When 9/11 happened

[Discord]

Its funny when you don't live though an event.. such as the holocaust or world wars. or the 60's . you feel it was SUCH a changing point.. that EVERYTHING changed with that point in history! but when you live though something that is ovioulsy history changing... it seems less imoportant.. it didn't affect your life drmaticly *so at the time you think* and after its been a long time you realize it DID change you.

Where were you - what were you doing? and how did you find out?

I was at school: I was late at my mom drove me... The teacher told us.. and let us watch the news all day long. I remember spending my lunch hour watching news.


What was the most disterbing image you saw:

The people deciding to burn or jump out the window: that stuck with me. there was a huge picture.. of people hanging out windows calling "catch me" With smoke behind them)
In high school art class I tore up news paper after news paper to make a HUGE picture of all 9/11 images.. (oviously it got banned) but that one was the most disheartning that I always remember.

Now thats its been so long: how do you think Children in the genorations to come will view it?

its so werid to be reminded...

[tiedye]

I woke up.. TV was on. I said "sweet, Die Hard 2... oh wait, that's real!"

and then went about my day. Nothing bothered me about it.

[Kraig]

I was at work which at the time was in the Bentall 4 tower downtown. After the second tower crashed, we were sent home as a safety procaution as the Bentall Centre is close to Vancouver World Trade Centre and my company didn't want to be responsible should these attacks be on a worldwide scale.

[project.one]

While it was a pretty amazing thing to say "Yeah I watched that happen on tv." And to say we were around during it when we are older. Yeah that is something interesting.

However, I dont think it compairs ANYthing like to the holocost or the war for thoes who were actually there.

For 9/11, it would only be the same if you were at ground zero during the event!

[Edoe]

i showed up at school and it was on all the tv's, the news and shit. i didn't really know what to think...so i went and bought myself some bread sticks. then ate them.

[project.one]

I was heading to school when it was on TV. My mom got me out of bed to show me. I saw the second plane hit. That was something Ill remember!

I went to school. It was on all the TV's. Girls were crying and stuff even though they had no idea what was going on, as usual.

Someone came on the PA and told everyone to go home and come back the day after tomarrow.

[miss.myra]

I was in college and I skipped school to go to Bon's off broadway to eat greasy breakfast and enjoy $2 beers (as it was a tuesday) on their "patio" with a bunch of people. I guess that only seems cool to people who know or have been to Bon's. I think that for me and my friends there was just nowhere else to go when we had no idea what was going to happen next in the world.

I remember talking to older people about how the tension in the air in Vancouver was so similar to when the cuban missile crisis happened in the 60's who were walking by.

[.muffy.]

I was doing the opening shift at my coffee shop job at the time. We were a local firemans hang out (man I loved that job) and a bunch of the guys came in looking like they'd seen a ghost.

I remember going home that day after my shift (like 12pm) and watching the whole thing on tv over and over again.

I've got alot of family in NYC so naturally I was scared shitless. Thankfully everyone was safe.

[Discord]

Originally Posted by projectone

While it was a pretty amazing thing to say "Yeah I watched that happen on tv." And to say we were around during it when we are older. Yeah that is something interesting.

However, I dont think it compairs ANYthing like to the holocost or the war for thoes who were actually there.

For 9/11, it would only be the same if you were at ground zero during the event!

I didn't mean in the size or number of people killed or anything like that with comparing it.. I mean it as the "monumental moment of our genoration"

[b0ld]

dad woke me up and was like "The state's is getting attacked.... they just hit one of the wtc buildings with a missle or something"...... Glued to cnn when the second plane hit...... and then the towers fell..... driving to work listening to the radio and all where local radio stations had there dials tuned onto NYC radio stations to report what was happening.... Finally got to work.... different mood.... A large meeting was held where there was so many people confined in one location the service delivery manager and site director stood up on a desk and explained what the day would be like..... Communications systems in the states were all tied up and all..... Pretty much stayed there for like 4 hours and was told to go home......

On a personal note I can't believe those buildings came down.... went there there in 95-96 and went all the way up to the top observation deck.....what an amazing view.... the buildings were so huge that it seemed like nothing would be able to knock it down...... however they came down.....

[Discord]

super heated metal.

wasn't it a desine flaw?

[b0ld]

Originally Posted by Discord

super heated metal.

wasn't it a desine flaw?

if it were super heated metal they why didn't that highrise building in spain have an entire collapse considering it was on fire for more then 24 hours...

[Discord]

/I meant super heated metal ?

I thought they made it so it coudl withstand heat... but something buckled and it collapsed

[b0ld]

Originally Posted by Discord

/I meant super heated metal ?

I thought they made it so it coudl withstand heat... but something buckled and it collapsed

the only thing that would be able to make that superheated metal that is used in that building was thermite....

[Drazkers]

you know what bothered me?

when a freind showed me a video showing how 9/11 can just as easily have been thrown by the united states...

and i had to concied it was possible

[zarlon]

the part that scared me most was wondering if something was going to happen here.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Drazkers

you know what bothered me?

when a freind showed me a video showing how 9/11 can just as easily have been thrown by the united states...

and i had to concied it was possible

Wha, you never considered that these lonely immigrants who didn't really know anybody and always kept to themselves may have actually been approached by the government and duped into thinking that they were fighting in the name of their new homeland and somehow having precise flying capabilities (from Microsoft FLIGHT SIMULATOR?) so they could fly exactly one plane into each tower and then suddenly the entire buildings get levelled..... You're saying it might be a plot to control the populous, torture suspects and violate human and constitutional rights and just not have anybody bat an eyelash?

That's just crazy talk.

[baby-phat]

Originally Posted by Discord

Where were you - what were you doing? and how did you find out?

I was at home in Burnaby (was living with Flip and Fatty at the time) watching it on TV. It was weird I had gone top bed late but weoke up early and couldn't fall back to sleep so I decided to watch TV- and then there it was.
I think I sat in front of my TV for the majority of the day. It seemed so surreal.

[Miss T]

That is so crazy, cuz my family just had this conversation at dinner.

I was at work training for a call center job. They told us during class and I really didn't know what to think, until I got home and saw it on tv. I started on the phones a day after it happened, dealing with all U.S. customers. Needless to say, I got about 3 or 4 calls in an 8 hour shift.

[esoter1c]

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html

[prozac]

^thanks for the link.

iiiiiinteresting...

[decypher]

hmmm 2001. The day started out just like any other day: Pager rattling at my head around 2pm, slowly coming back to life after another night of being a fresh outta highschool fuckup. As the haze cleared i went upstairs and found out what had happened. I turned on the news and got goosebumps all over. I think this was the first huge thing for our generation, something that effected ourside of the world, a wake up call.

I went to pick up my ex from her school and everyone was talking about how the world was going to end. We went and blazed and had the usual clueless political discussion. I was always against authority and into politics but never really knew much. After that i slowly started watching the news a lot, pealing back the layers.

[mapleleaf4ever]

I was living and working in Fort Nelson.

Came Downstairs two hear some Rednecks trying to discuss Nuclear Proliferation amongst 3rd World Nations. After laughing at how little they knew, I asked why they would bring up such a thing. They said that Airplanes hit the Trade Centre. So after grabbing my Breakfast, laughing and the preposterous notion... I turned on the TV in my Room just in time to see the second Plane go in.

"Fuck!" Thought I.

[fable]

Originally Posted by decypher

We went and blazed and had the usual clueless political discussion. I was always against authority and into politics but never really knew much.

Hehehe, you took a page out of my own highschool history too.

[NYCFUNK]

What a tragedy. the pictures can barely show you what it was like. you guys are lucky to live in a country like this, you dont have to worry about all this blowing shit up... the view on canadians compared to the US is a lot different. THat being said I still am funkin proud to be american... but way more civil up here. FUCKEN EH!!!

HAHAH I LOVE THAT SAYING!

why are people still talking about this day up here?