Support NeoGAF

[EverydayBeast]

Was thinking about the twin towers yesterday, and what those towers, how we recovered, how airports are ran today and just want to take a minute to honor that day in history.

September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[The Stig]

It's true,

Akeem the African Dream and Big Bossman were a truly legendary tag team that should NEVER be forgotten

Spoiler: offensive

(they were a tag team called The Twin Towers).

RIP

 

[West Texas CEO]

I was too young to remember this.

 

[VN1X]

 

[Aggelos]

I remember... It was something very hard to wrap your head around...







The first 2 episodes of "9/11 One Day in America" by Nat Geo. Can't be missed and shouldn't be missed

9/11: One Day in America - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[mortal]

I was too young to remember this.

Kind of expected if you're in your early twenties.
Ngl though, it is kind of surreal to me that there are now adults who were born after 9/11. The kind of thing that makes you feel time.

 

[AlteredForms]

Haven’t forgotten about those first responders and dead and haven’t forgotten about the millions of brown people who died as a result of some radical cocksuckers. We’ll never forget.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

I dated a girl who lived in NY when 9/11 happened.

Can't remember her story

RIP those who've fallen victim and their families and friends.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

I still remember the day.

After work while stepping on my bicycle my boss told me some fucked up shit with planes was happening.

 

[Rival]

My generation’s Kennedy Assassination moment. That entire day is burned into my brain. I can remember so many weird details but it was so long ago it feels like it never happened in a way. Still tear up when I see stuff about it like last night on 60 minutes.

 

[HoodWinked]

i vaguely remember as a kid being dismissed into the school cafeteria and everyone just hanging out there. Then going home later that day and watching the footage of the attacks.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Grade 2, Still remember how everything was put on hold. This is also in Canada so everyone was glued to the Tv's.

 

[jonnyp]

Was in between classes at Uni walking into the cafeteria and all the screens were showing the first tower right after the crash. Still remember how I felt sick to my stomach. RIP.

 

[Nobody_Important]

I was just a little kid at school when it happened. The teachers paired up classrooms and let us watch movies all day. I still remember the teachers huddled together whispering and looking worried.


RIP to the fallen.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

I was in the second week of my freshman year of highschool. My dad was watching the news while getting ready for work. The second plane hit while I was on the bus going to school. We didn't do anything in class that day, except watch the news.

I went to the mall after school. Really weird vibes.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Chills thinking about it. To think that jumping was the better alternative than being in the building. To hear the thundering smacks as bodies explode on the pavement.

Was a freshman or sophmore in hs at the time i think. Grew up 40 min outside the city so a bunch of students parents worked there/surrounding area, or had very coincidental stories of them not being there. Crazy times. My brother lived directly across the river in hoboken/jersey city too. Wild pics that day.

I cant imagine the families still dealing with first responders who worked tirelessly for weeks inhaling all the carcinogens etc.

Iirc the first recorded death was the priest who someone landed on.

Dont forget the pentagon and the PA field victims as well

 

[Meicyn]

Was in college at the time. I quit not too long after and enlisted in the military. Ended up doing a full 20+ year career. Kind of crazy looking back at the whole situation and how that singular event changed the entire direction I took in life.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

I remember... It was something very hard to wrap your head around...







The first 2 episodes of "9/11 One Day in America" by Nat Geo. Can't be missed and shouldn't be missed

9/11: One Day in America - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

man, the older i get the more i tear up watching this stuff.

think of all the people who were told to go back to work and not leave the building due to the fire up above you...

or the south tower watching the north tower get hit/burn and you are watching from you window people jump... or watching another airliner come hit your building.

 

[AJUMP23]

I feel empathy for all that was lost in 9/11 from the loss of life and the destroyed families.


But this date also accelerated to over reach of the US government into their citizens lives with the passing of the patriot act and the warrantless wire tapping secret courts and general erosion of privacy.

 

[JonSnowball]

 

[BlackTron]

Kind of expected if you're in your early twenties.
Ngl though, it is kind of surreal to me that there are now adults who were born after 9/11. The kind of thing that makes you feel time.

Damn we old. Yeah that's surreal to think there are adults today, who never even knew what life was like before this event. That's strangely heartbreaking.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I skipped school with a bunch of guys. It happened during PE and we decided the whole day was going to get crazy. We went to Chili’s and had a bunch of appetizers. We went back to my house and played Gran Turismo 3 on PS2. I got in trouble for it. Had to go to detention on Saturday. I told the principal that we thought we were under attack and wanted to leave.

I have felt bad over the years for the men and women who never got to see their loved ones. The entire thing was a tragedy. I still have images of people jumping to their deaths.

 

[Johnny2Bad]

That day was the first day I had cable internet and it was my day off. I told them to take out the cable TV and give me internet instead. I got up and sat down with my coffee and saw the news. Stupidly I thought I couldn't see it on TV. Duh! After awhile I realized I could hook up an antenna and watch it on local TV. By then the second tower was hit.

Canadian singer David Francey released this song about the tragedy. It still makes me sad when I listen to it.

 

[Soltype]

Destroyed America culturally, nothing was the same after. It took years for me realize the true aftermath, but I honestly feel worse about the situation now than I did then.

 

[Drew1440]

The radio broadcasts still send shivers to this day, they (hosts) knew things would never be the same again.

 

[FunkMiller]

I've often felt that the horror of what happened that day has been a huge contributor to the way America has fallen further into divisive rhetoric and division between its constituent societies in the subsequent years.

Pre 9/11 I think the USA felt like it was invulnerable from attack, but this terrorist atrocity punctured that misconception. The fear response tends to send people running (sometimes harmfully) towards the familiar, the accepted, and the comfortable.

I know we like to look to social media as the cause of division, but I think its only accelerated a state of being that was started on September 11th.

Not just an issue in America either. The entire western hegemony was rocked to its core by 9/11 (New York, after all, is the most multicultural and international of all US cities). We all felt the after effects, and continue to do so.

Mods - delete if this is too political. but I think it's important we recognise that the effects of this atrocity are still very much felt to this day. It really did change the world. And the best way we can honour the people who died is to not forget that, and try to do better in their name.

 

[Hugare]

I've recently visited the 9/11 Memorial in NY, and despite not being american, I felt a lot of emotions there

I remember that day quite well. Even in Brazil, people were nervous about what was going on. Ridiculous to think that they were nervous, but at the time people had no idea about what was going on. Can't imagine about what you guys were thinking back then.

I think about it at least once a month. 'Cause it had such an impact in today's society. I wonder how different things would be if it had never happened.

 

[V1LÆM]

I was at school (UK) and to be honest it was just a normal day even after hearing the news. I don't mean that to be disrespectful I just mean I was a kid and didn't fully understand or process it at the time.

My school time was 9am to 3pm so i guess that would've been 4 to 10am for New York. When the planes hit would've been about 2PM here. I remember hearing someone say that a plane had crashed in New York. We'd have already been in from lunch so nobody outside could've told us and it was 2001 so nobody had smartphones or immediate access to the internet. The only thing that makes sense is that maybe the teacher let someone use a computer (we had iMac G3's) and we'd have had access to the BBC website. Anyway, it didn't make any sense to me and I didn't think about it.

When I got home around 15:30 my dad was watching the news and that's the first time I saw footage of the planes crashing into the towers. I remember being scared and asking my dad why someone would do that and if they'd do the same here. He said something like "New York is thousands of miles away so by the time they get here we'll be ready for them" so that calmed me down and then I went outside to play football. When I came back in for my dinner my dad still had the news on and all I thought was something like "this is still on?".

That was my memory of 11th September 2001. Not exciting or interesting but that's it. At the time I didn't even know what a terrorist was but obviously I saw it all over the news and in the months/years after I was terrified about there being a war which I thought meant WW3. I remember asking my dad if it'd mean he'd have to go fight but he said "I left the army before you were born and I'm too old to go back now". I never flew on a plane until 2007 so can't comment on how things changed. 2007 also happened to be the year that we got our own terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow so I was terrified of flying.

I went to New York in 2009 but never got to visit the site of the towers. I wanted to but didn't make it. I'd love to go back and visit the memorial site and the new tower.

I was too young to remember this.

You in your twenties?

 

[West Texas CEO]

You in your twenties?

24, but yes, the entire incident seems unreal as some people have stated.

 

[haxan7]

I remember assuming it was an accident until the second plane hit

 

[YCoCg]

I remember the news running with this for weeks, full page spreads about it, reports, etc, and this was in the UK. Fucking disgusting looking at Twitter yesterday though, conspiracy theory nuts have hijacked it on that platform.

 

[ahtlas7]

It was an unreal day that I vividly remember waking to.
I was at the Pentagon about 2 weeks later and it was still smoking. Fire trucks still spraying water.
I moved to NY 6 years later and couldn’t believe they were still clearing out the towers crater.
No one of sound mind who lived through that media overload will forget. Whether they still care is a different story.
Or what the event has led to regarding freedoms...

 

[Putonahappyface]

I was eighteen at the time working for Bowers and Wilkins and on my lunch break when this all unfolded. I noticed a large group of people stood around a computer in the break room, so I ventured over and watched a replay of the first tower being struck via the BBC website.

I sincerely thought it was a scene from a film with crazy CGI. Management eventually gathered us all together and said that there had been a terrorist attack in America and that the UK was on high alert, so be prepared to go home early.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I remember I was reading IGN boards then in the thread people started posting photos of the first tower smoking. Someone posted that a plane had crashed into a building.

I ringed my neighbor and we watched together in silence and awe as the whole thing unfolded. It was surreal.

 

[BlackTron]

Or what the event has led to regarding freedoms...

I had just finished reading 1984 for school when I got to listen about the patriot act IRL, great times

 

[FunkMiller]

Fucking disgusting looking at Twitter yesterday though, conspiracy theory nuts have hijacked it on that platform.

It‘s far more comforting and easier to imagine some grand internal conspiracy, than it is to accept your country was struck as hard and as horrifically as it was.

All conspiracy theories come from a place of wanting to deny cold, hard reality.

American being a nation of secret powerful government organisations bent on control is an easier pill to swallow (pun intended) than the reality that it was rendered vulnerable and helpless by a bunch of illiterate scumbags with box cutters.