Remembering 9/11 - LOCK PLEASE!!

[fakeitormakeit]

I remember it, then again I saw the smoke.

 

 

 

Although September 11th was a tradegy, and it is very serious, I think some(keyword SOME, so don't start attacking me because I said Americans lol) Americans mentions it waaaaay too much so it dilutes the sadness but then again why should the rest of the world regconize it if the Americans don't do a moment of silence in a memorial day for the Armenian Genoicide or the attack on England in July 7th? I'm not saying people of 9/11 should be forgotten, I'm just saying if you want respect for a tradegy, you must give respect for another's.

 

 

 

Anyway, no matter what race you are you should not have to suffer at should barbarianism as being killed in terrorist attacks, genocides, etc. But can't we just let go of the loved one's lost on 9/11 and let them be?

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: Can we give Al Gore the recount now? lol (just a joke people I'm not saying I believe those crazy conspiracy theories that bush launched missles at the world trade center and the pentagon.)

[SupportMage]

Pmg 9/11 NEVAR 4GET

 

 

 

On a moar....er, more serious note...yeah. Tragic.

[nomadmike]

:shock: Don't you people know we got Osama. They just can't admit it or else they will lose their peoples trust in the whole "Fight for Alah and he will reward you" will die.

 

 

 

:? Look at him! A black beard, eyebrows, and a propaganda video that took 3 years to make Hes now being acted out by others. I say he just started a buisness like the mafa : 'Cept he replaces the mafia don :-$

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways OT: It was bad but life goes on. Worse things have happened in this world but this one was the first that was made to look Horribly gruesome due to Bush wanting a remember able presidency :-w Now he has a war he can't control -.-

 

 

 

Cheers,

[martinisback]

I'm sure everyone who lives in America and is of a mature age remembers September 11th 2001.

 

Seeing that 9/11 is just a few days away I was wondering if other countries like England remember September 11th as the day the World Trade Center was hit?

 

Almost (probably every single) school in America have some kind of Ceremony on 9/11 and we always remember that day when September 11th rolls around. Do people living in other countries remember it also?

 

 

 

Yes we obviously remember it but (i live in canada), we dont do any cermonies or [cabbage] we usually remember it on the announcements moment of silence or something. If england had a big attk on them like that, im sure the U.S.A schools wouldnt make cermonies 6 years after.

[Hi9im8Here7]

I think I was in third grade when it happened. My mom was just taking me home from school because I was sick when she told me about the september 11th attacks.

 

 

 

I got home and saw it on TV. But I didn't really comprehend how major of an event it was, and how it would affect the future of US foreign policy in the 20th century.

 

 

 

But now I do, hence, my sig.

 

 

 

Shocked Don't you people know we got Osama. They just can't admit it or else they will lose their peoples trust in the whole "Fight for Alah and he will reward you" will die.

 

 

 

I don't think that they would've gotten him, as the Bush administration has already prevented his capture on several occasions. Though there is a possibility that he died awhile ago and in order to perpetuate this sick war they're using a double.

 

 

 

But then again, maybe it really is Osama. You never know...

[WutangFlu]

*yawn*

 

less than 3,000 people died that day? i don't even remember.

 

who cares, thousands more die of starvation or disease alone.

 

 

 

Not that I care, the world is well over-populated, I welcome natural selection and "mishaps"

 

 

 

I agree. So how can we get rid of idiots like you? :-k

 

 

 

~Defender~

 

 

If you're implying killing me.. well, kinda contradicts a pro-lifer, as it seems like you're one, doesn't it?

 

 

 

ha...

 

 

 

I cant wait for this Sept. 11th, and OH!, coincidence a 'New' Osama recording.. OooOoo...

 

 

 

Maybe he'll finally nuke us with those WMD's that Bush is still ape-[cabbage] about. Only on Tuesdays... -.-

 

 

 

I told speed a prediction I made a while ago, along with some other people

 

 

 

Bush rigs some scheme up, lets Osama do another terrorist attack, delays or withholds the 2008 election so he can stay in office and prance around in his penny-loafers and try to suck more money anything he can, and anyway he can. If so happens to come true, be it unlikely, hopefully America has the decency to impeach, or at least assassinate the idiot.

 

 

 

 

It's an important event, and I hope to God some of you kids don't have to have a defining tragedy for your generation.

 

 

 

Well... Kurt Cobain blew his head off.

 

 

 

WWIII? anyone?

[yomom1919]

 

If you're implying killing me.. well, kinda contradicts a pro-lifer, as it seems like you're one, doesn't it?

 

 

 

ha...

 

 

 

I cant wait for this Sept. 11th, and OH!, coincidence a 'New' Osama recording.. OooOoo...

 

 

 

Maybe he'll finally nuke us with those WMD's that Bush is still ape-[cabbage] about. Only on Tuesdays... -.-

 

 

 

I told speed a prediction I made a while ago, along with some other people

 

 

 

Bush rigs some scheme up, lets Osama do another terrorist attack, delays or withholds the 2008 election so he can stay in office and prance around in his penny-loafers and try to suck more money anything he can, and anyway he can. If so happens to come true, be it unlikely, hopefully America has the decency to impeach, or at least assassinate the idiot.

 

 

 

...So your justification for not caring about 3000 lives lost is because bush did it? Thats just like saying the holocaust doesn't matter because Hitler did it. Or the Darfur Genocide is doesn't matter because the Sudanese government did it.

[Mirror]

I still remember 9/11 but I never hold ceremonies anymore. Yes it is something that wont be forgotten (from my standpoint) and should be remember but that does not mean we do or do not have to hold a ceremony of silence, etc.

 

 

 

Also to all those that are publicaly making fun of 9/11 on purpose or jokingly, it just isnt right. Innocent lives were lost, but you can say the same thing with other situations. Sadly it was put that "One person lost is a tradegy, Millions of people lost is a number." It is a horrible way to look at it but it is still possible to do so. I will forever remember this day, just like I will remember what happened during WWII, etc. The only difference would be actually witnessing it.

[navyplaya]

[hide]

*yawn*

 

less than 3,000 people died that day? i don't even remember.

 

who cares, thousands more die of starvation or disease alone.

 

 

 

Not that I care, the world is well over-populated, I welcome natural selection and "mishaps"

 

 

 

I agree. So how can we get rid of idiots like you? :-k

 

 

 

~Defender~

 

 

If you're implying killing me.. well, kinda contradicts a pro-lifer, as it seems like you're one, doesn't it?

 

 

 

ha...

 

 

 

I cant wait for this Sept. 11th, and OH!, coincidence a 'New' Osama recording.. OooOoo...

 

 

 

Maybe he'll finally nuke us with those WMD's that Bush is still ape-[cabbage] about. Only on Tuesdays... -.-

 

 

 

I told speed a prediction I made a while ago, along with some other people

 

 

 

Bush rigs some scheme up, lets Osama do another terrorist attack, delays or withholds the 2008 election so he can stay in office and prance around in his penny-loafers and try to suck more money anything he can, and anyway he can. If so happens to come true, be it unlikely, hopefully America has the decency to impeach, or at least assassinate the idiot.

 

 

 

 

It's an important event, and I hope to God some of you kids don't have to have a defining tragedy for your generation.

 

 

 

Well... Kurt Cobain blew his head off.

 

 

 

WWIII? anyone?

[/hide]

 

 

 

TBH, I've lost respect for you. :?

[Giordano]

6:00 AM, 4th grade.

 

My mother woke me up around 6 in the morning and saw it. I had no idea how this would impact the world until a bit later. Only recently in 8th grade did I relise how large this single event triggered the new form of Communisim; Terrorism.

[WutangFlu]

6:00 AM, 4th grade.

 

My mother woke me up around 6 in the morning and saw it. I had no idea how this would impact the world until a bit later. Only recently in 8th grade did I relise how large this single event triggered the new form of Communisim; Terrorism.

 

 

 

I'm fairly sure that the attacks were after 6:00am.... #-o

 

 

 

Edit*

 

just seen you were from South California, which is 2-3 hr time difference I think

 

 

 

making it 8-9am, which sounds right, my bad.

[Rebdragon]

*yawn*

 

less than 3,000 people died that day? i don't even remember.

 

who cares, thousands more die of starvation or disease alone.

 

 

 

Not that I care, the world is well over-populated, I welcome natural selection and "mishaps"

 

 

 

I agree. So how can we get rid of idiots like you? :-k

 

 

 

~Defender~

 

I kind of agree with LP... of course I'd put it differently, but it's not like the terrorist attack was earthshattering, like it was something that caused to human race to do a 180. Personally it seems people make it out to be more than it really is, just because it happened fairly recently :| .

 

 

 

I mean, imagine if all European countries held a ceremony for all the days in which at least 3,000 people died for some WWII related reason within the national borders. With each passing remembrance service people would start to care less and less, to the point where they stopped caring at all. We ain't God. We can't infinitely care about everything. Thus, we should focus on caring about things that matter- the present, the future. Not the past. The past doesn't gain anything from our caring, but the future sure as hell does.

 

 

 

Though obviously I don't "not care" (though I admittedly have never felt all that much emotion in regards to the attack), but there's only so much caring that can be spread around. Stop living in the past, and look to the frikkin' future .

[Ginger_Warrior]

6:00 AM, 4th grade.

 

My mother woke me up around 6 in the morning and saw it. I had no idea how this would impact the world until a bit later. Only recently in 8th grade did I relise how large this single event triggered the new form of Communisim; Terrorism.

 

Terrorism = Communism? :?

 

 

 

Secondly, why do people feel 9/11 was the first example of terrorism? If you believe that, then clearly you were blind to the past 200 years in Ireland.

 

 

 

9/11 didn't make Terrorism, nor was it even the first example of Islamic Fundamentalism. It was just the biggest example of it, but it certainly wasn't a precedent. And there is just no way you can compare Communism to Terrorism, unless what you meant by that was the feeling of paranoia (and I'm sorry, I genuinely feel it is paranoia) that struck the Western World and not the ideology itself.

[hohto]

And there is just no way you can compare Communism to Terrorism, unless what you meant by that was the feeling of paranoia (and I'm sorry, I genuinely feel it is paranoia) that struck the Western World and not the ideology itself.

 

 

 

Easily can: The communism = terrorism doesn't mean that they'd be similar, it means they both fill the same hole. During the cold war, communism was THE bad thing and many things were explained as a must because of it. Now terrorism has replaced that.

[StrOwez]

*yawn*

 

less than 3,000 people died that day? i don't even remember.

 

who cares, thousands more die of starvation or disease alone.

 

 

 

Not that I care, the world is well over-populated, I welcome natural selection and "mishaps"

 

 

 

I agree. So how can we get rid of idiots like you? :-k

 

 

 

~Defender~

 

 

 

Yeah and the idiots who type their forum name after each post they make.

[unorclan]

Yeah, like I was wondering if people living in other countries who don't have it anounced on TV or at school do they remember themselves? and i mean just seeing its 9/11 and thinking "thats the day the two towers fell" or whatever.

 

 

 

I remember it like yesterday and I was home at the time. It freaked my Mom out and my dad came rushing home...its was crazy.

 

 

 

repeating what i said!

 

 

 

I did not ask if other people in other countries have cerimonies and moments of silence! I just wanted to know if you just remember it!

 

as in (like i said in the quote) you see its 9/11 and you just THINK "thats the day the two towers were hit" and heck you move on....sheesh..

[____]

I'm with the 'yawn' crowd here, if Australia gets some kind of 9/11 [cabbage] over prime time i'll be pissed off. Might be a different deal for you Americans, but I didn't blink when I saw it on the TV when I woke up that morning. I actually went through every channel looking for one which wasn't broadcasting it because I didn't give a damn. 3,000 lives lost - meh. That's been replaced and then some already.

[Biabf]

Yeah I remember it.

 

 

 

In England we still do as well. We have a minutes silence as do we have for July 7th. It's generally on the news quite a lot with headlines like 'Remembering 9/11'

[Striker6]

I'm with the 'yawn' crowd here, if Australia gets some kind of 9/11 [cabbage] over prime time i'll be pissed off. Might be a different deal for you Americans, but I didn't blink when I saw it on the TV when I woke up that morning. I actually went through every channel looking for one which wasn't broadcasting it because I didn't give a damn. 3,000 lives lost - meh. That's been replaced and then some already.

 

 

 

That's because you're an ice c0ld ki113r right?

[Zonorhc]

No, because some of us in Australia couldn't care less about something we have zero emotional investment in.

[Ragen]

Every year now we've had a minutes silence for 9/11. 3000 people died. I don't think we had anything a year on after the Tsunami. 500,000 (if i remember correctly) people died. Hmmm.

[Giordano]

6:00 AM, 4th grade.

 

My mother woke me up around 6 in the morning and saw it. I had no idea how this would impact the world until a bit later. Only recently in 8th grade did I relise how large this single event triggered the new form of Communisim; Terrorism.

 

Terrorism = Communism? :?

 

 

 

Secondly, why do people feel 9/11 was the first example of terrorism? If you believe that, then clearly you were blind to the past 200 years in Ireland.

 

 

 

9/11 didn't make Terrorism, nor was it even the first example of Islamic Fundamentalism. It was just the biggest example of it, but it certainly wasn't a precedent. And there is just no way you can compare Communism to Terrorism, unless what you meant by that was the feeling of paranoia (and I'm sorry, I genuinely feel it is paranoia) that struck the Western World and not the ideology itself.

 

What I meant was the Islamic Terrorism in America. Never before we've seen this much Islamic terrorism in America. After 9/11 Bush sent the soldiers to Afganistan and Iraq, perhaps pissing the terrorists off even more and making damn petrol prices higher. :wall:

 

And as Hohto already said, Terrorism fills the gap of Communism in my view.

 

 

 

Noneoftheless, I sence something fishy this 9/11. :?

[trapical]

A month or so ago I attended a guest speaker who workers for the State department. The audience was mostly college kids but there were a few middle/elementary schoolers in the crowd. The speaker said "Ever since September 11th, 2001... which, in review, was a day six years ago when terrorists attacked New York..."

 

 

 

He actually had to explain what happened since some of the kids in the crowd were only 2 when it happened. :-s I felt old. Really old.

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway in memory of the date I usually watch clips from the morning talk shows from that day. It's chilling to see how happy they all start out and then you see the bits of info coming in and how the mood can change so fast. Eerie.

[Tigra00]

No, because some of us in Australia couldn't care less about something we have zero emotional investment in.

 

 

 

But oddly, if Australia were to sink into the ocean, Americans would be the first people there helpin' you guys. Sweet deal!

 

 

 

It's okay though, if Australia sunk into the ocean my first thought would probably be "Thank God. Maybe if none of them survive, we won't have to hear "G'Day, Mate!" or have anymore stupid crocodile hunters..." :lol: :P

[sour_tacos]

I live in the USA, but here's my recolection: I remember my 3rd grade teacher leaving all of us 8 year olds in the room alone while the entire staff of our elementary school gathered in the library to watch several news reports at the same time. The first tower collapsed shortly before I left for school in the morning, I remember my mom being glued to the TV and just kinda semi-waving at me when I went out the door. That night I had auditions for a local children's thater, and it was at our district (now my) highschool. All the students helping with auditions were crying, and all us little kids just stood there and read our lines hoping we could go home. Every gas station in town was filled, because gas prices had dropped so dramatically. When I was younger, I always listened to talk radio to help me fall asleep at night (not sure why), but my mom said I had to just fall asleep without the radio, because she didn't want me hearing all of the fantic people calling into the station to see if their loved ones who were on a flight on in New York were alright. A truly scary and unforgettable day for me, even if I was only eight.