9/11

I remember 9/11 I am not sure if I should be ashamed to say this or not, but my first thought was "I have to get to my son and my wife" my second thought was to my Sister and nieces and nephews. It wasn't about our country, I wasn't thinking I had to report to duty, I really didn't care about anyone or anything else at that point.

I was thinking "Where is my family" Phones didn't work, I couldn't contact anyone. I sat in my car for the longest of time thinking what should I do.

I was a scout sniper with the 1st battalion of the 115th infantry regiment, White Oak Maryland. I knew what I was supposed to do. I would say it was the hardest choices I've ever had to make.

I reported for duty not having a clue, like the rest of the country, what was going on.

 

I was in the hospital. I had been shot and other things 4 months before.

I was in the worst part of PTSD and I remember all the nurses and doctors trying to hide it from me.

I remember thinking my life has gone insane and it seemed the rest of the world has gone insane as well.

It was the first time I got out of my own head. I cried for my fellow officers that died and then I found out that friends I had been on courses with has acutally died. It was a sad, sad day.

Canada is having a lot of 9/11 services and as I live in the nations capital I will have the best. I will be there in my NYPD hat and my NYFD t shirt given to me by friends that are no longer here. I WILL be there to honour their memory

RIP Station 9 Ladder 13 and Port Authority #4 Your kindess to a little Canadian rookie will never be forgotten

 

I found out about it from rumors since the high school deemed it necessary to hide the media from us. I was amazed to see it happened. Up to that point I had only heard about pearl harbor being a major attack on U.S homeland. I also commented about how much money was lost but I really didn't care too much. We had been through hurricane Andrew a few years back and that sort of knocked the sensitivity out of me.

 

I was working at a broadcasting company at the time. I remember that I was listening to CDs that morning in the car, so I didn't hear abut the attacks until I got into work. Some guy came in and said, did you hear? A plane hit the World Trade Center. I thought it was a joke.

Then we turned the TV on in the conference room and we watched the coverage. I remember being shaken up as I watched the towers fall.

I remember being pretty much a zombie that week. Going home and watching the news coverage, until finally on Thursday, I couldn't take anymore.

That Friday, we went and saw a movie, Jeepers Creepers, because we couldn't take hearing anymore about it. I remember driving up to the large 30 screen multiplex and seeing about 5 cars in the parking lot.

That whole week is so surreal.

 

Slept through it and didn't wake up until 2:00 p.m. that day. Called a friend and told him I was coming over, to which he explained that I should turn the TV on.

I wasn't surprised to see that we had been attacked and didn't feel much one way or the other about it. Later I felt it best to kill the people responsible but not through the expensive and overwrought campaigns that we've waged in Afghanistan and Iraq. We had the worst of all possible presidents during that time.

Such is life.

 

I was at work and, overheard a lead-mechanic from my shop saying a plane crashed into the world trade center. At first we all thought it was some sort of accident but, then slowly began to figure out what had happened the more we listened to the radio. It was basically unfolding as we were listening.

After some time the whole shop had shut down and, we were all just standing around in silence, listening to what had happened. A couple of guys in the shop were saying " it's got to be Bin Laden" I was a little embarrassed because - I don't follow the news a lot - and I had no idea who Bin Laden was until, someone explained to me, that he was the one who was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S Cole.

I didn't know anyone personally who passed away during the attacks. My grand mother passed away almost a month later and, I still think about all the stuff she had seen in her lifetime, including this.

 

I was in class teaching fourth grade at the time,,my students were in art class. My dear friedn I taught with who has since passed, cam in and asked if I had seen the television, my first thought was this idiot teacher who let kids push the TV cart down the hall had allowed a kid to crack his head open with the television set. She told me. I called the ex husband who is Air Force, he said the base was on lock down, and he did not now when he would be home, called my son's school and told them not to let anyone but me get him, went to my daughter class(she was a student where I taught and explained it to her, then watch it on TV. The ex did not get home for 2 days. One of the worst days of mye life and the beginning of the end of my marriage.

 

I was about 3 months pregnant with my oldest son & was supposed to go for a docters appointment. I was at work when the docters office called at about 8:30 to rescedule my appointment. I remember that day so vividly. Someone turned on the tv & we watched the live coverage as everything unfolded. It didn't seem real & I recall wondering out loud if Bin Laden is behind all of this. Most of my thoughts were for my unborn child & I remember thinking, what kind of world is this that I'm about to bring my child into. I was shocked, scared & wondering if the entire US was under attack. I cried & prayed, the deep sadness & sorrow I felt for the lost lives was almost unbearable. I remember People magazine doing a really long pictoral article about women who were pregnant when this happened & lost husbands in the tragedy. It was heart-breaking, I still feel sadness for everyone whose life was touched directly & indirectly

 

A large part of our financial decline as a country was accelerated since 9/11 though our decline has been decades in the making since the end of World War Two when we started to rebuild the economies of Germany and Japan to compete against us and we provided for their security which they do not pay for and got rich at our expense. 9/11 caused us to sink trillions of dollars in two wars (never declared from the Congress) and neglected our own country's needs. Osama Bin Laden won. He caused us to bankrupt ourselves. He won. Now the Chinese are saying the same. We are no longer a superpower. The world no longer respect us or fear us.

 

I gotta agree with you.

 

I would caution you to never repeat any of what you wrote in this post as it practically 100 percent inaccurate.

The idea that the Marshall Plan and aid that we provided to Japan explains our current economic problems is beyond ignorant. If I had the time or inclination, I'd explain how the regulatory environment on Wall Street and in our banking system is the real culprit.

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I got up early today to go to yoga with my friend Heidi. She is my friend who survived from the WTC and that has had bad PTSD and ended up moving here. I thank God he spared her. She is a huge support and friend to me. I'm so grateful for her life.

I have watched all the videos and read all the remebrences. To me it is too emotional to go all the way back and feel that day. It is like reliving too much. It feels to me like when I relive seeing my dad's car accident and death.

I pray a thankful prayer for all who were spared like my friend, a prayer for those families whose loved ones didn't make it that and for all who suffer from this terrible event. I am glad we have healed somewhat and moved forward but no one will ever forget this horrible act against us on our own soil.

 

Sophomore year in high school, and we were taking our first test. The teacher was on his PC, and was regurgitating the news. I didn't think much of it, since I was pretty apathetic towards politics at that time. It wasn't until at the end of the day when the piece of shit of a principal delivered the end of the day statement and she was talking about the events that unfolded.

Since then, paranoia pretty much struck with my parents (more so my mother) when they purchased some VHS tape of John Hagee's End of Times. I was baffled at how people's self-assurance dwindled. At first, school shootings made us jump at the thought of saying "kill" and "someone" in the same sentence.

Has this made me more scared? Not at all. And call me an asshole if you will, but events like 9/11 are very much sensationalized. That just make me just say, "Live and let live..." and within 100 years, 9/11 will be just a memory of the past.

 

VHS? haha Got some Billy Graham on 8 tracks and shit.

Events like this are a goldmine for fearmongers, which is what most televangelists are.

 

I was on a plane going from Bequia- Barbados to fortunatly the first stop in the UK and then from there to Sweden. When landning at my first stop in Sweden I reacted to the crazy securety and then saw the towers with smoke on the tv screens and didn't really get what had happened. Then took another flight to my hometown and then finally at home I got to see it all.

I think I cried for days.....so strange...to big to grasp it. Felt so sorry for all the people who lost somebody. And the bravery is unbelievable.

Like I said, it's so hard to grasp what the US go through. In little old Sweden nothing never ever happens....no storms, hurricanes, tornados, or attacks off any kind.

Much :smt049 to all.

 

Hahaha, absolutely! Fear is a strong mechanism to keep people under control. That line of sight is exactly what far-right extremists would need to do to assure their "flock" don't go astray.

Fear is a means of rule for the lost.

 

The Verizon and Busch beer commercials during the start of the Bears game today had me in shambles. Cripes.

 

I worked for a bank in the trust department on 9/11. We had MSNBC on as usual. Watched the events all day. Our whole department was clustered around the TV when the second plane hit. The shock was palpable. I found out later that had my sister's sister-in-law been in her office at the Pentagon (she was relocated for renovations), that she likely wouldn't have survived that attack.

My prayers go out to those who were there, who responded, who lost someone dear on that day.

 

i remember the day as if it was yesterday...i shopped that morning early for the spa i worked at...when i arrived at work...i found out that one plane had flown into the world trade center...i called the owner right away to find out how we should handle the situation...we started canceling appointments on the books and sending home employees...we were in downtown denver and it was clear that all flights were being grounded...i picked my son up from school...planted tulips that afternoon and then watched the coverage all night into the next day...it seemed as if the city had come to a halt...no one was going anywhere...everyone was just glued to the tv...we lost a local united airlines pilot in the pa crash...