A new aspect of 9/11

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All right usually there are topics every year about this time with a lot of the same questions. Where were you at the time? What were you thinking at the time? What do you think about the way things are handled now? And generally we get the same answers. So I would like to try something else that is somewhat different.

Did September 11th change you completely in any way or do you know anyone who completely changed as a result? September 10, you were one way and then the attacks occurred and you made a sudden change for yourself or perhaps a friend did so. Obviously you had to make changes if you lost any family or friends, though for those that didn't, what changed about you. Were you inspired to do something perhaps? Did you make any personal sacrifices?

Please realize that this is not a debate and do try and keep any political grievances to another topic.
 
I don't think it's changed me as a person so much, but it's definitely something that stuck with me and affected me pretty deeply. I was in biology class at the time, only a week into my freshman year of high school. From where I was sitting, I was actually able to SEE the WTC from my classroom. We were all just in shock and disbelief. But the most unfortunate thing was that none of the staff would tell us what was happening. But as the day went on, more and more people were being pulled from class and brought home. Halfway through my day, I just walked out and went home to see everything for myself.

I didn't actually know anyone, but a lot of friends of mine did, so it all felt very unreal to me at the time it happened. And I still look at the empty space where the towers once stood every time I go into Manhattan. I think that even though the reality of it all has long since set in, it still feels surreal at times to know these tall buildings I'd been in dozens of times as a child was no longer there.
 
I started to take a more cynical view of the way the government does things...but other than that, nope...hasn't phased me a bit. But I was always brought up knowing bad things happen
 
At the moment 9/11 happened (it was shown 'live' around the world, remember?), I did not and could not realise nor comprehend the immense awfullness that it was - you would be forgiven for calling me a retard at that time. It wasn't until at least a few days later (I can't remember things well from before or around that time) that I started comprehending the scale of the tragedy; even then, it took a lot of changes inside me (nothing related to 9/11, but my contact with reality - I used to be almost totally disconnected with reality), and while I'm better at comprehending 9/11, I'm still learning how awful that day was.

I still remember during that period, a few days after the event happened, that I became rather emotionally upset while watching reports of 9/11; I looked to my mother for help; she just told me to pray, like what everybody else seemed to be doing at that time (it happened that the television was showing a Christian congregation praying for the victims of 9/11 at that moment - and mind you, we are a family of Buddhists).
 
It began my fall from an idealist to a jaded cynic.

Every September 11 since then has made its worse, with its bevy of wholly predictable, entirely repetitive and rather less than impressive threads, discussions, and "Woe is America"-ism on every forum, news channel, and so forth.

Some days, you get the feeling that for a lot of people, there never was a September 12, 2001 - or any day after that, and that September 11 has stretched into eternity.

(And to be clear : I'm excluding the New Yorkers who got to watch it real time, and those who knew victims. It's the other 275 millions I mean)
 
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I don't think I really understood what death was all about until then. I've been obsessed with death and things from beyond the grave since I was nine, from the day I discovered that even the sun wasn't forever, but I didn't really understand how it made people feel. Not until September 2001.

It's... a bit silly, but on the morning of 9/11 I was upset from watching an episode of my favorite show the previous day, where my favorite characters died. I never really experienced the death of someone I loved before (my grandfather died when I was nine, but I was incredibly oblivious at the time and didn't know him very well), so I was incredibly distraught. 9/11 really brought it home. No one I know was there and no one I know knew anyone who was there, but... it was still humans, getting hurt and dying in real life. And I understood that if I felt so strongly about the death of purely fictional characters, it must feel about a million times worse for those who knew people who were inside WTC at the time.

I'm a lot more sensitive to death now. I'm a lot more sensitive in general, actually. I'm also a lot more ornery as soon as September rolls by because of all the bad memories associated with that month.
 
At the exact moment it happened I was watching 'Me, Myself and Irene' on Sky Box Office. When it ended I remember my Mum switching over to the news and all I saw was two giant towers with smoke bellowing out of them, i was really young so i had no idea what was going on or where the twin towers were, but my Mum was totally distraught by it, she was gobsmacked.
As of now it's almost forgotten, it's never really brought up and hasn't really affected me the slightest.
 
I don't think I changed any from that particular day. At the time, I just couldn't believe that someone had destroyed the WTC. I find myself more irritated at what this event has been blown into in subsequent years. By now, I wish for it to only be a memory. Another part of history that I have experienced.
 
September 11 had...no effect on me. Kind of hard to be affected by a terrorist attack half a country away when you've had one in your own backyard. THAT one had a profound effect on me.
 
The shielding bubble of ignorance my parents and my education had me so pleasantly wrapped up in was broken and I began to be more aware of the world and its realities; that this was in fact no accident, that it had been intended, and that even the glorified United States can be penetrated.
 
Serebii said:
I started to take a more cynical view of the way the government does things
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That happened to me when Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court as President.

9/11 changed my view of what America could be. The "war on terror" became the perfect excuse to beat us down into submission.
 
It's been incredibly blown out of proportion, and has become an excuse for America to constantly pity itself and play the world's victim - when many, many other countries suffer attacks like this monthly or even weekly. Yes, it was a tragedy - but people should stop treating it as the only bad thing that ever happened and "woe is us, because the terr'sts are out to get us." Get over it, people. We can't let something like this define the mentality of the country for the next century, for chrissake. Check out what happens daily in Africa and then come back and tell me it was the worst crime to humanity we've seen in the past 20 years.
 
The Big Al said:
That happened to me when Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court as President.

9/11 changed my view of what America could be. The "war on terror" became the perfect excuse to beat us down into submission.
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One way to rule a nation...rule by fear

Edit: Before I get jumped on, by this I am not insinuating that they plotted this like many people believe, but rather the government manipulated it to keep themselves in power and to get whatever the hell they want
 
Oh God...

I...I...No, I just can't say that! But...IagreewithJoehere.

*Scrubs mouth out* ;-)
 
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It's been incredibly blown out of proportion, and has become an excuse for America to constantly pity itself and play the world's victim - when many, many other countries suffer attacks like this monthly or even weekly. Yes, it was a tragedy - but people should stop treating it as the only bad thing that ever happened and "woe is us, because the terr'sts are out to get us." Get over it, people. We can't let something like this define the mentality of the country for the next century, for chrissake. Check out what happens daily in Africa and then come back and tell me it was the worst crime to humanity we've seen in the past 20 years.
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To put it in perspective 1 out every 100,000 Americans died in 9/11. That's less likely than dying from lightning, tornadoes, or flood seperately.

But it's all about the fear. A people that are afraid and stupid (Bush already has us afraid and he's working on making us stupid with "No Child Left Behind" and the like) are easily controlled. Satan made flesh Rove probably pissed his pants when 9/11 happened. He couldn't have asked for a better opportunity.

Then when a Hurricane kills close to 2,000 people it's practically swept under the rug except for late August. Hello, you can arrest terrorists, you can disarm bombs. You can't stop a Hurricane.
 
So I saw in the PPN thread, yes.
 
I was in biology class at the time, only a week into my freshman year of high school. From where I was sitting, I was actually able to SEE the WTC from my classroom.
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what high school did you go to.... if you lived on SI when you went to high school and you could see it from your classroom, you may have gone to my highschool... either that or the one on the other block.

Well I was affected very little aside from not watching Pokemon anymore. The towers had the antennas for everyone who got regular tv (back then we didn't have Time Warner).... but I really figured out what the word "terrorist" was and I began learning a lot about the middle east.
 
Crystal Clair said:
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what high school did you go to.... if you lived on SI when you went to high school and you could see it from your classroom, you may have gone to my highschool... either that or the one on the other block.

Well I was affected very little aside from not watching Pokemon anymore. The towers had the antennas for everyone who got regular tv (back then we didn't have Time Warner).... but I really figured out what the word "terrorist" was and I began learning a lot about the middle east.
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tottenville. you could BARELY see it, but it's hard to miss smoke and fire. later that day i had to pick up a friend who went to curtis - being on bay st/richmond terr that day was definitely one of the scariest sights of my life.
 
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