9/11

[DimHalo]

I still remember what I was doing when I heard.

I think this date will go down in history just like the landing on the moon or when Kennedy was shot.

[Teuthida]

I was in high school in Manhattan when it happened. Our principal was actually trying to keep it from it. We had to listen to our own radios to actually find out what was happening. The bastard. Didn't see any of the images until I got home late that day...quite difficult getting home too...so few trains were running. And then a day or two later school reopened and I never experienced a commute that silent before. I actually never even passed by Ground Zero until a month ago accidently.

[Dyne]

I was sleeping when 911 happened. Then I went to jazz band at my timezone's 7 am and I was hit with the first of many babbling idiots who tried to describe the event to me. The day was completely normal but as time went by more and more people got overly sympathetic about it. By the next day all the newspapers were filled to the brim with 911 material and still things weren't clear.

Sure, I accept it was a bad tragedy, and I feel some level of sympathy over it, but not as much as other people.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Dyne

I was sleeping when 911 happened. Then I went to jazz band at my timezone's 7 am and I was hit with the first of many babbling idiots who tried to describe the event to me. The day was completely normal but as time went by more and more people got overly sympathetic about it. By the next day all the newspapers were filled to the brim with 911 material and still things weren't clear.

Sure, I accept it was a bad tragedy, and I feel some level of sympathy over it, but not as much as other people.

Same. I tired of hearing about it. Which is sad that the media can take something like this and drive it in so hard that you don't feel anything about it anymore.

I mean, 50 years from now are they still going to be on the news saying: "Today we reflect back upon the tragedy of 9/11..."

[GameMaster]

The September 11th attacks are arguably the most significant events to have occurred so far in the 21st century in terms of the profound economic, social, political, cultural and military effects that followed in the United States and many other parts of the world. But that didn't stop me from feeling sickened by the merchants attempts to cash in on it with their cheap bumper stickers, pins, and other 'decorations'. I also agree with Dyne and Vampyr that the media overplayed the event way too much in that after a while I began to feel annoyed when hearing the words 'September 11th'. I don't mind people mourning for lost ones today but I don't want to see any trashy news segments on it.

*checks CNN.com*

"Firefighters in New Orleans remember 9/11"

*shakes head in disappoint at the news site for taking two catastrophes and combiningh them into one lousy article for their site*

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

i was on the last day of the first week of highschool, back in grade 9, i was walking by the library and in there there were many listening to a radio. I thought that it was for a filming class or something like that, i didn't know something serious was up.

[Dark Samurai]

On this day, four years ago...

I asked a girl out... and she said yes...