What were you doing on 9-11? If you are from a different country than the US, how did your country handle the news?
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I was in second grade when I heard the news but as a second grader it really never “hit me”. I was told a lot of people died and that it was a sad event. I remember that my teacher, Mrs. Scott, was pulled out into the hallway, came back in crying and told us that we had a school meeting in the gym. We all went to our assigned sections, my friend Grant and I started to Thumb Wrestle and I remember noticing that not nearly as many teachers where in the gym as normal during the morning or school meetings. We stayed in there for what seemed like forever but eventually we went back to our classrooms and my dad picked me up as normal but he was crying. Later that night my dad told me that some people called Muslims attacked an important building and a bunch of people died. Later the largest crime task force since the assassination of JFK was assembled and later a man named Timothy McVey was arrested for blowing up the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Every year until I was a Junior in High School we held “160 pennies campaign” (for the 160 people that died) and visited the OKC memorial. Gradually I learned that the reason my school shook was because of the after blast from the bombing, that Muslims weren’t behind the bombing, what the word “terrorism” meant and eventually I learned that I had 4 friends who list close relatives in the bombing. It was something that I was constantly reminded of growing up. This was something that completely decimated my community, my friends and my state.
6 years later I was in 8th grade and heading to 2nd period—Mr. Schultz class. My Principal, Dr. Grant, got onto the telecom and told everyone to get to their classrooms. Mr. Shultz was crying, the science teacher across the hall was crying and the TV’s were on. I thought that there was another bombing of a federal building somewhere in the state (I was a little worried because my dad’s law firm was across from a federal building in Downtown Tulsa) but knew my dad was in Phoenix at his other office. Everyone was whispering trying to figure out what was going on and as Mr. Schultz turned on the TV to the news channel it was a picture of a plane hitting the second tower. There was a red banner that a plane has flown into one of the twin towers and my friend Hilary immediate started crying because her dad was in New York City. When everything was said and done we moved onto our 3rd period as quick as possible. I turned on my cell phone to only have 4 missed calls from my mom. I called her back and my dad’s flight was grounded because of what happened but she talked to him and he was safe.
This time it hit me though—seeing all the people on the TV crying, my teachers crying and all my friends’ parents crying as they picked up their kids. I went to youth group that night instead of heading home (my mom was a pastor). We prayed. A lot. And it might have been the only time that I think I actually *tried* to pray. For answers. For peace of mind—not just for me, but those affected by these jerks who hurt them. I also prayed that whoever did this either had good reason or for God to kick their ass because it was “unacceptable for this to happen twice in someone’s lifetime”.
A lot of my friends had extended family or family friends impacted by the 9-11 attacks. Some of them ended up never getting over it. I can’t blame them.
9-11 wasn’t something that shattered our sphere of safety in the US, it was something that reminded the youth of Oklahoma that the world is a really *****ty place at times and no matter how mundane your day seems absolutely true evil will come out of nowhere and wreck your sense of reality. No matter how much you think you are over an event, 8 years later it can happen again.
9-11 might not have destroyed my faith in god (Only parents can do that), but it restored my faith in humanity after seeing and reading what different states, continents and people where doing for America. I remember reading in a French magazine (I think it was French) about how “Today, we are all Americans”. Terrorism is designed and crafted to destroy friendships, communities and states. It was everyone’s reaction to it that proved they failed.
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I was in 4th grade, it was a Tuesday. We were in another class (which we had every Tuesday) cutting through newspapers looking for a "place we'd like to visit." I found Washington. I told my teacher I'd want to visit there, and she asked me if I knew what had happened in Washington that day? I said "No" and I can't remember what she said.
I remember coming home and being upset that my favorite TV shows weren't playing because they were interrupted by the news. Didn't really understand what was going on I guess. I guess I heard more from it later on, when I was at my GF's (this was years after) and people were discussing what they were doing that day.
I was in 7th grade and while I may not have grasped the implications, I did understand the grave situation going on. I was in science class when I first heard about the event(s); our principal came on the speakers to break the news. My next class was history and at that point, the towers had already collapsed. We watched the news throughout that class and I know it sounds cliche, but our teacher said something like, "Remember where you are now because it will be different from now on." I fully understood those words a few years later.
After school, my friends and I were playing football in a field behind our homes. We lived (and still live) ~10 miles from DC and my most vivid memory is the sheer noise from all the jet fighters circling the sky (which was beautifully clear). It was constant, if not a bit unnerving, as if war was near.
On a side note, an 18 year-old today entering the "War on Terror" was 5 when the September 11 attacks occurred. Just some food for thought.
I was in the fifth grade and I remember being irritated with the fact that I was trying to read The Cay ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cay ) and I was being interrupted during the designated class time for reading.
I was in 8th grade and the principal came over the intercom and said that a plane hit the WTC building. A few minutes later he got on the intercom again and said a second plane hit the building and it was probably a terrorist attack. I was going to my 2nd period algebra class where my teacher was jury-rigging an extremely old TV with an antenna and some aluminum foil. We watched the footage of the towers on fire. About the time when we were starting to get good reception, the principal starting calling names for people to come to the office because their parents were picking them up. My parents came to pick me up and as we drove home every single gas station was full of cars and the grocery stores were packed. People were buying food and filling up their tanks like a hurricane was coming. My grandparents were out of town so we took up shelter in their place and watched the news. I initially thought it was the Abu Abbas organization, and my dad muttered under his breath, "This is Osama bin Laden's doing." This was before any names were mentioned.
I have a scrapbook of newspaper clippings before and after 9/11. I used to read the newspaper a lot. I noticed differences in tone in the media. It was more apocalyptic. That summer we had an outbreak of flesh eating bacteria (my aunt was the 3rd case in the Houston area that year) and the newspaper blamed it on the Cubans. We also had a problem with West Nile Virus. After 9/11, it was anthrax and bombs.
I was... 16, I think. I was in a PASCAL programming class (this was the year before they did away with Pascal as an introductory programming language all together), and someone had finished their project early and was surfing the web, and came across a CNN article after the first plane hit. It wasn't well known yet, so the teacher called the office. We switched periods to chemistry, but ended up just spending the rest of the day with the news on in my Chemistry class. I actually don't remember much else about that day, except that my mom was in a panic because all our family lives in New York. A family friend was one of the firefighters who died.
On my honeymoon in Cancun. We'd gotten in the night before, were tired from traveling, and had gone to bed fairly early, so we were up pretty early on the morning of the 11th. Nothing was open yet on the resort we were staying at, so we figured we'd hang out in the room and channel-surf for a while... and then we hit CNN. We caught up with the news right before the second tower was hit. The effect of the whole moment was pretty surreal, especially given where we were - out the window of our room is the Caribbean, palm trees, and everything's peaceful, and on the TV in front of us is the complete chaos going on back home.
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This thread is unhealthy. Yes, it was a tragedy, but when you spend effort "remembering" it like this, you're reinforcing the justifications used by the TSA and NSA for their abuses ("never again"). The country needs to get over it and move forward, but that's against the interest of the powerful.
This thread is unhealthy. Yes, it was a tragedy, but when you spend effort "remembering" it like this, you're reinforcing the justifications used by the TSA and NSA for their abuses ("never again"). The country needs to get over it and move forward, but that's against the interest of the powerful.
Keep calm and carry on. We did neither.
That's ridiculous. You can't infer policy preferences from the posters based on whether or not they remember 9/11.
I remember the Columbia disaster, Hurricane Ike, and Hurricane Katrina. If asked, I will talk about what happened in my mind and my neck of the woods at the time of the incidents. It doesn't mean jack about my ideas on NASA, disaster preparedness, or race relations.
This thread is unhealthy. Yes, it was a tragedy, but when you spend effort "remembering" it like this, you're reinforcing the justifications used by the TSA and NSA for their abuses ("never again"). The country needs to get over it and move forward, but that's against the interest of the powerful.
Keep calm and carry on. We did neither.
That's a pretty big leap. If anything, remembering years later with a more critical eye can help remind us of the mistakes that were made. Simply saying 'out of sight, out of mind' also means forgetting the lessons of the past, which is a mistake.
I was in elementary school (can't remember which grade). I was actually out at recess at the time hanging out by the fence by myself when my mom suddenly drove up and said that I was going home and had the rest of the day off. I remember sitting in the living room with the TV on while my mom made phone calls to friends and family, and seeing the plane hitting the towers on the news. I honestly didn't really grasp what was going on very well. The rest of the day was spent at grandma's house and I had a great time. Ignorance really is bliss I suppose.
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That's ridiculous. You can't infer policy preferences from the posters based on whether or not they remember 9/11.
I remember the Columbia disaster, Hurricane Ike, and Hurricane Katrina. If asked, I will talk about what happened in my mind and my neck of the woods at the time of the incidents. It doesn't mean jack about my ideas on NASA, disaster preparedness, or race relations.
Whether you realize or not, that's the effect of overly dwelling on the tragedy. *If asked*, sure, talk about it, but not because it's the anniversary. Reliving the past like this exactly plays into the "never again" mantra.
That's a pretty big leap. If anything, remembering years later with a more critical eye can help remind us of the mistakes that were made. Simply saying 'out of sight, out of mind' also means forgetting the lessons of the past, which is a mistake.
That's not how it has worked out, though. It hasn't been a critical eye, it's an emotional re-triggering. It's an emotional response that got the country into a ridiculous giant mess that has costed way more lives and money than it should have. That's perpetuating the mistake, not learning from it.
That's not how it has worked out, though. It hasn't been a critical eye, it's an emotional re-triggering. It's an emotional response that got the country into a ridiculous giant mess that has costed way more lives and money than it should have. That's perpetuating the mistake, not learning from it.
Except, my reaction is 'wow, we as a country severely overreacted to the actual threat we faced'. Many people share this point of view, and remembering the tragedy can be distinct from feeling the same actions were justified. The people who think the wars were 100% justified will think so regardless of a 9/11 memorial.
And it's not 'dwelling'. It was a majorly significant event in American history, and remembering it once a year isn't exactly dwelling any more than celebrating Memorial Day is encouraging war mongering.
Except, my reaction is 'wow, we as a country severely overreacted to the actual threat we faced'. Many people share this point of view, and remembering the tragedy can be distinct from feeling the same actions were justified. The people who think the wars were 100% justified will think so regardless of a 9/11 memorial.
If you think it was an overreaction, stop perpetuating the reaction. We're memorializing terrorism, and what that serves to do is keep the country terrorized without ever needing to launch another attack. It's not rationally consistent if you think we overreacted. Stop letting the terrorists win and refuse to be terrorized. It's not as distinct as you believe it is, no matter how much you may wish otherwise.
And it's not 'dwelling'. It was a majorly significant event in American history, and remembering it once a year isn't exactly dwelling any more than celebrating Memorial Day is encouraging war mongering.
Memorial Day has a very different message and the implicit call-to-action has a different effect. Remembering the tragedy of war should propel us to avoid wars (not that our politicians seem to get it, but hey). Remembering the tragedy of terrorism propels us to try to stop terrorism, and look where that got us. It really comes back to the "never again" mantra. Stop feeding it by staying terrorized via this sort of memorial.
Edit: if people are glorifying war with Memorial Day, I also have a problem with that. Thing is, I haven't seen Memorial Day used as a justification, but I still do see 9/11 used.
What were you doing on 9-11? If you are from a different country than the US, how did your country handle the news?
I was in 6th grade we had talent nights at the primary school so a lot of children stayed after school. I remember asking a teacher how many people would die from this? He said probably thousands. I then asked him in a manner only a child could ask Why would people do this to each other. He looked at me sternly and just said. I don't know... I really don't know.
Memorial Day has a very different message and the implicit call-to-action has a different effect. Remembering the tragedy of war should propel us to avoid wars (not that our politicians seem to get it, but hey). Remembering the tragedy of terrorism propels us to try to stop terrorism, and look where that got us. It really comes back to the "never again" mantra. Stop feeding it by staying terrorized via this sort of memorial.
Edit: if people are glorifying war with Memorial Day, I also have a problem with that. Thing is, I haven't seen Memorial Day used as a justification, but I still do see 9/11 used.
What call to action? We're all remembering a time that is deeply routed in the American Psyche. I don't think anyone has even posted about the event itself, just how it affected us.
What call to action? We're all remembering a time that is deeply routed in the American Psyche. I don't think anyone has even posted about the event itself, just how it affected us.
That's what I'm pushing back against, it shouldn't be deeply rooted in the American Psyche. That means the terrorists won, and are continuing to win when threads like this pop up every year.
Also, many holidays have an implicit call.
New Years: to be a better person overall
MLK: do your part in eliminating racism and other discrimination
Memorial Day: avoid wars because of what they truly cost us
Labor Day: don't take the services you use every day for granted
That's what I'm pushing back against, it shouldn't be deeply rooted in the American Psyche. That means the terrorists won, and are continuing to win when threads like this pop up every year.
Yeah... I'm sure Bin Laden is smiling from his watery grave at the fact that MTG Salvation posted a thread about 9/11 on the anniversary.
I hate the phrase 'it means the Terrorists have won'. No, no they haven't. Remembering the tragedy does not help Bin Laden's dead body in any way, nor is it helping AQ in its death throes as it's replaced by other organizations.
The sky will not fall just because we're talking about it, and people's opinion on the subject either way isn't going to change whether or not we remember where we were on a card game forum.
The anniversary of 9/11 is supposed to serve as a reminder not to let our guard down in the face of global terrorism and I fear that we might be repeating the same mistake we made against al-qaeda 13 years ago with ISIS/ISIL otherwise known as the Islamic State. Most of the blame for the rise of ISIS/ISIL has alot to do with Obama's foreign policy in Syria especially for not keeping a residual force of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan like we did in Vietnam and Korea however unlike al-qaeda and the Taliban, ISIS/ISIL has become the world's most well funded terrorist organization to the point where they're recruiting people globally through social media and a re-skinned GTA V game:
What makes ISIS/ISIL threatening is their vast wealth and by cutting off their main source of revenue they won't appear to be as dangerous as they are right now which should already be one of the top priorities of the Obama Administration and the United Nations aside from Congress approving aid to Syrian rebels against ISIS/ISIL which could backfire on us If we're not careful. This reminds me of a recent town hall meeting I watched on C-SPAN in regards to "Islam & The West" with Nonie Darwish who had some very interesting insights about how this problem came to be that actually dates back to 7th Century A.D., I'll post the link below for you guys to check out:
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I was in second grade when I heard the news but as a second grader it really never “hit me”. I was told a lot of people died and that it was a sad event. I remember that my teacher, Mrs. Scott, was pulled out into the hallway, came back in crying and told us that we had a school meeting in the gym. We all went to our assigned sections, my friend Grant and I started to Thumb Wrestle and I remember noticing that not nearly as many teachers where in the gym as normal during the morning or school meetings. We stayed in there for what seemed like forever but eventually we went back to our classrooms and my dad picked me up as normal but he was crying. Later that night my dad told me that some people called Muslims attacked an important building and a bunch of people died. Later the largest crime task force since the assassination of JFK was assembled and later a man named Timothy McVey was arrested for blowing up the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Every year until I was a Junior in High School we held “160 pennies campaign” (for the 160 people that died) and visited the OKC memorial. Gradually I learned that the reason my school shook was because of the after blast from the bombing, that Muslims weren’t behind the bombing, what the word “terrorism” meant and eventually I learned that I had 4 friends who list close relatives in the bombing. It was something that I was constantly reminded of growing up. This was something that completely decimated my community, my friends and my state.
6 years later I was in 8th grade and heading to 2nd period—Mr. Schultz class. My Principal, Dr. Grant, got onto the telecom and told everyone to get to their classrooms. Mr. Shultz was crying, the science teacher across the hall was crying and the TV’s were on. I thought that there was another bombing of a federal building somewhere in the state (I was a little worried because my dad’s law firm was across from a federal building in Downtown Tulsa) but knew my dad was in Phoenix at his other office. Everyone was whispering trying to figure out what was going on and as Mr. Schultz turned on the TV to the news channel it was a picture of a plane hitting the second tower. There was a red banner that a plane has flown into one of the twin towers and my friend Hilary immediate started crying because her dad was in New York City. When everything was said and done we moved onto our 3rd period as quick as possible. I turned on my cell phone to only have 4 missed calls from my mom. I called her back and my dad’s flight was grounded because of what happened but she talked to him and he was safe.
This time it hit me though—seeing all the people on the TV crying, my teachers crying and all my friends’ parents crying as they picked up their kids. I went to youth group that night instead of heading home (my mom was a pastor). We prayed. A lot. And it might have been the only time that I think I actually *tried* to pray. For answers. For peace of mind—not just for me, but those affected by these jerks who hurt them. I also prayed that whoever did this either had good reason or for God to kick their ass because it was “unacceptable for this to happen twice in someone’s lifetime”.
A lot of my friends had extended family or family friends impacted by the 9-11 attacks. Some of them ended up never getting over it. I can’t blame them.
9-11 wasn’t something that shattered our sphere of safety in the US, it was something that reminded the youth of Oklahoma that the world is a really *****ty place at times and no matter how mundane your day seems absolutely true evil will come out of nowhere and wreck your sense of reality. No matter how much you think you are over an event, 8 years later it can happen again.
9-11 might not have destroyed my faith in god (Only parents can do that), but it restored my faith in humanity after seeing and reading what different states, continents and people where doing for America. I remember reading in a French magazine (I think it was French) about how “Today, we are all Americans”. Terrorism is designed and crafted to destroy friendships, communities and states. It was everyone’s reaction to it that proved they failed.
I was in 4th grade, it was a Tuesday. We were in another class (which we had every Tuesday) cutting through newspapers looking for a "place we'd like to visit." I found Washington. I told my teacher I'd want to visit there, and she asked me if I knew what had happened in Washington that day? I said "No" and I can't remember what she said.
I remember coming home and being upset that my favorite TV shows weren't playing because they were interrupted by the news. Didn't really understand what was going on I guess. I guess I heard more from it later on, when I was at my GF's (this was years after) and people were discussing what they were doing that day.
After school, my friends and I were playing football in a field behind our homes. We lived (and still live) ~10 miles from DC and my most vivid memory is the sheer noise from all the jet fighters circling the sky (which was beautifully clear). It was constant, if not a bit unnerving, as if war was near.
On a side note, an 18 year-old today entering the "War on Terror" was 5 when the September 11 attacks occurred. Just some food for thought.
I have a scrapbook of newspaper clippings before and after 9/11. I used to read the newspaper a lot. I noticed differences in tone in the media. It was more apocalyptic. That summer we had an outbreak of flesh eating bacteria (my aunt was the 3rd case in the Houston area that year) and the newspaper blamed it on the Cubans. We also had a problem with West Nile Virus. After 9/11, it was anthrax and bombs.
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That's ridiculous. You can't infer policy preferences from the posters based on whether or not they remember 9/11.
I remember the Columbia disaster, Hurricane Ike, and Hurricane Katrina. If asked, I will talk about what happened in my mind and my neck of the woods at the time of the incidents. It doesn't mean jack about my ideas on NASA, disaster preparedness, or race relations.
That's a pretty big leap. If anything, remembering years later with a more critical eye can help remind us of the mistakes that were made. Simply saying 'out of sight, out of mind' also means forgetting the lessons of the past, which is a mistake.
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Whether you realize or not, that's the effect of overly dwelling on the tragedy. *If asked*, sure, talk about it, but not because it's the anniversary. Reliving the past like this exactly plays into the "never again" mantra.
That's not how it has worked out, though. It hasn't been a critical eye, it's an emotional re-triggering. It's an emotional response that got the country into a ridiculous giant mess that has costed way more lives and money than it should have. That's perpetuating the mistake, not learning from it.
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Except, my reaction is 'wow, we as a country severely overreacted to the actual threat we faced'. Many people share this point of view, and remembering the tragedy can be distinct from feeling the same actions were justified. The people who think the wars were 100% justified will think so regardless of a 9/11 memorial.
And it's not 'dwelling'. It was a majorly significant event in American history, and remembering it once a year isn't exactly dwelling any more than celebrating Memorial Day is encouraging war mongering.
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If you think it was an overreaction, stop perpetuating the reaction. We're memorializing terrorism, and what that serves to do is keep the country terrorized without ever needing to launch another attack. It's not rationally consistent if you think we overreacted. Stop letting the terrorists win and refuse to be terrorized. It's not as distinct as you believe it is, no matter how much you may wish otherwise.
Memorial Day has a very different message and the implicit call-to-action has a different effect. Remembering the tragedy of war should propel us to avoid wars (not that our politicians seem to get it, but hey). Remembering the tragedy of terrorism propels us to try to stop terrorism, and look where that got us. It really comes back to the "never again" mantra. Stop feeding it by staying terrorized via this sort of memorial.
Edit: if people are glorifying war with Memorial Day, I also have a problem with that. Thing is, I haven't seen Memorial Day used as a justification, but I still do see 9/11 used.
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I was in 6th grade we had talent nights at the primary school so a lot of children stayed after school. I remember asking a teacher how many people would die from this? He said probably thousands. I then asked him in a manner only a child could ask Why would people do this to each other. He looked at me sternly and just said. I don't know... I really don't know.
What call to action? We're all remembering a time that is deeply routed in the American Psyche. I don't think anyone has even posted about the event itself, just how it affected us.
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That's what I'm pushing back against, it shouldn't be deeply rooted in the American Psyche. That means the terrorists won, and are continuing to win when threads like this pop up every year.
Also, many holidays have an implicit call.
New Years: to be a better person overall
MLK: do your part in eliminating racism and other discrimination
Memorial Day: avoid wars because of what they truly cost us
Labor Day: don't take the services you use every day for granted
9/11: "never again"
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Yeah... I'm sure Bin Laden is smiling from his watery grave at the fact that MTG Salvation posted a thread about 9/11 on the anniversary.
I hate the phrase 'it means the Terrorists have won'. No, no they haven't. Remembering the tragedy does not help Bin Laden's dead body in any way, nor is it helping AQ in its death throes as it's replaced by other organizations.
The sky will not fall just because we're talking about it, and people's opinion on the subject either way isn't going to change whether or not we remember where we were on a card game forum.
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http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/19/6559243/isis-terror-group-releases-trailer-for-gta-like-recruitment-and
What makes ISIS/ISIL threatening is their vast wealth and by cutting off their main source of revenue they won't appear to be as dangerous as they are right now which should already be one of the top priorities of the Obama Administration and the United Nations aside from Congress approving aid to Syrian rebels against ISIS/ISIL which could backfire on us If we're not careful. This reminds me of a recent town hall meeting I watched on C-SPAN in regards to "Islam & The West" with Nonie Darwish who had some very interesting insights about how this problem came to be that actually dates back to 7th Century A.D., I'll post the link below for you guys to check out:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?319734-1/islam-west
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