Interrupted a decent tv session before school started, and nearly every channel was flooded with it.

Originally posted by Fir3line

Interrupted a decent tv session before school started, and nearly every channel was flooded with it.

 

That's about right for an 11 year old. I was 9 when the Cuban missle crisis occured. All I cared about at the time was this guy that I knew as the Presisdent kept coming on TV and interrupting my cartoon shows. That and the nuclear missle drills meant we got a five or ten minute break from lessons and we sat out in the school halls with our backs to the wall.

Let's just pray that it will not happen again, and besides we suffered a lot ever since the world reacted to the 9/11 attacks. But who knows, our own country might be the next target!

Originally posted by grunty

Originally posted by Fir3line

Interrupted a decent tv session before school started, and nearly every channel was flooded with it.

 

That's about right for an 11 year old. I was 9 when the Cuban missle crisis occured. All I cared about at the time was this guy that I knew as the Presisdent kept coming on TV and interrupting my cartoon shows. That and the nuclear missle drills meant we got a five or ten minute break from lessons and we sat out in the school halls with our backs to the wall.

yea, I just can't describe how much I did not care about it when I was 11 years old, was my last days before school and god damn it I wanted to watch Tv.

After that when school started we messed with the muslim kid we had on our class, poor guy.

Originally posted by gebon524

What impact did 9/11 have on the world and also to you?

 

 

 

 To be brief, the effects are still playing out. The impact on the market, etc etc. The US dollar having the effect on the planet that it did and does, it's de stablization and that impact, has'nt finished playing out, and will probably not be fully appreciated for decades.

Personally, it was nearly a game ender for me, and altered the state of my retirement irreparably.

One a positive note, for a couple weeks, imediately following the incident, in America, there were no racial lines. Yes there was a problem with creed. But there was no black and white , etc etc, or that was my observation.

Each time we passed another person (regardless of race, or status), on the street, or going into a store, we would look each other dead in the eyes, do a gut check and a slight nod, and be thankfull we were'nt alone. We had another American, right there, on the same page.

It should've already been that way, yes. It didn't last for very long, yes.

Did we learn anything from it? Any of it?

That can only be answered in each persons heart.

That the answer is not a resounding, "Yes," may be the greatest danger we yet face.

Originally posted by grunty

Originally posted by Fir3line

Interrupted a decent tv session before school started, and nearly every channel was flooded with it.

 

That's about right for an 11 year old. I was 9 when the Cuban missle crisis occured. All I cared about at the time was this guy that I knew as the Presisdent kept coming on TV and interrupting my cartoon shows. That and the nuclear missle drills meant we got a five or ten minute break from lessons and we sat out in the school halls with our backs to the wall.

I was 11 y old and tv shows were my last concerns. Terrorists destroyed two towers, it shocked me and i was very interested into the development of events.

Anyway, the impacts were multiple, economic , new wars, a new fear for terrorism, etc.

i watched it happend on tv, was woken up to see what was going on.   i was in disbelief for a few days.

i don't really think about it anymore except when news and t.v. once again want to cash in on this tragedy every time around september.

It was indeed a huge event which heavily impacted the world but the media has the control of the impact tbh. It was a devastating event which affected so many lives which will be remembered for many years to come. But the war in Iraq, that was a complete fiasco, so many people(insurgents) were killed and millions of lives were ruined, which will be long forgotten...wait, there was a war in Iraq right?

$5 says this thread is going to be locked for being political.

I was 8 so wasn't that interested at the time.

For me that was the brutal, and should I say brilliant Idea of the terrorist. because they wake up the cold blood of everybody, and that tragedy make the whole world panic, stress, and the positive thing the terrorist make the whole world prepared and alert in time of trouble. this kind of insident makes me think that even there is a tragedy there will be a lesson for every trials that will be in return.

The September 11 attacks (called September 11, September 11th or 9/11),were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks against targets in New York and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger jets.The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours.

Hijackers crashed a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. When passengers attempted to take control of the fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, preventing it from reaching its intended target in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 died in the attacks.
The destruction caused serious damage to the economy of Lower Manhattan.

OMG peoples are getting worst and worst by the time goes by. Terrorism is spreading.

I saw a group of idiots do something idiotic and got a big reaction from another group of idiots.

9/11 and the wars that followed proved that trolling can be deadly. 

As for me personally 1998 and 1999 were going great. 2000 to 9/10/2001 were actually fantastic. Since 9/11 I witnessed everything I was growing in to became a stuttering pile of crap. I don't blame any one group either. The fact that society changed and has changed and I don't see any foreseeable return to a better time in the near future... 

I don't think a pile of body bags has done much to alter the goal of the attack. I think a dept crisis and the cusp of an outright civil war in Western society spells out the success of the attack. 10 years later we still have a lot to mourn.

It didn't have to be that way.

It ruined lifes of countless people not only that it affected their families, because most people that was harmed has children needing the support of their parents. Many people lost thier jobs, love ones, loss income, even foreigners got affected to the attacks. Business investors in America suddenly dropped due to the thinking of lack of security in America.

Lets Pray for those who lost thier love ones and affected by this terrorism.

I now get to enjoy TSA agents fondling my balls and poking my butthole when I go to the airport.

Something happened on this day? can't have been something to big.

*shrug*

nothing to say but it's stupidity. why? because if your going to attack a country don't hit the buildings. instead kill the president. sounds hard right, but in the pass JFK and roosebelt were been assasinated. haha

9/11 ruined Grandparent's Day. Now people's poor grandparents have everyone running around saying "never forget", and they forget about them.

I think the families and people who lost loved ones and friends in the WTC remember it everyday and will "never forget". Anyone who saw it on television who didn't know anyone will "never forget" people jumping from the buildings. The event was simply too historic to "never forget".

I dislike having someone in my face always telling me "never forget" as if it's something you can. They seriously need to tone the rhetoric down before it turns into a national shopping day or something else people start avoiding like Pearl Harbor Day.

The whole concept of "never forget" is pretty dumb and shows it's just turning into a slogan to be exploited for money with commemorative this and collectible that. When was the last time someone said over the last ten years, "9/11? What happened on 9/11? I don't remember anything important happening on that date."