September 11 Memorial Thread

[StevePulaski]

Today marks a tragic day in American history. Three buildings hit with planes and two destroyed. All this madness started at 8:46 am and carried on in our hearts and in our heads forever after. I was home sick with my dad playing with blocks (age five) when I go to turn on the Country Music Network (CMT) and every channel filled with the North Tower billowing in smoke. I saw the South Tower hit with a plane, back then I thought nothing of it, but I still have the image of the tilting plane flying into the tower and exploding. Very painful image when youre only five.

I want to know where you were when the world stopped turning. What were you doing and what were your reactions after the horrific scene of events. Today marks history, R.I.P. to all lost in the buildings and planes and I pray for those still fighting for our freedom.

9/11 - We'll Never Forget.

[Handsome Devil]

I was in class when it happened. Very surreal experience. Especially where I live, which is like 20 mins from New York City.

[patface1979]

I was eating at a Cafe when I heard it on the Radio!

[StevePulaski]

Sept 13, 2010 0:29:16 GMT -5 patface1979 said:

I was eating at a Cafe when I heard it on the Radio!

That would be freaky as hell to be in a public place with a bunch of people then hearing it.

[Deleted]

This is an old post I did on the D&M board, which I thought I'd share on here. Please pardon me if you see writing errors of any sort in the post.


Where I was that day:

Today is, in my opinion, the most important day in American history. Seven years ago today, on September 11th, 2001, hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, a section of the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 (2,974 to be precise) victims perished that day. It was a day that will never be forgotten.

I remember that day very well. I was in 8th grade and attending Middle School at the time, already into the third week of the school year. My mother woke me up that morning and told me that the Twin Towers in New York had collapsed from being hit by planes. She told me it was being reported all over the news.

So I got up and went into their bedroom to see the morning news. They were talking all about it non-stop. Then they played footage of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center and of the time when the Towers crumbled. Seeing that footage, I was in awe. As a kid, I've had wanted to maybe someday visit the Twin Towers. Yet I would no longer be able to do so, and New York City will never look the same again. It was just like how that old saying goes "You don't know what you have until it is gone."

The news also talked about the attack on the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania. Yet my family did not take too much time to take in everything that was happening, since we were still obligated to our morning routine of the morning rush (getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing our teeth, and getting to school on time). Once were done with our routine, we headed out to the car to go to school, but as I got into the car...I got in knowing that the Empire State Building had regain status of "the tallest building in New York City".

At school, people were all talking about the attacks. On the student morning news show, that traditionally started off each day, it talked all about the attacks and showed footage of what happened and what was happening. The whole school gave a moment of silence to the victims of the attacks as the show ended. All day long, people talked about the attacks and when I got home (at regular time since we didn't get sent home early) every news program was still discussing the attacks.

9/11 is a day I will never forget, that no one will ever forget. From then on, I have remembered everything that has happened on a September 11th date since 2001. There was a lot of lessons to be learned from that fateful day. Too many to even list, but I will share one ideal that should have been learned that day.

One such lesson is that we all need to live as one people/race. If we were all the same, events like 9/11 would never happen. But since we are all different peoples, mankind will be doomed to continue fighting amongst itself. Regardless, we should all live as one people anyway and ignore the fact that people vary in skin color, religion, political views, national origins, language speaking...because we are all still human beings, right.

That is all I have to say for this 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. I do wish to ask whomever may be reading this a question...where were you on The Day the Towers Crumbled?

[StevePulaski]

Sept 13, 2010 17:38:19 GMT -5 @jib said:

This is an old post I did on the D&M board, which I thought I'd share on here. Please pardon me if you see writing errors of any sort in the post.


Where I was that day:

Today is, in my opinion, the most important day in American history. Seven years ago today, on September 11th, 2001, hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, a section of the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 (2,974 to be precise) victims perished that day. It was a day that will never be forgotten.

I remember that day very well. I was in 8th grade and attending Middle School at the time, already into the third week of the school year. My mother woke me up that morning and told me that the Twin Towers in New York had collapsed from being hit by planes. She told me it was being reported all over the news.

So I got up and went into their bedroom to see the morning news. They were talking all about it non-stop. Then they played footage of the planes crashing into the World Trade Center and of the time when the Towers crumbled. Seeing that footage, I was in awe. As a kid, I've had wanted to maybe someday visit the Twin Towers. Yet I would no longer be able to do so, and New York City will never look the same again. It was just like how that old saying goes "You don't know what you have until it is gone."

The news also talked about the attack on the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania. Yet my family did not take too much time to take in everything that was happening, since we were still obligated to our morning routine of the morning rush (getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing our teeth, and getting to school on time). Once were done with our routine, we headed out to the car to go to school, but as I got into the car...I got in knowing that the Empire State Building had regain status of "the tallest building in New York City".

At school, people were all talking about the attacks. On the student morning news show, that traditionally started off each day, it talked all about the attacks and showed footage of what happened and what was happening. The whole school gave a moment of silence to the victims of the attacks as the show ended. All day long, people talked about the attacks and when I got home (at regular time since we didn't get sent home early) every news program was still discussing the attacks.

9/11 is a day I will never forget, that no one will ever forget. From then on, I have remembered everything that has happened on a September 11th date since 2001. There was a lot of lessons to be learned from that fateful day. Too many to even list, but I will share one ideal that should have been learned that day.

One such lesson is that we all need to live as one people/race. If we were all the same, events like 9/11 would never happen. But since we are all different peoples, mankind will be doomed to continue fighting amongst itself. Regardless, we should all live as one people anyway and ignore the fact that people vary in skin color, religion, political views, national origins, language speaking...because we are all still human beings, right.

That is all I have to say for this 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. I do wish to ask whomever may be reading this a question...where were you on The Day the Towers Crumbled?

What a depressing, yet meaningful story, Jib-miester. Very informative and true. You're certainly a writer with vast tastes and a very sensitive tone to you. I felt you were speaking as I was reading. I'm no proctor, but I dont see an error. Also, I want to say that today we watched a clip of the two planes hit in school and people were laughing because I had numerous tears in my eyes.

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Sept 13, 2010 18:13:32 GMT -5 StevePulaski said:

Sept 13, 2010 17:38:19 GMT -5 @jib said:

This is an old post I did on the D&M board, which I thought I'd share on here. Please pardon me if you see writing errors of any sort in the post.


Where I was that day:

What a depressing, yet meaningful story, Jib-miester. Very informative and true. You're certainly a writer with vast tastes and a very sensitive tone to you. I felt you were speaking as I was reading. I'm no proctor, but I dont see an error. Also, I want to say that today we watched a clip of the two planes hit in school and people were laughing because I had numerous tears in my eyes.

Those kids are assholes who need to be slapped across the back of the head!

They obviously don't remember the attacks as well as you and I do, Steve. Otherwise, they would not be so insensitve like they were in that class.

[StevePulaski]

Thanks for all the comfort Jib. Heres one of my favorite songs on 9/11. Always loved it.

[Handsome Devil]

9/11 songs never sat right with me. They seemed like lame cash-ins on a serious tragedy.

[StevePulaski]

Sept 15, 2010 17:24:46 GMT -5 Handsome Devil said:

9/11 songs never sat right with me. They seemed like lame cash-ins on a serious tragedy.

I know what you mean, but singers like Darryl Worrley and Alan Jackson claimed to have done it for the cause. I dont know, never will.

[Handsome Devil]

Sept 16, 2010 6:15:02 GMT -5 StevePulaski said:

Sept 15, 2010 17:24:46 GMT -5 Handsome Devil said:

9/11 songs never sat right with me. They seemed like lame cash-ins on a serious tragedy.

I know what you mean, but singers like Darryl Worrley and Alan Jackson claimed to have done it for the cause. I dont know, never will.

Well obviously they wouldn't advertise their albums as cash-ins, but that's what they feel like to me. Songs and movies about 9/11 never feel right. They don't capture the true tragedy, because that's basically impossible. They just regurgitate the events we saw, without truly delving into the affects it had, and still has, on people.

[StevePulaski]

Sept 16, 2010 14:08:46 GMT -5 Handsome Devil said:

Sept 16, 2010 6:15:02 GMT -5 StevePulaski said:

I know what you mean, but singers like Darryl Worrley and Alan Jackson claimed to have done it for the cause. I dont know, never will.

Well obviously they wouldn't advertise their albums as cash-ins, but that's what they feel like to me. Songs and movies about 9/11 never feel right. They don't capture the true tragedy, because that's basically impossible. They just regurgitate the events we saw, without truly delving into the affects it had, and still has, on people.

Well you cant say that about the movie 9/11 thats actual footage on the ground of the day. Its some damn good footage since we saw like more than half of it in school. Check it out.

[Handsome Devil]

Sept 16, 2010 19:23:12 GMT -5 StevePulaski said:

Sept 16, 2010 14:08:46 GMT -5 Handsome Devil said:

Well obviously they wouldn't advertise their albums as cash-ins, but that's what they feel like to me. Songs and movies about 9/11 never feel right. They don't capture the true tragedy, because that's basically impossible. They just regurgitate the events we saw, without truly delving into the affects it had, and still has, on people.

Well you cant say that about the movie 9/11 thats actual footage on the ground of the day. Its some damn good footage since we saw like more than half of it in school. Check it out.

I will check it out, but it might end up proving my point. If it's just footage of 9/11, that's only scratching the surface of the tragedy. Like I said, it's truly impossible to portray 9/11. 9/11 wasn't just the Twin Towers falling, it was, and is, so much more.