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9 years on.
YaYa
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Nine years ago, the world changed. We all remember it in our own ways, where we were, how we discussed it. Some of us may have lost people, either that day or in the events since. As much as we wish it never happened and talk about how it could have been stopped, the fact is, it did. We should remember.
Where were you when you heard about the destruction of the World Trade Centre?
I was 10 years old. I was in the study, 6 am or so, on this very website. I wanted to see if Penny Arcade had updated before going to school. Mike and Jerry had pulled the site down, offering instead only their condolences and a link to CNN's website. As soon as I realized what had happened, I ran up to my parent's bedroom. They were already standing there, watching the news on their TV. When I arrived at school, nobody was speaking. Even in an Australian primary school, the kids having been told by their parents about a place they've never been to, maybe never even heard of, they still knew that this was unprecedented. We sat in a circle with our teacher, frazzled, trying to talk to us about what happened. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember that it was my friend Jennifer's birthday that day. None of us said anything to her. She never mentioned it.
Where were you?
Where were you when you heard about the destruction of the World Trade Centre?
I was 10 years old. I was in the study, 6 am or so, on this very website. I wanted to see if Penny Arcade had updated before going to school. Mike and Jerry had pulled the site down, offering instead only their condolences and a link to CNN's website. As soon as I realized what had happened, I ran up to my parent's bedroom. They were already standing there, watching the news on their TV. When I arrived at school, nobody was speaking. Even in an Australian primary school, the kids having been told by their parents about a place they've never been to, maybe never even heard of, they still knew that this was unprecedented. We sat in a circle with our teacher, frazzled, trying to talk to us about what happened. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember that it was my friend Jennifer's birthday that day. None of us said anything to her. She never mentioned it.
Where were you?
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I thought it was a film for the first five minutes.
Its my generations JFK.
When it was over, life returned to normal, except newspapers used the story as the frontcover for a while.
My personal worry was that the Americans might go to war over this, and who knows what might happen then
my welsh p.e. teacher was sat staring at the screen in the common room, facial tics dancing over his face
i saw the second tower get hit live, everyone who had came in was silent with the occasional 'oh my GOD'
i was old enough to drink in bars
Somewhat appropriate, I guess
Watched the second plane hit live and was just
Me and a couple of friends got totally wrecked that night.
There weren't a whole lot of words that morning, even after I went to school, none of the teachers really followed their lesson plans. Instead we all just watched the event unfold.
Junior year I think
we also saw the second tower get hit live
everyone in the room shouted what the FUCK, all at once
we were told that we didn't have to come to school for a few days if we didn't feel like it, but most everyone still did
my photography teacher told us to give our parents a little breathing room over the next few days, as they'd probably be having minor aneurysms
I remember not being terribly pleased
When I got to school someone told me what really happened and I noticed my best friend wasn't there. He was born and raised in New York, only coming to Australia when he was about 7. After school I rushed home to call him but it took me until the next day to reach him. You never want to see your best friend cry non-stop, even when holding onto him. That really just should never happen.
I'm glad he wasn't in class that day. When the teacher put the news on we just saw the second tower get hit. Everybody was a little quieter that day.
To be honest, it wasn't until a few years later that I came to realize how weird it was that so much weight was placed on the event and not similar or greater losses of life in other countries.
The only other time I can remember people glued to the tv like that was during the Thredbo Landslide because my brothers and uncle were living in Thredbo and working on the mountain and a bunch of people we knew died.
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I dont even remember it! apparently I didnt figure out what happened until a year later when the teacher told us about it.
saw both towers fall
the first one going down was so surreal, people had to sit down to keep from falling
the second one going was just distant and insane, I had to really make sure this was actually happening
several times
"are you SURE this isn't a movie?"
and the teacher just looked at me through red-rimmed watery eyes and just bit her lip
and she just looked at me
like every minute was another year
"I... think there's people jumping out"
"What? Why would there be people up there after all this? What are they jumping into?"
"not into things... just... out... out of windows"
"into air bags?"
"...no"
"what? I don't understand. I don't under--- oh.......oh no...."
The next few days though, I remember how quite everyone was. Including me. Really changed a lot about how I thought about everything.
I was in england when that happened, visiting my dad
it wasn't as hard-hitting to people, but when the news was breaking people wouldn't change the channel for the world
I was 17 and was going to turn 18 just in time for the war. I worried about that too.
Good guys just wanting to go to school and provide for their families. Another friend survived a roadside bomb attack. Shrapnel hit him in the neck. When he was in surgery they found a tumor in his neck. His been dealing with that for years now.
I went to the recruiting station. Specifically to talk to the Army guy. He wasn't there but the marine recruiters were. They pulled me in and asked where I was from. They then insulted the city and made fun of my hair. I was asked if I was retarded and if I could run without passing out.
I did this test and apparently scored high enough to be told that I must not be retarded. Went outside and busted out a few pullups on this platform thing they had set up. Then ran a mile around this track from an old high school they were next to.
I was told to come back every week, while working on my GED to train and such, but I never did.
im going to continue abusing the fact of my youth to make myself feel better compared to older people as much as i can
So I was 12.
As soon as we heard about the news classes were stopped and we got to watch TV for the rest of the day.
Being youngsters in middle school, most of us had no idea what was going on as the news men and women tried to contain their own grief and explain to everybody what had happened.
The only thing I really remember from that day is me saying, "Well, looks like we're going to war"
god damn
I dont think anyone did any more learnin that day, it was all watchin the news.
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Guess I was just a shithead then.
Raid the crib, son.
Then I said something like
"Oh man, that must be a horrible accident. Imagine if the second tower was hit, then I'd be sure it was an attack.."
And then half a minute later, the second tower was hit.
I got misty eyed when hearing that enya song even much later, and when thinking about the tragedy and the loss of life on that day
Videos like this were all over TV here for some reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCuuEJK5crM
shit I must've got something in my eyes..
There were a lot of perfectly fine reactions (like bombing the Taliban for supporting the people who did it, and going after them), but the government using it as an excuse to nudge us a bit toward dictatorship pisses me off.
That stuff is going to be with us for decades.
I was playing CS:Source at the time and someone on the terrorist team suddenly blurted out something akin to " jumbo jet into the world trade centre ".
I took it as a joke, so I blurted out " blimp into disneyland ". The chat went silent for a few moments and thankfully people didn't tear me a new one and they just said " dude, turn on the news ".
I swivelled round and did so. I felt so ashamed.
a white, dense cloud of dust and debris slowly covers the entire city, sirens wail, you can hear muted chaos from outside the window
probably the most powerful vid i've ever seen