Where were you on 9/11/01

I was at work at a large defense contractor. We all got real paranoid that we were targets, but when we saw the stringy nerd in charge of security strap on a 9mm trying to assert some authority, we all laughed and went back to work. Sad day though; still makes me sick and p#ssed off.
 
It is interesting to revisit this thread which, I guess was started last year. I was at the towers and tried to describe somewhat my feelings about that day. What I did not realize at the time of the attack and only realized as the years flew by was how much we were affected by this awful event. As a young man I watched those towers going up and I resented them because a neighborhood I cherished was changed beyond recognition. If someone told me then how I'd miss them I would not have credited it.
What I think now is that we were all suffering from a national case of PTSD and only now is it beginning to subside. For quite a while I flinched inwardly every time I heard an unfamiliar loud noise. That doesn't happen anymore but I do not think that the horror and anger and sense of loss we felt that day and still feel will ever fade. ANd that, I think, is a good thing. Whatever I feel about our handling of Afghanistan and Iraq I am ever thankful to those brave individuals who have tried to make right all the wrongs of that day.
 
I was at work at the Lab in Pittsburgh. I had been listening to ESPN radio and heard a mention of the first crash. Later, Tony Kornheiser announced that they were evacuating the ESPN studios in DC. That made me wonder, so I went to our Emergency Operations Center (EOC), where the big screen TVs were. As I entered, the first tower fell. The status of United Flight 93 (which was in our airspace) spurred the decision to activate the EOC and go on full alert. I spent the rest of the day there, standing watch.

I took the next day off to spend with my family and try to find out if any friends had been killed. The wife of a friend watched the towers fall from her ferry. It turned out that one of my classmates from OCS and Nuke School had been in the Pentagon and died when it was hit.

HISknife said:
These terrorists... Let's not legitimize them by calling them Muslims. They are not. They have never been.
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While I understand your intent, I can not agree with it. Unfortunately, the very basis of their hatred IS their religion... as they understand it.

reddawn said:
hisknife,,i respect your opinion but strongly disagree...
ive studied islam for years and i dont know of any other religion or movement that creates such insanity everywhere it goes.look around,,,africa,indonesia,the middle east,england and the list goes on.hatred intolerance and death always follow.
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At the risk of raising everyone's ire, I will suggest that you are not looking closely enough. Consider the behavior of the forces of Christianity during the 14th-16th Centuries. The Crusades, the forced conversion of Latin America, and the sectarian violence between the various flavors of Christianity all parallel what we are seeing from Islam. Although the means and the scale have changed due to technology improvements since then, the mentality remains the same. Fanaticism, in whatever faith, will always be a problem.

Rick
 
hi rick,,
my comments were in referance to what is going on today only.i know very well about the bad history of christianity.that was a long time ago and cant be changed unfortunatley:(
 
I was a freshman in high school, in French class.

I can't believe it's been 9 years.
 
My wife and I were working the morning shift at a local gym (thats where we met and fell in love) we where sitting at the front desk just talking watching over everyone exercising on the cardio equipment and we had 3 large plasma TV's playing and as soon as it came over every news station the entire gym stopped and was absolutely silent for some time. within the first hour the whole gym cleared out and we just stayed there all day without no members coming in for the rest of the day and watched the news unfold.

Like all of you I will never forget.

-Tim
 
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