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9/11

9/11, committed weekly against Gaza by us for two years - proportionally, committed almost hourly. Imagine a 9/11 every hour, two years. Of course that doesn't do it justice, since for 99.9% of Americans, 9/11 was just something on TV, while all of Gaza is in war-crime famine and rubble.
 
I'd like to see more actual help for our first responders, who were lied to by the government about it being safe to be there, and saw their medical care cut off. Not just posts giving publicity to the politician.
 
I was walking across my school campus when it happened and it was surreal. That day I went and enlisted in the US military. I didn't want retribution or anything like that, but our country was attacked and it was always something I had thought about doing.

I'll never forget that day, I'll never forget the horror of that event, and never forget Americans like the member of the flight sacrificing their lives to fight back after they realized what the hijackers meant to do. I certainly wont forget the first responders running back into the buildings to try and save as many people as they can.

Just such a tragic day but there were still glimmers of what America looks like when people come together.
 
Craig234 said:
I'd like to see more actual help for our first responders, who were lied to by the government about it being safe to be there, and saw their medical care cut off. Not just posts giving publicity to the politician.
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Those firefighters and cops with cancer and debilitating injuries need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop being parasites on taxpayer dollars that could be better used giving rich assholes tax breaks.
 
The only positive that I remember from 9/11 was that we were united as a country against a common enemy, not against each other.
 
Questerr said:
Those firefighters and cops with cancer and debilitating injuries need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop being parasites on taxpayer dollars that could be better used giving rich assholes tax breaks.
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JESUS!

Parasites?

What an asshole post!
 
Craig234 said:
9/11, committed weekly against Gaza by us for two years - proportionally, committed almost hourly. Imagine a 9/11 every hour, two years. Of course that doesn't do it justice, since for 99.9% of Americans, 9/11 was just something on TV, while all of Gaza is in war-crime famine and rubble.
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Not the time or place, Craig.
 
I was working in northern NJ, eleven miles from the city, and had just gotten in to work. I drove a beater at that time and the radio didn't work.

I got in at maybe a couple of minutes after nine and suddenly people were popping up from their cubicles going, "Did you hear a plane hit the World Trade Center?"

God forgive me because I'll never forgive myself even though it was a legitimate mistake, but I thought for a split-second that it was going to be a joke. "Did you hear the one about...?" My heart hurts every single time I remember that.

Then my husband, who was in California at the time but used to get up a little before 6 to be awake for the opening of the stock market every day, emailed me. He was talking about "the news" and how he was crying, and in the confusion exploding inside my office, I realized with a shock: This actually happened.

Then someone said, "A second plane just hit the other tower!" and for the first time I thought: Oh my God. This wasn't an accident.

Our AV people brought in a TV because the internet was a little sluggish back in the day and we all stood there, nobody sat, I remember that and I'm not sure why we didn't, and we all silently watched the news for a few moments and then my coworker said, "My father is in there."

Spoiler alert, he wasn't. He had stopped for coffee before heading into work. But for an agonizing hour, people tried and tried to call friends and loved ones and couldn't get through, and the looks on their faces. I will never forget it. Real grief and real helpless terror is nothing like the movies. I can't explain it but I'll bet a lot of people on here have seen this look on someone's face at least once.

Then we were all sent home since obviously nobody was going to be working that day. We were all in a state of shock.

My boss's friend died in I think the South tower.

My coworker's father was fine, as I said above.

For one month we didn't have to go into the city for product releases. Then in October it was, "You all are definitely over it by now. Go in and don't tell us how scared you are," so we went in. The first time I went into Midtown, my God. The smell. You could smell the burning smell. It was overwhelming. But people were all milling around, business as usual.

Around that time I got a phone call from a marketer who said she wanted to ask me some questions about the attack. So I was answering them and then she asked something along the lines of (can't remember the exact wording), "If the United States were to take military action, would you support it?" and once again: just shock. I must be very stupid. (Don't comment on that, please.) I had literally never considered such at thing. What the ****? War against who? How do you delcare war on terrorists who are already dead...

And I just straight-up said "No!" and she thanked me and hung up.

Also around that time there was this thing where people were supposed to light candles in those bags you put at the end of the driveway on one specific night to remember the victims of 9/11 and to salute the first responders (some of whom also became victims) and I walked up my street that night in the windy cold, looking at each lit candle and I cried. It was lonely and quiet and sad out there with the candles struggling in the wind. Probably dangerous too, given those conditions, but it was this awful/good feeling of, We went through this horrible horrible thing. But we are all together. We have finally, as a nation, figured out what's really important.

We didn't, though.
 
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Phys251 said:
Not the time or place, Craig.
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We disagree. We are committing a genocide. Every time and place is for opposing that. We're not talking about a minor issue to ignore. We need the opposite, far more attention to it. Further, our concern about 'our' 3,000 killed over 20 years ago and not the two million we are starving right now is unconscionable.
 
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