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Did 9/11 change you?

Did 9/11 change you?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 56.0%

  • No

    Votes: 11 44.0%
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conserv.pat15

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Did 9/11 change you at all and your views of the world?
 
Did it change me? No, not really. But was a very effective demonstration of the way some people feel about America.


Duke
 
Duke said:
Did it change me? No, not really. But was a very effective demonstration of the way some people feel about America.


Duke
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I was young when 9/11 happened (I was in High School.) and 9/11 definately changed me. Before 9/11, I didn't pay to much attention to politics and such... After 9/11, I started to follow politics and everything going on in this country and around the world.
 
Did 9/11 change you at all and your views of the world?
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It did not particularly change my views of the world; it did show me new and previously unsuspected facets of people I thought I knew.
Living through a social upheaval tends to do that, I guess.
From a sociological perspective, it was definitely a learning experience.
 
Didnt really change me. What changed me was the mishandling of the Iraq war, my own political awakening (not to sound like david duke).

i swear, if we had just captured osama...
 
I lost 6 loved ones on 9/11 so yeah it changed me a lot. I was pregnant and suddenly became scare for my child and what kind of world he was going to be living in. I suddenly found myself interested in politics, both locally and nationally. It also helped to strengthen my faith.
 
did 9/11 change me?
yes, im am now more prejudice toward people of arab decent
 
I witnessed first hand what happened to the Pentagon. Not on TV, but in person. Since I worked for the DoD at the time, I knew people in there.

I can't imagine how that *wouldn't* change someone.
 
rivrrat said:
I witnessed first hand what happened to the Pentagon. Not on TV, but in person. Since I worked for the DoD at the time, I knew people in there.

I can't imagine how that *wouldn't* change someone.
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Did you see the plane hit the Pentagon?
 
conserv.pat15 said:
Did you see the plane hit the Pentagon?
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No I didn't. I looked out my office window a couple minutes after and could see the Pentagon burning. Walked outside, and could smell the jet fuel burning. Then we were promptly evacuated out of the area. So no, I didn't witness the actual impact, just the effects of it minutes afterwards. One of the true "surreal" experiences I can remember and something I'll absolutely never forget.
 
9/11 was the day I no longer thought it right to respect people's beliefs simply because they believe them. It was the day I realized that the stakes are too high to let dangerous dogma go unquestioned.
 
I don't know of a single American who wasn't touched by this tragic event.
 
Duke said:
Did it change me? No, not really. But was a very effective demonstration of the way some people feel about America.


Duke
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Yes they want to destroy it, so did it change the way you feel about them?
 
Thelost1 said:
Didnt really change me. What changed me was the mishandling of the Iraq war
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Really, how did that change you more than people coming here to kill us?
 
rivrrat said:
No I didn't. I looked out my office window a couple minutes after and could see the Pentagon burning. Walked outside, and could smell the jet fuel burning. Then we were promptly evacuated out of the area. So no, I didn't witness the actual impact, just the effects of it minutes afterwards. One of the true "surreal" experiences I can remember and something I'll absolutely never forget.
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I'm sure everyone can remember what they were doing on 9/11 and we should never forget about that day.
 
flaherty12 said:
did 9/11 change me?
yes, im am now more prejudice toward people of arab decent
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Yeah, the same thing happened to me after the Oklahoma City bombing and the Atlanta Olympics bombings and the LA Times building bombings, but now I'm scared whenever I see a white person.:roll:


Duke
 
Yes, immensely.

I realized freedom cannot be taken for granted.

Peace
 
Stinger said:
Really, how did that change you more than people coming here to kill us?
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I can't speak for Thelost1, but one reason might be that the people coming here to kill us were not from Iraq...
 
Of course it did.

I used to work in Trade Center #4. I took the Path to work.

I was old enough to understand what was going on. I had a family. I wasn't in HS or College where it could be brushed off b/c there was a Frat party to go to 3 nights later.

I had friends who had husbands who worked in the City. My husband had friends he lost. My SIL's best friend lost her husband that day...with a 5 week old baby.

My friend's son was in kindergarten in 2001 and one of his classmates lost BOTH of his parents that day. And for what? Some freaky religious mantra? How fair was/is that to that little boy? And he will grow up to know that there are idiots out there who can't get the fact that profiling isn't a bad thing when it comes to the safety of a good 300 million Americans or the fact that this "jihad" is ACCEPTED by waaaay too many Americans b/c they are SHEEP....and he lost his mommy and his daddy for something that is now much more accepted by Americans than the pro-life way of thinking is. Put your kid in this little boys shoes...and at the same time understand that fanatical Muslims had been trying to prove their "point" for a long time. Even when a dem was running the US.

So to anyone who says they haven't been affected by 9/11...you were either to young to grasp the severity of the day or you were not directly affected by the day....and when I say that I mean that you did not see the smoke from the burning towers for a good two weeks everytime you walked out your front door. If you didn't lose anyone you knew,or you didn't know the status of anyone who was in the city (living or commuting) or you didn't work downtown NYC...ever...you have no clue. You didn't hem and haw over running to your child's school and taking them home to where you thought it would be safer. You didn't hear the dead silence when the commercial air-traffic was obsolete. You didn't feel your house shake every 5 minutes when the military helio's and fighter jets flew over every 20 minutes for the rest of the day...and week.

So, good question. It's going to take another big hit by these idiot terrorists when a Republican isn't in office to wake people up. But even then, it will be blamed on Bush although it took YEARS to plan 9/11...as in a DEM was the POTUS while the plot was being put together.

Why can't we all just get along?

These terrorist are just as willing to kill a lib as a republican...and the new news is that the terrorists are focusing on our biggest and weakest point...our children. If you don't already know that, you watch too much MSM. If you don't believe that...remember the diagrams found when a cell was infiltrated that focused on a few public schools in NJ? All the access points to the schools? Remember the terrorists who held a school of children hostage in EU a few years ago? If it's not going to wake you up until it touches you...I really hope it never does. Perhaps you should speak to someone who's life the fanatical Muslims ruined.

It floors me that liberal "free thinkers" who are pro-choice, anti-Iraq war, anti-Bush and can't stand Christianity, etc. are the same ones who "feel" for a fanatical religion that likes to keep their women subservient and insignificant...and that includes their "women children". Just b/c there is no genital alteration of little girls on the fantical Muslim side of things? How is it that the fanatical muslims religious supression of women has merit when it comes to the treatment of their women? Hello?

Talk about picking and choosing.

Anyway...yeah, 9/11 changed me.
 
Didn't really change me much. A lot more people get killed in violent ways all over the globe. It certainly was different to see so many American lives lost, but hardly enough to exert that much influence.
 
I was younger then i got told about it on my way home and then watched it on the tv even though im not american i was very pissed off about it.

As for actually changing me im not sure in terms of the long term.
 
rathi said:
Didn't really change me much. A lot more people get killed in violent ways all over the globe. It certainly was different to see so many American lives lost, but hardly enough to exert that much influence.
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Not an unexpected response from "the bay area". :roll:

Different? As opposed to what/where, exactly? When and where else have close to 3000 innocent people of all races/religions/politcal beliefs/income levels, etc., been taken out in a in a civilized democratic country during a civilized time NOT to mention they were "taken out" in a matter of two hours because of some screwed up fanatical twist on a religion?

How sad for whatever it is you represent.
 
Different? As opposed to what/where, exactly? When and where else have close to 3000 innocent people of all races/religions/politcal beliefs/income levels, etc., been taken out in a in a civilized democratic country during a civilized time NOT to mention they were "taken out" in a matter of two hours because of some screwed up fanatical twist on a religion?
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Kosovo certainly had thousands dead. India has fought with Muslims constantly over Kashmir. Ireland and the UK fought a bitter religious struggle for decades. Israel has religious conflict with deaths almost daily. They satisfy your requirements, excepting the 2 hour duration which is irrelevant.

How sad for whatever it is you represent.
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I simply have a far more global viewpoint. I don't particularly value an American life over the life of any other country. 9/11 was a terrible tragedy. However, such tragedies occur all too frequently in the world. If I can go about my day with genocide happening in Darfur, why should I flip out over 9/11? I still prioritize American in my everyday life, but for purely practical reasons. My emotional center cares more about the innocence of the victims than their nationality.
 
Chanda said:
I can't speak for Thelost1, but one reason might be that the people coming here to kill us were not from Iraq...
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So how did the war change you more than 9/11?
 
conserv.pat15 said:
Did 9/11 change you at all and your views of the world?
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Yes. It was the start of my not believing in God. I went from being a practicing Catholic to being agnostic to being atheist. I don't see myself ever going back to believing that there is a god. It's all made-up stuff so that people can explain the unexplainable and strive to be better people while they are here on this earth. I don't need incentive to be a good person.
 
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