[TOS'd]

How has it changed your life? Your perspective on life?

Does anyone remember what exactly they were doing nine years ago?

I still remember it very well. Woke up sometime around 5:45 and started flipping channels to see if there were any cartoons on. Flipped by cnn and had to do a double take since they were showing the first tower burning. Watched it and say the plane crash into the second tower. Told my parents about it when they woke up, my mom immediately called our "uncle" (not blood related) who works in one of the towers, but no answer. She called her old boss shortly after, no answer. I then went to school, grade 6, and we spent most of the day talking about what had happened.

Fortunately a couple weeks after the incident, we received emails from both people we tried contacting, and they were one of the lucky ones who safely evacuated the buildings before the collapse.

RIP to all who did not make it out in time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ2E4WTLvBE


edit: fml wrong sub-forum. mod can you move to OT please, thanks. I was not fapping while writing this.

[FN-2199]

I remember waking up, and my mom told me one of the twin towers was on fire. I remember getting ready for school and continuing to watch, as the other tower was struck, and later, both of the towers fell.
At the time, I didn't think much of it, as I was also only in grade 6, and current events were all so new to me at that time. Later that night I found out that one of my uncles had perished in the second tower that had fallen. It ht my mother's side of the family pretty hard.
A few weeks later, rescue teams found only his nametag.

It's all so surreal. To have a family member actually tragically pass away in that fashion is just.. Indescribable. Even now I look back at it, and I'm still so shocked and unsure about the situation.
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[trancehead]

I was just entering grade 8. Alarm clock is set to radio on z95.3 and I wake up to this story about a terrorist attack in NYC.

[Grandmaster TSE]

I remember waking up to it and it was just so surreal that this was happening
went to school, first block and it was mandarin class and just talked to my friend about what the hell happened. I remember most of them didn't know it was happening

RIP to all those that died that day

[eurochevy]

i woke up and went to school (school had some tv's set up for bullitens and stuff ..when i got in the door everyone was watching the tv's) i was gr 8, and the only thing i could think of was that there was gonna be WW3 or something because i knew canada/ usa wouldn't stand for it little did i know it was going to be only a terrorist attack and ended up being less of a hunt than i thought it would be

[BeeBeeAhn]

I was in the 9th grade that year, and i remember my dad waking me up to tell me that a number of planes have crashed into buildings and to go watch the updates on TV. it was horrifying to see on tv. Watching the buildings collapse was scary as hell.

I had to take the bus to school, and the bus drive was talking about it. when i got to school all the teachers were discussing it. I remember my sculpture class teacher had the radio on the listen for updates.

My dad's friend lives across the river in New Jersey and she said it was awful. Can't imagine seeing it in person.

[Matsuda]

man I feel so old cause I was way out of school then. I woke up in the morning after the first plane hit one of the towers and was watching it on the news all day. At first I thought maybe it was an air accident and then later the 2nd plane flew into the second tower. It was horrific event to see on tv as event unfolded. My friend was living in New York at the time. Took me a few days to get in touch with him but he said things were pretty crazy down there.

I actually thought back then the death toll was going to be higher than it was. My condolences to everyone that was personally affected by the tragic events that happened that day. Something like this should of never happened anywhere in the world.

[TheStreetDream]

Grade 3, first day of school for me if i recalled correctly, didnt know what exactly happened, my teacher was devastated about it because her sister worked in the building, luckily she was late for work and was not in the building, RIP to all those lost, and best wishes to those who was effected by this.

[vafanculo]

First year after my HS graduation and I woke up to go Lucas center to take Math 11. All I remember is I was very excited cause there was a girl in my class I liked. Kinda thought 'meh' about the whole 911 thing. I remember everyone on the bus was talking about it.

Didn't really hit me how serious it was till a day or two later.
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[1exotic]

I was getting a ride to elementary school, heard about it on the radio when it happened.

[BlacknJean]

the government set it up

[_Hotsauce_]

I thought WWIII was about to begin; was in grade 9.

[tv778]

I remember eatting breakfast before going to elementary school, and saw what was happening on television.

It's a tragedy for those who have perished.

[murd0c]

I remember walking into work and everyone talking about it. I had no clue cause I was listening to music on the way in. Right away I thought wow WW3 the US is going to go crazy.

Man I feel old with all of your responses LOL

[ScizzMoney]

Was in 2nd year University. Was watching the news (Komo or King 5, one of the Seattle ones) and it instantly cut to some smoke that was coming from the building. Was utter confusion and the correspondent didn't even know what was going on at first. Saw the 2nd plane collide on live TV. I was at my grandma's place during this, we were both tearing up.

[TheStreetDream]

the government set it up

Not a good time to bring that up, today is a day to mourn for those who died or lost a close one. RIP to those.

[bcrdukes]

Thread moved to VAC Off-Topic. Thanks TOS'd.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

cant believe its been 9 years

feels like 3-4 years ago

[DeathLord8636]

i was in 3rd grade. we watched it happen. i was living in cali for the time. i remember that our class turn on the tv and we saw the 2nd plane crash. horrible.

[bcrdukes]

i was in 3rd grade.

WTF.................................

I feel old. :rofl:

[K.Dubz]

skipped my morning class n watched the 2nd tower get hit live. Was in grade 8

[Lomac]

Man I feel old with all of your responses LOL

x2 :lol

I was driving to University and couldn't figure out why The Fox wasn't playing music at the time. It took about twenty minutes before someone on the radio recapped what happened. I remember looking out at everyone stopped in rush hour traffic on Hwy1 and seeing how scared and white many of those people's faces were. At the time, only the first tower had been hit. All throughout the day, our classes consisted of listening to the radio while doing maybe half a page of actual work. Boy was the lunchroom at Capilano sombre...

I can't really say how the event has changed me or my life. One of my dad's friends died in the tower collapse, though admittedly it seemed more likely he died during the initial plane collision since he was working on a floor in that area.

[twitchyzero]

i was in 7th grade
it was surreal..it was like watching armageddon except you know hundreds of lives are dying and there's nothing anyone can do to save 'em.
was just telling my co-workers how fast 9 years have gone by.

[Ronin]

I was at UBC early, walked a friend to Angus and saw a huge crowd of people at the TVs. Asked what the hell was going on. I ended up not going to class at all.

[The_AK]

i was in 3rd grade. we watched it happen. i was living in cali for the time. i remember that our class turn on the tv and we saw the 2nd plane crash. horrible.

we have 15 year olds on RS? :S

I was in grade 7, was locking up my bike with a friend and some kid ran up to us. "Hey, did you guys hear? Some guys flew a plane into a building"
we laughed it off until we got to class

[TheStreetDream]

we have 15 year olds on RS? :S

I was in grade 7, was locking up my bike with a friend and some kid ran up to us. "Hey, did you guys hear? Some guys flew a plane into a building"
we laughed it off until we got to class

When you are in grade 3, you are 8, 8+9= 17 :)

[CP.AR]

I remember this day extremely clearly...

I was in grade 7...
I was sleeping over at my grandparents' place. I woke up like any other day, went downstairs for breakfast and my grandma had the channel set to CNN (mind you, we're a Chinese family so watching CNN early in the morning is weird as it is)...

I was half awake, glanced at the TV and thought it was a movie, looked at it again and saw "LIVE" on top and then the shot of the guy jumping... I screamed in horror and basically stood there for a good 5 minutes in shock.

Went to school, and the teacher hauled a TV into the classroom and sat our entire class in front of it. She said the words "Children, in 5,10,15,20 years... you will NEVER forget this very day." Although quietly, everyone was dead silent, some of the girls cried, and most were just in plain shock from the whole thing.

She was right, I never forgot that day, when I woke up and saw planes flying into buildings

[JSALES]

i remember i was in grade 5, my brother walked into my room and told me that a plane flew into the world trade center. once i got to school, i was surprised that none of my classmates were talking about it until my teacher had brought up what happened

[urrh]

man, i didn't realize how many of you guys were so young.
it was my first week of post secondary school at cap.
heard about it on the radio when i was waking up for school, then i turned on the tv to double check.
my prof cancelled classes that day

[The7even]

3rd grade.. 6th..

anyway, I was finishing highschool, remember sitting in class watching it on TV because my teacher interupted the class with that.

[winson604]

Will never forget that day. I was in college at the time and my mom ran into my room saying American got attacked. Still the most surreal thing I have ever seen. Can`t believe it has been so long now.

[seakrait]

i was in 4th year. g/f at the time called me in the morning to turn the TV on. watched the 2nd plane fly into the towers live. horrible. didn't go to classes for a few days. stayed glued to CNN.

[Not really racist!]

Watching the documentary on HDNet right now.

[tiger_handheld]

grade 9. lots of talk at school , no one knew of Al Queda or Bin Laden back then.

[monkeywrench]

Wow time sure does fly. I remember getting ready for school, seeing this on TV and my family thought it was a movie or something

[RRxtar]

wow do i feel old too!

I remember my mom calling me while I was still in bed and telling me to turn on the TV. I remember the first thing I thought was "HOLY FUCK. WW3 just started! thats it! the world is over!!!!"


how has it affected me? well. the whole world has changed. directly: security has tightend up everywhere. and indirectly: i think the economy colapse and oil prices are largely due to the US going to war in Iraq (which wouldnt have happened without 911).

[rawr]

Just came back from NY couple days ago. Here's some pictures from the WTC site.

First picture: See that hole in the sky? That's where the towers used to stand.

The other ones are pictures of the museum currently being built as a memorial.

[mikemhg]

I'll never forget the day but honestly, I don't want to sound insensitive here, but do we have to go through this every single year?

It's been nine years already, and I've been hearing 9/11 on the news every year in September, enough already.

3000 people died that day, how many people died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti Earth Quake, Tsunami, etc. Heck at least 2000 people died in Hurricane Katrina alone, but do we see a yearly Anniversary?

Can we move on already? Thousands die everyday in this world, I'm so tired of seeing this event being played on over and over again for Political gain.

[MarkyMark]

I still get an eerie feeling whenever I see the towers on an old TV show or movie

[ToyotaPowah]

I'll never forget the day but honestly, I don't want to sound insensitive here, but do we have to go through this every single year?

It's been nine years already, and I've been hearing 9/11 on the news every year in September, enough already.

3000 people died that day, how many people died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti Earth Quake, Tsunami, etc. Heck at least 2000 people died in Hurricane Katrina alone, but do we see a yearly Anniversary?

Can we move on already? Thousands die everyday in this world, I'm so tired of seeing this event being played on over and over again for Political gain.

You see, the difference with all those countries and events you mentioned are that they didn't happen in the U.S.A. or Canada. People still talk about those events and mourn on their anniversaries in the countries where they took place. That's exactly what we're doing. Sure, 9/11 was an attack on the U.S.A. but it felt like just as much as an attack on Canada and our way of life. It has dramatically changed how we live and it terrified our entire society.

Regarding Hurricane Katrina, as terrible as it was, especially the aftermath, people just don't worry as much about natural disasters as they do about terrorist attacks. I'm sure more people in New Orleans would be mourning for the lives lost in Hurricane Katrina if they weren't busy dealing with another hurricane at that time of year every single year! Hurricanes are a common occurence in the Southeast of the U.S.A.

Back on topic... I was doing what many of you were doing on that day. I was in Grade 10 and heading to school with the radio on in my dad's car. The car ride was very silent as no one really knew what to make of it. The school day wasn't very productive as every teacher had the TV tuned into the local news station listening for updates. It was a tragic event and I'll remember that day vividly for the rest of my life.

[The_AK]

When you are in grade 3, you are 8, 8+9= 17 :)

i'm 20 (21 this Monday), 9 years ago = 11
grade 7 - 11 years old
grade 3 - 11-4 = 7 years old
7+9 = 16 ~ 17

yea i guess i fucked up my maths by 1,
kid is somewhere between 16~17

edit*
Thing is, I envisioned a plane flying into a building before this even happened. When I saw it happen on tv, i thought to myself "finally..."

Weird, I know

[ShyGuy]

I was in Gr.10 at the time...my morning ritual at the time was to wake up around 6ish...get changed and go online to surf RS for awhile before I bussed to school.
I remember reading a thread on RS saying that a plane had crashed into the WTC. I immediately ran into my parents room and told them to turn on the TV and watch CNN.

I think shortly after I watched live, the 2nd plane crash into the WTC. Class was pretty much nonexistant that day. All the teachers had pulled TV's into the classrooms and we were watching the news all day.

[Phil@rise]

You know how its changed our lifes
You can burn any religious book from any religious sect in the world but not the quran.
Thats how scared people are now and that proves how the extremist terrorist muslims have won.

[Vansterdam]

i remember being in gr7, had no idea wtf was going on until my teacher told all of us, listened to radio and saw part tv in the morning and then found out later it collapsed

[1exotic]

we have 15 year olds on RS? :S

I was in grade 7, was locking up my bike with a friend and some kid ran up to us. "Hey, did you guys hear? Some guys flew a plane into a building"
we laughed it off until we got to class

grade 3 = 2010 graduate now. 18 years old (1992 birth).

[cdizzle_996]

I was in the 7th grade as well. I was listening to the radio when it happend.

[Delerious]

was getting ready for school, saw it on the tv, then went to school like any other normal day. Don't really remember much from that day, was just starting gr.10.

[Senna4ever]

I'll never forget the day but honestly, I don't want to sound insensitive here, but do we have to go through this every single year?

It's been nine years already, and I've been hearing 9/11 on the news every year in September, enough already.

3000 people died that day, how many people died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti Earth Quake, Tsunami, etc. Heck at least 2000 people died in Hurricane Katrina alone, but do we see a yearly Anniversary?

Can we move on already? Thousands die everyday in this world, I'm so tired of seeing this event being played on over and over again for Political gain.
I understand what you're saying, but this day changed all of our lives in some way. We have to produce a passport now when driving into the USA, before 9/11 all you had to do was tell the customs person, "I'm Canadian" and you were through. The endlessly time consuming increased security at the airports when flying somewhere is all due to 9/11. 19 Islamic extremists changed our way of life that day in innumerable ways.

I was sleeping when it all happened, but I used to wake up to Rock 101 playing on my alarm radio. I woke up to Brother Jake mentioning "this is the worst terrorist attack on American soil..." "That is," "It is a tragedy," blah, blah.....I was thinking where the fuck is the music? Then I turned on the TV and saw what happened.

It affected my friend's wedding as they got married the Saturday after 9/11, and all of the out of town guests could not make it in.

[Qmx323]

i was gr6 in socal,

i dont think we acted the same to the arab kid we had in our class ever since

[twitchyzero]

the hit tv series 24 would've probably sucked hard if 9/11 never happened.

[Ronin]

the hit tv series 24 would've probably sucked hard if 9/11 never happened.

I don't know...there was terrorism before 9/11 but it wasn't a household phrase and people weren't scared/paranoid about it all the time. There was very little in the way of homeland security.

[BallPeenHammer2]

I watched the whole thing live from beginning to end, thinking that I was only there 3 months prior.

Interesting fact: Jackie chan was supposed to film there that day, but cancelled due to location change. (!)

[spoon.ek9]

i remember the day clearly:

gr.11, about to head into health sciences class. I had seen the news coverage on TV before heading out the door only grasping that a plane had hit the WTC and that it had been done deliberately. what I had not yet grasped was how serious the situation was, and how it would change the world. being an arrogant, misinformed teenager, some friends/classmates and i laughed it off saying stupid shit like "they deserve it".

i think i had gone home during a spare block and during class the second plane had already crashed. it was about here that my reaction turned to "omg, wtf is happening here".



in response to that comment about "get over this already", you cannot give the same value to natural disasters and terrorist attacks. they're simply not the same; it's not a numbers game. and as mentioned earlier, people still mourn the events you mentioned in your post.

[Domani]

the ghost face in the smoke still gives me the creeps ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Noo6zDLk0

[StylinRed]

my mom woke me up saying ww3 started or something like that; it was unbelieveable

we spent the early morning contacting family in NY (uncle has a restaurant nearby) a couple family members worked in the WTC (well 1 of them actually left a couple months earlier but we didnt know) and luckily for one his company (oddly?) had closed the office for that day

it was quite a shock and then i went to school (cant believe so many of you are damned kids that explains a lot though)



You know how its changed our lifes
You can burn any religious book from any religious sect in the world but not the quran.
Thats how scared people are now and that proves how the extremist terrorist muslims have won.

try doing a public, well publicized burning of the Torah at say in Israel or Auschwitz (u'll be in prison so fast just for suggesting it)

hell try doing that with any religious texts in the same, hate filled, context as this latest Quran burning (after all there are videos of people burning the Quran on youtube and American soldiers flushing it down the toilet etc it's all context)

[CorneringArtist]

Grade 3 back then...I remember walking into my teacher's classroom when I saw the footage on TV. She had this devastated look on he face as the towers burned. I personally just watched, didn't know what to think.

[InvisibleSoul]

I think I was 3rd year at UBC... was oblivious to it on the bus ride there... just slept. But when I went to my first class, I think it was the commerce building, they had a little TV in the foyer area, and I started watching there...

[2 n r]

i saw a special on the discovery channel just the other day.. there was this part where they were talking about when the building was on fire and everything was silent and all of a sudden all you could hear was this super loud slapping sound, it was apparently the sound of the people jumping out of the building and hitting the pavement, that was really disturbing and sad.. rip

[BMW135i]

I was at YVR getting off the plane from Hong Kong.

[Graeme S]

Woke up at about 10 'cause a friend called me and told me to turn to CBC. Got a call about half an hour later from my shift supervisor (starbucks) saying "Don't come in to work, all North American Starbucks are closing; we're a high-profile american company."

Sat there the whole day and watched. Crazy shit.

[syee]

Man you kids make me feel old.

I had flown into Charlotte NC the day before the attack and was at a client's site in the middle of nowhere Greenville NC. The client was in a panic (hysterical might have been a better word) saying that the WTC and Pentagon had been hit. I would end up being stuck there for 4 more days before flights resumed again.

I remember talking to a few coworkers who had family in NYC. People were definitely in a panic. They shut down our office (I was working in Denver, CO at the time) and sent everyone home that day.

[Boostslut]

Always interested to hear peoples stories from that day that no one will ever forget.

I can remember that i just came into work at the time, and went to the bathroom and walked by the TV that was turned to the news and thought that it was some Hollywood movie. Then i came out and watched a bit more, and couldn't believe it. Talked to some people at work, and well had to get to work and do my job. Went home later on that day and watched all night long in amazement. I think at home in Vancouver somewhere i still have copies of the special edition paper that came out during the day, i should dig them up.

Did anyone get to watch that documentary on CBS or some american channel that was only shown once about this team that was doing a doco. on a New York fireman team and followed them along when they got called into the situation. They showed the firemen actually in the world trade towers, and you could hear people smashing against the ground who jumped out of the towers. Totally unreal, and sad show to watch. It was only shown on TV once in respect to the people that died that day.

[TOS'd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA

[Lomac]

I think at home in Vancouver somewhere i still have copies of the special edition paper that came out during the day, i should dig them up.

Yeah, I've got that paper (and the one from the following day) as well.

Did anyone get to watch that documentary on CBS or some american channel that was only shown once about this team that was doing a doco. on a New York fireman team and followed them along when they got called into the situation. They showed the firemen actually in the world trade towers, and you could hear people smashing against the ground who jumped out of the towers. Totally unreal, and sad show to watch. It was only shown on TV once in respect to the people that died that day.

I saw it. I think I've actually got it on VHS somewhere. It's actually a pretty neat documentary, considering everything.

[goo3]

Woke up to my alarm set to CKNW at 8:40 or so. Slapped the snooze pretty quick, but I managed to hear something like twin towers.. new york.. collapse.

Thought about it for a bit, then rolled my ass over and turned on CNN. It looked like a scene out of a movie. Nobody got work done that day.

[Razor Ramon HG]

I was in elementary when 9/11 happened. Being a kid, I was just choked the Simpsons were replaced with news broadcasts.

[will068]

my mom woke me up saying ww3 started or something like that; it was unbelieveable



My dad woke me up that morning and said the same thing. He was quick to assume it was Saddam who did it.

[danned]

i was up at my physics class and people just turned on the radio about this situation
and the teacher told us to stop listening to this radio

[SkinnyPupp]

I remember I woke up, checked Revscene, and saw a thread titled something like "OMG THEY HIT THE PENTAGON TOO!"

That was a freaky day

[Tapioca]

I can't remember if I went to classes that day, but I did listen to the radio on my way to UBC.

I particularly remember the debates that I had with some people on this board about events that happened in the aftermath. I was a young and naive kid back then, so my views have certainly changed. Was it because of 9/11? It's hard to say.

I don't view 9/11 as an attack on our way of life - whatever that is. It was a political statement as much as it was about religion. At the end of the day, it's about power and it was a small group's way of saying, "Get your companies the fuck out of ours and let us run things the way we want them."

[quasi]

I was back at home, have to work that morning. My alarm/radio went off and I was like wtf? I walk downstairs and my dad has CNN on. I'm like, did what I think just happen actually happen? He tells me ya, we watch for like 20 minutes and then the second plane hits the other tower.

Scary day, I to thought WW3 was on the horizon.

[FerrariEnzo]

wtf.. there someone falling down from there... NASTY... you wont see anything but red blood...

[scottsman]

Was watching a documentary last night about some of the events after 9/11. Apparently there was one small stairwell that protected a lot of the survivors. In the accounts of 2 of the rescue workers they were headed to the top of the stairwell and found a guy sitting on top of the rubble.

By the survivor account, wherever he was he just rode the rubble as it was all falling down and somehow ended up on top of it all pretty much ok. Crazy stuff.

[_Hotsauce_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA

Ending gave me chills.

[The7even]

watching as the people dropped from buildings to the ground angers me to no end.. and makes my heart drop.

[TOS'd]

Ending gave me chills.

Oh God. Oh ...


=/

[Gt-R R34]

Yeah, I've got that paper (and the one from the following day) as well.

I remember a couple of years late, someone from the province told me those were the first breaking news, special edition papers since the world war 2, the war was over.

I still get goosebumps thinking about that day.

Going to class up @ UBC, math 184, watching it in class for the entire period.

[impactX]

Was at the ubc bookstore that day... Def. wont forget
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[SpuGen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QsdUevUQgk&feature=related

[!Nhan]

I slept in for class that day woke up at 9 and thought it was some hoax till I turned on the tv and watched CNN. Stayed home for most of the day and just watched the news. Pretty frightening stuff especially when they kept showing the jumpers and the second plane flying into the tower

[gdoh]

wow very chilling stuff i still remember waking up in the morning and mom telling me to turn on the tv watching it just speechless

rip

[VSBB6]

Is there a link of the documentary aired on saturday?

[Psykopathik]

i cant even watch vids of this anymore. i'll start crying.

i was leaving for work in the morning, and as i walked out the door, my mom yells to me a plane crashed.

i thought nothing of it and replied "planes crash all the time".

when i got to work everyone was glued to the TV. i was wondering WTF?

wasn't till the end of the day when all air traffic was grounded and they finally figured out it was a terrorist attack.

for a month i stayed away from tall buildings. I was so fucking paranoid.

[Lomac]

I remember on the following year my dad flew to New York to visit his relatives on September 11th (2002). His reasoning was that the flight was super cheap, there were literally maybe twenty people flying (he got to move up to first class because it was empty lol) and out of the entire year, that day would likely have the absolute most security in the airport and airplane. Man, he was brave... you couldn't have given me a million dollars to fly to New York on that day...

[Boostslut]

I remember as well on September 12, 2001 my turbo-back exhaust came in to my aunts place for my DSM from MachV just across the border in Lynden, and i really wanted it bad! So i went with my best friend and his girl friend. We waited to get through the border for 6-7 hours. It was interesting because we talked to people along the way in the line-up. When we got across we picked it up, and spent less than 10 minutes in Lynden and came back and installed it. Longest border wait ever.

[tiger_handheld]

bumping this up.
it's been 10 years ...
seemed like this happened just a year ago --
how time has passed ...
this just reminds of you how precious life is ...

[Culverin]

And how screwed up humanity is.

[XplicitLuder]

i was only in gr 4..so didn't comprehend this. But now even watching old tapes and all it's so chilly to take in

[bengy]

Can't say it changed my life very much, if at all. Sure, it was a tragedy, which if you consider the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is still on going.

But New York is pretty far from here, I don't have any connections there really, and people die everyday of natural causes or at the hand of other people.

The only thing that I could say has affected me is travelling across the border is more of a bitch than it used to be, in terms of security screening.

[JD¹³]

My dad piloted a commercial airliner out of New York that morning only an hour or so before the first plane hit the World Trade Center. We didn't know where he was for a couple hours as we watched four planes go down (allegedly) and the news talk of more hijackings still in the air. So yeah, I remember that day pretty well.

[minoru_tanaka]

On that day there was actually a Jenga tournament @ Langara. A few of my friends came out with the sets. The school of course cancelled the contest and let the contestants take the sets home.

[Graeme S]

I got woken up by a call from a friend telling me to turn on the TV; 20 minutes later, I got a call from work (starbucks) saying not to come to work and that the whole company was shutting down in case someone decided to target the stores as a symbol of Western Corporate monopolies.

That were some scary shit going down.

[Phil@rise]

10 years later people are still scared and the US is even further in financial ruin as a product of this. Sad to say but terror is still winning.

[Psykopathik]

you can pretty well bet passengers aren't gonna take shit from anyone causing trouble on planes.

who remembers that one idiot that got killed trying to get into the cockpit? The other passengers bet him to death.

[danned]

times really flies,
10 years from now, seems that it happened yesterday

[vafanculo]

you can pretty well bet passengers aren't gonna take shit from anyone causing trouble on planes.

who remembers that one idiot that got killed trying to get into the cockpit? The other passengers bet him to death.

WTF.. How did I miss hearing this..

When did this happen? Link?
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[1exotic]

9:15am in the morning and no terrorist attacks yet,

I wonder when they'll strike

[Death2Theft]

I was so sick of hearing about the 9/11 bs. Those faggot Americans show up in our town for the olympics, and all we get are a bunch of 911 in an inside job stickers all over DT. Nothing pissed me off than americans thinking they are the center of the world.

Then I discovered globalists/eugenics/rothschilds/why real jobs are going overseas. Now I see that 9/11 was just a tiny part in the plan. The more I understand the more I'm scared.

[Bouncing Bettys]

I had considered starting a new thread for the 10 year just to remember that day, the victims, and post interesting videos and material while keeping conspiracy/official story crap out of it.

Here's Air Traffic Control audio from that day
NEWLY RELEASED! 9-11 WTC September 11 2001 Raw FAA ATC Air Traffic Control Audio Tapes 911 - YouTube

[Phil@rise]

you can pretty well bet passengers aren't gonna take shit from anyone causing trouble on planes.

who remembers that one idiot that got killed trying to get into the cockpit? The other passengers bet him to death.

Wanna bet now adays people dont do shit other then make videos and upload them to youtube and facebook.
If something like this were to happen again thats all we'd see done is passengers filming it and uploading it. People haven't gotten any tougher in ten years.
Knives for fucksakes! Knives brought down the WTC and killed thousands!

[JD¹³]

Wanna bet now adays people dont do shit other then make videos and upload them to youtube and facebook.
If something like this were to happen again thats all we'd see done is passengers filming it and uploading it. People haven't gotten any tougher in ten years.
Knives for fucksakes! Knives brought down the WTC and killed thousands!
Speak for yourself, not everyone's a pushover. I'd fight a hijacker to the death if I knew he was going to kill everyone on board anyway. I'm not the only person who would have that mentality in that situation.

The thing about 9/11 is that using aircraft as missiles had not been done before, at least not in the public eye. The people on board had no idea what was going to happen to them, they just assumed if they sat still the hijackers wouldn't detonate the bomb they didn't actually have. If I recall correctly they used box cutter knives, am I right? A box cutter would snap right off if you tried to stab someone with it, and you might get one or two slashes at someone before they take you down. A pen is more dangerous than a box cutter, cause I can jam that through your windpipe or in the arteries on the side of your neck. The sad reality is all the people on those planes had to do was get a couple able-bodied men to overwhelm the limited number of hijackers. People realize that now, so that combined with the increased security measures both in airports and within the aircraft themselves a situation like this would almost certainly never happen again.

[Bouncing Bettys]

Speak for yourself, not everyone's a pushover. I'd fight a hijacker to the death if I knew he was going to kill everyone on board anyway. I'm not the only person who would have that mentality in that situation.

The thing about 9/11 is that using aircraft as missiles had not been done before, at least not in the public eye. The people on board had no idea what was going to happen to them, they just assumed if they sat still the hijackers wouldn't detonate the bomb they didn't actually have. If I recall correctly they used box cutter knives, am I right? A box cutter would snap right off if you tried to stab someone with it, and you might get one or two slashes at someone before they take you down. A pen is more dangerous than a box cutter, cause I can jam that through your windpipe or in the arteries on the side of your neck. The sad reality is all the people on those planes had to do was get a couple able-bodied men to overwhelm the limited number of hijackers. People realize that now, so that combined with the increased security measures both in airports and within the aircraft themselves a situation like this would almost certainly never happen again.
What Dylan Avery has to say to the heros of United 93 - YouTube

[mb_]

I was in gr.4 at the time and I have no idea wtf was going on.. was too busy admiring my 3 day old newborn sister at the time. Then I saw the 2nd plane crash into the 2nd tower, people jumping off the buildings, etc. Didn't learn what happened until like 2-3 days later.

[JD¹³]

What Dylan Avery has to say to the heros of United 93 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czba6cA5BVQ)
First of all I'm not Dylan Avery, his comments are so ignorant he deserves to get ridiculed and destroyed like that. Dylan looks like a little pimpsqueak computer nerd who couldn't take down a 12 year old let alone a grown man. It's also easy to talk shit when you can see the full scope of the situation because it's already happened and you weren't there. I'm not discrediting any possible actions that were taken by the passengers of Flight 93, if that's what really happened. Dylan's a classless idiot making statement's like that.

I'm under the impression they used knives like these, thin replaceable blade box cutters:

http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/PHO2213.jpg

Yes they can kill but odds are the blade will snap off as it's designed to do and leave the attacker holding a dull piece of plastic until he can zip the blade out some more. A 4" foldable blade like shown in the video is a different story, but who knows what they were actually using. Either way, I wouldn't be sitting in my seat waiting to die. I'd arm myself as best I could with as many other people as I could rally and win or lose make the attempt.

Anyways, way off topic. RIP to the victims of 9/11.

[Bouncing Bettys]

When used in the right way those blades can to a lot of damage and not snap off. They don't need to stab, they just need to slice an artery. I received 7 stitches from a boxcutter accident at work - the blade was still in one piece.

[02'topaz]

To the comments with regards to "I would try to save myself/others by fighting the hijackers." You DO realize the people had ZERO idea or speculation that the plane was actually going to be flown into a building right? Sure in hindsight statements like that are "easy" to throw out since we know what the ultimate fate of the plane ended up being.

At the time, most people including ourselves would be sitting in their seat, praying that they would somehow be safe at the end of it all. Fighting would only end their lives short. Versus staying seated and hoping for some miraculous save.

Who in their right mind would think the jackers were actually going to blow the thing up/smash it into a building killing themselves as well...

Just another perspective.

[Culverin]

Family Guy - Visiting Ground Zero - YouTube

[AzNightmare]

Wanna bet now adays people dont do shit other then make videos and upload them to youtube and facebook.
If something like this were to happen again thats all we'd see done is passengers filming it and uploading it. People haven't gotten any tougher in ten years.
Knives for fucksakes! Knives brought down the WTC and killed thousands!

I think now a days, everyone knows about the 9/11 incident, and a lot more people are paranoid about hijackers.
I think people would gather up and overthrow the hijackers. I doubt anything like this (as in a plane successfully crashing into a building)
would ever happen again, unless there is a corrupted team of pilots or something like that.

[Bouncing Bettys]

Family Guy - Visiting Ground Zero - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP7b2lUxVE)
That reminded me of how close Seth MacFarlane came to being a victim on 9/11.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, MacFarlane was scheduled to return to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston, Massachusetts. Suffering from a hangover from the previous night's celebrations, and with an incorrect departure time (8:15 a.m. instead of 7:45 a.m.) from his travel agent, he arrived at Logan International Airport about ten minutes too late to board the flight as the gates had been closed. Fifteen minutes after departure, American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked, and at 8:46 a.m. was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, obliterating the airplane, and killing everyone on board.

[mb_]

Some never before seen photos

James Nachtwey's 9/11 Photographs - LightBox (http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/07/revisiting-911-unpublished-photos-by-james-nachtwey/#1)

[seakrait]

Daniel M. Lewin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_M._Lewin)

this guy tried to stop the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11. :( That was the first plane into the WTC IIRC. He (obviously) wasn't successful. Got stabbed in the neck for his efforts.

and he had been a member of Sayeret Matkal in the IDF (Sayeret Matkal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayeret_Matkal)) so it wasn't like he was a slouch either.

[quasi]

Has it ever been said what kind of box cutters were used? There is a big difference between a snap away blade cutter and the folding kind that use razor blades as well. You could stab with those, slash with them and they probably aren't breaking.


http://queenslyfe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/box-cutter-knife-20339.jpg

http://photo-dict.faqs.org/photofiles/list/2389/3120box_cutter.jpg

[Manic!]

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/imgs/media/Ted_s_pix/box_cutter.jpg

[gdoh]

102 Minutes That Changed America Part 1 - YouTube

[Jgresch]

wow..... today at work the "10 years later" special came on, I didn't really have much interest in watching but after the first 15 minutes I couldn't stop. Must have been like 2 hours long but well worth it. Every once in a while other employees would come by and couldn't stop watching either until a commercial came on and they snapped out of it.

Some of the footage of inside was crazy.

[MG1]

Did anybody watch Saturday Night Live last night?

Rerun of Osama Bin Laden's last will and testament skit. Weird.

[Tim Budong]

Empire State of Mind NY Commercial - StateFarm - 9 /11 New York @djtek - YouTube

neat

i rmb my buddy called me at 7am and told me the WTC was burning...i told him..fuck off, impossible. Wanting to go back to sleep after, but i couldnt as I knew the guy wouldnt play jokes by calling my house phone at 7am...

woke up..parents watching the TV in shock
classes became "optional" as more ppl were crowded in the lunch area/rotunda watching the news than attend class..staff included

[taylor192]

Anyone here lived on the east coast when this happened? Most on this coast were probably asleep. I remember waking up and turning on the news to see the first tower was hit and thinking it was just an accident, then live coverage of the 2nd tower being hit and suddenly realizing this was an attack. I did nothing but watch news coverage that entire day, and most of the next month.

[Hondaracer]

to the people who said the people on the planes that hit the towers probably had no idea that they were going to crash into the building, recently I watched a new documentry that was like 2 hours long, the second hour was almost solely dedicated to flight 11, the second plane that hit the towers

The guy who was flying the hijacked plane was not that great of a pilot, and some of the reenacments that were shown on this documentry were astounding

bottom line imo, on that flight 11 regardless of what you thought they were going to do with the plane, and as one of the analysts even said, the way that plane was flown he asumed that majority of the passengers would have realized pretty quickly they were not going to be just landing at an airport again, they were making HUGEEEE vertical nose dives, banks, etc. there was even a retired top gun pilot on that flight, the problem was probably getting INTO the cockpit once they assumed the flying

[Presto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT5FTrIZN-E

I am Jon Stewart's indignant rage.

[westopher]

America has to rely on its celebrities to protect its citizens because its (somehow also celebrity) politicians do everything in their power to ignore their needs. What a fuckin world.

[punkwax]

Jeez... good on Jon and yes it’s sad that celebrities need to speak before change happens but I applaud those who do. Kim Kardashian has got a bunch of people out prison recently ffs.

I happened to be walking around Manhattan last June and stumbled upon Ronald Spadafora’s funeral: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/nyregion/spadafora-funeral-september-11.html

Blocks were shut down and hundreds of firefighters and police lined the streets in respect. It made me think at the time, I sure hope these first responders and their families are taken care of considering the magnitude 9/11.

Guess not.

[2 n r]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_arising_from_the_September_11_attac ks

[Mr.Money]

Yuck i never thought of that,i remember everyone running for cover with that huge cloud of white ash from the buildings being demolished on the ground,people were coming into stores to be protected.


Workers worked without proper respirators. They wore painters' masks or no covering. Specialists claim that the only effective protection against toxins such as airborne asbestos, is a special respirator. New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health industrial hygienist David Newman said, "I was down there watching people working without respirators." He continued, "Others took off their respirators to eat. It was a surreal, ridiculous, unacceptable situation."