9/11 Remembrance today

[BruceVC]

Hi All

I nearly forgot  to mention this inauspicious day 19 years ago, the War on Terror has come a long way since then and the world has made huge inroads against Islamic extremism

But many people have died and still are killed to make the world a better place in this ideological struggle so its still ongoing. I always reflect on the innocent deaths that day and what I was doing when I first heard about the attack on the Twin Towers

9/11, never to be forgotten  

[Guard Dog]

This is one of those thing where you always remember where you were when you found out what was going on. I was at the Canoe Creek Turnpike Service Plaza on the Florida Turnpike. I was driving from Atlanta back to West Palm Beach. I got gas and went inside for coffee. I saw the footage on TV and just assumed it was the anniversary of the '93 bombing. Then the second plane hit while I was watching. It was dead silent in that place. Everyone was watching. 

[Amentep]

As I was working evenings at the time, I was at my computer desk playing Baldur's Gate, hoovering the Fog of War off maps, when the news I had on in the background started showing the towers after the first plane hit.  They were talking about how they thought a plane had hit when the second hit.

[Hurlshort]

I was getting ready for my second day of teaching. 

It's actually pretty strange that for the last handful of years, this is an event that doesn't resonate with my students in the same way. They all know about it, but it is something that happened to a previous generation. 

[Malcador]

Yep, 47 years since the coup in Chile...

Invariably though I will always tie Britney Spears' "Slave 4 U" song to the WTC attacks, woke up with that on the radio and then heard about it.

Edited September 11, 2020 by Malcador

[Guard Dog]

29 minutes ago, Hurlshot said:

I was getting ready for my second day of teaching. 

It's actually pretty strange that for the last handful of years, this is an event that doesn't resonate with my students in the same way. They all know about it, but it is something that happened to a previous generation. 

Sure. They were not alive when this happened. 20 years on even December 7 became just another day on the calendar.

[ComradeYellow]

Was in high school when one of the school directors rushed in and turned on CNN (we had TV's in every class, probably a luxury back then).

A tragic day indeed, probably the only time the whole country came together and sang Kumbaya, only to have it immediately fall apart again with the passage of the Patriot Act and the beginning a Middle-Eastern imperialist romp planned by the neo-cons.

[HoonDing]

What's Aleppo 9/11?

[rjshae]

Strange to think that young people are reaching adulthood now that weren't even alive when this happened. It seems like it was almost yesterday. They did do a nice job of memorializing it.

Edited September 12, 2020 by rjshae
typo fix

[Guard Dog]

Worse still we are still in combat operations in Afghanistan. There are young men there today who are fighting in the same war their fathers fought over an event that occured before they were even born. That is almost something from a Joe Halderman novel.