September 11, 2001 - 8 Years ago today

[lambeburger]

Those Hulk Hogan photoshops are just in plain poor taste.

[Bigtime]

I seem to recall 'The Onion' running quite a few comedic bits about 9/11 in the days after. A lot of people cope with humour, and trust me those Hulk pictures are just scratching the surface...

Edit: And The Onion doesn't fail today either: http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...urce=a-section

[FoxMulder91]

One of the worst parts for me was thinking about all the people that had to jump out the windows.
R.I.P to all 911 victims.

[metallicat]

Certainly the saddest event I've been around to see. I will never forget seeing the second plane hit the tower live on CNN. Bush's speech atop the rubble was quite the moment.

Rip.

[calgaryrocks]

agreed, enough hulk hogan.
anyways i was in grade 9 when it happened. was eating breakfast and turned on the breakfast show, they were talking about a wierd accident where a plane had hit one of the towers. i was thinking "wow, cool" lol. i kept watching, one of my friends came over and i showed him, he kind of passed it off, not understanding it either. we walked to school and while at school the second one had hit, so we all watched and talked about it most of the day, tvs in the library and in each room.
it was on cnn for like 3 days, my dad just kept saying how horrible it was. i thought it was crazy, kind of cool in a messed up way, and thinking about how we were all going to die because the americans would bomb whoever did it, creating a nuc. war and that would be it.

[Canada 02]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Don't clutter up this thread with garbage like that.

I don't see anything wrong with it This is a look back on 9/11, 8 years later. Part of that retrospective is the patriotism, and support for america in the aftermath, as well as the faux patriotism, propaganda, fake imagery and conspiracy theories.

If you want the whole picture, you can't have tunnel vision and ignore the "crap" that was happening around the tragedy

[flip]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

I don't see anything wrong with it This is a look back on 9/11, 8 years later. Part of that retrospective is the patriotism, and support for america in the aftermath, as well as the faux patriotism, propaganda, fake imagery and conspiracy theories.

If you want the whole picture, you can't have tunnel vision and ignore the "crap" that was happening around the tragedy

Agreed. Any discussion about 9/11 is going to include so much propaganda, that I don't see how some humor is uncalled for. Offensive and in poor taste maybe but worth posting IMO.

[Flashpoint]

My fiance was living in Manhattan and was walking to work. About 5 blocks north of the WTC, she suddenly realized that all these people on the sidewalk were just standing still, looking up, and not making a sound. She looked up just in time to see the second plane hit. At the time, she thought it was just an explosion from the fire.

She immediately turned around, took off her high heels, and walked the length of Manhattan barefoot (subways were down). When she reached the corner of the street where she was staying she saw her mother out in the middle of the street yelling and crying looking for her. She yelled "I'm ok Mommy!" and they ran to each other.

She doesn't like to talk about it.

[North East Goon]

I am just getting old, I was sitting at this same desk with the same view doing the same work when all this was going down. I remember getting the rest of the week off because the North American stock markets shut down. I had plenty of time to watch CNN, I remember it kind of taking over my life for a few day's.

[Flamesguy_SJ]

I remember I was also in grade 8, and our homeroom teacher (I was in French Immersion) came in and told us in English that a plane had struck the WTC, and we all kind of remarked what a terrible accident it was. Then a couple people went over to the classroom computers to go on CNN.com and I remember them yelling out "it got hit by another plane!" just before lunchtime. I got picked up at lunch to go home, and all the local radio stations were broadcasting either the NBC or CBS newscast, and it was seriously one of the most terrifying days of my life. I came home and watched the replay of the second plane over and over, and then saw both towers come tumbling down. I remember the address that Bush made later that night, and I even wrote down in my day planner "WTC attacked in NYC. Bush promises to hunt down those responsible."

I can't really describe how I felt after the attacks. I know I was scared for a long, long time and my head would always whip around when I heard the roar of an airplaine overhead.

I remember that season in the AHL, no matter what teams were playing, the American National Anthem was sung before every game. I also remember my sister and I organizing a benefit dinner in honour of our own firefighters and police officers and paramedics, and we donated the money raised to one of the 9/11 funds through either Red Cross or YMCA. That dinner also became an annual thing at our church, with the donation going to a charity picked by the police officers, then the next year the paramedics, then the next year the firefighters.

I went to Ground Zero right around Remembrance Day 2004. That was when a lot of the buildings surrounding the WTC that had been damaged were still standing, but they had these giant orange mesh curtains hanging over them. It was incredibly eerie to see how much of a ghost-town Ground Zero looked. I also have a photo of streaks in the sky left behind by jets criss-crossing behind one of the damaged buildings.

September 11th, 2001 most definitely changed my life, and it's a little sobering to remember what that day was like.

[4X4]

The night before the attacks, I was at my friend's house watching the inaugural MNF game at mile high stadium. I remember the overhead shot from the blimp with 75,000 fans packed into the place. Me and my buddy started talking about if there were to be a terrorist attack, it'd happen in a place like that. Then we started talking about what the next major news headline would be and I predicted that the pope was going to die.

The next morning, I went to work and forgot my faceplate for my radio. When I got there, everyone was stone faced and the radio was on. I asked what happened and my Iranian co-worker told me with a look on his face that I'll never forget. I could just tell that all he could think about was the safety of his family back home.

Another co-worker went home and got a TV and we basically got nothing done. Then I remember listening to the afternoon show on QR77 (Dave Taylor at the time) and some little bitch called in saying that the US deserved it.

9/11/01 is a day that is so etched in my memory (as it is for probably everyone).

RIP to the victims and the heros. Terrorists are cowards and the scum of the earth.

[worth]

Anyone remember the TV's they set up outside the library for like 3 months after the attacks at Mount Royal? I was in my first year. I remember that place being packed every day with people watching the news.

I remember my Linear Algebra instructor stopping half way though class and telling us all to go home and watch what's happening in the world, because it will never be the same.

[flip]

I don't want to start a conspiracy thread but for everyone who says this event was horrible (which I would imagine is most of us), don't forget that the US intelligence community essentially let 9/11 happen.

The FBI, CIA, NSA, and USCIS all knew that terrorists were in the US, had plans to crash planes and did nothing because of departmental prick waving (ie they wouldn't cooperate or share info).

I wrote a paper on the intel failures of 9/11 and it really made me hate the Bush administration more than I did before.

[Canada 02]

honest question. people say 9/11 changed their lives. How?

If I were a New Yorker, or had friends and family immediately linked to the tragedy, then I can see how, but other than long lines at the airport, my life is pretty much the same

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Flamesguy_SJ

I remember the address that Bush made later that night, and I even wrote down in my day planner "WTC attacked in NYC. Bush promises to hunt down those responsible."

This is still one of the biggest things that infuriates me about 9/11. Bush promising to hunt down those responsible and then basically doing the exact opposite, even going so far as to say 'I don't even really think about him anymore,' when asked about Osama a few years later. All he did was use it as a tool to push the neo-conservative agenda and instill fear and paranoia in his citizens.

[flip]

Originally Posted by rubecube

This is still one of the biggest things that infuriates me about 9/11. Bush promising to hunt down those responsible and then basically doing the exact opposite, even going so far as to say 'I don't even really think about him anymore,' when asked about Osama a few years later. All he did was use it as a tool to push the neo-conservative agenda and instill fear and paranoia in his citizens.

IT makes me sick that his administration took advantage of the deaths of innocent citizens to further their own interests.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

honest question. people say 9/11 changed their lives. How?

If I were a New Yorker, or had friends and family immediately linked to the tragedy, then I can see how, but other than long lines at the airport, my life is pretty much the same

I would agree with you on this. 9/11 didn't change anything in my life.

One could argue that an event like Pearl Harbour did change most peoples lives, as it plunged the USA right into WWII. Most of us here would probably have been signing up to go fight while our wives and daughters marched off to the factories to fill the industrial void. That is change.

[North East Goon]

I for one will be really interested in George W's Autobiography when it comes out, I just cant fathom how or why his administration chose the path they did? Maybe these memoirs will shed some light - I don't know?

I know this will get mixed comments...

I worked at American Eagle Outfitters and after the attacks the store hung 2 huge American flags in the window. (there were 2 AE employees that died in the attacks and we were an American company and the attacks happened in the US) And I remember an old man coming in and demanding we take them down because "there were Canadians that died too, don't cha know!"

I just stood there with my mouth open.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

honest question. people say 9/11 changed their lives. How?

If I were a New Yorker, or had friends and family immediately linked to the tragedy, then I can see how, but other than long lines at the airport, my life is pretty much the same

Cousins in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Numerous friends I went to school with in the States ended up enlisting. Some of them are now over there as well.

I didn't remember the first Gulf War, nor do I really remember Bosina, or Somalia. The invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq was the 'war' of my lifetime. After just reading about 'war' in history books, I was seeing one on the TV, and that changed everything.