Remembering 9/11

I didn't even realize what today was until a co-worker pointed it out.

I still remember this day like it was yesterday, even though I didn't personally know anyone affected by it.

I was working midnights and had went to sleep after work.  When I woke up I thought that my grandma was watching a movie on TV.  I was stunned about the events that had happened while I was sleeping.  It was heartwenching thinking about the families that would never see their love ones again and the terror that the victims had to endure.

It still makes me shake just writting this.

because once it is, and we are no longer on guard it could happen again.

Hehe it could always happen again at any time....there is no way to guard against things like that (well, maybe harder with an airplane, but there are lots of ways to kill people :D)

How about have groups of terrorists take over a large number of schoolbusses and drive it off a cliff? or just rig a bunch of them with random explosives? (really cheap, really easy)

Or just organize about 10 people to walk into grocery stores in groups of 2 in different locations at the same time and just randomly shoot people?

Heh, i didnt think anyone actually believed the government had "saved" us....

Original Post by loriklorik:

 Learn to be a bit more sensitive please. 9/11 was more than that, and should be remembered as more than that.

Hmm... really?

Lets look at what REALLY happened. A few thousand people died and a couple buildings got knocked down. On that level, its less in deaths AND damage than the large earthquake in Asia a while ago….

But, no, your right…its more than that.

Everyone who died didn’t simply die (like so many do every day). Instead their deaths were twisted and used to go to war (leading to murder of many more thousand innocent people). Not to mention huge economic costs and even still is used to further political positions.

Whenever I hear someone bring up 9/11…all I can wonder is how next their deaths (and all the deaths to come after) will be even further perverted for someone’s gain….

It annoys me that America would use the lives of their own people like that… I always wondered why the people who were actually closely affected by the event aren’t even more upset by the complete exploitation of their relatives / friends deaths….

Most of us don't really have the energy, on days like these, to be upset about anything but having a lost loved one. Protesting can wait until a much less sensitive time.

RIP Johnny. We drank to him last night.

I was in second grade at the time, but I remember it vividly.

I could see the smoke coming out from the World Trade Center from the windows from my classroom windows.

 

I'm pretty surprised to see all these responses with people saying they were dismissed early..

I live IN the city, and we weren't dismissed early, although many kids were picked up early from school.

I think that everyone can recognize what an awful day this was, but being right up close is a completely different story than just thinking about this stuff.

 

I remember for days afterwards the streets were all empty and stuff, it took ages to kill the fire and stuff. They had cut off all MTA transportation, and I remember watching footage of people actually WALKING the fah-reaking bridges to queens and brooklyn. And those were only the daring ones. Everyone else was too scared to walk into the building or stay on the street, but much less get on a bridge that week.