Alvin Walton
09-11-2011, 08:08 PM
I'm still pissed.
God bless America!
God bless America!
Remembering 9/11... 10 years laterAlvin Walton 09-11-2011, 08:08 PM I'm still pissed. God bless America! Ruhskins 09-11-2011, 08:19 PM I remember working at College Park and seeing people gathered around a TV in the lobby of our office. I walked into the lobby as the 2nd plane hit and realizing what was going on. I ran to my office and spent the next hour trying to reach my family in NYC unsuccessfully. I remember feeling nervous the whole day, especially after the attack on the Pentagon. I remember there were rumors flying around that there had been a blast at the State Department, which luckily were false. A couple of days later we had a memorial on campus, some of our students had family and friends that had perished in NY. Also there were two grad students who died at the Pentagon. I just hope we never have to live through something like this again. Alvin Walton 09-11-2011, 09:01 PM Things have improved a bit. http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f237/redstout/ownedsoldier.jpg mooby 09-11-2011, 11:39 PM I was in 7th grade at the time and when it happened a teacher came in and said a plane had crashed into the first tower, and my immediate thinking was, oh, it must've been an accident or something. I didn't really believe that people would go to such lengths to attack our country, but that thinking was just a product of being young and naive at the time. It began to sink in that it was a much more serious and life altering situation after watching the reports on tv, and when my mom drove us past the Pentagon on our way into DC a couple weeks later. I saw the hole in the side and I just felt stunned, like I couldn't believe something so horrible could happen so close to home. The only way we need to honor the memories of the people that died that day are to remember the price we paid for being lax on security, and to remember their contributions to society and the impact they had on everyone around them. To be completely honest, I was a little underwhelmed with the events they had planned at today's game, namely having the families of people who died on 9/11 just come out and hold the flag while it covered the field. I thought they would do a little more than that, they barely got any coverage since everyone was watching Ne-Yo sing the National Anthem. The NFL shared center stage today with the ceremonies and everything and they could've done more. mlmpetert 09-12-2011, 11:18 AM Thank you for starting this thread Matty and naming it "Remembering 9/11... 10 Years Later". It has irked me hearing it referred to the "10th Anniversary" on the news, it’s a day of remembrance and mourning for me and most others. Also thank you for not putting it in the political forum. Unfortunately i was traveling all weekend and was unable to watch anything in remembering this day 10 years ago. I watch a amazing documentary last year and will see if i can find it for those interested. The documentary had no interviews it was just a timeline of the day using actual camera footage, much of it was armature footage. The feelings it provoked were unreal and similar to the feeling we all shared the day this terrible event unfolded. It took me about 30 minutes to realize the footage was all real and not reenactments. In traveling i saw a LOT of police and a LOT of small/mid sized u-haul like trucks pulled over. We all heard a lot about how yesterday was the safest day America has had considering how high we had our guard up, and it felt that way for me. I drove under a lot of bridges on my way back from NJ that were lined with people, fire trucks, police cars and American Flags. No one was celebrating anything and it was done with classiness and respect. skinsguy 09-12-2011, 01:20 PM I was working as a social worker at a rehab clinic when I saw a bunch of co-workers in the activity room watching TV. So, curiously, I walked in there and asked, "What are ya'll watching?" When I witnessed what I saw on that TV, I was in total shock. I didn't know what to think! So surreal. Never thought I would see anything like that in my lifetime, and I hope I never see anything like that again on American soil. firstdown 09-12-2011, 01:52 PM BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience - YouTube ArtMonkDrillz 09-12-2011, 02:05 PM Like when older generations say they remember exactly what they were doing when Pearl Harbor was bombed or when they heard JFK was shot, I will definitely never forget that day for as long as I live. I was a sophomore in college and when the professor walked into my criminology class a few minutes late he apologized saying he had been glued to the computer reading the initial reports of a plane hitting the WTC. Like a lot of people I just assumed it was a small aircraft and an unfortunate case of pilot error. I didn't really think much of it for the rest of class. Since I had about 15 minutes between my Tuesday morning classes I decided to go back to my dorm room and I flipped on CNN just to see if there was any more news on what happened in New York. By that time the 2nd plane had hit and I believe the Pentagon had also been attacked and we all knew something major and horrific was happening. Still in a bit of shock I went to my next class, appropriately enough the class was called "Social Movements" and it was about how events and groups can cause societies to shift. I was only there for a few minutes before someone came around and said the school was canceling classes for the day. I got back to my dorm just in time to see the towers collapse. I just remember feeling so confused the rest of the day. Obviously I was old enough to know that our country has its fair share of enemies but what I was seeing on TV just seemed so surreal. Like many of you I spent the rest of the day glued to the TV and the internet, watching Aaron Brown describe the events from a few miles away, being freaked out by prophecies from Nostradamus that turned out to be fake, and worrying my friends in family in the military and abroad. mlmpetert 09-12-2011, 03:35 PM The documentary i watched last year was "102 Minutes That Changed America". A must watch for those that havent seen it in my opinion. You can watch it here streaming and i bet its on netflicks for those that still have it: 102 Minutes That Changed America | Watch Free Documentary Online (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/102-minutes-changed-america/) Theres no narrator but youre well guided through the documentary by multiple perspectives depicting the 102 minutes chronicled in real time of days events. A lot of the footage is stunning and simply unexplainable. Schneed10 09-12-2011, 04:21 PM I remember being at work, having graduated just 4 months earlier from college, and hearing it all over the radio. A group of us were huddled around the radio listening to the frenzied call of the radio host/disc jockey as the towers fell. Shortly thereafter our boss came around and said I understand there are major events taking place but unless you plan to take a personal day then you need to be working. So on the same day I learned what it was like to feel threatened by foreign enemies of state, I also learned what not to do as a boss! For a good couple of weeks after those attacks I remember feeling uneasy everytime I heard a plane overhead. I felt like I needed to look up and make sure it wasn't coming down at me. Amazing how something can rattle all that you take for granted. |
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