I was a senior in high school, hanging out in the choral room with my theatre class. All of a sudden, two of the sound techs ran in and told us to turn on the TV, that a plane had hit the WTC. I felt awful about it later, but at the time, we all thought they were kidding, they were the real prankster type. I wish it were a prank! We turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit, and immediately fell silent of course, just grabbed each others' hands and just watched. Our principal decided that not only was it a good idea to keep school running, but also that we shouldn't discuss anything that had just occurred, and needed to keep to our lesson plans. Ugh.
I was in college, I was watching the wreckage of the first plane crash when I had to go to work. Then I was cutting grass when we heard about the second plane and subsequently the collapse of the building.
My Girlfriend said to me..."How many guitars do you need?" and I replied...."How many pairs of shoes do you need?" She got really quiet.
I had a very hard time sleeping the night before. That I remember. I was living in Seattle. At about 7am my sister who lives in NJ calls me up to tell me. Told me to watch the news. I didn't have cable so it was the black and white static stuff. Later in the day, someone played Don McClean's "American Pie" blasting out of an apartment window a few floors above me.
Jason Hughes, one of the owners of Sonic Boom Record Store in Seattle was the first person I talked with once I found out. I was walking outside, and he was walking across the crosswalk, and we just talked briefly about it.
I couldn't believe the amount of commercials running within hours after it happened. It seemed callous to me.
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The only unusual thing about 9/11 was the victim. America had been attacking other countries around the world with impunity for years. This time it was America that was at the receiving end.
I'm surprised that so many people were surprised.
I find it necessary to give some insight...
As an American citizen, we are raised with a concept of security. Truly, the idea of another country attacking us was something that wasn't even considered. Admittedly, it's an arrogant and stupid way to think but it is true.
Not to speak for everyone, but from my experience, we as American citizens are blissfully unaware of all the tragedy that occurs in the world. We don't mean to be this way...it is how we are reared...how we are brainwashed, perhaps? So when 9/11 happened we were STUNNED.
For me, it wasn't until 9/11 that I opened my eyes to who we really were in this world. What our government was capable of. I remember very clearly feeling as a child would if they found out something horrible about their father. I was so sad.
I am still sad.
Ed says it best:
"And the feelings that get left behind
All the innocents broken with lies
Significance, between the lines
(We may need to hide)..."
I was in my seventh Grade english class. My teachers all told us that nothing was wrong and everything was okay. That any stories we had heard about it werent as serious as the people telling them had stressed it. So we went on with our normal school day. I was pretty shocked when I got home and turned on the news.
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I have no objections to meeting people, but why do I get the feeling you are going to bring a gun with you?
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I was on my way to a nursing class when my mother called my cell to tell me urgently to turn on the TV. She does this all the time and never tells me what's up. So pissed I went back in my house to find out what is what. I live just outside of DC, anyway flipped on the telly and saw the 1st wtc on fire and said ok it's on fire and 10 seconds later went to turn it off and the 2nd plane hit.
I said "oh shit is this a movie....is this a joke?". I dropped my heavy back pack and watched the chaos unfold. After what happened at the Pentagon I said that's it I'm going to get my daughter from school. On the way there I did comment to myself saying, "I gather this gaurantees President Bush for another 4 years".
......And I was right!
Peace
Earle
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
9:05 AM On the N/R under WTC when the first plane hits
On the street at Bowling Green (about 4 blocks south of WTC) when second plane hits.
It was a long day after that.
"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."
— Socrates
I was sleeping....my alarm went off (set to radio), and I heard the dj say in a very sombre voice, "again, a plane has hit the wtc in new york..." my blood ran cold (what a way to wake up), and before he could finish the sentence, i had the tv on....the second one hit shortly after...the first tower fell just as I left for work (was so hard to pry myself from that tv)...not long after I got there, the pentagon was hit....I just remember wanting to go home so badly...wondering wtf was next.
my dad usually woke me up for school in the morning...but he didn't that day...so I got up and went to ask him if he knew I was an hour late for school.
he and my sister were sitting on the couch together watching tv...I looked, and the 1st tower fell.
"Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
I was driving to work listening to Howard... they were talking about the first plane hitting, not sure what it was exactly. Then while driving I see the second plane go flying by headed for the other tower.
in third grade, supposed to be going to my first yankee game with my dad
I had tickets to the Yankee game that night. Sterling Hitchcock was originally supposed to pitch but a rainout the previous night pushed back Roger Clemens.
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Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
"Now they have done it, its out off control, now its is payback time, they are not going to get away with this"
I won't get into who my gut told me "they" were....but honestly, I was much more fearful of the US response than I was of any further attacks. It made me sick to talk to people and keep hearing things like, "huh-ho! the Americans are going to kick some fuckin ass now!" and "turn the whole fucking middle east into a parking lot"...(I must have read that here a hundred times). And many times it was said with some kind of sadistic smile, like they were visualizing the video-game version of war we all got to watch...shock and awe my ass....lots of pretty green night vision bullet trails....no shock at all....not even a flag-draped coffin.
I'm thankful that time, education and perspective seem to have pulled a lot of people back from that blind hatred.
I have no objections to meeting people, but why do I get the feeling you are going to bring a gun with you?
He said the same thing to me because of a line in my signature...maybe all 3 of us can meet up.
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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I won't get into who my gut told me "they" were....but honestly, I was much more fearful of the US response than I was of any further attacks. It made me sick to talk to people and keep hearing things like, "huh-ho! the Americans are going to kick some fuckin ass now!" and "turn the whole fucking middle east into a parking lot"...(I must have read that here a hundred times). And many times it was said with some kind of sadistic smile, like they were visualizing the video-game version of war we all got to watch...shock and awe my ass....lots of pretty green night vision bullet trails....no shock at all....not even a flag-draped coffin.
I'm thankful that time, education and perspective seem to have pulled a lot of people back from that blind hatred.
I was very nervous about our response too and the man newly in charge of this country. Even then he made me nervous cause it appeared then that he wasn't the brightest of the bright. Sort of reminded me of Pearl Harbour.
Peace
Earle
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I should say....obviously, being (western) Canadian there was a reason I wasn't fearful of more attacks.
of course it would have been completely different to witness as an American, esp in any major centre.
The point I was trying to make was that I was seeing this brutal bloodlust even here, far removed from the attacks. It was scary to hear people talk that way, the first day... when ya knew the US govt would have carte blanche in international opinion following a tragedy of that magnitude.
There were just too many emotions to deal with that day, and the closest I came was the tv....
I can't imagine what it would have been like for so many less fortunate people.
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
I was in bed... the radio was on and the news of the first plane came over the air. I thought, "Oh... great." This means I'm going to have to track down and freeze all of the ship's records of that aircraft for the FAA and NTSB.
When, I heard about the second crash... I got out of bed and switched on the T.V. I knew the world had changed.
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I was in the 10th grade in French class and the teacher received a note about it and told the class. It got everyone excited so we just talked about it all day.
Quite a maturing experience.
oddly enough, i was also in my 10th grade french class at the time. the principal made an announcement over the PA. our school was shut down for a week housing people who were stranded from flights that were grounded.
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Jason Hughes, one of the owners of Sonic Boom Record Store in Seattle was the first person I talked with once I found out. I was walking outside, and he was walking across the crosswalk, and we just talked briefly about it.
I couldn't believe the amount of commercials running within hours after it happened. It seemed callous to me.
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I find it necessary to give some insight...
As an American citizen, we are raised with a concept of security. Truly, the idea of another country attacking us was something that wasn't even considered. Admittedly, it's an arrogant and stupid way to think but it is true.
Not to speak for everyone, but from my experience, we as American citizens are blissfully unaware of all the tragedy that occurs in the world. We don't mean to be this way...it is how we are reared...how we are brainwashed, perhaps? So when 9/11 happened we were STUNNED.
For me, it wasn't until 9/11 that I opened my eyes to who we really were in this world. What our government was capable of. I remember very clearly feeling as a child would if they found out something horrible about their father. I was so sad.
I am still sad.
Ed says it best:
"And the feelings that get left behind
All the innocents broken with lies
Significance, between the lines
(We may need to hide)..."
San Diego 2003
Grand Rapids 2004
Grand Rapids 2006
Detroit 2006
Columbus 2010
"With my own two hands I can change the world."
I have no objections to meeting people, but why do I get the feeling you are going to bring a gun with you?
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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I said "oh shit is this a movie....is this a joke?". I dropped my heavy back pack and watched the chaos unfold. After what happened at the Pentagon I said that's it I'm going to get my daughter from school. On the way there I did comment to myself saying, "I gather this gaurantees President Bush for another 4 years".
......And I was right!
Peace
Earle
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
On the street at Bowling Green (about 4 blocks south of WTC) when second plane hits.
It was a long day after that.
— Socrates
watching from the window
and then the roof
sad sad day in American history
he and my sister were sitting on the couch together watching tv...I looked, and the 1st tower fell.
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
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I had tickets to the Yankee game that night. Sterling Hitchcock was originally supposed to pitch but a rainout the previous night pushed back Roger Clemens.
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Camden 2008 MSG 2008 MSG 2008 Hartford 2008.
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MSG 2024, MSG 2024
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"I play good, hard-nosed basketball.
Things happen in the game. Nothing you
can do. I don't go and say,
"I'm gonna beat this guy up."
.....because I bet there are about a quarter billion americans screaming,
I won't get into who my gut told me "they" were....but honestly, I was much more fearful of the US response than I was of any further attacks. It made me sick to talk to people and keep hearing things like, "huh-ho! the Americans are going to kick some fuckin ass now!" and "turn the whole fucking middle east into a parking lot"...(I must have read that here a hundred times). And many times it was said with some kind of sadistic smile, like they were visualizing the video-game version of war we all got to watch...shock and awe my ass....lots of pretty green night vision bullet trails....no shock at all....not even a flag-draped coffin.
I'm thankful that time, education and perspective seem to have pulled a lot of people back from that blind hatred.
He said the same thing to me because of a line in my signature...maybe all 3 of us can meet up.
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
I was very nervous about our response too and the man newly in charge of this country. Even then he made me nervous cause it appeared then that he wasn't the brightest of the bright. Sort of reminded me of Pearl Harbour.
Peace
Earle
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
of course it would have been completely different to witness as an American, esp in any major centre.
The point I was trying to make was that I was seeing this brutal bloodlust even here, far removed from the attacks. It was scary to hear people talk that way, the first day... when ya knew the US govt would have carte blanche in international opinion following a tragedy of that magnitude.
There were just too many emotions to deal with that day, and the closest I came was the tv....
I can't imagine what it would have been like for so many less fortunate people.
It would be a blast!
but less popular than The Beatles
Decidedly unscary.
Nice try.
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You think I was trying to be 'scary'?
When, I heard about the second crash... I got out of bed and switched on the T.V. I knew the world had changed.
Hail, Hail!!!
oddly enough, i was also in my 10th grade french class at the time. the principal made an announcement over the PA. our school was shut down for a week housing people who were stranded from flights that were grounded.
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