9.11 ..... A thanks to.....

[ck80]

I'll never forget that smell and the smoke plume in the air days later you could see and smell it all the way down here at the Jersey shore. When I heard the first plane hit I went in to watch on TV and I thought how could a pilot F that up so bad. That's when the second plane hit and I thought OMG that's no accident

I was driving to work that morning, back then I was a manager with a regional company kind of like what big lots is. At the time I had on the radio (out of state station from Boston - WAAF). Anyways, those guys were known to do some bad taste and off color stuff, so I was hearing them talk about and give a play by play.

I remember thinking, this can't be serious... changed a couple other channels, who just were playing music. I thought it must be an imitation war of the worlds or something.

Until I got into work. Then they had news coverage of what was going on. For a while nobody knew what to do - do you close, go home, stay open? Everyone on a management or public safety side we knew was paranoid about the impacts on anywhere people gathered in groups, we're more things planned, should stores even be open? I can remember it was a few days before things even started to return to normal, even when the places opened back up, people in that area of southern New England just weren't going out right away.

 

[Bonnewagon]

I saw this in person. We always did the 5 Boro Bike Tour and we would meet up at the WTC every year. The first year after they fell we passed by on the way home. I saw a path leading into the site and we rode right on in. We came up on the cross and were blown away by the size of it. A rusting fang of steel cut into a cross. Total silence before it. The cops were pissed at us as we left so we scrammed.

 

[melloelky]

Come on down to "Ground Zero" tonight.
Join the protesters that are complaining that the TWIN Lights are confusing the birds.

That's amazingly complacent behavior,wtf is wrong with people,they're missing the point behind it all.

 

[TURNA]

That's amazingly complacent behavior,wtf is wrong with people,they're missing the point behind it all.

They are all idiots but this is what happens.

A good amount of people that are 18 years old maybe even a little older dont even know about 9/11

and with all the internet conspiracy theorys behind it that what the same type of people tend to believe.

I will give you a simple example that probably half the members on this site are guilty of.

December 7........How many of you own a Japanese car?

 

[joesregalproject]

They are all idiots but this is what happens.

A good amount of people that are 18 years old maybe even a little older dont even know about 9/11

and with all the internet conspiracy theorys behind it that what the same type of people tend to believe.

I will give you a simple example that probably half the members on this site are guilty of.

December 7........How many of you own a Japanese car?

I get your point but Pearl Harbor is a little different. The difference being that the Japanese lost the war, they admitted defeat, they admitted they were wrong, they have apologized for their part in the war and they are now one of the largest allies both militarily and economically that the US has. It's not that we have forgotten that it happened, its that the Japanese have made an effort to right their wrong.

Meanwhile Al Qaeda and ISIS are still actively fighting and killing Americans. They still believe they are on the right side of the issue.

 

[pontiacgp]

At Pearl Harbor the Japanese were attacking a US Navy base with their planes, they did not take over commercial planes to attack high rise buildings filled with people. I don't even want to get in that discusion, this thread is to remember the heroes of 9/11

 

[pagrunt]

They are all idiots but this is what happens.

A good amount of people that are 18 years old maybe even a little older dont even know about 9/11

and with all the internet conspiracy theorys behind it that what the same type of people tend to believe.

I will give you a simple example that probably half the members on this site are guilty of.

December 7........How many of you own a Japanese car?

Even that day is being forgotten. Talking about 9/11 at work this morning & one of the guys said his kids were tought we were at fault & caused what happened, then were told we got what we deserved! Talk about a really p.o'ed parent about having his kids taught lies but the S.O.B. is still teaching.

 

[Bonnewagon]

they admitted defeat,

They never admitted that they started the whole damn thing, nor have they apologized. But then, we never apologized for Nuking two cities. Oh well. Also, I used to deliver the Mail to an old guy that fought in the South Pacific. He used to fight with all the Asian neighbors, didn't matter what kind. He used to say- "If you knew what they did to our guys- you would NEVER buy a Japanese car".

 

[Sundancer]

 

[Sundancer]

AS I have done the last 1`8 years, Last night, I went to the memorial, it was still filled with just many quiet people. Some placing flowers, others silently staring at the sky.........I owed my head, prayed quietly and thank God that I still live in the Greatest Country in the World. I hope that you all enjoy the pictures !