I remeber I did a huge report on the arcitecture of the world trade center 3 months before they collapsed.
I remeber I did a huge report on the arcitecture of the world trade center 3 months before they collapsed.
I was in school, suburbia NY. During my second period break I heard someone say that s plane had hit the WTC. I didn't know what to think, I had no idea what was really going on. A couple minutes later someone said another plane had hit the WTC. I remember laughing and saying, "What the hell kind of retarded pilots are they?"
Halfway through third period everyone in the school was out of classes, everyone was talking, saying it wasn't a small thing, that it was a massive attack, that the Pentagon had also been hit, that it was terrorists. The administration rolled out TVs under the covered breezeways connecting the buildings. I watched both towers collapse.
Fourth period came and my math teacher rounded up all the kids he could for that class. He said, "I know there's lots of other things going on in the world today, but we should just set it aside for the next 45 minutes and focus on Derivatives and calculus." A girl in the back row behind me was crying all class because her mom worked at the WTC. Her mom had escaped. One kid right in the middle worked all period, asked questions about calculus, paid rapt attention to Derivatives. Next period he found out his dad had died.
Me and a bunch of my friends didn't really feel like going to school past 5th period. We ditched out, along with more than half the school. I still couldn't get in touch with my mom, who works on the 43rd Floor of a skyscraper right across from the UN. The cell phones circuits were all busy.
We watched TV. I saw the towers collapse again, and again, and again. I saw the explosions for the first times and all the other footage. We ordered pizza because my parents' friends weren't home. We watched Arab people cheer when they heard the news.
I went home. My parents wanted us all to have a family prayer time. I had stopped really believing in all that, but we did it anyway. I didn't do any homework, or watch TV. I went to bed pretty early.
The next day we had an assembly at school. We listened to Bush's speech in my American history class. I remember thinking that he should have stopped it. Then thinking that whoever had done this would have to pay, no matter what the cost. My math teacher marked me off for not having done my Calculus homework.
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
I find it insulting of your math teacher wanted teach Cal during all that. What a wanker. I find it inspiring that your school had wheeled out tv's to let everyone watch what was going on while my school had cut most of us off from the out side world.
What sucks is me and my sister had gone to Manhatton to hang out and didn't have a chance to see them, we went to the Empire State Building instead.Originally posted by: Jaredster
I remeber I did a huge report on the arcitecture of the world trade center 3 months before they collapsed.
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mae also said she didn't want to get involved in the conspiracies and the WHYS about the terrorists, and to just dedicate it towards the memory of the eventOriginally posted by: Turkish-S
assertn for your knollage i was replying to what xollence and mae said. they said the same exept from another view.
Anyway...damn masamuneehs....thats pretty crazy
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
it IS really stupid that your math teacher expected you all to work that hard, but i see what he's doing, you know teachers arent exactly supposed to share that kind of information with students so he wanted them to not think about it as much. like teh kid who worked all period probably didnt worry until he found out his dad diedOriginally posted by: Lefty
I find it insulting of your math teacher wanted teach Cal during all that. What a wanker. I find it inspiring that your school had wheeled out tv's to let everyone watch what was going on while my school had cut most of us off from the out side world.
but for him to mark you off for the calc HW thats BULLSHIT.
Lefty i know exactly what your saying, the kids in our school had to bulldoze our way into the few working TVs (the ones that werent disabled):
-teachers lounge (i got in here)
-library
-main office (we were all kicked out of here)
and i'm sure there were some other places too.
edit: oh jaredster about you doing an arcitecture reminds me of another ironic thing, the world trade center collapsed 1 week after i went to see it and bought a bunch of souviners which are now apparently worth like $500 but, i think the memory's more important than the money (at least when i dont need it)
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
Nice retelling Masamuneehs.
When I found out, it was literally just happening. I was going from 1st to 2nd period, and I heard the tv was on as I walked into class. My first reaction (now seems like a common reaction after reading this thread) was "Kick-ass, a movie!"
but as you know, it wasn't a movie.
We watched footage of it for about 3 more periods before we were told we could go home. I spent the rest of the day finishing my homework. Then, after 30 more minutes of footage, I went to bed. Not that I didn't care, I just didn't know what else to do. Pretty heavy stuff.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
thats exactly what i did too, after i found out my family was alright, i just went to sleep.
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
"It was a very depressing time in my life, since I had no money I was unable to screw the rules" -Kaiba
Do all you realize that this is to us what JFK's assination was to our parents and grandparents. We will probably never live through another historically defining event like this.
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in theHills
are your parents and grandparents dead.??
no, but I would bet that JFK's assination is more burned into their heads than this, at least with regards to what we have been talking about, ie. knowing where you were/what was happining whe it happened.
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in theHills
unless armageddon hitsOriginally posted by: Cal_kashi
Do all you realize that this is to us what JFK's assination was to our parents and grandparents. We will probably never live through another historically defining event like this.
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
I was at work sanding a car down and paint prepping it while listening to Howard Stern on the radio...I remember hearing whatever useless conversation being turned into Robin blurting out "Oh my God! what is that!" To which Howard made some jackass snide remark about flight traffic control or someshit. Then after the second plane hit, he acutally decided to not be an asshole anymore and turn his show into some sort of news network. I remember thinking "WTF this sick mother fucking asshole better not be pulling an H.G. Wells on us!". I turned the radio off and concentrated on my work the rest of the day constantly thinking about it.
When I got home my mom was crying, telling me all about what I had heard on the TV. So, then I finally thought "So we've finally got what has been coming for us as a nation. All these years of saying how much better we are and how different we are...and now look. We've just been shown that no one is safe anywhere in the entire Universe." I remember everyone asking "how could this happen, we're the United States!" and I kept thinking "its BECAUSE we're the United States, we have grown complacent and arrogant, we have 'foriegn policy' and even tell other countries how to run their own affairs. We send troops all over the world to fight for things that have nothing to do with us. The rest of the ENTIRE WORLD hates the USA"
So yes, while I agree that Katrina has been over100 fold more destructive, it was an act of "God/ Mother Nature". This was an act of a few select individuals who were under the influence that if they did this "God" would reward them with several hundred or thousand virgins in Heaven...sick fucking bastards...
Also, I remember Y saying something about Pearl Harbor. The facts of that are, we were taken by surprise because the Japanese telegraph didn't reach Washington till 37 minutes after the attack actually begun. I think someone commited suicide for the dishonor for it too. So, yes, they Nihons had the intention of informing us then pounding us, but they made a mistake.
I think the only good thing that every came from this incident now 4 years ago was that for a short while...we were all "Americans". We weren't Republican or Democrats, we weren't black or white, we weren't upper or lower class...we were just Americans. The stupid shit bickering over politics STOPPED DEAD in its tracks! Whether you liked Bush or not, everyone supported him.....well, everyone except that fuck Michael Moore (whom I want to strap down and make watch every war real of WWII and what's going over in the east, like in Clockwork Orange. Then afterwards, lock the fat ass fuck up in a room to starve to death).
When my father was a boy the most memorable day of his life was the day Kennedy was assassinated. For us...this is our day that we'll never really forget. We may put it back in our minds, but when our kids ask...we'll know, we'll remember exactly what we were doing when we heard the news...and if we're human, it will rouse our emotions of sadness and anger.
Lol at Rhanfahl
Not at your expirience from that day, but how you say it was a good thing that after 9/11 everyone came out together as "Americans"
What we all saw as "Patriotism" was a simple reaction of solidarity forged by previously unknown fear. The Bush administration no longer needed to worry about divisions amongst factions in America, because the biggest threat was unanimously seen as coming from abroad. With everyone pooling together, afraid to appear unpatriotic, opposition to the administration's policies, slogans and responses were muted. Corrections or suggestions for improving the agenda could also be put on the snide.
While the "stupid shit bickering over poltics" as you put it, stopped dead, so too were all the limitations on the President imprisoned for the cause of "fighting terror". The policies that have come out of the "Patriotic, Proud American Response" to 9/11 are arguably the least humanitarian of our nation's history since the Japanese Interment. Our invasion of Iraq and the heavy political pressure we have put on every nation "in order to thrwart terrorism" has broken the chains on the American behemoth. While we have killed a great deal of our enemies, we have failed to stop the process by which terrorists are nurtured and maintained. The enemies that are still left are hardened, more resolved than ever, and the people whose lives were turned upside down by US foreign policy have understandably been disillusioned with our work.
The question isn't what does 9/11 mean four years after the fact. The question should be, how far have we come since then? Are we heading in the direction where this sort of thing will be prevented in the future? Can we continue to be the world's superpower without garnering foes from every corner of the globe?
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
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