9/11/2001 - 9/11/2011 - Tenth Anniversary Thread

[Duskwire]

We will never forget. I remember it was just like a dream when the news hit. I'll always remember the heroes that died that day.

 

[Kaean]

I remember it perfectly. I was in gym class when I got called down to the main office. My mom had come to pick me up after getting my siblings. Then we sat down and watched it on the news. My dad works in the city so we didn't know if he was ok or not. Luckily he managed to get on the last train out of the city and get home.

 

[Zeffy]

I remember that day! I was very little back then, around 4 years old I believe. Everyone was sort of panicking and the people all crowded up in their tellies. I was just minding my own business, not even caring if around 3,000 people died. How young I was back then...

But now, I'd really never forget what happened. After the multiple attempts of terrorists to thwart our country and take away an entire island. I do have a gist that all these terrorist groups are united with each other. *sigh* When will all this violence end?

 

[HackChu]

I remember that day! I was very little back then, around 4 years old I believe. Everyone was sort of panicking and the people all crowded up in their tellies. I was just minding my own business, not even caring if around 3,000 people died. How young I was back then...

But now, I'd really never forget what happened. After the multiple attempts of terrorists to thwart our country and take away an entire island. I do have a gist that all these terrorist groups are united with each other. *sigh* When will all this violence end?

I wonder when it will end to. One thing is for sure. A New World Order wouldn't stop it, it'd make it worse.

 

[Esper]

I can still remember when I first heard about this, how I went to school and saw it on TV. The attacks were all over by then and it was just video footage over and over of the planes, the towers, and people jumping. It was so surreal. I went home and watched all day long. I also knew someone who was supposed to have flown to New York City and been there when it happened, but thankfully had changed his plans a few days before though I didn't know that right away.

Just today I heard one of the stories about the attack I'd never heard before, about someone who was inside the first tower when it collapsed and survived with a handful of people. These things just make me tear up and make my heart break. Every other attack around the world since then has broken my heart a little more. Every time I wish it's the last time. I hope right now that we never see another attack ever again.

 

[Netto Azure]

*Sigh* I remember it vividly. Night-time in the Philippines, me studying and doing HW. My Aunt calling to turn on CNN, "America at War headline" It's such...a trauma to remember. D:

 

[インフェルノの津波]

I don't remember what happened that day, all I know is it made my life hellish being a Muslim and all.

Look I'm not trying to be inconsiderate, but I just..don't care. I was 5 when it happened, so it didn't affect me right away, but later in my life (and my family's) it appears to have developed Islamophobia (still think that word is hilariously bad) for pretty much all Muslims.

I understand people died, but still I can't bring myself to actually care about this...so yeah, sorry victims of 9/11, but I've got nothing else to say. God Bless America? Yeah, whatever America.

 

[TwilightBlade]

I... honestly don't remember where I was the moment this happened. My earliest memory of even commemorating this tragic event in a public school was in 2004.

I did discuss this in class last week. A student described how his friend was in the second tower. The student received a phone call from his friend, who asked if it was even remotely possible that... the worst had happened, that the billowing smoke from the first tower was not an accident. The friend did evacuate his building. Even so, I tear up every time I see the footage again. :(

God bless the victims and the families affected. Keep them in your hearts and prayers. They, as well as the local heroes, are some of the strongest and bravest people in our nation's history.

 

[HackChu]

I don't remember what happened that day, all I know is it made my life hellish being a Muslim and all.

Look I'm not trying to be inconsiderate, but I just..don't care. I was 5 when it happened, so it didn't affect me right away, but later in my life (and my family's) it appears to have developed Islamophobia (still think that word is hilariously bad) for pretty much all Muslims.

I understand people died, but still I can't bring myself to actually care about this...so yeah, sorry victims of 9/11, but I've got nothing else to say. God Bless America? Yeah, whatever America.

I don't blame your fustration man. 9/11 was caused to blamed Muslims and point a finger at someone, and have the excuse to go to the Middle East and steal the oil.

 

[Bluerang1]

I really don't remember this and I was 5, 5 days after my birthday this happened I guess. I want to say I remember seeing it in the news but I'm not sure. What I know is that my view has changed on this this past week. Hearing the stories of lives lost, brave people, I feel even more emotionally attached to this tragedy. It was one young girls' first trip on an airplane with her parents, and the monsters felt no remorse.

I just feel that a lot more could have been done to save more. The entire district should have been evacuated after the first Tower was hit. I guess people were still trying to help those in the first. I also heard about Flight 93, brave souls. I wish some of them survived though, they had the highest chance. I guess a bomb really was on the plane.

May all their souls rest in peace. God bless them all and their families and friends.

 

[HackChu]

I really don't remember this and I was 5, 5 days after my birthday this happened I guess. I want to say I remember seeing it in the news but I'm not sure. What I know is that my view has changed on this this past week. Hearing the stories of lives lost, brave people, I feel even more emotionally attached to this tragedy. It was one young girls' first trip on an airplane with her parents, and the monsters felt no remorse.

I just feel that a lot more could have been done to save more. The entire district should have been evacuated after the first Tower was hit. I guess people were still trying to help those in the first. I also heard about Flight 93, brave souls. I wish some of them survived though, they had the highest chance. I guess a bomb really was on the plane.

May all their souls rest in peace. God bless them all and their families and friends.

There was no bomb on the plane...there were calls on the inside telling of what really happened...but I'm not gonna go off topic here. It isn't time for that..

 

[Meganium]

Oh my goodness... I remember this all too well. I was 10 years old, in the 6th grade, and in middle school. My sister, who was 20 at the time, woke me up at 6 in the morning (I'm usually awake at 7 to get ready for school), and turned on the TV, one of my local news stations broke the news that one of the twin towers were on fire. Being 10 and not really understanding what was going on, I didn't really make a huge deal out of it. I was so ignorant. When I got to my first class, which was History, my teacher was really, really worried. So worried, that we had to watch the 9/11 coverage instead of focusing on our schedule. When I found out that my parents were worried when they got home from work later on, that's where I start to make a deal out of it. I got scared, worried that we may be next. Thinking about it today, I was a bit exaggerative, but it was quite a scary sight to see, and to remember. What really broke my heart was the amount of people that died in this tragedy. 2,996 innocent people is a large number and that's a chunk. I can't believe it's been 10 years, and I still feel that it was just yesterday. :( Keep the families of the fallen in your prayers, and God bless the heroes of 9/11.

 

[Brendino]

The first thing I remember about that day was that it was only a short time after I had moved to a new place with my family, and my grandma had spent the night so she could help unpack while my sister and I went to school, and my parents went to work. I remember quietly turning on the TV while my mom and grandma were in the other room (we weren't supposed to watch TV before school) and it was on CNN, where they were showing live footage of the towers. I remember just sitting in shock, and my grandma came in to the room, looked at the TV and said something like, "You shouldn't be watching a silly show like that, get ready for school." After I told her it was real, she yelled at my mom and sister to come see. We ended up sitting there for half an hour not saying anything, but just watching what was happening.

After that I remember going to school, and there were only about a dozen kids that showed up in my class that day, even though everything happened about 4000 km away in a different country. I don't think I fully understood the magnitude of what had transpired until a few years later, and all you can do is sit back and feel helpless about what happened.

 

[pokewalker]

I was very young... I don't even remember that day... Until my 10th age I didn't even know about it. Although now I know what happened, I still don't feel the same as others for that day... But I'm sorry for everyone affected and died. Let's just hope nothing will happen today...

 

[DarkAlucard]

I remember being in high school when this tragic day occurred.
A family member of some friends of my parents were there. He describes it as the worst day of his life. Even when I'm not U.S. citizen, I feel the pain of all those families who lost their loved ones there. My condolences to all of them and never forget what a group of crazy people can do, and that we've heroes in our cities.

 

[Skip Class]

Heart goes out to all the people that lost their lives on 9-11 and all the families that lost a love one. RIP 9 / 11

I can't exactly remember what happened when or where I was when it happened.I was 6 at the time though I vaguely remember my parents talking about it over the dinner table the night

 

[Nox Masque]

The planes scream with hellish fury.
The sun rises, yet the towers fall.
For those who died, and those who lost;
Your tragic tale will not finish here.

Forever shall you be remembered, a promise, from us all-
Victims of a pointless war, soldiers of a weaponless army.
Gone from Earth into heaven on high, amongst the others who lost their lives,
But never forgotten, never truly lost- for you are our family, our neighbours, our friends.

A brother died and a star fell.
A sister screamed as the dawn turned to night.
But you are always with us, in our hearts and minds,
And united we stand, we stand for and with you.

This is my promise, to each and every soul,
When your cruel fate was orchestrated from the throne of evil itself,
I watched and shed a tear for you, but one and one alone,
For now I act, and now I work, and now I honour your mournful end.

I may be British, but the cruelty against our sister across the sea were unforgivable. I was there when evil itself was epitomized in one fell swoop. I was there with the people who cried and lost, although I myself lost nothing. And now it is the duty of those who are left to remember and to persevere for those who gave everything to a cause that took what was not theirs to take. To the fallen and to those who have lost love, I salute, mourn with, and pray for you all.

 

[(=Nemesis=)]

I recognise that some of you will take what I have to say next as a soulless, callous rant. So as a prerequisite I state that I'm also a little sad that some terrorists killed a lot of people ten years ago.

To me, there are two 11/9/2001 events.

1) a day in which some fanatics kill many civilians on ideological grounds. A significant tragedy, but no more so than recent earthquakes. And you won't see a tenth anniversary of the Japanese tsunami crisis.

2) a day in which politicians see an excuse to war against A Tangentially Related Middle-Eastern State. In doing so, they inadvertently kill many civilians on ideological grounds.

Of course, those other civilian deaths are de-emphasised, whereas ten years later... ten years... these are glorified. There won't be a ten year anniversary for the victims of any terrorist attacks after that. I guess they weren't half as important. They didn't provide an excuse for making an illegal war I suppose.


I am upset that people were killed by terrorists ten years ago, but I'm also a little upset that the only reason to promote it above natural disasters with similar death tolls is to remind the Western population "Remember that bad thing the Middle East did? Unforgivable, right? Let's kill some more people in turbans to teach them a jolly good lesson about 'mercan lives on 'mercan soil."


EDIT: On a positive note, I'm glad that the entire thread isn't filled with insane conspiracy theories that make no sense, and that they're only hinted at instead. It's a nice change from similar 11/9/2001 discussions.

 

[mzmingle]

I've never heard of it before. I was only about a month old but I feel so sad about the tragedy that happened at 9/11...

 

[Kevin]

I remember that day... Pretty sad. D:
...I don't think school was canceled, though.

No one close to me lost their life during that attack, but I still feel sad for the people who did.