9/11 6 years later Options

[THECHICKEN]

Anyone watching the rebroadcast of the 9/11 coverage on msnbc?

I never got to see any coverage of it because of school on the day it happened. Kind of chilling. Just the chaos is insane. The report of a car bomb at the state department kind of surprised me.

And yet osama gets to still live and release his stupid videos.

Feelings, memories, where you were... feel free to share.

[cupcake]

I had recently graduated and started my corp. sellout cush job in dallas, but was dirtass broke trying to pay off loans and whatnot.

was in my commute when the first building was hit, but I didn't know about it due to me having no working radio nor cellphone. I got in to my office, logged in, and had an email from my buddy stating, "well, you got your war".

about the same time a coworker came in and started talking about it and I was glued to the internet coverage. I had a very deep natal pang that I still cannot fully shake when thinking about the trade center.

I left work early, got a twelve pack, went home, and watched the coverage, drank, got stoned, and pulled out all my journals and pics from a few years earlier...and just sunk deep inside my head thinking about how I left all my troops to go to college when they would now soon need me. but I had done my time and I was no longer a squad leader.

that realization hit me like a ton of bricks and I felt scared and alone.

oh, and the reason my buddy said I "got my war"...is because the year prior we were sitting in my back house at tech watching the news hour with jim lehrer's coverage of the USS Cole bombing and I was on a ranting tirade about how these fanatic hadjis were far from over...and that the Cole was but a harbinger of things to come.

god how I wish I'd been wrong.

[cupcake]

part two...of the day's thoughts...

I emailed my old girlfriend Lindsey who was still living in NYC in attempts to get ahold of her. when I was at NYU in 97 our apt was across the street from the Exchange and the first day I got there, she was the new student liason, meet-n-greet chick and she took me to the trade center to get things like a coffee maker, pillow, T.P., etc.

the trade center had a lil dept store called century 21 on the first level and that was the closest thing like that to the Exchange (there were no Targets in the city at the time). we walked back to the apt from there dragging all that shit and that was when I first heard the term "schlepping"...she was a hot jew chick and had all kinds of weird yiddish terms. "this is called schlepping, JD".

the second time I went there was with my great uncle who was a retired wall street brokerage exec, and he invited me up to windows of the world, the restaurant atop one of the towers, for millionaire burgers. it was rad.

anyway, I didn't hear from Lindsey for two days and was freaking out. luckily she no longer lived downtown and had recently bought a pad on 5th ave.

I have not been back to the city since the attack. I used to use the towers to terrain navigate the city...all I had to do was head towards them, then go "left" to get home.

I don't know how well I would hack being there without them. I probably turn into a ball of lil girl tears.

[impala454]

i was in the wall/gates dining hall w/my some of my residents eating breakfast. we all skipped class and just sat there watching it in the dining hall all the way through lunch. we all felt pretty safe being in lubbock but it was pretty bewildering.

[Mommy]

I believe I was a sophomore in high school when it happened. I was getting ready for school when the first plane hit the tower, and I remember thinking "wow, thats strange," but that was about the extent of it at that time.

The staircase in my house is to the right of the living room and overlooks it. The tv can be seen perfectly while walking down the stairs. As I walked down the stairs after brushing my teeth, the second plane hit the tower. I remember sitting down on the stairs afraid. My mom was talking to my grandma on the phone.

My mom rushed me and my brother into the car so we could pick up a radio broadcast on the 30 minute drive to the private school I attended. Even after arriving at school, I still sat in her van for a while listening. My brother must have been 7 or 8 years old so we had to listen quietly. He has autism and when he gets scared he gets really out of control. He started to ask questions like he was wondering what was going on and thats when I got out of the car.

When I got inside my small school of 150 high schoolers, the teachers pulled us into a big room to watch the news. We sat there all day. We saw the plane wreckage in Pennsylvania, the Pentagon damage, the towers fall. I was safe, but I think that is the most frightened I have ever been. Its hard to sit there in a safe, Christian environment and watch events unfold that kill thousands of people. The news stations were reporting that day that as many as ten thousand could be dead. It was a very heavy feeling. Its very strange how an occurrence 2,000 miles away can affect someone so much. All the high schoolers sat there quietly. None of us laughed. None of us made fun of each other. None of us gossiped. We just sat there until our parents came to get us at 3:30.

[cupcake]

I believe I was a sophomore in high school when it happened. I was getting ready for school when the first plane hit the tower, and I remember thinking "wow, thats strange," but that was about the extent of it at that time.

The staircase in my house is to the right of the living room and overlooks it. The tv can be seen perfectly while walking down the stairs. As I walked down the stairs after brushing my teeth, the second plane hit the tower. I remember sitting down on the stairs afraid. My mom was talking to my grandma on the phone.

My mom rushed me and my brother into the car so we could pick up a radio broadcast on the 30 minute drive to the private school I attended. Even after arriving at school, I still sat in her van for a while listening. My brother must have been 7 or 8 years old so we had to listen quietly. He has autism and when he gets scared he gets really out of control. He started to ask questions like he was wondering what was going on and thats when I got out of the car.

When I got inside my small school of 150 high schoolers, the teachers pulled us into a big room to watch the news. We sat there all day. We saw the plane wreckage in Pennsylvania, the Pentagon damage, the towers fall. I was safe, but I think that is the most frightened I have ever been. Its hard to sit there in a safe, Christian environment and watch events unfold that kill thousands of people. The news stations were reporting that day that as many as ten thousand could be dead. It was a very heavy feeling. Its very strange how an occurrence 2,000 miles away can affect someone so much. All the high schoolers sat there quietly. None of us laughed. None of us made fun of each other. None of us gossiped. We just sat there until our parents came to get us at 3:30.

I've often wondered what effect watching 9/11 will have on young people (like younger than high schooler...I mean kids like your brother). I don't think it's good for children to watch this kind of stuff, but no doubt most kids did, since that was all that was on that day.

the high schoolers that watched the footage, are the same young warriors on the battlefield today. too bad they got stuck with Bush's war and not the real one.

[impala454]

how about lets keep the crybaby "bush's war" bullshit for another thread.

[cupcake]

I got your crybaby right here...

[Mommy]

I've often wondered what effect watching 9/11 will have on young people (like younger than high schooler...I mean kids like your brother). I don't think it's good for children to watch this kind of stuff, but no doubt most kids did, since that was all that was on that day.

the high schoolers that watched the footage, are the same young warriors on the battlefield today. too bad they got stuck with Bush's war and not the real one.

Yeah, a lot of my friends and cousins that are my age have served time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and fortunately have all made it back home safely thus far. Its scary to think that there are people my age and younger who have already died in a war. It really puts me in my place.

I was dating a guy while he was in Iraq. Like almost everybody else there, he saw a lot of action, some of it involving children. When he came back from Iraq, he came to visit me in Lubbock. We laid in bed one night and he was telling me about some of the things he saw and how it changed him. He left for Germany where he was stationed a week later. I thought we would make it. He pretty much had proposed to me, and he had bought the ring when he went back to Germany. I stopped hearing from him though, and it was tearing me apart. About four months later I get an email from him saying that he was sorry and that he shut everybody out of his life. He finally got some help, and he was told he had post-traumatic stress from his service in Iraq. He is the only guy that I have had a hard time getting over...very hard time. I tried to hide it from most people, but my mom and best friend knew.

A lot of our men come back from war like this....unable to maintain relationships with their friends and families and push them away at first. Additionally, a lot of them are left without jobs once they serve their time. Many of these men went from high school to war and lack the qualifications to get desk jobs that pay well. Its really sad and definitely an issue that desperately needs to be solved.

[Seeker]

I was in my dorm room at Tech when I saw a glimpse of it on the news. I still didn't know what was going on, just that some major tragedy had just happened. I was late for my Chemistry lab so I had to rush off to the Chem lab instead of watching more news. I was hoping the lab was canceled and I could go back and watch the coverage but this bitch ass non-English speaking bastard of a TA wouldn't let us leave. I got a few more bits of info from my classmates and then went back to my dorm after class to find out what was going on.

I saw the explosions on TV and knew they were controlled demolition explosives placed on the support columns. Even the firefighters at ground zero were claiming a bomb went off on that day, and the New York firefighters still maintain that there were bombs.

We haven't been told the real truth about 9/11. I urge everyone to google the 9/11 for truth movement. Unplug yourself from Fox News and CNN long enough to go over the evidence yourself and form your own conclusions.

[Mommy]

ugh. I think we should save the conspiracy theory nonsense for another day... one that isn't marked with tragedy. Today is to remember, not argue over what may or may not have happened that day.

[cupcake]

A lot of our men come back from war like this....unable to maintain relationships with their friends and families and push them away at first.

you're preaching to the choir.

I'm sorry to hear about your guy...all I can say is that if he really is special to you, let him be, and try to keep in contact with him. even if you don't hear back (like in email), keep writing...hopefully he'll someday come around.

sometimes guys just need space from people because they don't feel they can relate.

[Hartmann]

I was a senior in high school.

Our school had a television above the library entrance that played showed the news and such and I had to pass it everyday on my way to class (first period off).

As I walked by, I heard the newscasters say "this is unbelievable", turned around and saw the first tower on fire. I stood there, amazed at what I was seeing. They continued to explain the situation and more students started coming in to make it to their classes. We didn't speak, just stared.

Everyone went to class and our teacher turned on the television so that we could watch the coverage. They were showing footage of people getting out of the tower and running. Then, as they panned back to their live shot the second plane hit and gasps filled the classroom. I don't think anyone was prepared to see that or expecting it. As far as we knew, the first tower was hit as an accident.

The rest of the day was highly unproductive at school as all of the teachers let us watch the coverage. We watched the towers collapse, the citizens run, and the Pentagon coverage the entire day.

A friend of mine in sixth period tried frantically to get in touch with her uncle who was in the WTC on business. We later learned he died in the south tower.

The only way to describe what I thought that day was a feeling of surrealism. I couldn't believe my eyes but I couldn't look away.

[cupcake]

ugh. I think we should save the conspiracy theory nonsense for another day... one that isn't marked with tragedy. Today is to remember, not argue over what may or may not have happened that day.

agreed, and I was out of line with my 'Bush's war' comment.

impala can still suck it though!

[JRockTTU]

I woke up at 11am for Political Science at 12:30, my only class of the day, and turned on the TV to see all kinds of coverage. I called my roommate who had been at work since 5am and I was like "Dude, somebody's blowing up NY or something." and was like "No shit, it's been on the news for the past several hours." Then I watched the news for like the next several months straight.