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Never Forget....Sept 11, 2001

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I didn't see a thread on this. Not that we need one very year on this anniversary, but my daughter, who was born 2 weeks to the day after 9/11, is learning about this in school this year, and really the first time she is old enough to really get it, so we have been going over a lot of the details, watching videos, reading commentary, etc. Very sobering. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives, and countless more, if not literally everyone's lives, were changed forever.

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One of the most chilling moments for me is the new cast were they commentin live and started talking about the debry falling and they zoom in and realize it’s people jumping to their deaths instead of burning alive. The way the news caster falters mid sentence as the realize what they are seeing and one of their coworkers says something along the lines of “oh my god..”.
 
Crazy sad day. I just hope that we can take the day off politics and just remember those who have fallen and those who sacrificed everything.
 
I'm curious to get GF's thoughts on 9/11. I'm sure he's posted them before but I don't really remember, and as someone who served and seems to have a pretty grounded perspective on things, I'd like to hear his thoughts on the subject of that day and the aftermath.
 
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I'm curious to get GF's thoughts on 9/11. I'm sure he's posted them before but I don't really remember, and as someone who served and seems to have a pretty grounded perspective on things, I'd like to hear his thoughts on the subject of that day and the aftermath.
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I'm at work and hate posting on my phone. I'll try to post something when I get home. Can't say I have anything profound to say about it. I was in CIWS school.
 
I was in highschool. I was swimming in my aunt's pool. Then got out of the pool to see what all the big fuss is about to check the TV. Yes there was no Twitter or anything back then. The graphics I saw were surreal. The first thought that came to my mind was, how the hell is this even possible? How can anyone hit US in their heart without them actually allowing it, don't they track everything, have defensive systems for everything, stuff like that. Then when the towers started collapsing, **** became even more surreal. I still cannot believe to this day how the hell the were demolished with those hits. I'm not a conspiracy guy. I just believe the facts that I see. So I cannot evaluate further since I'm no expert. RIP for all the innocent souls that passed during the event and events that followed, will follow.
 
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I don't buy any of the conspiracy crap. It is just the normal flotsam and jetsam that accompanies a large-scale event like this.
 
I watched one doc recently. They had about 10 different clips of 10 different people, many of whom were firefighters or cops, who said they heard the tat tat tat tat tat, the sound you’d hear at the start of demolition, going off in the basement, just before the towers collapsed. And these clips were taken the day of I believe because all were covered in soot.

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There was also about 10 other pieces of info that were intriguing. I forget the name of the doc though. It’s on Netflix.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I didn't see a thread on this. Not that we need one very year on this anniversary, but my daughter, who was born 2 weeks to the day after 9/11, is learning about this in school this year, and really the first time she is old enough to really get it, so we have been going over a lot of the details, watching videos, reading commentary, etc. Very sobering. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives, and countless more, if not literally everyone's lives, were changed forever.

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What a terrible day that was. Did you know that a baby boom followed? My daughter was born on the night of the full moon nine months after the attack, and the hospital was so crowded that our bed was in a hallway. According to what we were told at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center, it was their busiest single maternity night ever!
 
I was at home watching the West Wing, think it was about midnight when the show was interrupted by a news break, while the talking head was going on about a plane being flown into the World Trade Building in New York and that it was not known if it was terrorism or a horrible accident the second plane hit with about 30 seconds of the report starting. Sat up watching the news for 3 or 4 hours and then had to go to bed I had a peace studies class at 9 or 10 am the next day that i didn't want to miss.
 
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Definitely the defining "where were you" moment of my life. I can't imagine I'll ever forget what that day felt like, or the days following. Our lives were forever changed.

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The first plane crashed literally about a minute after I got to my desk. At the time I worked in the Newport section of Jersey City, NJ which was one of the better viewpoints of lower Manhattan/WTC. I watched the second plane crash from my office window.

I'm done thinking about all the horrible stuff I saw that day, I just choose to think about the good - people cramming co-workers into their cars to get them home because public transportation was completely shut down, going to give blood the afternoon of 9/11 and there was already a line around the block, people from a part of the country that is not particularly known for their warmth just generally going out of their way to be nice to each other for weeks afterwards.
 
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I don't buy any of the conspiracy crap. It is just the normal flotsam and jetsam that accompanies a large-scale event like this.
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If you're talking about college educated folks talking about stuff they don't know, it's called "speculation".

If you're talking about our most venerable political experts talking about stuff they don't know..... like CNN or Hillary Clinton, it's "The vast right-wing conspiracy" that explains everything we need to know.

If you're a peony liberal party-line "net dominance" worker, it's the pat answer to any fact advanced against your blue-sky dreams.
 
Saw a post about never wanting another 9/11 but profoundly missing 9/12. When things like gender, race, religion, education didn’t matter. When what mattered was the person. How we were all pulling for, helping and comforting one another. We were united.
 
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Saw a post about never wanting another 9/11 but profoundly missing 9/12. When things like gender, race, religion, education didn’t matter. When what mattered was the person. How we were all pulling for, helping and comforting one another. We were united.
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I’ve never really thought of it like that. It’s a great idea.
 
JazzGal said:
Definitely the defining "where were you" moment of my life. I can't imagine I'll ever forget what that day felt like, or the days following. Our lives were forever changed.

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From the other side of the world my perspective is that things haven't really been that much different, the endless war goes on far away from us, out of the public eye and mindset, professional soldiers do the fighting and dying, they come home and deal with the mental scars more or less on their own. (more Australian servicemen have died from suicide post war than died in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

It is an unseen war for which the vast majority of us have made no sacrifice, the real victim of it from our perspective is the Muslim community which has more or less been the sole target of far right hatred and propaganda since 2001.
 
i was in intensive care. watched pretty much nothing but coverage of it for the next week in my hospital bed. Unspeakably horrific
 
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