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.

[Mommy]

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.

we kind of have a friendship again. I knew the guy since I was 6 years old so its hard for us not to talk. About a year after it our relationship was over, he started randomly emailing me short messages to say hey. We still do that, but thats about the extent of it.

[cupcake]

Then I watched the news for like the next several months straight.

I think that many non-newsy people had a drastic change in TV watching habits that day.

my coworker blondie chick never watched a day of news prior to that nor cared anything about any of my stories. after that day she's a different person altogether.

[Seeker]

So I was at Tech and most of you were in high school. I feel old now.

[cupcake]

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.

that is hardcore. talk about hitting home...while I lived by there, not many people know someone directly affected by it.

a profound impact I'm betting...

[Inferia]

hmm, I feel like I say this yearly, but I guess here it goes again. I was coming out of physics discussion waiting for the bus at the bursley-baits bus stop. Someone walks past me saying the Empire State building had just collapsed. I turned to the person next to me and said, what does he mean collapsed, and the person next to me said (rather nonchalantly) that it's true. So I got back to my dorm a little past 10. We didn't have a TV in my room, so I was going to check out the coverage in the commons room. Before I left, I left an extensive note on one of those white boards that was on my door for my roommate saying that something important is happening, I'm in the commons room watching TV. While I was writing this, someone who's friends with the people who lived across from us came to tell her to turn on the TV. She hasn't left her room that morning or watched the TV so she had no idea what was going on. So we sat there in her room kinda in shock watching it. My roommate shows up sometimes around noon, somehow had no idea what was going on when I asked her if she seen the news. And then we just sat there and watched some more. I don't remember if we ate lunch that day. I just remembered that class was canceled for the rest of the afternoon, I was on my way to history when several people told me. I think I went up to some of my guy friends room to watch. I remember one of them was from NYC, and his parents owned a restaurant not too far from the world trade center, he had hellva time getting a hold of them. The phone was jammed for hours. I think he finally got through sometimes around 4.

The girl across the hall later enlisted. I'm not sure what happened to her. Though, I do remember weeks, perhaps months after 9/11, everyone cheered when they saw a bunch of ROTC guys walking around.

[Jim]

I was in my Sophomore History class doing a thing about World Affecting Events and then we heard that this happened so we went and watched it (go figure, 'eh?). Then, in my second period class, I was called down to the office 'cuz my Grandpa died that die (totally different thing, Lung Cancer, not the attacks) so I spent the rest of the day packing to go down to Killeen, TX for the funeral. Other than that, yah?

[Epic]

i was turning in my application to run for freshmen council. saw it on the tv in the office where i was completing my paperwork, then quickly removed my application because there were bigger things to work on than my resume.

i began my work with students for social justice and we started putting together "no war" rallies. I quit all that when we actually declared war. I was comfortable saying no to war, but when it actually started I didn't want to confuse my hatred for the war with my need to support my friends in the military.

I went to the dining hall and made a waffle and just looked at it.

[blaarg]

I was watching the Today Show getting ready to leave for school when literally right when I walked out the door the announced that an aircraft hit the WTC. I just thought it was some sort of crazy problem with the guidance system and I left for school (I was a sophomore in high school). By the time I got to my class all the TVs were on in the school and it was after the second tower was hit and everyone was like "oh shit." So we watched TV the entire day. It was surreal seeing the breaking news that "the pentagon's been hit" or "another aircraft down in Pennsylvania" or "all aircraft has been grounded."

So we pretty much watched the news all day. The thing I remembered most distinctly was when I went to Physics class that day or teacher said "Some things are way more important than learning physics. This happens to be one of them," and we all just sat there and watched.

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

[Jim]

I was watching the Today Show getting ready to leave for school when literally right when I walked out the door the announced that an aircraft hit the WTC. I just thought it was some sort of crazy problem with the guidance system and I left for school (I was a sophomore in high school). By the time I got to my class all the TVs were on in the school and it was after the second tower was hit and everyone was like "oh shit." So we watched TV the entire day. It was surreal seeing the breaking news that "the pentagon's been hit" or "another aircraft down in Pennsylvania" or "all aircraft has been grounded."

So we pretty much watched the news all day. The thing I remembered most distinctly was when I went to Physics class that day or teacher said "Some things are way more important than learning physics. This happens to be one of them," and we all just sat there and watched.

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

While I wasn't at school for the most of the day, at my High School (Lockney) they "ran" classes but people were welcome to go to the Library and watch or watch in the classrooms or go home. From what I heard, no teaching/learning was actually done other than band and that's because the band director decided to do a 9/11 memorial at the football game.

[Seeker]

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

Nope, I was forced to do work in my Chemistry lab.

[Jim]

Nope, I was forced to do work in my Chemistry lab.

I imagine that some of the more... American TA's and prof's were a bit less strict

[blaarg]

Nope, I was forced to do work in my Chemistry lab.

but that was early in the morning right?
did the cancel classes in the afternoon?

[impala454]

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

impala can still suck it though!

haha bitch

So I was at Tech and most of you were in high school. I feel old now.

no crap... i was in my 4th year and others here were sohphomorons in HS

[Hartmann]

that is hardcore. talk about hitting home...while I lived by there, not many people know someone directly affected by it.

a profound impact I'm betting...

She still is not the same person I knew 6 years and 1 day ago.

My experience with her that day was again, strange and surreal. She was frantically calling everyone she knew to try and get a hold of her uncle, then, all of the sudden, she gave up. She didn't freak out. She didn't scream. She sat there, put her hands over her face and sobbed.

[impala454]

So the people at Tech: did they cancel classes for the day or just let them run and no one showed up?

we all just skipped. if i recall correctly, they cancelled classes the next day or something.

[cupcake]

i was turning in my application to run for freshmen council. saw it on the tv in the office where i was completing my paperwork, then quickly removed my application because there were bigger things to work on than my resume.

i began my work with students for social justice and we started putting together "no war" rallies.

I think I may be confused here...

your initial reaction to 9/11 was "no war"? because you said you had bigger things to work on that student council.

or were your rallies for no war against iraq?

because the workup for iraq iraq wasn't for another year or so...

[pysex]

I woke up at around 7 or so for my 9am class and went down to the dining hall for breakfast. I was sitting there eating cereal when I looked up at the T.V. screen and saw a building with smoke coming from the top. I didn't really pay much attention to it until I noticed the scrolling text. I thought that was really weird that a plane would fly into a building. I went back to my room and turned on my tv and watched the MSNBC coverage of the supposed "fire in the trade center". I called my dad and was talking to him about how weird this was when all of a sudden the second plane hit the other building. My dad and I both yelled out in surprise (i woke up my roommate) and we were yelling how the hell this was happening. We both agreed it wasn't an accident and started talking about what was the cause of this. Then the first building collapsed and my dad started crying. Shortly after the second building collapsed and we were both speechless.

I still to this day curse those motherfuckers for what they did and hope and pray that Americans will get off their lazy complacent asses and put the jihad on those that mean us harm.

[jonathan83]

I was in my dorm room in Gates when my dad called me and woke me up to tell me. My first class of the day wasn't til 11 I think, so otherwise I wouldn't slept in.

Anyway, I turned the TV on and at that point, I think both towers were hit, but neither had fallen yet. They kept talking about the Pentagon, but nobody knew anything for sure. I needed to take a shower for class, but was glued to the TV. Eventually I decided to take a short break from te TV and take a shower....by the time I came back in the room, the first tower had already fallen.

When I did go to class later (goin' band), I remember seeing signs all over the Music Building/UC that said "In light of recent events, Goin' Band is cancelled today" or something like that.

I walked into the UC (now SUB) and they had several large TVs in there now, and there was a pretty good crowd of people watching. I watched for a bit, then went back to my dorm room to watch alone.

[Epic]

I think I may be confused here...

your initial reaction to 9/11 was "no war"? because you said you had bigger things to work on that student council.

or were your rallies for no war against iraq?

because the workup for iraq iraq wasn't for another year or so...

no, i figured there would be war, just wasn't entirely clear with who or where. I just figured that if i came out against the war, any war, i wouldn't have much of a shot for freshman council, and so i just thought about what i found to be more important.

i didn't want us to respond to this tragedy with creating more tragedies. and some of the bombings I was ok with, but I was worried about another Kosovo where too many bombs miss the mark and a lot of collateral damage would outweigh the benefit to me.

but this is all my opinion, just the way i felt.

not that i would have changed the world one way or another.

[schwab]

i had just gotten home from high school (senior yr) and sat down as my mom watched to today show.....about an hour later it came on and that is all i watched that day. take that back, i went to a friends place that night and ended up drinking.....

school the next day was canceled and we had armed police with ak47s outside our school until i graduated and they still do...in dubai that is

[cupcake]

I still to this day curse those motherfuckers for what they did and hope and pray that Americans will get off their lazy complacent asses and put the jihad on those that mean us harm.

that is my nigger!

[Inferia]

Was 9/11/2001 on a Tuesday too? I can't remember.

[impala454]

yeah tuesday

lawlz cupcake

[cupcake]

no, i figured there would be war, just wasn't entirely clear with who or where. I just figured that if i came out against the war, any war, i wouldn't have much of a shot for freshman council, and so i just thought about what i found to be more important.

ok, your initial reaction to the attack was "no war".

I honestly cannot even fathom that mindset.

my first audible sentence when I saw the footage was "I'll kill a motherfucker".

you get ambushed, you define your target and you assault into it and through. that is the doctrine I have lived by forever.

[Seeker]

I'm all for you guys wanting a war... the point is to declare war on the real perpetrators of 911... the U.S. puppet government and their Illuminati handlers.

[cupcake]

without getting too into it (for fear of impala's e-wrist slaps), correct target ID is essential. I've never wavered there.

[impala454]

without getting too into it (for fear of impala's e-wrist slaps), correct target ID is essential. I've never wavered there.

OMG YOU OFF TOPIC BITCH
























jk

I'm all for you guys wanting a war... the point is to declare war on the real perpetrators of 911... the U.S. puppet government and their Illuminati handlers.

declare war on the government... then what

[Spectatrix]

I was asleep. My first class on Tuesday/Thursday wasn't until 11, so I was sleeping in. I woke up around 10, checked my email, and had one from a friend talking about the attacks. I looked it up on the news online, but it really didn't hit me that hard. I spent the rest of the day being pissed off at the people who were walking around like zombies in a surreal mindset or being glued to the TV. All I can think is that I was so desensitized to the news growing up that this didn't strike me as being a huge deal. I blame having grown up in Waco.

[cupcake]

I was asleep. My first class on Tuesday/Thursday wasn't until 11, so I was sleeping in. I woke up around 10, checked my email, and had one from a friend talking about the attacks. I looked it up on the news online, but it really didn't hit me that hard. I spent the rest of the day being pissed off at the people who were walking around like zombies in a surreal mindset or being glued to the TV. All I can think is that I was so desensitized to the news growing up that this didn't strike me as being a huge deal. I blame having grown up in Waco.

that is wild.

I was (am?) a hardened calloused bastard and it devastated me.

[jonathan83]

no, i figured there would be war, just wasn't entirely clear with who or where. I just figured that if i came out against the war, any war, i wouldn't have much of a shot for freshman council, and so i just thought about what i found to be more important.

i didn't want us to respond to this tragedy with creating more tragedies. and some of the bombings I was ok with, but I was worried about another Kosovo where too many bombs miss the mark and a lot of collateral damage would outweigh the benefit to me.

but this is all my opinion, just the way i felt.

not that i would have changed the world one way or another.

um, we are in west texas, and you thought being AGAINST a war would help you win?

I was asleep. My first class on Tuesday/Thursday wasn't until 11, so I was sleeping in. I woke up around 10, checked my email, and had one from a friend talking about the attacks. I looked it up on the news online, but it really didn't hit me that hard. I spent the rest of the day being pissed off at the people who were walking around like zombies in a surreal mindset or being glued to the TV. All I can think is that I was so desensitized to the news growing up that this didn't strike me as being a huge deal. I blame having grown up in Waco.

no, waco wouldn't do that. i have family in waco and they're normal.

[Dogmeat]

I remember waking up and heading to my first class of the day ... stoked as hell that morning actually, cuz after I got done with my first class of the day I was gonna go buy the new Slayer album cuz it came out that day.

Anyways, I didn't even know what had happened until after I got done with my class and my dad calls me up and tells me and I was like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck ya know?

So like everyone else I sat there and watched it on TV for a couple hours ... then I decided "I'm not letting these assholes ruin my way of life no matter what just happened" ... so I went to the rest of my classes that day and went and bought that Slayer album like I normally would have.

Needless to say, I wasn't really in the mood to listen to metal that day ..

But still, I thumbed through all the songs on it, and when I got to the last one ...

One called "Payback" ...

I was basically just like ... wow. hahaha.

I remember thinking that if I got drafted or something I'm gonna be playing that song like daily and stuff.

[Epic]

um, we are in west texas, and you thought being AGAINST a war would help you win?
no, waco wouldn't do that. i have family in waco and they're normal.

no jonathan, read carefully, i said that i didn't think it would help me win.

[Spectatrix]

no, waco wouldn't do that. i have family in waco and they're normal.

My reason for saying that is that I was 8 years old when the Branch Davidian thing went down, then 10 when the Oklahoma City Bombing happened. After being bombarded by news of those two events, I think I just went numb.

I'm really not cold and heartless, but I didn't feel so much as a twitch when 9/11 happened. Maybe it also has to do with the fact that I've never been to NY, don't have any family up there, don't have much family in the military (except my dad and grandpa in the Coast Guard, but does that really even count?), so I just don't have any emotional connection to the thing. Yeah, it sucks and it was a tragedy, but eh...

Maybe I've changed, though. A more recent tragedy, the Virginia Tech shootings, really shook me up. For a couple of weeks I couldn't bear to listen to my coworkers talking about it or read much of the news.

[cmac]

I'm really not cold and heartless, but I didn't feel so much as a twitch when 9/11 happened. Maybe it also has to do with the fact that I've never been to NY, don't have any family up there, don't have much family in the military, so I just don't have any emotional connection to the thing. Yeah, it sucks and it was a tragedy, but eh...

same here. i don't even remember what i was doing, where i was etc. just sophomore year at tech.

This post has been edited by cmac: Sep 11 2007, 03:20 PM

[impala454]

you were born in 1984 and were a soph at tech in 2001?

[Spectatrix]

you were born in 1984 and were a soph at tech in 2001?

Who me? Actually, I was a junior at Texas State (then SWT) in 2001. I didn't go to Tech until 2003. And yes, I was born in '84. I started college when I was 15... thought most people on here knew that by now.

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Sep 11 2007, 08:40 PM

[cupcake]

Who me? Actually, I was a junior at Texas State (then SWT) in 2001. I didn't go to Tech until 2003. And yes, I was born in '84. I started college when I was 15... though most people on here knew that by now.

you're a fuckin brainiac! 3 years early?!

I graduated a year early, but just went into the Marines

[Psykopath]

you're a fuckin brainiac! 3 years early?!

I graduated a year early, but just went into the Marines

Picture of Spec.

[pysex]

My reason for saying that is that I was 8 years old when the Branch Davidian thing went down, then 10 when the Oklahoma City Bombing happened. After being bombarded by news of those two events, I think I just went numb.

I'm really not cold and heartless, but I didn't feel so much as a twitch when 9/11 happened. Maybe it also has to do with the fact that I've never been to NY, don't have any family up there, don't have much family in the military (except my dad and grandpa in the Coast Guard, but does that really even count?), so I just don't have any emotional connection to the thing. Yeah, it sucks and it was a tragedy, but eh...

Maybe I've changed, though. A more recent tragedy, the Virginia Tech shootings, really shook me up. For a couple of weeks I couldn't bear to listen to my coworkers talking about it or read much of the news.

i can't really blame you for feeling that way

a lot of people our age are apathetic to things going on around them

it usually takes something that hits close to home before people realize what they should've been feeling all along....

unless someone is really that dead on the inside

[cupcake]

a lot of people our age are apathetic to things going on around them

do you really think this? I ask in earnest because I'm ~10 years older than everyone here and know my generation isn't aloof or apathetic.

for example, I was en route from somalia to the US when the OKC bombing happened and was deeply affected. I went there to the site a year later and saw all those cards and flowers and teddy bears and broke down into a blurbering idiot.

I'm so emo.

[theIncredibleEdi...]

I had just gotten out of Chemistry class.....someone said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center and I thought they were playing some fucked up prank.

After that, I spent the day trying to get ahold of my half-sister who worked 4 blocks away from the WTC.

[pysex]

do you really think this?

Yeah.

I think people younger than we are are even more apathetic.

I think as people get older they grow out of their shell.

[THECHICKEN]

Well since i started it i guess i'll say where i was.

Basically i was coming out of my first class at high-school (seems like junior year but im not sure) when someone came up to a group of us and was like "a plane just hit the world trade center." I remember jokingly saying to the group something to the effect of a "small plane with an idiot pilot ran into the wtc... how stupid" or something that effect; i still regret to this day saying whatever i did say.

Our principle REFUSED to let anyone watch the news or get it any other way (except allowed to go home with parents) so NO ONE knew anything the entire day except what he told us over the intercom -(the world trade centers were hit and a lot of people were dead, keep them in our prayers). I heard there was like 7 planes and the capital, white house, wtc, and pentagon had all been hit, and there was more planes still flying around and unaccounted for.

After school (still not knowing anything specific) i had to go to football practice and then after that i had college classes. So the first time i seen any news was that night at the college class. I still remember laying on the couch at home for what seemed like forever just watching all the coverage. It seems like i watched the news constantly for like 4 years after because of a fear of something happening again and not knowing what was going on.

[cmac]

you were born in 1984 and were a soph at tech in 2001?

if you're talking about me, birthday is wrong in profile. i was born in 82.

[Spectatrix]

you're a fuckin brainiac! 3 years early?!

I graduated a year early, but just went into the Marines

Well, I went to TAMS (so did Hieu, by the way, though several years before I did), which would've put me two years early normally, except that I'd also skipped 7th grade. July birthday too, so I was technically a senior in college before I turned 18, by a couple of months (I got a kick out of that).

i can't really blame you for feeling that way

a lot of people our age are apathetic to things going on around them

I wouldn't really categorize this as apathy. It's not that I didn't care or wasn't interested in the events. It just didn't impact me to the point of being life-changing or feeling surreal or any of that that most people describe.

[pysex]

I wouldn't really categorize this as apathy. It's not that I didn't care or wasn't interested in the events. It just didn't impact me to the point of being life-changing or feeling surreal or any of that that most people describe.

ah i see

[Mommy]

I'm the kind of person that believes the course in which our lives are heading is changed when events like this occur.

[cupcake]

I'm the kind of person that believes the course in which our lives are heading is changed when events like this occur.

wow, that is really deep jessica...













I kid I kid

[pysex]

haha

[Mommy]

wow, that is really deep jessica...













I kid I kid

I hate you.

[DaveFireDancer19]

Im a day late, oh well

It was my freshman year..like the first week or two... I remember the same thing about band as Jonathan does..I remember watching the coverage on the big tv on the 2nd floor of Wall....thats about all I remember though, I cant remember what I watched live (i think i saw the buildings fall, i cant remember), or what else I did that day.... thats unfortunate I guess

I've been staring at the falling man picture all day today and yesterday....*shudders* I dont have any personal connection to NYC either...i just feel off when I think about it...blah..