Where were you on 9/11?

[Jon325i]

I still remember 9/11 very clearly. Mind you at the time this occurred it wasn't even 6am on the left coast....my alarm clock had gone off at 5:30 and I was laying there pondering if I really wanted to go for a jog that morning. My clock radio/alarm is set to a local news/talk station so as I was laying their half asleep I heard the first reports of a plane hitting the WTC. Details were sketchy and then they tapped into an on-scene reporter via cell phone giving some details. As he was talking the second plane hit, and he was repeating himself (in utter shock) "oh my god......I can feel the heat from here.....oh my.....oh my god". At this point I was wide awake and went to click on the TV. The first picture I saw was the north tower in flames and smoke.....I was dumb-struck to say the least. Then they showed the now infamous clip of the second plane slamming into the south tower. When I saw that happen the first words from my mouth were, "that's no accident.....we're under some sort of attack." Needless to say I did not go running that morning since I was glued to the TV. I finally peeled myself away from that long enough to get cleaned up and head off to work. When I arrived an e-mail had been circulated to all users that due to the events people are welcome to return home if they want. I tended to a couple tasks which had to be finished that day but then I left afterwards.

What made this whole event at the WTC more profound to me was that in late July of that summer I took a week-long trip to Manhattan and one of the highlights was going to the observation floor (top floor, south tower) at WTC. I'll never forget how small the yellow taxis and people walking on the sidewalk appeared from that far up. When outside the buildings on the sidewalk, you couldn't help but marvel at the sheer size of these towers - simply huge! So when I saw them crumble to the ground just over a month later on TV, I was in more shock than most people I know since they hadn't been to the WTC before.

Truly a sad day......I certainly will never forget.

Jon

[Charlie]

LOL I love this thread. Made my day already...

You remind me of Teen Miss South Carolina. I bet if I handed you a map you could point out precisely where "fucktard nation" is.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Mateo,+CA,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=image

Found it.

-Charlie

[BrandC]

Thats because he doesnt have a map.

Will

You mean he can't afford one? OUTRAGEOUS!

[Jonathan M3]

I was a sophmore in college and was getting ready to leave for my calculus class when I turned on the tv and saw that one of the buildings had collapsed with the other one on fire. I honestly thought it was a trailer for a new action movie or something, it just didn't seem real. Then the 2nd tower fell and I realized that this was real I was watching this live. The footage of the planes hitting and the towers collapsing still seems so surreal.

[PeaveyBassist]

You remind me of Teen Miss South Carolina. I bet if I handed you a map you could point out precisely where "fucktard nation" is.

Thats because he doesnt have a map.

Will

[jflip2002]

Such as, yes. fucktard nation is just east of Florida, but south of Kentucky. Such as.

[BrandC]

I like this post.

I like Schopenhauer. I also like Nietzsche too.

[Farbin Kaiber]

9/11 the first time around, 8th grade spanish class

9/11 this time around, running around dancing and screaming in the rain because the power went out all across campus and people got antsy.

but think about it man....campus-wide blackout at MIDNIGHT...the turning of 9/11. conspiracy

LAME... If the Auditorium dissapeared you'd be looking at the face of a conspiracy. Power Outages... Naaa

[BrandC]

President of the fucktard nation.

LOL I love this thread. Made my day already...

You remind me of Teen Miss South Carolina. I bet if I handed you a map you could point out precisely where "fucktard nation" is.

[atomic]

Educate yourself on WTC Building 7.

All Bullshit leftwing conspiracy theories !!!

[imsotyerred]

9/11 the first time around, 8th grade spanish class

9/11 this time around, running around dancing and screaming in the rain because the power went out all across campus and people got antsy.

but think about it man....campus-wide blackout at MIDNIGHT...the turning of 9/11. conspiracy

[Jscotty]

Google "Loose Change" in their video section. That is about the most unbiased video about 9/11 that I have seen yet.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Educate yourself on WTC Building 7.

Any suggested links? I hope none of them are;
Propaganda,
Left-wing,
Right-wing,
and,
prefered not to be "Fair and Balanced Fox News" bullshit either.


Why can't a MoFo get the straight dope? The skinny, The real news.
I'm about to throw my TV out the window. I can't even watch the news after 9/11. Its all fear trickery.

[jflip2002]

President of the fucktard nation.

[32.5i]

BrandC for President