Meh, I do from time to time because I'm really beating them terr'ists. Instead of cowering, I'm stylin' on them.

  Nope. Though it didn't become real for me till John Stewart gave his little heart to heart about it. A lot of folks in Cali didn't have anyone there, but a lot of us cued on what he said. Skip a minute in to get past the crap the guy added. And that god awful music. Fuckin' youtube.

And I ended up spending 25 bucks speeding a nice letter to that guy in Florida tryin' to burn books.

>>273491
Fuck man I saw that speech the night it aired. Still gets me.

>>273493

Same here. Same with pretty much everyone I knew at school. We were just high school kids, and shit, I remember walking into class a bit late and everyone watching: I literally asked, "Is this is a movie trailer?" I wasn't the only one who asked.

It just wasn't real, and the news reporters weren't helping. Hilarious that a fake news station helped a lot of us 'get it'.

Grade six. It was my birthday, I was turning 11. It happened around lunch time, and I remember all the teachers gathering around a little TV in their lounge. School was let out early. A handful of the planes meant to go to NY over the next couple of days were diverted here, and some people invited the stranded passengers to stay in their homes, since the airport was almost filled to the brim with cots and sleeping bags.
Not exactly the best way to celebrate a birthday, but it is rather hard to forget.

Yeah, I know that some non-Americans and people who live on the West Coast/wherever might not care so much, but for those of us who live in NYC or in the Northeast this was awful. I know people who had family die, and I know firefighters who went to NYC to clean up ground zero and were really psychologically affected. Whatever political shit happened because/after is irrelevant.

A little sensitivity would be nice.

>>273506
This.
Joking about 9/11 is only funny on days that are not 9/11.
The word hamboigahs is still funny though.

I'm still disgusted at the way the media turned this tragedy into little more than a fucking slogan and banner for that faggy invasion. What a way to cheapen the deaths of these people.

"9/11 never forget" yeh i'll never forget how fucking repulsive people are.

>>273515

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people use it as a fucking excuse.
"Why do you hate these people?"
"9/11! THEY DID 9/11!"
LOLNOPE, pretty sure you're just an ignorant and racist douchefag.

But let's just stay away from that discussion.

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE '10, YO. COMIN' AT YOU ALL DAY LONG, HOMIES.

>>273517

remembrance day i like that. maybe we could include every other awful disater thats happened this decade. tsunamis, hurricanes, civil wars, genocides...

>>273519

Sure, if you want. I really don't want to go look them all up. TOO MUCH SORROW.

Only on plus4chan would people make hundreds of threads about their friends missing their phone calls or some shit, but shake off the deaths of 3,000 people.

You're all terrible people.

>>273531
Human Empathy extends to whoever one sees as sharing his culture. Western culture, in their eyes, makes people individualistic, and alienates them from the rest of the world. Where they once cared about the people around them, they now only care about things that affect them and them alone. In the long run, it leads to loneliness, indecision, and selfishness.

is it excuse for racial and religious intolerance day already

>>273538

>Implying that isn't everyday.

I was 9 years old when it happened, I can still remember walking home from school that afternoon with that awful smell in the air. That shit went all the way to Brookyln. Mom had to walk all the way back home because she was working in Manhattan at the time

And yet, aside from my school having to do some tribute for the police and fire departments sometime afterward (and singing that Collins song from Tarzan no less) that time period was pretty unimportant to me. Hardly remember it, hardly care.

I acknowledge that for some it was the most dreadful day in their lives, but for me, it was just another Tuesday, and I just wanted to watch some Cartoon Network when I got home.

I'm too busy being fucking furious at rightwing douchebags like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich for exploiting the 'anniversary' of 3000 civilian deaths to further their media empires and make a ton of cash to do much of anything else this year.

It was bad enough when they were just exploiting it for political purposes (remember that incredibly gross video they showed at the Republican convention in 2008? Live in television without any warning whatsoever?) but this is completely beyond the pale.

My dad and mom actually pulled me and my sister out of the beginning of school to go to the beach that week.

I remember making sandcastles and I suddenly saw people running inside back to their beach houses. A neighbor of ours told my mom that something really bad had happened, and we all went up to the house. Mom turned on CNN and just watched, and told us to go to our rooms and watch Cartoon Network. I didn't really understand what happened until we got back from our little haven.

Me and my sister watched Pokemon and it was like nothing ever happened the next day.

I was in my 7th grade choir class when someone handed my teacher a note and he read it to all of us. I didn't really get what was going on, but I do remember knowing about what terrorism basically was, because I remember getting unfairly annoyed at this girl who raised her hand and asked why someone would crash a plane into a building.

(Fun fact: that choir teacher ended up getting arrested and replaced a few months later when it came out that he had been molesting boys he had been privately tutoring.)

I remember the faculty having us go to our next class, and I think they had had a rule that there was to be no watching of the news in any of the classes, which was stupid as it probably just made us spread rumors even more. One of my acquaintances had to leave the room crying, and I think she was in the office on the phone, because her dad was in New York on a business trip or something. I think he was OK though.

And then they ended school early, and my mother hugged me and I still didn't get all of what was happening.

>>273519
Remembrance Day is Canada's equivalent to Veterans Day.

Alright. TNT is showing The Two Towers tonight in tribute.

>>273491

I never saw this actually, but I relate to a lot of the disconnect you were talking about. I was in seventh grade, and I remember I had turned on the news while getting ready for school, not sure why. I vaguely remember a reporter talking in front of the towers, one of which was smoking. I wasn't paying too much attention, so I didn't really know what was happening, and ended up just turning off the TV and going to school.

Some friends of mine were coming up to me and asked me "Have you heard?! Have you heard?!". I didn't know what they were talking about, and when they said what happened, it was sort of surreal. I felt vaguely angry, but the whole thing wouldn't be real for me for another few weeks, once I got used to the idea.

>>273491
He was so young ;_;

I was just a kid when it happened, so I can be kind of flippant and joke about it pretty easily. My boyfriend wants to make it our official anniversary so that he'll "never forget".

But we should still feel something about it, I think, and especially be sensitive to the people that really experienced it. It shouldn't be a political cross or anything like that, but you shouldn't be a total uncaring asshole either.

>>273567

Faaaaaaaaantastic.

>>273491
What a guy.

Also, whoever edited this video is an asswipe.

>>273522
>>273528
Stop using your self-centered carelessness to strawman your disillusionment with people.

>>273537
>WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO CARE ABOUT DEAD PEOPLE, IT'S NOT LIKE THESE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN HURRRRR

>>273571
You guys please read this.

I'm sorry if you selfish idiots can feel no empathy for those that were lost, and it's no wonder why so many of you complain about being social retarded. Whether or not you have political views, or have been soured by the media's handling of everything horrible, the bottom line is that people have died;and while that not mean much to you personally, the least you can do is respect the grief of those who did lose people. You don't go to funeral to say PEOPLE DIE EVERYDAY HURR. Yes it was 9 years ago, but times like these are often a time to reflect on that grief. At least give me that.

Get it together

>>273576
thank you

regardless of the political shitstorm that followed, an important piece of a great city was destroyed, and thousands of people's lives with it. I'm from California, but I do know people who had friends, relatives in the city and in the towers. yes america has killed people too, and people die every day, and cigarettes have probably killed more people or whatever. that is no reason to be a dick about a national tragedy.

just because everyone involved and affected is outside your little monkeysphere doesn't mean they're irrelevant, i mean damn

>>273576
The reason I care so much is that I still remember going down there a few days after it happened, smelling that terrible smell that stuck in the air for a year, and how out of the huge crowds of hundreds that went down there to see what happened, the only people making a sound were distressed crying relatives holding up pictures and begging for news of survivors.

It's really hard to shrug off shit like that. I can joke about it now, but still...

Okay serious post now.

I was in 6th grade when it happened. I can honestly say I understood nothing of what was going on. Being stupid selfish kids we all thought they were going to bomb Vegas next and the end times were coming.

Now growing up and looking back, trying to understand it as someone who didn't experience it firsthand, it's hard. There's so much disconnect because the only way I experienced it was through my TV screen. While people on the east coast were thinking "how could this happen" people on the west were thinking "this can't be happening".

If that makes sense.

September 11 was a horrible event and it is pretty rude to make fun of it.

So make fun of the insane jingoistic patriotism that came from it.

That said, the terror level is at tomato today.

>>273582

I smiled.

When it happened I was naive to the cultural effect it was going to have on Western society. When I saw it on TV that morning I filed it away as one of those "tragic things that happened but will never actually effect me". I didn't understand until they started interrupting classes and telling us not to panic about war exactly what it's significance was.

GLOBAL RULE 0Use Common Sense
DON'T BE A DICK

>>273584

The day that it happened, I was of course at school. We had no TVs or radios in the school so no-one found out until the evening. I recall walking home and passing by two women embracing in the street, crying. On the TV, it was on every channel. I was only eight, I couldn't quite comprehend what was going on, I thought it was some weird joke or something.

It's weird. That day was one of those days where I remember every little detail (right down to the position of the glow in the dark hedgehog stickers I had on my Hooch! messenger bag), yet the only reason I really remembered it this year was because a Bronx boy just transfered to my school and I overheard him talking about it in my Spanish class.

I was in Jr. High and my class was CONVINCED completely that the next attack would be our school. You know, that one in Michigan.

I remember my dad picked me up early that day and I had to wait until my friend got home before I could hang out.

I just remember being a 14-year-old girl and crying over it a little when we saw the footage at school. (It was pretty fucked up, we lived right outside DC, and I had family in NYC.)

Everyone acted like something was wrong with me.

I guess that was before it was acceptable for grown men in middle America with no connection to the places affected to blubber about it years after the fact.

I was in fourth grade and pissed at my parents for forcing me into advanced classes after I'd settled in. It was my last week in my original class and my teacher got a call, turned on the TV and didn't talk for a while. Half of us had no idea what the hell was going on, one girl was crying, I think some of her relatives were up there that week. Then the principal did an all-call telling all the teachers to turn off the TV's, act like nothing happened and get back to work. I don't remember the rest of the day that well, just my parents flipping out and my mom crying for a while.

It was 8 in the morning when I saw on television that a plane had crashed into on of the Twin Towers, I was confused and a little more than concerned. I remember the eerie silence that seemed to hold all the members of my 8th grade class when the news of what happened was blared over the intercom. I still feel really terrible about what happened to those people and my heart and prayers go out to anyone who lost someone in the attack.

I live in Virginia. You know, close to the Pentagon that got hit too. I was only in middle school but I was still freaked. I mean, it happened in our back yard! The silly rumors the kids were talking didn't help either. (Like: NUKES ARE COMING SHIT WE ALL GONNA DIE) There's nothing else like children terrified they're going to DIE at any second thanks to terrorists/war. Shit sucked.

Also for Americans: >>273491 http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2001/september-11--2001 Same speech minus the shitty music.

Whatever barriers we put up are gone. Even if it's just momentary. We are judging people by not the color of their skin, but the content of their character. You know, all this talk about "These guys are criminal masterminds. They've gotten together and their extraordinary guile and their wit and their skill..." It's, it's—it's a lie. Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that’s extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.

Thanks Jon.

  Mom used to wake me up in a huff anyway, but she was obviously a lot more bothered and unnerved than usual. I remember being worried about how I failed a social studies exam and didn't tell her about it yet, and then I saw the news. I knew it was serious and a horrible, but I had no idea that it would be the inciting incident for the rest of the decade.

That morning was also the first time I saw the video for System of a Down's "Chop Suey!"

I literally had no idea what the WTC was before 9/11 happened due to not having any vested interest in political whatnots and never having been to NYC.

But I was in the hospital when the first plane hit and was watching with people. There was just silence everywhere and people were just looking on confused, and then the second plane hit and they got scared. The towers didn't fall til I got home, and when it happened both of my parents were crying in the living room.

I don't think I fully realized the gravity of the situation when it was going on, but I remember it down to the pair of boxers I was wearing.

I wasn't really affected at all, but I won't disrespect the dead.

>>273659

That was a pretty common sentiment, so I don't think you have to worry about doing that.

I was 19, graduated high school so I was at home and my moms boyfriend was on me a for few days about seeing something at CNN.com. So I finally said ok and looked up what he wanted to see. Saw a banner of breaking news on top with the world trade center on fire and turned on the TV. It was when the first plane just hit and then I watched the second go in live. Then went to AOL chats to see what people were talking about and turned on the radio. I called my girlfriend at the time that was in California, it was like 6am there. He mom answered and I was telling her to turn on the news. Saw everything on TV and freaked out when they fell. It was a mass hystera here in Pittsburgh even though Shanksville is far far away from Pittsburgh.

I was 17. Senior in highschool. I had the credits enough to attend a tech school. The Hancock County Tech Center. So I went there for A+ repair and multimedia- that was my entire senior year. Just assembling old 486 computers and installing Windows 3.0. And working with powerpoint.

Things were looking so up then. It was the beginning of the last school year of my childhood. I planned to enlist in the military fresh out of graduation and both accumulate fundage for college and learn a tradeskill- of what, I wasn't sure yet. I still am not.

I remember it in the eidetic way I do most things I hate. We were in break period, sitting in the cafeteria and jabbering about Silent Hill 2. And I think also if China was ever intending to zerg rush other countries with infantry. Heeerrrrrp teenagers. Some joker had started to play 'because I got high' over the school intercom. Quickly shut down by an amused 'fucking kids' minded teacher.

There was no intercom announcement. There was no panic word to set anybody off. It just happened. Out of nowhere, like somebody had spooked the herd, my peers started flowing towards the long hallway back to the various classes. You could practically _smell_ something wasn't right. And it wasn't. Everybody, EVERYBODY was heading to the computer repair room, because it was equipped with satellite and television. And there we stood, watching one of the towers on fire in the class room.

17 year old me didn't think much of it. I thought it'd be just a terrible accident, or another failed attempt to bomb it. I thought it would never amount to anything. And then another plane flew into the building. And then they started collapsing.

Then mom showed up out the back of the crowd and demanded to bring me home. She was a bit out of her mind and wasn't looking all that interested in argument. So, that's how the day ended. We went home, we watched Fox News. All day. We wanted to know who did it, and when we'd have the coordinates to where they live. And how big a mess it was going to make when we blew it up.

Mom was on the verge of mental breakdown for the next few months- next year, really. Enlisting like I planned was just going to drive her over the edge. I'm positive. Nine years later, I'm kind of considering doing it before I'm too old to do it.

>>273659
>I literally had no idea what the WTC was before 9/11 happened due to not having any vested interest in political whatnots and never having been to NYC
This this this this this. I never admit it though ever.

>>273576
You're pretty mad, bro.

I mean. Come on. I ain't saying I don't feel empathy, and I don't make fun of what happened. So. Yeah.

I'm going to clarify right now, since my post was deleted, and then the opportunity was used to throw backhanded insults like "socially retarded" and implying that I was, in some bloody way, disrespecting the dead. And I feel that's pretty shitty of you all.

Tons of people die every day, and sure, some people need special days to remember the dead, but I think it's pretty terrible to quantify your grief for the dead, to say "oh here's a day I will remember them."

I didn't care about the day then, and I don't care now. It's just a day. I'll mourn on my own terms when I feel it's appropriate, and I'm not sorry for that.

>>273677
But is that something you feel the need to say today of all days? I mean for fuck's sake, are you even surprised that people were a little pissed off?

I don't remember the specifics of finding out, just that it was in science class and I didn't take it seriously because my science teacher was normally a huge goofball. It wasn't until lunch that I realised something big had happened.
Lunch was insanely eerie. Everyone was in the halls in groups, huddled around radios and shit listening to the news. I was friends with the AV club, and I sat in there with them as we watched CNN. School got let out early and I came home to find my mum in the bedroom, just watching the news. I remember her telling me that this was important and frightening because 'if they're crazy enough to attack the States, they'll have no probably attacking anyone.'
Living in the capital of Canada, the tension lasted for months.

>>273678

He asked and I gave my honest opinion. That's all there is to it. If you don't like my opinion ask me about it, don't just throw around insults like a bunch of children. Mind you, Pablo could have been referring to Jazz, but I didn't see what she posted, but still.

>>273677
It's usually customary to remember the dead on the day they died.

>>273685

And I think that custom is stupid, isn't that what I just said?

>>273687

does it offend you?

auuggggh you mean i have to go out of my way to be nice to people?!?!?!!?!?

also my actual memory of the day is hearing about it on the radio and my friends dad turning to us and saying "i bet it was muslims."

after having heard so many disturbing war stories from shit like Kosovo it wasnt as shocking to me until I saw the footage of people jumping. Seeing that desperate nihilistic fear scared me. I can't even begin to comprehend the emotions someone has to be going through to do that.

As for the whole "blah blah why this day and not others" well thats pretty fucking obvious because it happened in one of the media capitols of the world, and was filmed by seemingly everyone in the city. We all saw this thing unfold unlike any disaster. Yea we've had many worse disasters but none so widely broadcast across every communication network. How often do we see live footage of people killing themselves and those helping people getting crushed by debris? Think about the bigger picture.

>>273687
Does it bother you that people celebrate their life on the day they were born?
Or celebrate their marriage on the date of their wedding?

It's a way of organizing and confining the emotions to a specific day. It keeps the meaning behind it from being diluted.

>>273696

it offends me you motherfuckers with your birthdays on the same day every year god what a bunch of stupid assholes.

>>273696

Nothing bothers me, I wasn't saying that I had a problem with it, I was saying I have a problem with being insulted for having my own opinion.

I don't celebrate by birthday either, if you're going to imply that I'm a hypocrite or something. My last birthday party was when I was 12. Days aren't important, people are, and I show my respect when I want to, not when I'm told to. It's not really all that complicated.

>>273693

I didn't disrespect anyone. He asked if we forgot, I said I don't care, that's all.

>>273689

No.

>>273699

>My last birthday party was when I was 12.

it all makes sense

>>273702

By my choice. :)

>>273706

it all makes sense

>>273677

We're creatures of ritual and symbolism. Yes, more people die every day from cigarettes and heart disease. But it's the how that matters: this wasn't an everyday occurrence, for most of us it came without warning, and the sheer horror of it...people leaped to their deaths rather than die from smoke and fire. Body parts were scattered for blocks from the site.

In hindsight, I too understood very little of what was going on at the time, and yes, like everyone else, all the kids at my school were all "ZOMG! WWIII!! END OF THE WORLD!"

Also, there are quite a lot of images featuring the WTC which are, in hindsight, eerie.

>>273707

You're beautiful, don't ever change.

>>273699
Oh, okay. I didn't read your original comment, but I was under the impression you were bothered by the fact that most of society does things a certain way.
You have a bad habit of stating your opinion in a callous way. Maybe if you learned a bit of tact you wouldn't insult others opinions by stating your own and then turning everything into a circular shitfest.

>>273711
Don't mind him, honey. He's from Rhode Island.
They have a virus that palsies the tact center of the brain and increases the volume of their voice. It's caused by potato deficiency. ;)

>>273711

I have a bad habit of assuming that people will take my opinion, as I take theirs, with a grain of salt. But yes, I should walk on eggshells on imageboards, because people tend to skim, and take things out of context. No worries though, thank you for taking the time to reread.

>>273713
Yeah, online where body language, tone of voice and such don't come through, so you have to expect that people are going to misread opinions, especially ones that don't agree with theirs.
I'm slowly starting to learn your opinions and tone past the 'fuckers'

  >>273717

It's a regional thing, apparently.

dfajgadufg too many posts.
SORRY IF I INSULTED ANYONE, I'M JUST...VERY DISAGREEABLE AND NOT ALL THAT NICE A PERSON.
SORRY AGAIN.

>>273721

I forgive you. I forgive you forever.

>>273721

Oh boo! Don't you worry about that.

>>273708

continuing sad/eerie/ironic images of the WTC

PUPPIES FOR EVERYONE

  >>273719

fuck is small time

cunt confirmed for best word

>>273734

Oh yeah, we say that plenty too.

I'm starting to get what Moe keeps saying.

>>273737

I like the sound of your part of the country. You appreciate language.

>>273744

We don't get along with people from outside our state too well.

>>273727

Dawwww! :D

>>273726

Now with more asbestos

>>273719

He should really be saying ALL of Massachusetts is like that, cause they are.

There's a reason everyone, including you, calls you guys Massholes.

>>273793
By 'all of Massachusetts' you mean 'everything east of Worcester' rite

>>273567
ABC Family is running Aladdin.

>>273795

Worcester included, though, but yeah. And a good portion of the New Hampshire and Rhode Island state lines.

>>273582
>I was in 6th grade when it happened.

Stopped reading there.

>>273795

lawl

I was sitting in class, I was just starting 5th grade, then there was an announcement that the World Trade Centre had been attacked. Most of us were all "whats The World Trade Centre?"

When I got home I saw it was on TV and I said that this is all anyone will ever talk about on the news (I like watching the news) foreeeeeverrrrr.

I didn't know how right I was.

The event didn't shock me or anyone in my family, since terrorist attacks were just a fact of life to us, and we didn't think America was somehow immune to attack, especially with all the dicking around they did in the middle east and since I was pretty young and used to sudden shifts, I just accepted the concept of terrorists crazy and cruel enough to use civilian planes to execute such a massive assault.

It's my good friend's birthday today, so I didn't even realize it was September Eleventh, it was just September 11th until I turned on the TV and saw the news. I didn't really think about it for the rest of the day. So I guess I kinda forgot. My memory is not the greatest.

I remember hearing about it during English class, we were going over Walden.
After someone said that the WTC had been attacked I said "Well, that's odd, why didn't they hit the Pentagon instead." Couple minutes later, it gets hit.

Also my moms birthday.
Gave her a box of choclets.

I was washing my face getting ready for class when it happened. I was 15 and I think my mom called me over to watch the morning news. It took me a couple moments to understand what was going on. I don't remember anything about that day otherwise except for my 2nd period teacher for...world history? I think? He talked about it with us a bit. We were pretty quiet for the rest of that class. The rest of the day went on as normal outside of me following the news more than usual for a couple months (and still not getting it)

I still remember being excited about bombing the shit out of the Afghan mountains. And the subsequent bullshit in Iraq and arguments with rednecks (derp derp I live in Texas)

I remember being pretty scared though I think I was freaked out more by the possibility of a draft since more than anything else (that came way after 9/11 though), I was pretty selfish and cowardly (still am to an extent).

I never really watched the videos of people falling. Just the planes crashing over and over and over again, the explosions, the people covered in dust running for their lives...

I don't really make jokes about 9/11 outside of laughing at the usual gifs and whatnot (can't help it, I just wasn't close enough to it) but I don't really...think about the date much either. I still forget the specific year sometimes since time blurs together so much for me. "9/11" isn't really a date to me. It's a word. A proper noun. It's this horrible thing that happened that shouldn't have happened and scared the fuck out of me but that was then and this is now and I have other things to be scared the fuck out of.

TLDR lol 9/11. I'm going to go eat a burger and try not to cry into it now.