This morning I saw flags at half mast everywhere and it took me several minutes to realize why.
I think that's a good thing.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
man, i live here and it's easy to forget. Honestly sometimes the only thing that reminds me is when i hear on the news about the WTC construction being delayed again for some random reason....
It shouldnt rule anyones life of course, but it is good to remember these things every once in a while. I remember for the first few years of anniversaries, the tension on the subways would be noticably higher. That has definitely subsided.
This is the single event(history wise) in the world since i've been born that I will never forget. The first couple years I used to think about 9/11 a few times a week. I still think about it probably once a week even 7 years later. I remember where I was that day and have watched atleast 60-70 documentaries on it. I just watched "I missed Flight 93" again last night because it was on tv. There were a lot of brave people on that plane and as well as in those buildings including the firefighters who went in after the towers hit but never made it out. God bless all those who lost their lives that day.
It may be wishful thinking, but hopefully we don't see any major terrorist attacks anywhere (and even more so in the Western world) ever again. I'm not saying the West is better or more important then the rest of the world, just that every day I read the paper and a suicide bomber is blowing himself up in the Eastern part of the world so I don't see that stopping anytime soon. I wish terrorism would stop everywhere but as I said that might be wishful thinking.
I'll always remember Todd Beamer's words on Flight 93 right before they charged the cockpit to try and take the plane back:
This morning I saw flags at half mast everywhere and it took me several minutes to realize why.
I think that's a good thing.
Interesting, the only flag i saw today was soaring at full mast...stupid UBC!
But yes, I will always remember that day very vividly.
And that is definitely wishful thinking, Neil. Actually, wishful thinking implies at least a small chance. There is no chance.
Interesting, the only flag i saw today was soaring at full mast...stupid UBC!
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Well, I am south of the border.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
And honestly, nobody else should either. If we forget history, we're doomed to repeat it.
Nobody should ever forget it, but we need to make sure we aren't ruled by those memories either.
Having gone through more than a few elevated terror alerts and news warnings, I remember being very tense with my daily commutes on the subway thinking about this stuff (my train basically hits all the major NY stops....Union Square, Grand Central etc). It's a frigging stressful way to live when it's on your mind every morning (for some reason I didnt think they would attack at night)....I was cautious of everyone and looking for the next Spain train bomb to hit at every stop. And I came to NY long after the attacks...imagine how somebody with a direct connection felt.
In a way, it's much easier if the general population is ignorant. People function much better when they are not being ruled by fear.
I agree with this. I remember more about that day, than probably any other day in my life.
Me too. I remember exactly what I was doing when I heard, the thoughts that were running through my mind, and pretty much everything that followed throughout the day.
Now I try to associate today with more happier things like the fact that its my grandma and my sister's birthday, but its hard to forget something that was probably one of the biggest event that has happened so far in my lifetime.
"There's bad things and we have to get through it," he said. "There is another day. Terrible things happen and you try to move forward and do your best. It's not that you ever forget and you never want anything like that to happen again, but definitely you've got to move on."
When I went to New York a few years ago and went to the ground zero sight it was unbelievable how solumn of a place that was. They had just finished the foundations of the building. It really was a humbling experience when you have the density of new york with sky scrapers everywhere and the a 16 sqaure block area of nothing
The worst image that sticks in my head from that terrible day, is the people that had to face jumping as an option. That haunts me from time to time. R.I.P to all that died that day.
I hear people of previous generations talk about knowing exactly where they were when JFK was shot. The event was burned into the minds of everyone across the United States and throughout the world.
I never really was able to comprehend one event being so shocking, so massive, so catastrophic that a people would forever know exactly where they were and what they were doing when it happened.
Then I sat down in an empty classroom as I got out of one class slightly early and walked into the next and waited for it to start. The prof eventually came in and mentioned how a plane hit one of the towers in New York, and how at first she thought it was a Cessna. Which in all honesty was my first thought when she finished the words 'New York'. She chatted briefly about what was going on, I had no idea as I was in class when the first plane hit. Then she dismissed class and I immediately when to the campus pub to watch the events unfold on the big screens.
Shock, panic, and fear were all throughout the university that day. I'll never forget the images of planes on direct collision a course for Hell, or the feeling of watching those towers fall from the sky causing instability felt to this day.
September 11th is no longer a date, it's a cloud on humanity. One that must not be forgotten, but learned from.
It was 7 years ago today, I understood previous generations' collective sense of shock when Kennedy was shot.
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