Remembering 9/11 - LOCK PLEASE!!

[Striker6]

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

 

 

 

God damn terrorists.

[sour_tacos]

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

 

 

 

Um... thanks for the support. :notalk:

[Powman3]

In England, we never had any Ceremonies relating to it. A year after the London bombings, we had a 2 minute silence in my high school, but the year after it was then discontinued.

 

 

 

Still awaiting for Osama to be found though, he needs to be charged with that crime. I'm sure many families want him brought to justice. :o

 

 

 

If by that you mean "Death Penalty".

[GreyNite]

in my school in canada we have an asembuliy(cant spell at all) and watch the news clip of the planes hitting the towers and them falling down and then we have a moment of silence.... and it's even on the sports channels they talk about it 2 i found that kinda weird... also if any of u havent seen united 93 i suggest u watch it very good movie same with the twin towers(dont know if thats the name or not)

[indy500fan]

Every gas station in town was filled, because gas prices had dropped so dramatically.

 

 

 

Exact opposite happened around here. Gas went from 2 something to 5 something just like that. I didn't buy into the craze though. Actually a lot of people around here didn't. When I got home my mom asked me if I saw the news, and I said yep, and then we didn't talk about it anymore.

 

 

 

It happened in New York, we are rural Indiana. Just didn't scare us all that much.

[StrOwez]

Ah.. I remember that day, walking back from year6 in primary school, got home switched on the TV just as the second plane hit the tower. After 5 minutes of watching it I got frustrated as all the channels had the same stuff on and I missed my episode of 'Hey Arnold'

[Zonorhc]

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

 

 

 

You know full well it has nothing to do with "helping". Some of us just don't feel the need to harp on about it several years after the fact, because it didn't actually affect us beyond the repercussions of this "war on terror". Sure, there are a fair few Australians who bleed their hearts dry for sympathy because of all those poor people who died. However, 9/11 was not an event that required humanitarian aid to be sent, unlike the tsunami, which did.

 

 

 

Um... thanks for the support. :notalk:

 

 

 

Yes, because America totally needs all the emotional support it can get from a country a tenth of its size and across the world's largest ocean.

[flying_death_bombs55]

I still remember it clear as a bell, I was going to school when my friend came running back and told me we had the day off for some reason, then later I saw it on the news, the whole thing. It's something I will never forget, (unless I get amnesia) and ill tell my kids(if I have any) about it, and they will tell their kids, etc.

[Korskin]

In Sweden we remember 9/11 both as the day the twin towers collapsed (2001) but also as the day Anna Lindh, the former swedish minister for foreign affairs, was stabbed to death (2003). I remember exactly where I was when both events occurred. The collapse of the world trade center was such big news that the largest commercial television channel in Sweden chose to broadcast CNN instead of whatever they were supposed to broadcast.

 

 

 

To me it was more of a spectacular thing, like something out of a movie. It didn't make me sad. But then again, people dying on the news doesn't really affect me. It was very interesting though, not every day two planes crash into skyscrapers. The event and what followed actually made watching the news fun for a while.

[warri0r45]

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

 

 

 

God damn terrorists.

 

 

 

Australians? :lol:

[unorclan]

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 moment of silence on 9/11 and we always remember that day when September 11th rolls around.

 

 

 

Do people living in other countries remember it also? Not as in "special way" but when its september 11th do they remember the event that took place that same day 6 years ago?

 

 

 

DO NOT START ANY TERRORIST OR POLITIC DISCUSSION HERE AND NO FLAMING!!!!!!

 

 

 

Everyone should read this before deciding to post anymore.

[Rebdragon]

Everyone should read this before deciding to post anymore.

 

Judging by the posts already made, it seems like everyone already has. What exactly is the point your making?

 

 

 

Me, I still find it narcissistic of Americans to expect that we and everyone in the world should hold it as a day that will live in some kind of infamy, while half of this country's population can't name or locate a single country on the other side of the world, let alone mourn something that happened there.

 

 

 

3,000 people died. Whoop-i-dee-do-da. If your a family member of someone who died, fine, mourn, I'd be kinda scared if you didn't. Otherwise, there's not a person in existence with the time or caring reserves to mourn for every dead pile of carbon on the face of the earth, so don't expect everyone to care about every frikkin' thing.

[Agunimon979]

This whole 9/11 thing will be gone eventually. Do people still take moments of silence for Pearl Harbor?

[indy500fan]

This whole 9/11 thing will be gone eventually. Do people still take moments of silence for Pearl Harbor?

 

 

 

Umm, yes.

[Kenshinjapan]

What is this "The Moon Landing" in which you speak of?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, because America totally needs all the emotional support it can get from a country a tenth of its size and across the world's largest ocean.

 

 

 

And don't stereotype the entire country. The .0000001% of the population that make a big deal about everything are going to be the people you see screaming on every television station. Meanwhile, the other 99.9999999% of the normal population are sitting at home quietly not making a big deal about it. Every country has them. (Just in most countries, you'll get killed if you do say something. :uhh: )

[Giordano]

This whole 9/11 thing will be gone eventually. Do people still take moments of silence for Pearl Harbor?

 

Exactly my thoughts. The only reason why 9/11 is so big it's because it happened recently. If I happened 60 years ago like Peral Harbour, we wouldn't even be having this topic nor any moments of silence (maybe once in a while).

[indy500fan]

This whole 9/11 thing will be gone eventually. Do people still take moments of silence for Pearl Harbor?

 

Exactly my thoughts. The only reason why 9/11 is so big it's because it happened recently. If I happened 60 years ago like Peral Harbour, we wouldn't even be having this topic nor any moments of silence (maybe once in a while).

 

 

 

They still do it every year. As often as we do for September 11.

 

 

 

Your point destroyed.

[StrOwez]

This whole 9/11 thing will be gone eventually. Do people still take moments of silence for Pearl Harbor?

 

Exactly my thoughts. The only reason why 9/11 is so big it's because it happened recently. If I happened 60 years ago like Peral Harbour, we wouldn't even be having this topic nor any moments of silence (maybe once in a while).

 

 

 

They still do it every year. As often as we do for September 11.

 

 

 

Your point destroyed.

not as much as 9/11 clever pants, his point remains. He was saying after a while people won't be as fussed about the whole 9/11 thing and it will be narrowed down to small ceremonies just as Pearl Harbour.

[BLOODyneedle]

that was a sad day :cries:

 

 

 

my teacher from 6th grade.

 

 

 

her husbund was in one of the building's right next to the twin towers.

 

 

 

but hey left with his friend that was there, my teacher said hey was never the same from that day on.

 

 

 

for all of the people that didnt get out .

 

 

 

:pray: :pray:

[lunapasa]

Didn't even realize it was going to be 9/11 till I saw the topic. I live in Europe, why would I bother caring about something that happened 6 years ago, on the other side of the Atlantic?

[Peronix]

I remember it well, watching it unfold live on the news. When I saw the first tower start to collapse my jaw nearly fell off...

 

 

 

It isn't something that I think about all that much anymore, though. It was 6 years ago, and much has happened since then. There are much more pressing things on my mind now than that distant memory.

[atestarossa]

well... i do remember the day, as it was a very special one... i was in 3'rd or 4'th grade, and i remember walking up to my dads workplace, and asked what that thing on the radio was... and he told that two planes had crashed into some towers...

 

 

 

not being that old, i imagined towers as these old kind of circular stone-towers, and couldn't understand what the problem was... i did get it when i came home though.

 

 

 

but about if this thing should be given as much attention as it does, i don't think it should... yes, it's one of the few attacks on USA through it's history...

 

but still, the tsunami 26'th december (05, right? ) and the huge earthquake excactly one year before that was much more terrible.

 

 

 

but as someone said... one person dying is a tradegy, a million just a number.. it's awfully true. The darfur crisis, loads on loads of people died, and still the papers where quiet for quite a long time about it. But this single girl being kidnapped get over 10x the attention... sad but true

[Jaziek]

Everyone should read this before deciding to post anymore.

 

Judging by the posts already made, it seems like everyone already has. What exactly is the point your making?

 

 

 

Me, I still find it narcissistic of Americans to expect that we and everyone in the world should hold it as a day that will live in some kind of infamy, while half of this country's population can't name or locate a single country on the other side of the world, let alone mourn something that happened there.

 

 

 

3,000 people died. Whoop-i-dee-do-da. If your a family member of someone who died, fine, mourn, I'd be kinda scared if you didn't. Otherwise, there's not a person in existence with the time or caring reserves to mourn for every dead pile of carbon on the face of the earth, so don't expect everyone to care about every frikkin' thing.

 

 

 

very well said. notice we dont have mass tsunami mournings?

[Ginger_Warrior]

But this single girl being kidnapped get over 10x the attention... sad but true

 

Ow you mean "Maddie"? Yeah, lol, don't even get me started on that. :wink:

 

 

 

Your post is too true though. Something like 2 million people have now been displaced in Darfur, and then people expect the world to remember an attack over five years ago in which just (comparitively) 5,000 people died?

[Ashlyn_Hart]

It's my generation's defining moment.

 

 

 

I watched the plane fly into the second tower on live television.

 

 

 

My father watched JFK get shot on live television.

 

 

 

My grandmother listened to the bombing of Pearl Harbor live over the radio.

 

 

 

My great-grandfather spent his childhood during the Civil War.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Barihawk, you forgot one other. The day the Challenger shuttle exploded after launch.

 

 

 

But, back on topic. I can still remember what I was doing that fateful September 11th. My entire office just stopped working and we all were glued to the television. One of my co-workers just got married (she was a young wife), I looked to her and immediately asked, "How old is your husband?" My first thought was that Bush would re-enact the draft and all our young men would be send to some Godforsaken place. Well, the draft never came but they all were sent....