9/11 - Eight Years Ago Today

[Grahf]

That day was insane. I remember being in Grade 10 english class at the time that it happened.. a child compared to now.. but I still remember it very clearly. my teacher had family in the states and he was a mess. I remember him telling us about how the first plane hit the first tower, and I didn't understand the gravity of it at all. then I got home and saw it on tv and it started to sink in.. and it was all anyone talked about for weeks

[Inazone]

I remember wondering (along with many other people) what the next target would be. I mean, when someone is using passenger planes as missiles, and there are hundreds of them in the air at any given time, the potential for more attacks seemed almost inevitable.

[SpiralArchitect]

That day will live on for all of us to remember, it's such a striking moment in time, regardless of what people want to believe of that day it's something that has shaped our future.

I woke up that tuesday to the phone ringing off the hook, I never answer the phone when I'm home, unless somebody keeps calling, so about the third time with no message I picked up, it was my mom, she says, "turn on the T.V. now", I did looked around a few channels and came across CNN, at that point they still thought it was an accident, or really were just puzzled as to what was happening, so I sat there in amazement, watching all the different tv angles of the news copters.
I'll never forget the moment I watched the second plane hit the building live.....I'll NEVER forget that. An image burned into my brain so vividly It will be there forever, then of course the rest is history.

I spent the rest of the morning listening to And Justice for All as loud as I could, then I went to work, and it was a ghost town, I worked at Chapters at the time, like Barnes and Noble in the states, and the Starbucks was closed, they were told to shut down, we had some regulars, but we ended up closing early because nobody came in.

Anyhow, I watched that "102 Minutes of 9/11" last night and it gave me that wierd, sick feeling I had the day it happened, the deafening silence in some of that documentary is just chilling.

just crazy....

C

[DRM]

I remember being in 6th grade that day. I came home from school and watched the news footage all day with my dad. On September 11th, 2008, I "Turned Blue" (the ceremony of receiving our blue Infantry shoulder cords the day before graduation) and now a year later I'm in Afghanistan over halfway through a deployment.

Trust me, I haven't forgotten what they did. And every chance we get we make sure they remember who they fucked with.

-David