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its 6 years today
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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Muttley
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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.
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| Quote: | 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.
Support the arts, shoot a rapper.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BDx13
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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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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BDx13
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photos of the 2,974 people killed that day. (excluding hijackers.)
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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JUICE MAYNE MSHC
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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.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
photos of the 2,974 people killed that day. (excluding hijackers.)
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fuck
Support the arts, shoot a rapper.
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BDx13
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| Quote: | 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.
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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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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BDx13
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| Quote: | 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.
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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.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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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.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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Muttley
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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.
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.
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| Quote: | 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.
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JUICE MAYNE MSHC
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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.
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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,
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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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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BDx13
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| Quote: | 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.
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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.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by upyerbum
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....
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what's december 7th?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by juandiablo
what's december 7th? |
the day pearl harbor was attacked
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ?You know, I want to set those people over there on
fire, but I?m just not close enough to get the job done.? George Carlin
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