9/11 3 Years Ago

J

John Uskglass

Venerable Relic of the Wastes
http://home.comcast.net/~sept11/

preferably with speakers down, unless you enjoy Enya.

It's easy to forget that, with all that happened afterwards, 200 people where disintegrated almost instantaneously, people who were living lives not unlike yours, and 200 firemen, crushed to death by a melting building, trying to save people until the moment they're lives ended, and 1200 other people who just wanted to go to work, who just wanted to support they're families, weather in New jersey, Mexico City or Toronto, people who where....well....just people. All of them are dead.

I was in 8th Grade when it happened. I was in my home room. My home room teacher, a greek woman, came in and drew two towers. one them had smoke coming out of it, the other was a pile of rubble.
 
I believe I was playing Diablo 2 at the time. And 2004-2001 = 3 years. (are you still in 8th grade by any chance ;D )
 
I seem to remember thinking everyone was pulling my leg... Though I have absolutely no clue where I was at the time it happened. All I know is that I found out pretty late.
 
It was my junior year of highschool, and the entire school was in the gym for the senior assembly when the principal announced there had been an 'incident' in NYC, and refused to say more and orderd the teachers to leave the TVs off.


They ignored him.
 
I was a senior in highschool back then, I walked into my 2nd period class (US History and Current Events) and noticed the tv was on, aparently i was about 10 minutes late for seeing the first plane hit the towers. Though just as class was starting we were all watching the tv talking about what had just happened when the second jet hit....

After that the entire school just wandered from room to room watching the news....

Though my last period of the day was study hall, i used to always go to the library, a group of us were sitting around a table when one asshole decided to say, "Who the fuck cares? This fucking country had it comming." And he ment it.... I had just enlisted in the Army about a month before, bad fuckin move on his part... I jumped over the table, grabbed his throat and began punching him... almost got expelled. Ended up with both of us getting a three day break from school.
 
I was in 9th grade, and I just arrived to class and saw the tv was on and i was like "hey are we watching a movie today"...

*Edit* Yeesh what a shitty song...i think the hamster dance would have been more appropriate.
 
I was at home, eating dinner...suddenly, I saw the TV showed to smoking towers..and I thought, umh, what? RA2 has come for reall?? that's right, my first thought was Red Alert 2 when you blow up the towers...I thought it was some mainiac who had played it a litle too much... :roll:
 
Kahgan said:
I was at home, eating dinner...suddenly, I saw the TV showed to smoking towers..and I thought, umh, what? RA2 has come for reall?? that's right, my first thought was Red Alert 2 when you blow up the towers...I thought it was some mainiac who had played it a litle too much... :roll:
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You get to blow up the WTC in RA2??
 
Elissar, only one asshole did anything like that one you beat the crap outta at my HS.

He got the shit smacked out of him too, though noone did or saw anything.
 
Yeah, I was at a bit of a disadvantage though... the principal picked that time to wander through the library...

Bad timeing...
 
playing CS (omfg!!!1!!!1!one!!1 they set upon us tah bomb!1!!1!)

then returned to IRC when the PCW was done, someone said to check CNN ASAP. didnt say why but said we wouldnt believe him if he told us.

so i ran downstairs and watched the second plane hit just as i turned on the tv.
 
I was in bed at the time. I woke up suddenly with an urge to switch the TV on, I just caught the first news broadcasts of the first hit. I watched the second one live with a sense of disbelief.

You guys have my sympathy, my condolences and my support, for what it's worth.
 
I`ve already talked about this here at NMA several times, so here`s the short version:
I was enjoying the last days of my vacations, headed to a cybercaffé at a mini-mall, when i got a bizarre SMS with the word "Banzai!"

The bus stoped so i went to charge my cell-phone card to ask what my friend meant, when i hear some comotion upstairs. I go up the stairs to a cafe run by someone i know, when i notice lots of people just standing there, women with their hands covering their mouths in desbelief, men with their mouths open, and the TV screaming with the words "planes...World Trade Center..." and screams from people at the streets of New York. I just say "what...the...hell...happened?..." and a guy comes with a nervous giggle and his hands on his head saying "they`re blowing up America, the towers at NY, the Pentagon, there are car bombs everywhere, planes are droping as flies, bla bla bla" (things were a bit confusing for a while). I stare for a minute, listening to TV reporters saying Congress was beeing evacuated, and then...the second plane hits the other tower. The anchor first says it was a replay, the he gets silent, while another girl reporter talks , and then he whispers "my god, it`s another plane, and he hit the other tower...". People just stood in silence.

Well i run to the cybercafe, and started this topic in NMA, while opening #fallout on IRC, icq and MSN to see what was going on and if someone in the community or someone i knew was hurt. The rest you can read in the archived topic, i finished the day at home with a few tears in my face together with my wife and kid, and felt rather worried regarding the future. I still do.
 
I was at the law school with my wife, when a one of her colleagues, and a friend of mine, told me that a plane hit the world trade center.

I thought it was a small passenger plane. This had happened before with the Empire State Building. But then when I saw the TV and the second plane crash. Damn... And I knew there would be a lot more blood spilled over this.

Osama- what a prick. May the guy burn in hell for what he did. ANd, God willing, then let him burn again.
 
I was just idling after coming home from school when ICQ popped up.

Code: 
Person  11.9.200 15:13 Seen what happened to the Trade Towers?

DJ Slamák  11.9.200 15:13 To whom? [Mind you, at that point I'd probably heard of the WTC once or twice in English class, and it went in one ear and out the other.]

Person  11.9.200 15:13 Those two towers in America. They used to be the
                               biggest buildings in the world.

DJ Slamák  11.9.200 15:14 Oh. I thought you were talking about some role-playing
                               thread.
                               Nope, I haven't anyway.

Person  11.9.200 15:16 It's maddeningly strange. See, a plane hit one of
                               them and tore a huge chunk out, and then just
                               when the guys in the other tower must have been
                               thanking their lucky stars that it didn't hit
                               them...

Person  11.9.200 15:16 ...A DIFFERENT PLANE HIT THEM TOO!

DJ Slamák  11.9.200 15:17 Gah!

DJ Slamák  11.9.200 15:17 Sounds like a dire conspiracy.

Person  11.9.200 15:18 It does, but these didn't seem to be suicide
                               bombers. They were commercial jets with loads of
                               passengers. The death counts must be huge.

DJ Slamák  11.9.200 15:20 and cnn.com just HAS to be out of service.

Person  11.9.200 15:20 Well, it just happened. Expect the news to catch
                               up soon.

And so it began.

(I'm not revealing the other guy's name in case he might not want it for whatever reason, but he obviously spoke (and likely still speaks) better English than me.)
 
We talked a lot on that day Slamák, you were on several channels , you placed that "end of the world slightly ahead of time" topic at #fallout
 
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