Just about everyone knows where they were
when the planes hit the towers on 911.
Where were you?
Did you watch the actually hitting or see
it on the news later. What were your first
thought?
How did you react?
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Lion79
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:19am
I was at school, it was our last lesson
and we were in the art room and our maths
teacher came in and said that 2 planes had
crashed. I didn't really understand it at
first, and it wasn't until later I found
out how big a deal it was. I thought it
was just a plane crash. Not that that sort
of thing isn't serious, just that you hear
about it happening on occasion, but you
don't usually hear of terrorist attacks
and such.
I can't really remember how I felt when I
watched the news later on or anything.
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:27am
I was home watching the morning show. They
showed the rerun of the first plane
hitting, and I thought someone made a
mistake and flew into the tower. While I
was watching I saw the second plane hit
and I knew something bad was happening. I
watched the towers fall, and I cried. All
I wanted was for my husband to come home.
It seems like I had a need to draw to
anything I loved and hold on to them. I
felt so sad for all the people. As the
days went by and faces came with the
killed I cried even more.
I remember how silent the outside seemed
when there where no plans flying. How
perfectly still the sky was.
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Birch
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:30am
I had moved 200 miles on the 10th, I had
no tv and couldn't find my radio yet. I
had a job interview at 3:30. That's when
I found out.
I had walked in the facility with my
bubbly "I'm going to get a job" confident
mode, and I wondered why everyone was so
somber.
After I found out, I drove to a coffee
shop that had a tv set up and watched. At
that point, people were already
desensitized to it and weren't watching
anymore.
I was also immediately suspicious.
I did get the job, by the way!
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:35am
I don't know. I just remember watching it
on TV that night.
Why suspicious, Birch?
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Birch
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:39am
I have read alot of history.
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Rodge
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:41am
...So? So have I. It doesn't make me
suspicious of random things.
Or by history, do you mean 'conspiracy
theories'?
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Birch
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:42am
Random?
No, history.
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Rodge
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:44am
I can't connect 'reading a lot of history'
to 'being suspicious of a terrorist
attack'.
Could you condense your reasoning for me,
so I don't have to slog through all of the
'Was 9/11 Staged?' thread?
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:52am
Look at this thread to know all about
Birch's reasoning
As for me, I was working in Linden, NJ at
a construction site for a power plant. If
you were on one side of the plant, you
could see the towers plain as day. We
were all sitting in our offices and all of
the sudden someone had a radio on and was
walking with this portable radio all over
the office telling everyone that a plane
had hit the tower. We all instantly
freaked out, and then one boss said, "Its
probably just a small commuter plane, Its
happened before" So we relaxed a bit.
Then when the second tower hit we all
really panicked and were glued to the tv
and radio. They pulled all the
construction workers off the site. At
that time, we knew it was terrorist, and
we were right between a major power plant,
and an oil refinery and behind us was a
fuel storage facility. All accross the
river from NYC. They thought we might be
a target. Then a bunch of us went out to
the plant and watched in horror, the
towers burning and the black trail of
smoke that seemed to go on forever. We
sat up there until the first tower fell.
After that happened, they made everyone
leave the site and go home. When I got
home, I was glued to the tv for the rest
of the night.
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Posted: 11-09-07 09:58am
It's a million billion pages long. D:
Also nearly everyone on the first page of
that thread is stupid. 'Do buildings like
that just fall? Hello...' Well, no,
they didn't 'just fall'. A plane flew into
each of them. That kind of helped.
Oh, oh, and "My brother told me that Bush
had them shut down 5 days before 9/11... I
wonder what he was doing?" Brothers- The
Most Reliable Information Source Outside
Of Wikipedia!
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:02am
Well you might learn something if you
would take the time to go through that
thread. And thats pretty rude of you to
call everyone stupid, just because you
don't agree with them. Thats a pretty
juvenile arguement.
Read, you might learn something.
There is NO point to turn this thread into
an 18 page debate like the last one. If
you want to debate the theories, go post
over there. We don't need to prove or
disprove in here, just where you were on
that day!
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:05am
Whatever. You're one heck of a paranoid
person to start assuming that kind of
"stuff" the day of the tragedy. I wouldn't
want to be that paranoid.
Anyway... I was in NY (not NYC),
highschool, Junior year. I didn't see the
towers get hit, but around 11 I had lunch
period. They had TVs on in the lunch room
(which they did occasionally for
basketball games and whatnot) and I saw
two buildings with clouds of dust coming
from them. I'm an army brat, so I
instantly thought our president must have
finally attacked the middle east again, or
that it was some other random bombing
overseas. It never occurred to me that
those were OUR buildings, in the same
state as me. It never passed my mind that
WE, America, were being attacked. Who
would be stupid enough to do that?
As lunch went on of course we all found
out the truth. We are a school district
that receives many students from Fort Drum
(I was one of them). The middle school
wasn't allowed to turn it's TVs on to the
news because they decided those kids were
too young to know, because some of them
had parents in NYC. We were older, and we
got to see. Fort Drum is the base that
sent most of its troops to NYC. It is also
the base that has sent the most # of
troops overseas and re-deployed them the
most. Why? Because it's New York's army
base. They had involvement.
I had a few classes after lunch. One
teacher said "We're having class anyway"
and taught the lesson for the day. My
other teacher (photography) said "I'm
supposed to teach you, but this is history
happening. This is our nation under
attack. You deserve - no - you have the
RESPONSIBILITY to watch this, as the next
generation. This is what your parents have
done to the world."
My father didn't get deployed because he
was already in Kosovo, so that was a
relief. We were very lucky. He got back,
and insertion into Bagdhad hadn't happened
yet. Bombing happened at the end of my
Junior year. I know because we watched the
tiny green lights lighting up the city
during musical practice. I'd seen it
before so I knew exactly what it was. I
saw it during Desert Storm, and
remembered.
We were scared. We knew war was coming; we
thought the draft might come too. My
closest friend said that if he was
drafted, he wanted infantry so he could
die as fast as possible, because he
couldn't handle the military. I cried.
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Rodge
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:09am
Okay, I agree. Maybe 'stupid' was too
harsh a word to use. I'll say scared,
then.
They're so desperate to believe that 9/11
happened because of their evil scheming
president, not because there is something
out there that hates them enough to hurt
them, that they are willing to ignore all
logic.
Or they're just trying to be edgy and
cool. Whatever.
Terrorism happens. Steel heats up enough
to become unsteady. Buildings fall. People
die. There wasn't a conspiracy.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:11am
You'll never win against Birch, and I've
given up caring. Again, this topic isn't
meant for the debate.
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:12am
Exactly Eiri
This topic is not about debating whether
or not it was staged or not...Keep that on
the other thread...
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Rodge
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:16am
Yeah, okay.
Like I said, I don't remember much. I was
twelve, and I didn't watch TV, so I didn't
find out for ages. (Actually, I had no
idea what had been attacked- I wasn't
concerned enough with America to know what
the World Trade Center was.)
We stayed up until the early morning
watching the 24-hour news channel and
waiting for a development, but I had to go
to school the next day anyway.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:22am
We didn't get school off either, but I
believe for the next few weeks pretty much
anything counted as an excused absence, so
you didn't have to go if you didn't want
to. I went.
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:37am
i was in canada of course. i had slept on
a mattress on the floor in front of the tv
because i had just moved into my
apartment. i turned (apparently you can't
say fli*ked) the tv on at about 8 in the
morning and they were showing the first
plane over and over. then they showed the
second plane hit and it was like everyone
realised at once, including me, that this
was no accident. i just remember going
"ohmygodohmygod" and crying. it was so
scary. they were still showing the people
falling out of the buildings because it
was all live. i sat there for hours by
myself just watching it. i don't think i
even had a phone yet. i remember thinking
it was weird that they had those "attack
on america" titles already when it had
just happened. imagine someone working on
that while this was still happening just
so they could sensationalize it. like it
wasn't crazy enough as it was. anyway, i
went to my painting class because i wanted
to be around people, but the last thing i
wanted to do was sit and paint. we just
sat around and talked about it. for about
5 years after that, i still got kinda
freaked out when i would hear an airplane.
i don't get scared now when i hear one
but i still think about it.
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Posted: 11-09-07 10:49am
I'm glad people are less cynical than I
am. Keeps the country running smoothly.
Rodge, I'm sorry you have those
assumptions about people. I wish that you
would not draw these conclusions and then
admit that you can't be bothered to read
the thread because it is too long. You
are very intelligent and owe it to
yourself to at least be familiar with
opposing viewpoints even if you don't
agree with them. It makes you a better
'arguer' at any rate.
Also, you may be interested in reading
about the triggers of the Vietnam war.
Additionally, you were 12 on 9/11. This
is not a knock against your age at all,
but I had graduated from college. I had
been to the WTC even. I was already
suspicious of massive manmade catastrophic
events, the gov't, and the media. We are
bound to have different perspectives of
that day.*
(*Please do not read into this; I am not
trying to say "you were just a kid what do
you know" but only that we are just bound
to have different perspectives of that
day.)
