so I was already scared and nervous. The following days were really filled with fear and paranoia and I remember missing the rest of that week, as well as a lot of other days because my mom didn't think it was safe.

 

[WildcatNC]

Damn, all these people on here 1 year old or 4 years old when it happened. I was ****ing 23 when it took place, I feel old.

Same here man, we are the same age.


I was sitting on a couch in my gym shorts eating cereal getting ready to head to the YMCA to workout when the first plane hit. I just happened to be watching the news at the time.

 

[roach]

I was stationed onboard USS Constellation and we were on our way back from 6 month deployment. We were between San Diego and Hawaii. I could remember waking up and looking at the news and asking someone what movie that was. We got ordered to return to SD at best speed, take on supplies and patrol the coast.

 

[8wid]

I was stationed onboard USS Constellation and we were on our way back from 6 month deployment. We were between San Diego and Hawaii. I could remember waking up and looking at the news and asking someone what movie that was. We got ordered to return to SD at best speed, take on supplies and patrol the coast.

That sounds like what happened in the Disney Tiger Cruise Movie . But seriously what were the air craft carriers intending to due along the California coastline?

 

[Darthphere]

I hate what people have made this day into. It's not "Never forget" anymore, it's "We won't even let you have the off-chance of forgetting". And don't get me started on the "Rah! Rah! America!" attitude.

True. Also "Support Our Troops". As if there's a large group of people out there with banners saying "**** our troops!" or something.

 

[SuperFerret]

Yeah, the Westboro Baptist nutjobs aren't that big of a group.

 

[Darthphere]

Yeah, the Westboro Baptist nutjobs aren't that big of a group.

I would even argue that they support the troops....in their own sick, twisted, irrational, crazy way.

 

[bullets]

Damn, all these people on here 1 year old or 4 years old when it happened. I was ****ing 23 when it took place, I feel old.

I signed up for the Army on August 11th , 2001. I was on a delayed entry program and was doing tile work for my father. I had finished the first floor and my dad was working on the kitchen. The woman of the house asked if I wanted to watch tv. I asked her to put on cnn. Within five minutes the first tower was hit , when the buildings started to collapse I tried to get my dad to look. He was too occupied but I was glued to the radio all day.

 

[8wid]

^They want to be on TV mostly. I think the Westboro Baptist Church is mostly just an act for attention.

 

[SuperFerret]

Maybe. I still hold the (extremely) unpopular opinion that most are missing the real lesson to be learned from this event, and that turning this day into a "Fourth of July in September" or worse, a "down with those guys" day, is doing the deceased a great disservice.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Today I went to Best Buy and a Verizon store to check out the Droid Bionic that I want to get. Also got pizza from a place I hadn't been to before and it was quite good, best in the area.

The only 9/11 coverage I watched was the opening of the Met game mostly because it was baseball. Other than that, I just watched Curb and the last 5 minutes of the Jet game. I can't get into 9/11. I was 12 when it happened, but it never really impacted me. I don't remember the world without all the suspicion and high security like we have since. At our school, they didn't make an announcement and there weren't a lot of kids getting pulled out of class, so there was nothing about that day that stood out. All I remember was my sister being hysterically crying and telling me the internet would probably be slow when we got home. I went on and didn't notice, saw an email from my dad saying he was OK (he was no where near it, he worked in Midtown) and had plans to stay in the city with a friend if he couldn't get home. Didn't know what it meant until my mom told me what happened.

My parents are the complete opposite (which is probably the way I am since I'm a natural contrarian). My dad watches EVERYTHING on 9/11, he has a ton of books about it, too. I've seen a documentary here and there, but I couldn't tolerate watching every damn show about it. My mom is really emotional and will cry about anything, so this always gets her going.

It may sound insensitive, but I've been ready to move on from 9/11 for awhile. Just waiting for everyone else to catch up.

 

[roach]

That sounds like what happened in the Disney Tiger Cruise Movie . But seriously what were the air craft carriers intending to due along the California coastline?

that was a disney-fication of what happened on my ship...parts of Pearl Harbor were shot on the ship and some of the crew was invited back for our Tiger Cruise...I imagine of them was a screenwriter

 

[SpideyVille]

It kinda bothers me how they still sing God Bless America at every baseball game. They never used to do that, or at least televise it until they started doing it at the end of the 2001 season. I feel like the only reason they still do it is because it would seem unpatriotic, yet I've always believed that doing something symbolic for too long eventually becomes routine and it loses its meaning.

 

[SuperFerret]

I actually succeeded in forgetting the date today, but then I checked Facebook. I mean, yeah, I was in NYC that day, I witnessed the towers fall, and all that, but it's been ten years. I'm more than willing to leave the mourning to those who've actually suffered a loss and I wish people would stop making this some sort of event.