9/11/01

[Yukazi]

Well, it has been 1 year and a day since the Terrorist attacks on America. The majority of the population took a long moment of silence once 9 AM came.

I was just wondering, Where exactly were all of you, one year ago, when you first heard about the attack?
Also, Were you expecting another attack to happen yesterday?

I, myself, was just awaking, to find the WTC smoking on TV...

I also thought that there indeed was a chance of another attack, but it wasnt likely, due to America being on such high alert.

(I am sorry if the 9/11 threads are still no longer allowed...)

[Sui Generis]

Oh gosh, lets see. 1 year and 1 day ago I was, well here. I remember it vividly, my mom was flipping channels and I was watching her then all the sudden we saw one of the twin towers smoking. Then like I was in a dream we sat there and watched helplessly as the second plane hit the tower. It was the worst feeling in the world, to know you knew someone there, and you couldn't do anything about it.

[SS Vegeta]

You guys weren't at school? o.O I was in second period, but at the time I had no idea it was terrorist. I thought some random plane crashed into some random building. I had no clue about any of it, until 8th period. My teacher Mr.Beedle explained it all to us. :box:

[Mist]

[color=crimson][size=1] Oh, gawd, I can remember my day perfectly. After a woman in the office at the front of my school shouted, "We're all gonna die!", t.v's were rushed into each classroom. I remember that I was in Biology, and didn't really care at first, because I thought it wasn't a very important thing. I got interested, though, because I had finished my work. I watched as the second plane hit the North tower, and saw the explosion and the reactions of so many people, and, later, when watching the rescue effort, and knowing the death toll, I began to bawl. Literally.[/color][/size]

[Amphion]

I still dont understand how someone can kill 3,000 innocent people and claim they did it in the name of religion. But what can I do? Not much, at least for right now. The 11th sucked for me. The thoughts and memories replayed through my head all day. It was horrible. Then I got real angry when I heard about the Muslims clerics meeting in London to CELEBRATE the attacks. I was overtaken with anger all day. I dont want to hate anyone, even the terrorist, but I found it hard not to. I finally cooled off towards the end of the day. I just pray to God something like this never happens again....to anyone....

[Sui Generis]

Oh god. It was 5 minutes before I went to school when I saw the plane hit. We watched the coverage of attacks all through the day. It was horrible. I was rocking back and forth and shaking. It was a mess at my school, everyone was crying. You could walk around and look in people's eyes and it would just be blank. No life in their eyes, if anything it was fear. Everyone's eyes were so cold. Thats the one thing I remembered more than anything else that day. It scared me so much. I can't describe how scared I was that day...

Yet with this fear, I was over come with anger. If a 14 year old could be drafted into the army, military, air force etc, I would've been volunteering immediatly. It still blows my mind how someone could do that but I guess thats besides this topic.

[Mist]

[color=crimson][size=1]Scared! Scared?! Scraed doesn't even begin to describe...horrified, lonely, angry...terrified. I remember my friend from another home room bursting through the door and just falling into my lap after the bell rang and just kept screaming.

"Evelyn, Evelyn, my uncle's there! My uncle's there!"

The sad thing was, he [i]was[/i] there, and he didn't survive.[/color][/size]

[Sui Generis]

I know what you mean! It was chaos. Screaming, crying, yelling, cussing. Questions...so many questions. Friends would just break down on the ground and just cry. I don't know many called me heartless that day, I just wanted to be strong of my friends. When I got home I fell to my knees in my room and just cried....cried and cied.

[Guest SunRiZe]

I had just got out of bed, and was getting ready to go to school, as i am the first up in my household, I remember turning on the radio and hearing of the terrorist attacks. The radio announcer was saying that something awfull had happened in america, I woke my mother up and told her that somebody had just attacked america. Fortunately our loved ones were safe.

It's just one of those weird days where you will remember forever where you were when the news hit. it was Spetember 12 when we woke up to it here in New Zealand.


This week i have been aggravated easily, at this support group i go to, this guy said "america deserved it" and i blew up at him. no one deserves an attack like this, never ever >.<

I echo Amphion's thought, i hope this never happens again.

[Mist]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by DuoGod of Death [/i]
[B]. When I got home I fell to my knees in my room and just cried....cried and cied. [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=crimson] [size=1]I bawled. I couldn't sleep for the next two days. I just couldn't hold it in; it was too much. So, yeah, I know [b]exactley[/b] what you mean.[/color][/size]

[Amphion]

[quote]If a 14 year old could be drafted into the army, military, air force etc, I would've been volunteering immediatly.[/quote]


I would have been standing right next to you.



I was horrified. It was like watching a movie. It was hard to beleive. Everything in the country stopped. We were glued to the tv the whole day. At my brothers college, there where several Muslims in his class, when the attack was reported, they all started cheering. Im sorry, it may have not be right, but at the moment, I would have went balistic on them. Its one thing to have to witness somethign like that, but then have people celebrating the fact is just sick.

One thing I am proud of, they sure are learning a lesson. They have awoken a sleeping giant, and he is pissed off.

[Hideki]

I was late to first period! And I walked in and saw some building smoking! So I was like "WOO! What movie is this?!" And my friend said "It's not moving. Terrorists crashed a plain into the World Trade Center and the first tower just well!" then I said "Wha'?!" and started watching. Then I was like "awww hell! This sucks!" so we watched it all day and watched more in the morning the next day.

[Anna]

I was sitting in second period, American Lit, and the librarian came in through the door with a freaked-out look on her face and told Murphy (our teacher) to turn on the tv. So she goes over and turns the channel to like, CNN or something, and we see all the recaps of the first building being hit. Like SS Vegeta, at first I thought it was some major accident, like a pilot lost control or something. It was really surreal, like it couldn't [i]really[/i] be happening. I remember Murphy was crying, and I felt sorry for her. I felt sad, but I think I was in a semi-shock/numb state of mind. I didn't cry, in fact I don't think I ever have. Then we had to go to third period, and of course by this time all TVs in the classrooms were turned on. We saw the second plane crash into the other tower, and saw both towers collapse on live tv as it happened. That was pretty heavy. I was just kind of in a daze, like I knew I ought to be feeling immense sorrow, but I wasn't. My mind knew it was extremely tragic and that a lot of people lost their brothers, mothers, fathers, sisters, spouses and relative and friends, and my heart hurt for them, but I suppose it didn't hit home for me because no one I knew personally was killed. I did have an aunt that was escourted from the Pentagon minutes before the plane hit there. She was in DC on business. I forget how long it was until she could leave, but I know I would have been a lot sadder had she been killed. But anyway, I also remember feeling really crappy not only because of what happened, but also because it was my birthday, and I felt like I wasn't allowed to be happy for any reason. Well, this year I had a darn good birthday and had no qulams about being happy. IMO, what happened was extremely awful, but these heros and victims need to REST IN PEACE. The media has exploited this incident beyond repair, so much to the point that I'm tired of 911 this, 911 that. Honor the memory and be patriotic, but other than that leave it alone.

[RicoTranzrig]

[COLOR=darkblue]I woke up at around 5 (Pacific time) and started getting ready for school, which basically means shower, breakfast, videogames, and otaku for the next 1.5 hours. My mom turned the TV on and I logged on to the Otakuboards so we both found out what happened. Once I got to school, I spent most of the day watching the news trying to get all the info while the towers finally imploded 2 classes into the day. After that...they just kept rerunning everything...which got me depressed so I spent some time with my girlfriend to feel better, hope she did too. What surprised me that day is how they found someone to blame, quickly...

I didn't expect another attack to happen...from the terrorists POV, they wouldn't risk exposure to their entire network.[/COLOR]

[James]

[color=royalblue]I forget the exact time it was here when the attack occurred...but I remember watching the news late at night, after the first plane had hit. And while I was watching, I saw the second plane hit while the reporters were talking about it.

It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

I ended up watching 'till about 3am or something...and when that first tower came down, I had tears in my eyes.

I've never considered myself naive or anything, but even on that day, I felt surprised and shocked at how cruel human beings can be in the name of religion.[/color]

[Juu]

[color=deeppink] [size=1]I remember alright... - -

During school, the teachers began whispering, and the teacher's lounge wasn't as loud, and chatty as usual....

The principal was... well... she wasn't eating her usual choco donuts... and the vice principal wasn't screaming at the boys skateboarding outside, since there were no boys.

I thought it was just your ordinary day... and so did the otherk ids at my school. Alhough there was some gossiping about a teacher robbing the bank... :rolleyes:

Then when it was time to go to day-care.. (If you laugh, I'll have to kill you) I asked the bus-driver to turn up the radio, as me and my friends usually do....

He turned it up [u] [b]REAL[/u] [/b] High... and we all nearly passed out, to hear George W Bush's voice, roaring from all the sides of the bus...

My friend nearly passed out..

Due to the fact that, the seilnce was broken by Bush's voice roaring from the speakers on the bus....

And it was such a quiet day before that..

:faint:[/color] [/size]

[Rain]

I remeber that day so clearly...even though I was practically on the other side of the world

It was about 10pm when my cousin rang us up and said that a plane had crashed into the WTC. We just thought it was an accident but when we turned on the TV and saw the second plane crash into the other tower, we realised that it wasn't an accident. I think I watched it for the rest of the night.

It's amazing how I remember something a year ago so clearly, but I can hardly remember what happened last week.

[Twinzam v]

I was at school when it happened a year ago I came home and heard about it

And in 9/11/02 we had to do a minute silence in school

[Rain]

We didn't do anything about Sept 11 at school. I mean there was stuff all over the TV and newspapers (they showed 38 shows related to Sept 11 that week) but at school no one even mentioned it. If, somehow, the fact that it was Sept 11 had managed to slip your mind, you wouldn't have remembered. Even though we don't live in America you'd think we'd still have a minute silence or something.

[Guest cloricus]

Well I was listening to the radio late and the guy said "Any one near a tv flick on to ANY channel..."
Turned on and saw the first tower with smoke, I then watched as the second plane hit and then the people jumping - that was just not good, you could see the people, they?d come up and lean out the window and then wait, think about it, and then jump and the TV cameras had trouble following the people as they fell until they hit the ground, most of them screamed the whole way down. (You couldn't hear them but you could see that's what they where doing by the faces.) Then I saw the first tower to be hit come down and then the second one comes down.
When I turned on the TV it looked so much like a movie I didn't believe what I saw for a few minutes.
(My interest in the builds was there existence; I really don?t care too much about the people in them ? it?s sad yes and if I had known people in there I would not make a comment like that.)

Now Americans talks of these countries as being the only ones that do things like this, but there not. So don?t put these countries down.
I hope a mass killing of civilians (Or even army (They are people to.)) never happens again, weather it?s terrorists or the American army ordering to open fire on civilians ? As they have done in many cases in the past.
(You Americans sicken me in this regard, this is why I have no sympathy to you.)

Oh and I was right, osam guy had nothing to do with ordering the attacks.
It appears that the group of people that did the attack where normal people living in Germany and they went to Afghanistan to learn about there culture, they visited a alqida(sp?) controlled refugee camp where they seemed to change there minds on some issues.. and when they came back they started plotting. Of cause no on at the time had any idea.
(Source BBC News.)

So don?t take every thing that your or any one else government says as fact, take it with a pinch of salt.

-Eps

[Kei]

[color=blue]I remember that day. I had to stay at home because I had the flu. I woke up to go downstairs to get my antibiotics, and saw the Tower smoking. I was frozen with shock. Then the second plane hit. I was just staring at the screen hoping that it was a dream, because my cousin worked in the WTC. She was one of my favorite family members and a really close friend to me. It took me a while to cope when I found out that she had died. I'll never forget that day, and neither will millions of others. It was one of our nation's most tragic moments.

Edit: Excuse me, cloricus, but you don't have any idea what the hell you're talking about. On the occasions on where you say that Americans have mass-killed civilians, these were accidents and were not deliberate attempts to end lives. As for the Osama bin Laden thing, he [i]was[/i] directly involved in the attacks on the WTC (source: Good Mroning, America), if you actually watch and listen to the news stories, and not just hear what you want. If I were you, I'd try to get all my facts straight before mouthing off about things you obviously know nothing of. I'm sorry to act this way, but idiotic statements such as yours tick me off to no end.[/color]

[James]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by cloricus [/i]
[B]

Now Americans talks of these countries as being the only ones that do things like this, but there not. So don?t put these countries down.
I hope a mass killing of civilians (Or even army (They are people to.)) never happens again, weather it?s terrorists or the American army ordering to open fire on civilians ? As they have done in many cases in the past.
(You Americans sicken me in this regard, this is why I have no sympathy to you.)[/quote][/b]

[color=royalblue]Americans have been ordered to mass kill civilians? Do you even understand what you're saying?

And now you're saying that "You Americans" sicken you and that's why you have no sympathy...even if it WERE true, you're blaming the entire population and saying you have no sympathy for those INNOCENT people who died.

Cloricus, you have a major chip on your shoulder here. And there's no reason for it.[/color][quote][b]

Oh and I was right, osam guy had nothing to do with ordering the attacks.
It appears that the group of people that did the attack where normal people living in Germany and they went to Afghanistan to learn about there culture, they visited a alqida(sp?) controlled refugee camp where they seemed to change there minds on some issues.. and when they came back they started plotting. Of cause no on at the time had any idea.
(Source BBC News.)



-Eps [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=royalblue]Um...did you not hear that there is actually evidence that Osama was directly responsible for overseeing the attacks?

Of course the attacks themselves were planned specifically by his underlings (yet still senior members of Al-Qaeda), but there is NO question at all that he knew about them.

And furthermore, did you not see the video tape of Osama bin Laden actually commenting on [i]why[/i] they hit the towers where they did...and how many of the hijackers didn't know it was a suicide mission until it was too late?

I'm sorry, but you need to learn how to analyze news properly.

Yes it is true that new evidence shows that the WTC was not the first choice. But what does that prove? It bears utterly no relation to Osama bin Laden's involvement whatsoever.

Osama bin Laden is certainly an extremist...but Cloricus, I think the views and misinterpretations you've expressed in this post are pretty extremist as well.

I'm not saying America is perfect...but hell, I'm not going to sit here and make up ridiculous facts and misinterpretations of news reports.

I'm not even American, and even [i]I'm[/i] offended by some of those comments.[/color]

[Mitch]

[color=red]I was at school of course, where else would I be? But at first I wouldn't accept what was happening, and then I realized it was happening....but, you know what? I think they are kind of going overboards on this. I know the people that died deserved to be remembered, the firemen need to be seen as heroes. But, what are we going to do, look back in 50 years and still be talking about Sept. 11? I think we need to go on and become more united and more strong than the american spirit has ever been, and not dwell on the past. [/color]

[Mist]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by cloricus [/i]
[B]
(My interest in the builds was there existence; I really don?t care too much about the people in them ? it?s sad yes and if I had known people in there I would not make a comment like that.)[/b][/quote]

[color=crimson][size=1]You must be a very cold-hearted person then...[/color][/size]

[quote]Now Americans talks of these countries as being the only ones that do things like this, but there not. So don?t put these countries down.[/quote]

[color=crimson][size=1] [b][i]What[/i][/b] countries? We're putting the network of Alqueda, the Taliban, and all other terriorist groups down; not nations, bud.[/color][/size]


[quote](You Americans sicken me in this regard, this is why I have no sympathy to you.)[/quote]

[color=crimson][size=1] We didn't ask for symapthy, slick.[/color][/size]

[quote]Oh and I was right, Osama guy had nothing to do with ordering the attacks. It appears that the group of people that did the attack where normal people living in Germany and they went to Afghanistan to learn about there culture, they visited a alqida(sp?) controlled refugee camp where they seemed to change there minds on some issues.. and when they came back they started plotting. Of cause no on at the time had any idea.
(Source BBC News.)[/quote]

[color=crimson][size=1] Can you provide valid [u]link [/u] of proof of that, please?[/color][/size]


[quote]So don?t take every thing that your or any one else government says as fact, take it with a pinch of salt.[/quote]

[color=crimson][size=1]My, my hypocritical, aren't we? You just listed what the BBC said as fact, and then you tell us not to listen to what others say. Pathetic...

In close, why someone would come into a thread whenever he/she [b]knows[/b] that people are mourning/ discussing the event, and publicy dismisses the WWT attack as nothing, and, in turn, makes a complete and utter fool out of themselves, is beyond me.[/color][/size]

[Sara]

I walked into homeroom, and the television was on. 9:06 AM, Central time. I didn't understand why at first, it took about three seconds before I got close enough to the TV to read the scrolling text there.

We watched television in almost every class, except I think Journalism class. I remember thinking how strange that was... I saw the towers fall live on TV, and just being in sort of a daze. Like I should be torn and feeling some huge sadness, but I wasn't.

Play practice was canceled that day. I remember wishing very much that it hadn't been. Not that I wanted to have practice, but to be able to be with those people for a while.

I got on the internet in the computer room after school, to try and find out exactly what was known at that point in time. I also came over to OB--I was scared, I knew a lot of people from here who lived over on the east coast. I remember Master O Beans OMFG topic, and reading page after page of angry and scared reactions. I talked with Desert Shadow that night, and I remember reading his OJ post and saving it to my computer because it helped me so much.

I remember talking with Ginny on the 12th and just crying my heart out that night.