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Post by eloneen on Sept 11, 2017 23:56:24 GMT
I remember that beautiful Tuesday morning that turned into such a hellish day when we were attacked and so many people lost their lives so senselessly. I remember where I was and I remember it like it was yesterday. So much heroism and self sacrifice on the part of those who rushed in to save lives. Peace and love.
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Post by elophile on Sept 12, 2017 0:16:46 GMT
I remember that beautiful Tuesday morning that turned into such a hellish day when we were attacked and so many people lost their lives so senselessly. I remember where I was and I remember it like it was yesterday. So much heroism and self sacrifice on the part of those who rushed in to save lives. Peace and love. I remember what a beautiful day it was too - the perfect blue sky and not a single plane - so unreal. Yes. Peace and love.
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 12, 2017 6:46:00 GMT
I also remember where I was and what I did all of that day, hard to forget. It was terrible. What shocked me the most were the images of the people who were above the impact floors, knowing they stood no chance whatsoever and throwing themselves to the abyss, some moving their limbs as they fell. I can remember going to bed that very same day terribly shocked by those images.
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Post by Timeblue on Sept 12, 2017 8:57:18 GMT
It was our generations 'where were you when Kennedy was shot' moment. I was at work when news broke of a plane crashing into one of the towers but everyone thought it was just a light plane that had made a bad mistake,when an hour later news broke of a second plane crashing into the second tower,that's when everyone thought 'this isn't right' and from that moment on the world changed....
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Post by eloneen on Sept 12, 2017 11:12:16 GMT
I was in my classroom. A group of my students who had a test that morning came in and said that they had seen this terrible tragedy on TV in their International Relations class. I hoped that they were just trying to pull my leg and waste time, but their voices were too sincere and urgent. I made them take the test while I went online to check out what they had told me. It was almost impossible to access the news sites right away because they were overwhelmed with people trying to get information at the same time.
Some teachers ignored it all and went on teaching, business as usual. We were allowed to watch news coverage of it on TV with the students if we felt that we could handle the situation sensitively. I had a TV brought in and watched coverage with my students, turning down the sound every so often for discussion and questions. They were appreciative.They were hearing about it anyway between classes, and would not have been able to concentrate on a normal lesson, IMO; parents were coming in early to pick up their kids. My husband came by to tell me that his office building had been shut down because it had a Federal Courthouse in it, and he feared that his National Guard unit was going to be deployed... absolutely surreal.
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 12, 2017 16:53:39 GMT
Timeblue , allow me to differ. Kennedy was just one guy, 9/11 were thousands. Despite being both unexpected events, one event was a couple of thousand times more terrible than the other.
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Post by Timeblue on Sept 12, 2017 17:02:46 GMT
Timeblue , allow me to differ. Kennedy was just one guy, 9/11 were thousands. Despite being both unexpected events, one was a couple of thousand times more terrible than the other. In the UK and possibly other countries,it is a saying that we use relating to how we feel when an important event takes place. I know JFK was just a single person but the way he died was truly shocking and deep felt around the globe. I wasn't born when he died (I was born 2 months later) but the saying was defined as a 'go to' phrase whenever a shocking event took place.
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Post by unomusette on Sept 12, 2017 21:01:02 GMT
I met a lady this morning who was there on the day and due to take a sightseeing helicopter flight around Manhattan. She had the choice of a 9am or 2pm flight and chose the afternoon one. In the film footage of the impact you can see a helicopter in the background apparently and that's the one she missed. It wasn't brought down but still a close shave for her. It made me go cold as she was telling me. As Timeblue says it was truly a world changing event, and due to extensive media coverage we lived it as it happened.
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Post by queenofthehours on Sept 13, 2017 17:25:24 GMT
I can remember right where I was on the day and I really wish I couldn't.
I was at the job centre which isn't the happiest place to be at and I wasn't feeling particularly jolly that afternoon. I remember the weather being a little overcast in the UK and I had the most intense feeling of gloom. I got home just as the last tower collapsed and the first I knew of any of it was when my dad told me as I walked in the door. It was on TV.
It's funny how your head works at times like this. I didn't really feel anything at the time other than interest. It wasn't until days later when the information and the pictures started to come out that the full impact was clear. All those people gone. Now I can't watch any 9/11 documentary, it's just too upsetting. I often wonder what kids who have no memory of the event think about it? Do 16 year olds feel the same way we do? Do they get as upset as those who saw it happen at the time? Or do they just see it as sad history, like WWII? It was a horrible thing to see so at least the youngsters avoided it first hand because I don't think you can ever forget it.
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Post by elophile on Sept 13, 2017 18:00:04 GMT
I was just arriving to the building I was working in at the time. I missed the elevator and as it's doors closed I overheard the two men inside it talking. One said something about a plane crashing into a building and I imagined a small biplane hitting a building because, to my recollection, an event like that had just happened and had been in the news.
When I got up to my office my coworkers where crowded into a conference room watching the news. My branch manager closed the office before the second tower fell and we all carpooled home. I had already gotten rid of my television and it wasn't as easy back then to get real time news online so I was semi in the dark about events for the rest of the day. I was freaked out about what would happen next -- would there be more attacks? But good or bad I had the day off unexpectedly so I decided to take a walk. It was a beautiful day with a clear, blue sky. I live in a major flight path so I don't even hear the planes overhead anymore but that day I heard the silence of all air traffic being grounded. It was so strange and frightening.
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 13, 2017 18:13:21 GMT
In the UK and possibly other countries,it is a saying that we use relating to how we feel when an important event takes place. I know JFK was just a single person but the way he died was truly shocking and deep felt around the globe. I wasn't born when he died (I was born 2 months later) but the saying was defined as a 'go to' phrase whenever a shocking event took place. Fair enough, I hadn't understood at first read that the aspect you were focusing on about these events is that everyone remembers where he was when it happened, so I took it more like a comparison of events per se. Now that you tell me this I re-read it and get your point.
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 13, 2017 18:24:25 GMT
I used to work in my family's agronomic administration at that time (it was the first year after I finished high school) and I remember that in the morning when I arrived at the office my grandmother was there and told me "there has been a very strange accident at the Twin Towers in the US: a plane crashed against one of them, and then after a while another plane crashed against the other. They must have been watching the other crash, got distracted and crash themselves too". I said "no, grandma, two accidents almost at the same time is too much, this has to have been done on purpose", she thought for a minute and then agreed.
Then all morning and afternoon long I followed the events, at times stopping at TVs on the street. When they started informing about the Pentagon plane, the bomb at the Congress (?) and other stuff I thought "shit, is this world-scale attack?". I was watching the news with my aunt when the first tower fell down and we could hardly believe our eyes.
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Post by Timeblue on Sept 13, 2017 19:16:53 GMT
In the UK and possibly other countries,it is a saying that we use relating to how we feel when an important event takes place. I know JFK was just a single person but the way he died was truly shocking and deep felt around the globe. I wasn't born when he died (I was born 2 months later) but the saying was defined as a 'go to' phrase whenever a shocking event took place. Fair enough, I hadn't understood at first read that the aspect you were focusing on about these events is that everyone remembers where he was when it happened, so I took it more like a comparison of events per se. Now that you tell me this I re-read it and get your point. No worries Helmut,I guess it got 'lost in translation'...
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Post by Timeblue on Sept 13, 2017 19:21:19 GMT
The one thing relating to the 9/11 that doesn't sit well with me is the Pentagon crash. NO cameras around the compound were 'working' and so no footage exists (or so they say), and the pictures of the crash scene are certainly not concurrent of that of a jet airliner crashing into it...
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Post by Helmut83 on Sept 13, 2017 19:25:17 GMT
A lot has been said about it, Timeblue, and what you say is true: there always seemed to be something smelling fishy about that (supposed) plane, starting by the images. But at the time the news were informing that a plane had crashed at the Pentagon.
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