9/11 6 years later Options

[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.