Folks, this is a remembrance thread. I would rather not see it get dragged back up to talk about things other than 9/11. If necessary, I will ask to have it locked.
Remembrance
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sonorakitch
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I watched the progress unfold in horror, and packed my bags. Didn't come home for five months. Not only did it change the world, but it changed my life too.
~Chris
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I was coming out of my tech class and someone said you know the twin towers in America? So i said, "Not personally". He then told me about the 2 aircrafts crashing into them. It didn't seem to sink in. Only when i saw people jumping from buildings could i see how terrible it really was. That made me very angry at the waste of human life. I just can't get out of my mind all those children who'll grow up not knowing a parent or even both. That is terrible as they didn't die a natural death, it all seemed so pointless and wasteful. 9/11 was a day i'll never forget, this wasn't just an attack on America it felt personal. This was an attack on everybody in the free world.
MY EXPERIENCE:
I was at work at a Printing Company is SE Pennsylvania. Someone had said a plane crashed into one of the twin towers. Thinking as Padma, it was just a small accident, nothing big. Probably a cessna or something. Not much later someone found me to say that a second plane had hit the second tower. I was alerted that the TV was on upstairs and I rushed up there just in time to see replays. Production was immediately halted. We watched...the Pentagon was hit, we saw the towers collapse. I knew on my own that as many as 50,000 people worked in those towers and I had thought that we had lost as many as half or 50,000 people and that was all I could think of, "50,000 or more people are gone, we lost 50,000 people". After the pentagon was hit I was sure the Capitol building and White House would be hit, too. I went home from work early and lit one up for my homies.
I was at work at a Printing Company is SE Pennsylvania. Someone had said a plane crashed into one of the twin towers. Thinking as Padma, it was just a small accident, nothing big. Probably a cessna or something. Not much later someone found me to say that a second plane had hit the second tower. I was alerted that the TV was on upstairs and I rushed up there just in time to see replays. Production was immediately halted. We watched...the Pentagon was hit, we saw the towers collapse. I knew on my own that as many as 50,000 people worked in those towers and I had thought that we had lost as many as half or 50,000 people and that was all I could think of, "50,000 or more people are gone, we lost 50,000 people". After the pentagon was hit I was sure the Capitol building and White House would be hit, too. I went home from work early and lit one up for my homies.
dinoman1989
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See for me I was at math class and we always have the tv on for first period math class since the bell hadn't ringed yet. so on tv i saw that a plain crashed. then they said it was an accident. then we saw another plane crash. then math class ends so we goto art. then are art teacher says nothing happens but we sawed it on tv so we dont believe her. thats what i remember. i don't like osama bin laden cause thats a real mean thing to do, but i think he dead now.
How can he smile at a time like this? I bet in know what hes thinking--Hehe
How can he smile at a time like this? I bet in know what hes thinking--Hehe
Just curious...how many people have any kind of vivid memories about the Pentagon attack or the crash in Shanksville, PA? Whether they heard about it or any other memories about those. I'm just curious...
For me, the mentions of the Pentagon attack were an afterthought....especially when I had the Twin Towers attack right in front of me. I hadn't even heard about the crash in rural Pennsylvania until I got home hours later. Just added to the pain about the massive loss of civilian life....
For me, the mentions of the Pentagon attack were an afterthought....especially when I had the Twin Towers attack right in front of me. I hadn't even heard about the crash in rural Pennsylvania until I got home hours later. Just added to the pain about the massive loss of civilian life....
Benderino
Loyal American Democrat
My uncle--who works for the Justice Department--just happened to be at a meeting that day in the Pentagon. We didn't know about that until later that evening, but he was on the opposite side of the building and he had just entered it when the plane hit it. He said the security guards were hurriedly ushurring everyone out of the building. Luckily he was safe and ok.
Yes, that's very good luck. Glad to know he was okay.
I'm just really curious because, well, mostly I hear about the Towers from people...and government officials always seem to talk about the Pentagon, but never actually recalling much of what happened. Yes, I saw videos and the like....but, I haven't really found anyone that had any memories of the Pentagon (witness) or anyone that could comment more about it, even if they were just reading and watching it from 2000 miles away.
I'm just really curious because, well, mostly I hear about the Towers from people...and government officials always seem to talk about the Pentagon, but never actually recalling much of what happened. Yes, I saw videos and the like....but, I haven't really found anyone that had any memories of the Pentagon (witness) or anyone that could comment more about it, even if they were just reading and watching it from 2000 miles away.
Oh, I do. I just remember the tower more vividly.
I remember seeing on ABC the side of the Pentagon, and the reporter standing in front of it. Okay, he was a ways away, but the first thing I saw was his name and location - Washington DC. I'm thinking. . . you can't see the smoke from the towers all the way down in DC.
When the plane crashed in Sommerset, I was more interested in that than the towers. It was new news, while the towers was 'old.' By that I mean I knew what was going on there, and was wanting to know more about the situation in PA. At first I thought they shot it down. Then I heard the stories about the passengers taking a stand and bringing it down themselves. While we may never know (can you say conspiracy theory?) I thought long and hard about being one of those passengers, and what I would have done if I had been on that plane. I still don't know. . .
W S Churchill
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With all due respect, but what have terrorist attacks to do with CIV?
Is this not rather much off topic?
Is this not rather much off topic?
I wonder what the name of this forum is....
W S Churchill
Chieftain
neglect that last post...hadn't noticed we had something like an off-topic forum...
sorry...
sorry...
I guess this is a little late, but I had no idea that you were running a topic like this here at CivFanatics, so i just have to write about my day also.
At the time i lived in Costa Rica, and so i woke up to go to school just like any other day, did everything, and as i was putting on my shoes or socks or something in the dining room(i lived like 3 minutes from the school, and i was in a hurry cuz it was almost 8:00), and the tv is allways running in the dining room, and i saw the first crash . They were explaining that it's either a small plane or an attack or something, but i was in a hurry and my dad was allready calling from the garage, so i left. I got to school, and told my friend half-seriously "Dude they're attacking your country" but no one really believed me, since i wan't even sure myself. So class started, and like 10 minutes later the teacher comes in and strats explaining that something hit the twin towers in NY, they don't know bla bla bla. There are no tvs with cable in school, and we had to go to second period gym class, but as soon as it was break time, i headed for the library and grabbed a chair.
The small tv there only received satellite signal, and we could barely make out any images, not to mention audio. We could however make out the unmistakeable WTC, and then we say it crumble to the ground, and from what we interpreted, they had evacuated the buildings and leveled them for security reasons or something. It didn't make sense to me, how could they level the symbol of NY, i had the feeling it wasn't that. Only about 20 people were there watching it, which is pretty sad now that i think about it. As the classes passed, i was still puzzled. It wasn't till i got home that it all came together in my head.
I went up into my room, and switched straight to CNN. They didn't level the towers for security reasons, they collapsed, with everyone inside, with people jumping out the windows, crushed together with the towers, and others trapped in the debris. Then there was another attack at the Pentagon, and one that crashed in PA. All i could do was stand there and watch, just watch it all, all the replays of planes flying into the towers, and as they got more videotapes from people, it just got worse. I understood it, but couldn't really believe it. I don't remember saying a word that day, not even at dinner, it was all so strange, it's like i was watching, thinking, but not really thinking. And as i went to bed, Frank Sinatra's NY NY sounded so different then.
Next day at school and the whole week i couldn't think about anything else, just wanted to go home and watch it all, what they were doing to clean up, the new information, and the people gathering together. And as the days passed, and moods changed, and people were quickly losing hope and you could see it in their faces, even on television. I was born in Germany, but i am more American than many of my american freinds, even though i've never even lived in the states. This was no distant event. Just seeing all those people with posters of loved ones, searching and hoping, and all the firefighters, the half-mast flags at the white house, and even worse the pentagon, it was just so undescribable. I can still remember those days immediately following the attacks very clearly.
On Friday that week, first period i got a little note from my teacher, and then i ran into the headmaster in the halls, and he said that he had picked 15 high schoolers to go with him on a bus, and i was one of them. We went to the Costa Rican equivalent of the White House, and they held a memorial service, and only 3 schools were there with about 20 students each. All the important people from the government were there including the president, and . The President spoke as did others, , and choirs were singing amazing grace and such. As nice as it all was, it wasn't nice at all.
That's how my Sept 11th (and week) was.
At the time i lived in Costa Rica, and so i woke up to go to school just like any other day, did everything, and as i was putting on my shoes or socks or something in the dining room(i lived like 3 minutes from the school, and i was in a hurry cuz it was almost 8:00), and the tv is allways running in the dining room, and i saw the first crash . They were explaining that it's either a small plane or an attack or something, but i was in a hurry and my dad was allready calling from the garage, so i left. I got to school, and told my friend half-seriously "Dude they're attacking your country" but no one really believed me, since i wan't even sure myself. So class started, and like 10 minutes later the teacher comes in and strats explaining that something hit the twin towers in NY, they don't know bla bla bla. There are no tvs with cable in school, and we had to go to second period gym class, but as soon as it was break time, i headed for the library and grabbed a chair.
The small tv there only received satellite signal, and we could barely make out any images, not to mention audio. We could however make out the unmistakeable WTC, and then we say it crumble to the ground, and from what we interpreted, they had evacuated the buildings and leveled them for security reasons or something. It didn't make sense to me, how could they level the symbol of NY, i had the feeling it wasn't that. Only about 20 people were there watching it, which is pretty sad now that i think about it. As the classes passed, i was still puzzled. It wasn't till i got home that it all came together in my head.
I went up into my room, and switched straight to CNN. They didn't level the towers for security reasons, they collapsed, with everyone inside, with people jumping out the windows, crushed together with the towers, and others trapped in the debris. Then there was another attack at the Pentagon, and one that crashed in PA. All i could do was stand there and watch, just watch it all, all the replays of planes flying into the towers, and as they got more videotapes from people, it just got worse. I understood it, but couldn't really believe it. I don't remember saying a word that day, not even at dinner, it was all so strange, it's like i was watching, thinking, but not really thinking. And as i went to bed, Frank Sinatra's NY NY sounded so different then.
Next day at school and the whole week i couldn't think about anything else, just wanted to go home and watch it all, what they were doing to clean up, the new information, and the people gathering together. And as the days passed, and moods changed, and people were quickly losing hope and you could see it in their faces, even on television. I was born in Germany, but i am more American than many of my american freinds, even though i've never even lived in the states. This was no distant event. Just seeing all those people with posters of loved ones, searching and hoping, and all the firefighters, the half-mast flags at the white house, and even worse the pentagon, it was just so undescribable. I can still remember those days immediately following the attacks very clearly.
On Friday that week, first period i got a little note from my teacher, and then i ran into the headmaster in the halls, and he said that he had picked 15 high schoolers to go with him on a bus, and i was one of them. We went to the Costa Rican equivalent of the White House, and they held a memorial service, and only 3 schools were there with about 20 students each. All the important people from the government were there including the president, and . The President spoke as did others, , and choirs were singing amazing grace and such. As nice as it all was, it wasn't nice at all.
That's how my Sept 11th (and week) was.
I'd just had a vocation to Las Vegas, and then DisneyLand with my dad and my wife. My dad called me from TX in the morning at about 7am PT and woke me up. I was thinking he just called me to confirm our safe back.
But what he told me made me awake at once. I asked my dad several times was that true? He told me just turn on the tv and every chanal was talking about it. Knowing both sides were ok, my dad cut off the line. I turned on the tv and watched for the rest of the day.
I tried to call my friend who was studying in Manhattan, but never reached her on that day. But what I worried most was was that all? What's next?
I used to have to plan to be on top of the WTC because many of my friends had been there before and brought me photos. I was thinking it's doesn't matter when I had time to be there. At that time, I knew I was wrong. Nothing lasts for ever. I missed it. I would never have a chance to meet it again.
For all the victims on that day and ever since
But what he told me made me awake at once. I asked my dad several times was that true? He told me just turn on the tv and every chanal was talking about it. Knowing both sides were ok, my dad cut off the line. I turned on the tv and watched for the rest of the day.
I tried to call my friend who was studying in Manhattan, but never reached her on that day. But what I worried most was was that all? What's next?
I used to have to plan to be on top of the WTC because many of my friends had been there before and brought me photos. I was thinking it's doesn't matter when I had time to be there. At that time, I knew I was wrong. Nothing lasts for ever. I missed it. I would never have a chance to meet it again.
For all the victims on that day and ever since
Cpt Kaos
Chieftain
Padma, thanks for setting this up. It has been, at least for me, very cathartic. Before now I hadn't really talked about it with anyone. Now I can feel a little closure.
Sarevok
Civ3 Scenario Creator
I was a little freaked out myself, I woke up to find my TV on to the news and showing images of the attacks on the TV. Also, my uncle had left New york by plane on Sept 10. Thats what I remember.
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