Never Forget....Sept 11, 2001

[JazzGal]

Definitely the defining "where were you" moment of my life. I can't imagine I'll ever forget what that day felt like, or the days following. Our lives were forever changed.

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[candrew]

The first plane crashed literally about a minute after I got to my desk. At the time I worked in the Newport section of Jersey City, NJ which was one of the better viewpoints of lower Manhattan/WTC. I watched the second plane crash from my office window.

I'm done thinking about all the horrible stuff I saw that day, I just choose to think about the good - people cramming co-workers into their cars to get them home because public transportation was completely shut down, going to give blood the afternoon of 9/11 and there was already a line around the block, people from a part of the country that is not particularly known for their warmth just generally going out of their way to be nice to each other for weeks afterwards.

 

[babe]

I don't buy any of the conspiracy crap. It is just the normal flotsam and jetsam that accompanies a large-scale event like this.

If you're talking about college educated folks talking about stuff they don't know, it's called "speculation".

If you're talking about our most venerable political experts talking about stuff they don't know..... like CNN or Hillary Clinton, it's "The vast right-wing conspiracy" that explains everything we need to know.

If you're a peony liberal party-line "net dominance" worker, it's the pat answer to any fact advanced against your blue-sky dreams.

 

[Rubashov]

Definitely the defining "where were you" moment of my life. I can't imagine I'll ever forget what that day felt like, or the days following. Our lives were forever changed.

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This is an American idea that i will expand on tomorrow.

 

[Stoked]

Saw a post about never wanting another 9/11 but profoundly missing 9/12. When things like gender, race, religion, education didn’t matter. When what mattered was the person. How we were all pulling for, helping and comforting one another. We were united.

 

[bigb]

Saw a post about never wanting another 9/11 but profoundly missing 9/12. When things like gender, race, religion, education didn’t matter. When what mattered was the person. How we were all pulling for, helping and comforting one another. We were united.

I’ve never really thought of it like that. It’s a great idea.

 

[Rubashov]

Definitely the defining "where were you" moment of my life. I can't imagine I'll ever forget what that day felt like, or the days following. Our lives were forever changed.

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From the other side of the world my perspective is that things haven't really been that much different, the endless war goes on far away from us, out of the public eye and mindset, professional soldiers do the fighting and dying, they come home and deal with the mental scars more or less on their own. (more Australian servicemen have died from suicide post war than died in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

It is an unseen war for which the vast majority of us have made no sacrifice, the real victim of it from our perspective is the Muslim community which has more or less been the sole target of far right hatred and propaganda since 2001.

 

[FalseFlagg K]

i was in intensive care. watched pretty much nothing but coverage of it for the next week in my hospital bed. Unspeakably horrific

 

[JazzGal]

From the other side of the world my perspective is that things haven't really been that much different, the endless war goes on far away from us, out of the public eye and mindset, professional soldiers do the fighting and dying, they come home and deal with the mental scars more or less on their own. (more Australian servicemen have died from suicide post war than died in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

It is an unseen war for which the vast majority of us have made no sacrifice, the real victim of it from our perspective is the Muslim community which has more or less been the sole target of far right hatred and propaganda since 2001.

What has changed for us here is the lost of freedoms that keep accumulating because of the fear that we cannot get over. We have killed thousands upon thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan because of it, and have effectively become even bigger bullies in the Middle East than we had been. We now believe that we live in a more unsafe world than the generations before us, which isn't at all born out by the facts.

Without 9/11, Trump would not be president. Fear would not be our primary motivator.

 

[♪alt13]

Saw a post about never wanting another 9/11 but profoundly missing 9/12. When things like gender, race, religion, education didn’t matter. When what mattered was the person. How we were all pulling for, helping and comforting one another. We were united.

That's a fairytale

It never happened

If you're looking for a silver lining you really have to rewrite history to create one. On 9 12 the seeds of hate planted on 9 11 germinated. I absolutely do not long for 9 12 2001, 9 10 but not 9 12.

 

[Stoked]

That's a fairytale

It never happened

If you're looking for a silver lining you really have to rewrite history to create one. On 9 12 the seeds of hate planted on 9 11 germinated. I absolutely do not long for 9 12 2001, 9 10 but not 9 12.

In someways yes, in others no.