Question of the day

What did u do on 9/11 and how old was you 

*BE KIND

*BE RESPECTFUL

*DONT BE MEAN

*MAKE NEW FRIENDS 

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i wasnt born

some of us weren't born

half of us

well i was chillin with my other possible siblings in my mom's-

lmaooo

I was at work. We were able to find a TV to watch the news.

I remember no air planes in the skies for several days.

They cancelled most professional sporting events, but they didn't cancel my sons soccer game. The following Saturday morning was a beautiful day. Watched my sons' soccer game while A-10 Warthogs flew overhead.   

pretty powerful gun on that plane

Lol same

It was my last year in high school. My immediate reaction was a sarcastic "oh great" and "they'll use this as propaganda for something and never shutup about it."

In hindsight it was both childish and prescient heh.

Wow... I guess I've always been pretty cynical.

But yeah, classes were paused, they wheeled out TVs, and we watched the news for half the day... IIRC we still had classes that afternoon.

so harsh

  I was at work. When the first plane hit I thought it was an accident. When the second plane hit I knew we were at war. We were watching a TV in a conference room when the first tower went down. All I could think of at that moment was how many people were left inside. In the mean time, I had a cousin who was an attendant with United and regularly flew out of Boston.  After a couple frantic hours they were found safe.
  A few days later a couple of us stopped at a scenic overlook and watched the airport do absolutely nothing. It's probably hard for anyone who wasn't there to imagine a sky with nothing in it but clouds. Beautiful and unnerving at the same time.
 I had planned to take a vacation to Maine that September. When I heard how the city of St. John's, Newfoundland took in so many USA bound transatlantic flights after our airspace was closed I headed there. I figured I'd spend some tourist dollars and generally let the folks know their above-and-beyond efforts were appreciated. It's a beautiful place and the people were wonderful.
  On the way home we heard that the USA airspace had been closed again and we might not get home but that turned out to be just a rumor. The first person I saw on entering a US airport was a National Guard soldier with a rifle. Another beautiful but unnerving sight. It was good to be home again.

Too bad we went to war with the wrong country. 

You know, just an innocent little mistake.

A lot of people pretended to care about 9/11. In the end it was only a few thousand deaths happening to people thousands of miles away. Most people had no rational reason to care, and the result of that reality speaks for itself. We never stopped being buddies with Saudi Arabia, even today.

Do you have no heart???

Lots of people cared, everyone was afraid that someone they knew DIED

We didn't go to war with Saudi Arabia because Osama was in Pakistan

We have decent relations with Germany too, you think cuz they had the nazi's, we should never forgive them??

No one I knew was afraid of that.

We didn't go to war with Pakistan either.

After the war, sure.

Also, I'm not saying I want retribution, I'm saying if people cared as much as they pretend to, then they would want some kind of retribution.

thats you and your friends

cell towers were down for days because there were so many calls

You said "everyone" was afraid. Sensationalizing the event is exactly what I'm talking about. But anyway...

Many people died. It's tragic because these people were just going about their normal lives. They had no idea they would die that day, and the people who killed them had no justification. The attack also indirectly harmed every person who knew someone who died, every person who would have known them in the future had they not died, every person who watched the news and became afraid to fly, or to go into buildings, etc. That's what a terror attack is, it terrorizes people. So for those reasons too, it's tragic.

But no, I didn't care, and I don't care. It doesn't register on an emotional level for me. It harmed a relatively small number of strangers. People I'd never met and probably would never meet. Many times more harm and deaths were caused by the illegal war that followed. I think that most of the people who sensationalize 9/11 feel the same as me except that they're making an effort to fit in.

i think you're just a cold person with no feelings