Kimm
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Post by Kimm on Sept 11, 2010 10:18:53 GMT -5
I am watching a re broadcast of September 11, 2001.
I remember how I felt. I watched it at the time and its just amazing how it hits me again all these years later.
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Post by Jersey on Sept 11, 2010 10:43:50 GMT -5
I was in eighth grade when it happened. When we were at school, I saw the teachers talking to each other. Apparently they agreed to keep it to themselves and not let us know what had happened, so they didn't turn the televisions on. It was only when I got home that I saw what had happened.
Seeing the people jumping bothered me the most.
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Post by fartinggurl on Sept 11, 2010 14:01:08 GMT -5
I remember it was my freshman year of high school when it happened. I remember going into my 3rd period Active Physics class, and the TV was on, showing what had happened. All the teachers had their televisions on, and in every class we just watched the news. None of the teachers assigned homework that day.
What was also scary was that one of my uncles worked in an office only a couple blocks away from the World Trade Center. He called about an hour I came home from school that day, telling everybody that he was all right. He was actually one of many people who walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to safety.
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Post by Jason O'Lewa on Sept 11, 2010 14:37:13 GMT -5
i was only 4. I remember my dad held me up on his side and told me to watch the tv and explained about planes being hijacked and used as a bomb
and that the building gets weaker under the heat and implodes with the weight of each floor caving in on the next
i think it was a cowerdly act to atack a tourist building and office center not even a military place
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Post by Phil on Sept 23, 2010 14:42:59 GMT -5
When I was growing up my parents and their friends would sometimes say 'do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot?' Of course I wasn't born but I remember that being talked about. My father was a kid but he remembers Pearl Harbor. He was about 8 at the time.
September 11, 2001 will always be to me a day where the world stood still.
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Post by Demona on Sept 23, 2010 18:23:30 GMT -5
I was in eighth grade when it happened. When we were at school, I saw the teachers talking to each other. Apparently they agreed to keep it to themselves and not let us know what had happened, so they didn't turn the televisions on. It was only when I got home that I saw what had happened. Seeing the people jumping bothered me the most. Late to post! Didn't see it here.  Anyway! I was in high school, 10th grade, and it was the second class of the day. History class. I bet some kids remember who they even sat next to. A teacher came in and told us, and our teacher turned on the TV. We had them built into all the rooms. During the next class, it was on the whole time. I don't know how they handled it with the middle school or elementaries in my district, but around here apparently they didn't believe in keeping secrets like that, and they shouldn't. Whenever a kid died from the school even, it would be in the announcements, and when we had a scandal involving a teacher, the principal came on the TV's and broadcast it. He just didn't go into details then. |
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Post by Classicblast on Sept 24, 2010 23:19:46 GMT -5
I am concerned that conspiracy theorists are going to grow in numbers
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Post by angel607 on Sept 25, 2010 1:07:08 GMT -5
i was watching a tv show called my generation and it brought up that topic september 11th. I had off work that day. I was suposed to go shopping with a guy friend but after hearing that canceled. I hung out with my 2 best friends that day mostly crying watching the news and bush. when I saw that plane hit the twin towers on new york at first I thought it was some kind of horror movie. it was one of the saddest days I can remember. those poor kids who lost their parents that day and everyone who lost their loved ones god bless every one of them. i'll never forget that day.
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Post by Phil on Sept 28, 2010 13:51:20 GMT -5
I think it was a somewhat wakeup call to Americans too. It proved that we can't let our guard down, and it is possible for us to be attacked at home.
It showed us the cold reality that we're perhaps not as invincible as we think we are at times.
To me it is a way of seeing even further how important our military is, and to me at least how important the war on terror really is.
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Post by Classicblast on Sept 29, 2010 1:18:06 GMT -5
I think it was a somewhat wakeup call to Americans too. It proved that we can't let our guard down, and it is possible for us to be attacked at home. It showed us the cold reality that we're perhaps not as invincible as we think we are at times. To me it is a way of seeing even further how important our military is, and to me at least how important the war on terror really is. I agree with you but I am afraid a number of people are buying the conspiracy theory to the point where the War on Terror is going to be labeled the War for Oil. |
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Post by Phil on Sept 29, 2010 13:42:55 GMT -5
I think it was a somewhat wakeup call to Americans too. It proved that we can't let our guard down, and it is possible for us to be attacked at home. It showed us the cold reality that we're perhaps not as invincible as we think we are at times. To me it is a way of seeing even further how important our military is, and to me at least how important the war on terror really is. I agree with you but I am afraid a number of people are buying the conspiracy theory to the point where the War on Terror is going to be labeled the War for Oil. I think that's what some professors and liberal journalists are trying to do. Maybe I have too much faith in our people but I tend to think most Americans will be too smart to buy into that. That to me is the same as saying Pearl Harbor was a hoax. How did the hulk of the USS Arizona get there though? There's even people that say Kennedy didn't really die the CIA faked his death for various reasons. |
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Post by Blastgirl on Sept 30, 2010 2:59:32 GMT -5
I see the possible concern for that but I don't think its possible to convince enough people it didn't really happen. I would not be afraid of that happening. Kim thinks that possibility is very real.
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Post by Ordinaryguy on Sept 30, 2010 15:35:08 GMT -5
I don't think people will believe it didn't happen in our lifetimes, but in the next generations possibly...
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Post by Classicblast on Sept 30, 2010 22:58:58 GMT -5
I don't think people will believe it didn't happen in our lifetimes, but in the next generations possibly... That's what I mean I don't think they could brainwash the majority of those of us who remember that day. Obviously my sons are 5 and 3 they were not born. And after that there's always possible doubt because they didn't experience any of the effects. That's when what concerns me could become a factor. |
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Post by fartinggurl on Oct 4, 2010 19:42:23 GMT -5
I was in eighth grade when it happened. When we were at school, I saw the teachers talking to each other. Apparently they agreed to keep it to themselves and not let us know what had happened, so they didn't turn the televisions on. It was only when I got home that I saw what had happened. Seeing the people jumping bothered me the most. I just noticed that. I cannot believe that the teachers thought it would have been a good idea to keep this kind of information from middle schoolers, when eventually they would find out. Middle school kids are definately at the age where they would understand how serious something like that would be. |
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