I don't well remember it (I was very young at the time), but I do remember watching it on the news. I thought it was a movie... and I told my Mam to turn back on the disney channel, because it was boring. I didn't really understand the significance until much later in life.

I was a little older (6). Still... Sad, sad day. Always will be. At least, the memorial is supposed to open tomorrow. I have to visit it some day.

I was 18, and I just started my first quarter of college. The university I went to went by quarters instead of semesters. I had class at 1:00, so I was sleeping in late that morning. My mother rushed in, woke me up, and told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center. She started fumbling with the buttons on my TV, and about a minute or two after the channel was changed to a news station the second plane hit the south tower. We were asking before that second plane what kind of idiot would be so careless to fly that low to hit the towers. After that second plane it was pretty much obvious what was going on. Class that day was rather mellow. Many didn't even show up.

Bushie flew straight to Barksdale AFB from Florida that day, and was then accompanied by stealth fighters after that. Barksdale is somewhat near here, so that was part of the news around here that day.

My remembrance of that day will be remembering the heroes who saved lives and not the actual step-by-step occurrences of the tragedy like what Farce News is doing.

3000 were killed, I hear.

If you factor in the first responders that died from possible exposure to toxic substances, it should bring that total to around 4k.
I wasn't alive yet for Pearl (Harbor) , I remember where I was when the Kennedys were shot, man landing on the moon, Nixon resigning, 9/11/2001, the space shuttle disasters... What's going to happen next?

Such are the landmarks of my life.

God, can't possibly instruct people to kill eachother. If he does, can he be called god?

People do crazy things in the name of beliefs. It's not just religious that makes people do crazy things - it's belief. The Norway Bomber... Charles Mason... and Osama Bin Ladin. You've got to wonder what kind of society we can live in that churns out these sick bastards.

Abberations are everywhere, Conor. It's all a matter of degree. Most are harmless, then you have your Mansons, Bundys, Amins, etc.

Oh, I agree. It's just when belief is taken to extremes. I'm not condemning anyone, for believing anything. But when you take it to that extreme... well, yeah.

The finest moment of New York's finest, as well as the firefighters and paramedics. These people worked harder than ever despite feeling the very same shock and horror that reverberated around the world that day. As such, they've been told they can't go to the memorial on the ten year anniversary... Of all the things that happened, that is the one that was most shocking and most enraged me.

Originally posted by H82typ:

Abberations are everywhere, Conor. It's all a matter of degree. Most are harmless, then you have your Mansons, Bundys, Amins, etc.

I can't believe you forgot me. Is it because I'm so far at the other end of the scale? More than human rather than less than.

Not without passes and, it seems, showing a body on entry to prove they deserve to be there.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/9-11-first-responders-left-10th-anniversary-event-142149351.html

It was a day 2 in middle school had gym class

I remember where i was at 9:11 am MST on 9/11 in Social studies class since we were doing a current events news quiz thing for extra credit and I happen to look at my watch at 9:11 am (tho strange that watch battery finally died this past summer. I can still go into the class room and point out right where I was

@ Mik: You are a... singularity.

Yeah, y'all it's true. The search, emt's, the recovery teams aren't invited. A slap in the face, it would seem, to New Yorks Finest, and Bravest. The NY Post and the New York Daily News were both raising hell about it.
My cousin, Mike, was there. (NYPD) helping to sift through the aftermath.
I stopped into a friends shop to say 'hi', he told me about the first jet. So we stayed in front of the tv, watching. That one might have been pilot error, ATC error, or both, we thought. With the second one, we were wtf is going on?
The news footage of the next days was horrific, to say the least. The eeriest thing was... We have JFKX,and LaGuardia 60 miles West of us. MacArthur in Islip is less than 5 miles from where I grew up, and where I live now. With the nationwide ban on any flights but military, it was awfully quiet on Long Island. Too quiet. Almost Christmas Morning quiet, if you know what I mean.

This says it all imho:
MichaelSwannick at 11:06 AM August 20, 2011

I’m Not Invited To Ground Zero On 9/11

I strapped a gun on my hip and a badge on my chest
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I lost my right kidney to cancer
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

My left kidney is at stage III renal failure
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I lost my thyroid to cancer
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I suffer from Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS)
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I have a lesion on the right side of my brain
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I suffer from lung scarring, inflamation, atelectasis
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I suffer from chronic bronchitis, small airway disease, growing lung nodules
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I suffer from a chronic cough
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I suffer from sinusitis and rinitis
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

I suffer at the hands of our self-serving politicians
and I’m not invited to ground zero on 9/11

There was one other time I was not invited to ground zero
09/11/2001
Guess it was a good thing myself and thousands of others showed up

Sgt. Michael Swannick

Oh, and Kyren, my friend, are you familiar with the comedian "Flip" Wilson?
One of his tag lines was, "The devil made me do it!" I honestly believe the devil can 'get ahold' of people and make them do things that aren't right, if not downright cruel. Or inhuman.
That does not mean God doesn't love them or their victims. God, as a concept, is too large for the human mind to comprehend.

Just look at Mik.

God loves us all.Good or bad and he always forgive.I am afraid I can never forgive those associated with 9-11.They are the lowest of the low and as I am not God.I hope they rot in hell.

I was in the hospital waiting room, waiting to be seen for tests that I needed done, and watching the news program that was on at the time. Thats when they broke into it and started telling of the plane hitting the first tower. There were others there as well, and we all made our appointments later than we were scheduled just to be able to watch the broadcast and be able to feel what they were feeling in NY when both towers collapsed and when the news of the Pentagon got hit, and when Flight 93 went down in Philly. Everyone that was there for the first few seconds of the news, stayed, even past their appointment times, and were glued to the television until they started to rebroadcast it at 11:00 am.

Originally posted by Furie:

Not without passes and, it seems, showing a body on entry to prove they deserve to be there.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/9-11-first-responders-left-10th-anniversary-event-142149351.html

That's crazy. The people that came to the rescue deserve the same respect as the victims. Way to go Bloomberg.

I smell whispers.

Whispers,Mik?

They're everywhere.

It was about a quarter to 11 if I remember correctly, and I was considering getting an early night (which is odd in itself). Dee was already asleep. For some reason, I thought I'd put the TV on and see what was going on with the news before I went to bed. Don't know why, because I'd caught the news at 6 and the late-night news is often a rehash of the same things, so I don't often watch it.

Anyway, I turned the TV on and there was the footage of the 1st plane having hit the tower. I remember thinking, "Oh, my God, what a horrible accident".

The camera changed to a reporter across the river on a rooftop with the towers behind him in the distance. The audio was a couple of seconds later than the video for some reason, because he kept talking about the first tower as the second plane hit. I distinctly remember thinking, "That was no accident".

It was as if no time had gone by at all as things kept happening. The plane hitting the Pentagon. The plane that crashed into the field in Pennsylvania. The towers collapsing.

Dee woke up about 1 A.M., wondering why I still had the TV on (since I'd told her I was going to have an early night hours beforehand). We both sat glued to the screen until pretty much daylight, only stopping when I had to go to work.

For days after I was in kind of a daze, trying to wrap my head around it all.

If there was anything 'good' about the day, I suppose it was just lucky it wasn't half an hour later when the towers had their full amount of people in them or upward of ten thousand people could've been killed. I also suspect the people who jumped didn't do so on purpose; I suspect they were at the windows trying to get air and passed out from the fumes, so wouldn't have been conscious for their falls.

I was on my Dad's car in Dubai, all the radio went wild on NY WTC , i was like : what the hell is going on!!??

then came home and as i was watching CNN Live.... the second plane crashed to the second tower!!!!!!!!! i was like WTH!!!!!!! Shit!!!!!!!!! Crap!!!!!!! i was holding my mouth from intensity !! .... then the world changed to be a even crappier place!

I hope it end's in 2012 !!