a thought in my head

[anthrox]

It is time to get serious folks...

A 9/11 exhibit is in my town called 9/11 in pictures, and it is what the title says it is. The events of that dreadful Tuesday in pictures, it is one hell of a moving event, and I can say that I did in fact leave in tears. I think every generation has that one moment in time, where they know exactly where they were and what they were doing at that time, for my parents it was the JFK assassination, my grandparents it was the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this was it for me. I remember going to school that morning, I was a junior in high school and I really didn't feel like going in to school that day, just flat out didn't want to. I remember riding in my friends truck on the way to school it was about 6:45 when we were pulling in and I remember the local radio morning shock jocks playing the guess who farted game, which I was laughing at. I remember meeting my girlfriend at my friends truck in the parking lot and giving her a big kiss and a hug (she just got back from a long weekend), and walking to the courtyard with her. When we got there, we met up with some friends and joked around a little bit, I recall saying to my friends, "man I think I am gonna fake sick, I really don't feel like being here," they didn't have much of a reaction to it. The first bell rung and I kissed my girlfriend good bye and told her that I would call her later, and I went off to class, English 3. I hated this class with a passion, I walked in and put my head down on my desk and fell a sleep (yes I was/am a bit of a slacker). I was later awoken by a teacher and I told her I wasn't feeling well and that I wanted to go to the clinic, so she wrote me a pass... I walked in to the clinic. I walked in there at about 9 am (we had longer classes then most high schools) and I heard on the radio in the clinic that some sort of explosion had gone off in NY at the WTC. I remembered that something similar happened when I was a kid so I thought nothing of it really, but then shortly after that I heard that it was in fact a plane that struck the building. I still sat there kinda not really thinking about it too much figured that the pilot made some sort of a mistake and shit happens (i was a 16 year old punk) and then i heard this "Oh my god... oh my god, another plane has hit the other tower, what is going on, what the hell is going on over here, another plane I repeat another plane!!!" This wasn't good, but I just couldn't believe what I was hearing, By this time the clinic lady had called my mother to come and pick me up from school, and about 10 minutes after the second plane hit she picked me up, and I had never seen a more scared look on her face until then. When I had gotten home the first tower had fallen and they kept showing replay after replay of it and my heart kept sinking lower and lower. And then I recall Katie Couric breaking in and saying that the second tower was falling and them going to a live shot of that and I remember my eyes watering. My father came home shortly there after and so did the rest of my family. I remember seeing a single shot of a guy jumping out one of the towers and thinking to my self... wow it really is that bad up there... and I think that was when I came to the realization that there in fact was no god. Because a god that is supposed to love and care for us wouldn't put us in that situation, a situation where you had to choose how you were going to perish, that isn't the fair and loving god that I was brought up to know. I remember my mother saying "may god save those people" and telling her "there is no fucking god, he is nothing more then a myth and this does nothing to disprove my theory. The rest of that week and for a couple of months there after I felt angry that a bunch of "Sand niggers" (yes I did use that term at one point) would do this and I wanted revenge I wanted the US to drop a nuke on them and fucking take the whole middle east off the map. Then I recall just a pain that slowly went away to what it is now a memory. Those were my memories of the worst day in my life ever. I am curious to hear every one elses

[Strife]

There was a guy on Bill Maher the other night that said he works across the street from where the towers were and he saw couples jumping out of the windows holding hands.

Sad shit.

[mark]

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[anthrox]

Originally Posted by mark

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didn't care while i was writing it, don't care now...

[Charlie]

My thoughts and memories of 9/11 . . .

I was born and raised in New York City. I have home movies my dad took of them building the twin towers, he worked in them and i worked part time in them. so the twin towers go back along way with my family and myself.

on 9/11/2001 I was at home and a good friend of mine called and asked me if i heard anything about an accident at the WTC and i said, no i hadn't , I ran to put the tv on and was watching NBC news and at that point just the first tower had been hit and I remember saying to my friend ...."Tommy, its so damn beautiful out, what moron could make a mistake and fly into a bldg , i knew right then it was no accident! As I stayed on the phone with him, i could not believe my eyes as i saw that second plan crash into the second tower. All I could think of , was my 2 cousins and friends that were in there and praying that they were not up that high!

Luckily one cousin got out and was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge when the first tower came down and my other cousin was coming across the George Washington Bridge when the 2nd plane hit, so both were safe! A handful of friends that worked on the upper floors were not so lucky that day and they lost there lives , thanks to a bunch of thugs and cowards!

I also lost friends that worked for the NYPD and NYFD .... to many to count and some way to young!
Sept 11, 2001 , much like Dec 7, 1941 will be a day most ppl will not forget, i know I won't.

i'll never forget about a month later, i was driving on the new jersey turnpike and the empty feeling i got in my stomach when i looked to the NYC skyline and didnt see those bldgs there! Something i saw everyday for the first 31 yrs of my life! Even though i no longer live in NYC, when i go back to see family and friends, i still get a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when i see that empty skyline in downtown Manhattan ......

[divine]

I started to think about this on the 11th... and the details have already begun to blur. I know I was at home, and I can't remember if I was out of work or if I was working 2nd shift, cause I woke up at like 9:00... and got a phone call from my sister at like 10-10:30. And I watched tv and was on the computer the rest of the day following it. =\

[Spinnr1]

I was in my economics class. my senior year of high school. I was reading through my playbook for the football game that friday and the teacher comes back in the room slowly close the door behind him and says "They just bombed the twin towers" and he turned on the tv changed it to the news and the second plane hit the second tower to a chorus of gasps.

The rest of the day was a blur noone did anything related to class. many classes had prayer circles, and the news was on all day. football practice that afternoon began with a prayer for the people effected.

At the game that friday we all exchanged a wrist band with the players on the other team before the game to show we were all playing in memory of the people lost in the attacks.

the sick feeling remains any time I think about that morning.

[2spy]

Not very often anymore, do I think about 911....but when I do' it saddens me for hours