its 6 years today

BDx13 - 9-11-2007 at 01:15 PM

Muttley - 9-11-2007 at 01:19 PM

Like I said before... if you weren't in New York on September 11th, 2001, you might not understand how terrible that day truly was. Absolutely the most horrifying thing I've ever experienced, and I wasn't even in Manhattan.

morgan - 9-11-2007 at 01:29 PM

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Originally posted by Muttley
Like I said before... if you weren't in New York on September 11th, 2001, you might not understand how terrible that day truly was. Absolutely the most horrifying thing I've ever experienced, and I wasn't even in Manhattan.

I was sitting in class and the teacher said something about one of the towers being hit. We turned on the tv and within a minute we saw the seincd plane hit live. Seriously fucked up.

Muttley - 9-11-2007 at 05:13 PM

I woke up cuz my girl was starting a new job that day (I had been laid off a few months prior). I was sitting there playing Playstation listening to Howard Stern. Howard mentioned the plane hitting the tower, I turned on the news and caught plane #2. I still remember all that shit like it was yesterday, especially the horrible feeling in my gut when the first tower came down.

I knew two people that were supposed to be in the towers at that time but both overslept. I also have another friend who was stuck in the subway nearby for hours, having no idea what was going on up above, even after hearing the sounds of the towers coming down and the tunnels filling with smoke.

Discipline - 9-11-2007 at 05:26 PM

I remember working late the night before and then getting up and going to work at 10 that morning. I hadn't checked out the tv or radio and had no idea what happened. I was at work all day and heard nothing about it because it was non-stop and we had no radio. I would ask customers what was going on and nobody said anything. The most I heard from somebody was that a plane had crashed. I got home at 8 or 8:30 that night and my roommate was watching it all on the news. I thought it looked like a really cool movie until he told me it was real, and had happened that morning. I was in shock to say the least.

tireironsaint - 9-11-2007 at 09:48 PM

I was working as a bookkeeper in a grocery store on the opening shift at the time. One of my cashiers who was kind of a nutbag came up to the window of my office and told me that somebody flew a plane into the World Trade Center. I thought she had gone off the deep end, but we had a little portable black and white TV back there, so I turned it on and saw the second plane hit and watched all the insanity go down from that point on. It felt like the world was collapsing and I didn't even know anybody in NY at that time. It's putting a weight in my guts just thinking about it now.

BDx13 - 9-11-2007 at 11:20 PM

msnbc was rerunning their broadcast from that day this evening.
i out it on for five, maybe ten seconds.
shouldn't have.
the day we may hate to remember but cannot bear to forget.

BDx13 - 9-11-2007 at 11:22 PM

photos of the 2,974 people killed that day. (excluding hijackers.)

JUICE MAYNE MSHC - 9-11-2007 at 11:58 PM

Robin from the Howard Stern Show said today that to the generations that come after us Sept 11th won't be as big a deal to them. I agree...sad but true.
That day after I got home and for the entire next day I taped the news all day and night. And I did it so my kids one day can see how chaotic it really was and maybe understand why it was such a big deal. The weird thing is that I'm not really a guy who thinks too much about having kids nor am I considering having any for a long long time...but for some reason that's what went through my head that day.

morgan - 9-12-2007 at 12:04 AM

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Originally posted by BD
photos of the 2,974 people killed that day. (excluding hijackers.)

fuck

BDx13 - 9-12-2007 at 06:53 AM

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Originally posted by JUICE MAYNE MSHC
Robin from the Howard Stern Show said today that to the generations that come after us Sept 11th won't be as big a deal to them. I agree...sad but true.

i do as well there is already some criticism of the memorial service and commentary in new york about 9/11 fatigue.

As 9/11 Draws Near, a Debate Rises: How Much Tribute Is Enough?

Once-indelible dates no longer even incite curiosity. On Feb. 15, how many turn backward to the sinking of the battleship Maine in 1898?

Few Americans give much thought anymore on Dec. 7 that Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 (the date to live in infamy). Similar subdued attention is paid to other scarring tragedies: the Kennedy assassination (Nov. 22, 1963), Kent State (May 4, 1970), the Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995).

Generations, of course, turn over. Few are alive anymore who can recall June 15, 1904, when 1,021 people died in the burning of the steamer General Slocum, the deadliest New York City disaster until Sept. 11, 2001. Also, the weight of new wrenching events crowds the national memory. Already since Sept. 11, there have been Katrina and Virginia Tech. And people have their own more circumscribed agonies.

BDx13 - 9-12-2007 at 06:54 AM

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Originally posted by JUICE MAYNE MSHC
That day after I got home and for the entire next day I taped the news all day and night. And I did it so my kids one day can see how chaotic it really was and maybe understand why it was such a big deal. The weird thing is that I'm not really a guy who thinks too much about having kids nor am I considering having any for a long long time...but for some reason that's what went through my head that day.

that's kind of wild, man.

upyerbum - 9-12-2007 at 07:15 AM

My wife called me at work about the first one, I left work, went and got my daughter, and headed home. Watched the rest on the news wondering if the world was coming to an end.

newbreedbrian - 9-12-2007 at 04:34 PM

I remember getting up and turning on the tv after the first one and watching the second go down. It hardly seemed real at first, took awhile to sink through the shock of it all. I stayed glued to the tv until I left for the Wesley Willis show I had tickets too. I can't think of a weirder end to a fucked up day than that. For those of you in NYC at the time, I can only imagine what that was like in person. I went to ground zero when i went to NY a year and a half ago, and it was a pretty intense experience by itself.

Muttley - 9-12-2007 at 05:00 PM

By the way I still get weird when I get anywhere near Ground Zero. And I refuse to go down there on foot, only passed by in a car.

Any of you guys ever actually go up to the roof when the towers were there? I went up once, I'm afraid of heights and I was scared to fucking death, wouldn't let go of the handrail. My gf at the time and her sister had a good laugh at my expense.

I'm really confused as to why September 11th hasn't been turned into a national holiday by now.

DaveMoral - 9-12-2007 at 05:59 PM

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Originally posted by Muttley
By the way I still get weird when I get anywhere near Ground Zero. And I refuse to go down there on foot, only passed by in a car.

Any of you guys ever actually go up to the roof when the towers were there? I went up once, I'm afraid of heights and I was scared to fucking death, wouldn't let go of the handrail. My gf at the time and her sister had a good laugh at my expense.

I'm really confused as to why September 11th hasn't been turned into a national holiday by now.

Same reason December 7th hasn't.

JUICE MAYNE MSHC - 9-12-2007 at 06:14 PM

I remember one time as a kid I looked straight up at one of the towers and it was so tall I had to look up so high that I almost fell over backwards.

Dave - 9-12-2007 at 09:56 PM

i woke up and walked down to my friends comic shop, and he had the TV on, i didnt even knew it happened until then , it was like 5 mins after the second plane hit.

and we sat there ans watched it for hours in disbelif,

BDx13 - 9-13-2007 at 12:48 AM

yeah, me and my wife went up there back in the late 90s. i dig heights, so i was into it. we did that goofy tourist thing where they take your photo in front of a giant picture of the buildings, then charge you $20 for the print on the way out. i'll see if i can find it.

on a relateed note, remember when there was that shooting on the observation deck of the empire state building? i was there that day. kinda put me off nyc tourist destinations for a while.

BDx13 - 9-13-2007 at 12:58 AM

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By the way I still get weird when I get anywhere near Ground Zero. And I refuse to go down there on foot, only passed by in a car.

agreed. when i drive in to town for work, i go by on west street, but there's SO much construction in the area, you can't focus on the site.

i went down there on foot one time. my dad, who is a retired cop, wanted to go. it was winter, like a year and a half later, and it started snowing like a mother fucker while we were there. you know, one of those days when its so gray and showy it almost feels like night time? anyway, i couldn't take. there are all these "info placards" for tourists with the history of the building and photos and the names of the people killed. and the vendors down there. the fucking vendors. i thought i was gonna kill someone. these fucks selling digital prints of the buildings on fire and people jumping and the city in ruin in your choice of 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, matte or glossy. i honestly thought i was gonna have a heart attack i was so fuckiing angry.

JawnDiablo - 9-13-2007 at 06:55 AM

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My wife called me at work about the first one, I left work, went and got my daughter, and headed home. Watched the rest on the news wondering if the world was coming to an end.

I was pretty much convinced of this at the moment it was happening.
even considered getting married so id go out properly....what a bad idea that woulda been....

JawnDiablo - 9-13-2007 at 06:57 AM

what's december 7th?

newbreedbrian - 9-13-2007 at 02:32 PM

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what's december 7th?

the day pearl harbor was attacked