9/11

[Ruby_Fehu]

I think it's only fair that we as a community should pay our respects. It's been 12 years since the 9/11 disaster yet it only seems like 5 minutes. I know it's a touchy issue but I just want to use this as a way to pay my respects to people who lost their lives of who lost loved ones when this happened. It's so sad to think about even now and every year I think about the fireman who got himself killed trying to save other people.


I remember where I was when it happened. I was six years old and sat in class (I was at infants/primary school) and I was doing RE. We were doing an activity to do with the Hindu Gods (I can't remember fully what the activity was) but I remember the teachers started talking about it and when I got home after school my mum had the news report on. My mum had to explain because I didn't understand at all what was happening and I remember my mum telling me a few years ago that she was at work when it happened and it came on the TV and she rang her partner at the time who was in a meeting and because so many people were ringing those who were in the meeting they postponed it and went to watch it on the news. 


Just like on remembrance day there's always a silence in my school/college for when it happened.

[Leto]

I remember comming home from School and my mother tells me a plane has crached into the World Trade Center before this I had no idea what the World Trade Center even existed, I was currently in my second year of junior high(I was 14 at the time).

Exactly a year previously I had during vacation, been on the top floors of the same buildings I now saw collapsing. Which was a little frightening, despite not being an american, and thus it was never an up-close and personal thing for me. Still I knew that the world would never be the same after this, and that what I was witnessing was the beginning of a new era for better or worse.

[Zorayda]

I was twelve. I was in Physical Education, and class had abruptly just been us sitting on the floor, the teacher running back and forth and speaking with the vice principal and other teachers. I didn't know what was going on, but I knew something was wrong and it made the class uneasy. When I got home, my mom told me what happened. At first, I didn't really register it; how bad it was, what it meant for America. But then I watched it happen on television, heard Bush say that we were going to go to war.

Even years later, I'm still shocked at how horrible it really was; I see shows that captured people leaping from the buildings to die quickly rather than burning painfully in fire. I saw a video from ground-level that showed the building falling in on itself, the people sprinting away panicked because of the thick smoke and debris rushing at them from the building's impact. It's like watching an action film, except this is real and it's just so strange.

I also remember how quickly the world came together to grieve, and how everyone--the firefighters, police, volunteers, heroic individuals--banded together and rescued as many as they could. People had stories of how lucky they were to have been late to work that day, or that they had the day off of work. It's something I won't forget--the feeling of horror and revulsion that people would wish death on so many others, the anger at an entire country for their beliefs and what they would do to follow them, the sadness and grief I felt for my own country. I can't believe it's been so many years since it happened. It still feels like it just happened, fresh in my memory.

[Ruby_Fehu]

I know, but even over a decade later people are still mourning together. It's even scarier though how our generations (80s and 90s) didn't understand at first and now we do and it's just an awful thing to have happened. Its just devastates me that after what happened (it was one of the biggest disasters to have happened up there with Hillsborough and such obviously) people STILL haven't learnt their lessons and people are out there planning attacks like this even now and it's just makes my faith in humanity go downhill. I honestly think this is something no one will ever forget and it'll probably be something that our children will be taught in R.E and History.

[Pulsar]

It's truly was a tragic event.
I too remember where I was when it happened. I had only arrived back from a normal day at school to find my parents sitting in the main room watching the news on the TV. I think at the time I never really grasped the severity of the situation, at least not at first. Being in Europe we obviously found out about what happened some bit after the initial part.

It can be said that 9/11 created a shockwave that was felt worldwide. What happened certainly did change our world. Even now the repercussions of that day still have an effect, even more so with the current chemical weapon issue that is going on in Syria. As a non-american I can certainly notice the unease among the american people on how to act in regard to syria, lest it end up like another Iraq.

I have to agree with you in that it does make one loose faith in humanity when one thinks that humans can be capable of such hate and destruction but that's simply what we are. It's worth keeping in mind though that while humans may be capable of great evil, they are also capable of great good. All the police/firemen/soldiers/citizens/people of all countries/states/nations who banded together in aid of those who were suffering proves that. 9/11 shows itself to be an example of both the worst and best of mankind.

I extend my sympathy and regards to the people who have lost loved ones in the events of 9/11.