9/11

[discman69]

While the tragic event happened in America, there is no doubt that those events that happened on the morning of September 11th shook the entire World. So now 17 years later do you still remember where you were or what you were doing?

I was working in the Banking/Credit card  world at that time. I usually was in at work by 7:30. I remember at about 9 going to the break room and many of my co-workers watching TV. Could hardly even get in there. Shortly after saw the second plane hit the Tower. All of us in shock, many of us tearing up. Wondering what the hell was going on. I was calling my wife. Panic started to take over many of us. While Delaware isn't a major place we just thought what could happen next. Shortly after the South tower collapsed we got a call on the intercom that everyone can go home. It seemed like forever trying to get home. Finally with my wife by my side at our house I couldn't take my eyes off the TV. I was sad, mad, scared and pissed all in one. My wife went into major depression, depression I still believe she carries to this day. It was such a sad day for all human beings.

[Zzzptm]

I had left my job at Microsoft the day before and was expecting to start with a start-up a few weeks later. It was a Tuesday. I had dropped my son and daughter off at school and had just gotten home when my wife showed me the news, how a plane had collided with the first tower. I was watching the footage as the second plane hit the second tower.

With the one plane, I thought it could be anything. With the second plane, I knew it was no accident.

I felt very cold the rest of that day and the day following, like I do when someone close to me passes on. Soon afterward, I believed that the attacks were known about and permitted through. But I have since decided that that was a sort of defense mechanism, because the truth of such an uncoordinated response to that security event was of nightmarish proportions. So many mistakes before, during, and after are easy to explain away as part of a convoluted plot. The truth is, and this is much worse than a deep state letting one through in order to grab hold of the government, is that the attacks showed how full of holes our national security was at the time, and which remains so to this day.

[Charger]

I remember it like it was yesterday...

I was working on a high school swidish project...an essay and then my cousing who had heard the news on the radio while driving called me to turn on my tv...and I did and I was in shock...First I thought it had been some kind of freak accident but then only few minutes into the broadcast the second plane hit in live tv feed...I remember practically falling to my knees while sitting...it was a totally unreal feeling. Something I doubt (and HOPE) I will never feel again.

Not to mention then seeing people jumping from the towers and then the collapse...

Every year since then I have always hung the US flag up on the side of my house for the victims who died in this cowardly attack by the most evil people in the planet, radical islamic terrorists...and I shall keep doing this till the day I die. Also because it was not just an attack against the US it was an attack against the entire civilized world....and it will never be forgotten and most certainly never forgiven.

[Thelemech]

I was downtown on 9/11 and I can remember passing this audio/visual store and the place was packed. As I went inside a friend came up and asked if I had seen what had happened.
I was watching the tv as the second plane crashed into the towers. I was in shock and like most of the people around me were flabbergasted at what was taking place live before our eyes.

I will always remember that day. Blessings and peace to all of the victims.

[Typhon]

I was at home working, doing nothing out of the ordinary.  Of course shocked at what I was seeing. 

I don't know if all of you have seen the tower they built to replace the Twin Towers.  It is called One World Trade Center.  I believe it was built to send a message.  It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.  I'm not sure if this was done on purpose, but to me it appears to be a middle finger facing to the east.  Have a look.

[Zzzptm]

I was at home working, doing nothing out of the ordinary.  Of course shocked at what I was seeing. 

I don't know if all of you have seen the tower they built to replace the Twin Towers.  It is called One World Trade Center.  I believe it was built to send a message.  It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.  I'm not sure if this was done on purpose, but to me it appears to be a middle finger facing to the east.  Have a look.

That's actually the view from New Jersey.

I've got travel that takes me to lower Manhattan and I stay at hotels right by the WTC site. The memorials there are very moving. I especially am moved by the one to the firefighters.

[Charger]

I don't know if all of you have seen the tower they built to replace the Twin Towers.  It is called One World Trade Center.  I believe it was built to send a message.  It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.  I'm not sure if this was done on purpose, but to me it appears to be a middle finger facing to the east.  Have a look.

Haha! That's quite the theory!  But I guess it kind of looks like it.

One World Trade Center is actually 1776 feet tall...I'm pretty sure I know what that number represents.

Beautiful building for sure and the tech just inside the needle on top is quite amazing...remember seeing a documentary of it's erection few years ago.

[Charger]

Here we are again...


18 year ago since a bunch of cowardly scumbags attacked the whole world.

What can be easily overlooked is the fact that people from 62 (!!) different nations lost their lives on that day.

United States 2,605
United Kingdom 67
Dominican Republic 47
India 41
South Korea 28
Canada 24
Japan 24
Colombia 18
Jamaica 16
Philippines 16
Mexico 15
Trinidad and Tobago 14
Ecuador 13
Australia 11
Germany 11
Italy 10
Bangladesh 6
Ireland 6
Pakistan 6
Poland 6
Israel 5
Peru 5
Portugal 5
Argentina 4
France 4
Lebanon 4
Romania 4
Brazil 3
Ethiopia 3
Guyana 3
Malaysia 3
Bermuda 2
China 2
D.R. Congo 2
El Salvador 2
FR Yugoslavia 2
Ghana 2
Haiti 2
Hong Kong 2
Jordan 2
New Zealand 2
Paraguay 2
South Africa 2
Sweden 2
Switzerland 2
Belarus 1
Belgium 1
Chile 1
Honduras 1
Indonesia 1
Ivory Coast 1
Kenya 1
Lithuania 1
Moldova 1
Netherlands 1
Nigeria 1
Russia 1
Spain 1
Taiwan 1
Ukraine 1
Uzbekistan 1
Venezuela 1


No matter how much time has passed nobody should ever forget or forgive the events that took place on this day in 2001.

And no one should EVER NEVER trivialize it.

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
That list really makes the point. 

[Zzzptm]

I saw part of this morning's memorial. It's always painful, but proud, to recall the memory of the firefighters and other emergency people who did their jobs.

It's good to know that on this 9/11, the funding for their healthcare is secured.

[Charger]

THE BEST memorial speech I have heard in the past 18 years. Give this man a medal!

https://nypost.com/2019/09/11/9-11-victims-son-blasts-omar-at-ground-zero-memorial-service/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons&fbclid=IwAR0Ivgg7UmIZfC-Wm1nAGj2DVpLTockuW4XcvI4uK6WlFqcgvgMW0ba6Ff4

How that little piece of dog shit ever got elected in the first place is beyond me and seriously makes me worry about the future of the country.

[Vyn]

Was heading to work, heard the news guy say an airplane just crashed into one of the World Trade center towers. I recall thinking "damn, pilot must have had a heart attack". Also envisioning that it was a small turbo-prop.

Then they added it was a commercial airliner. Yikes, that sucks I thought.

Then the second one hit. By this time I'm in the office and everyone has a tv rolling.

It was sickening to watch. Then the Pentagon gets hit by a plane, then another plowed into the ground in PA. ALL planes were ordered to land immediately. So much tension and unfocused anger. We wanted someone to tell us what country launched the coordinated attack. So we could obliterate it and whoever belonged to it.

But that wasn't the case.

The Alamo? Mexico

The Maine? Spain

Pearl Harbor? Japan

9/11? An amorphous group of people from different countries. And what tied them together was a certain religious belief.

Holy Fucking Shit.

What a day - I will never forget.

[Typhon]

And what tied them together was a certain religious belief.

The root of the evil.   

[Charger]

And what tied them together was a certain religious belief.

The root of the evil.   

Amen to that! (pun intended)

[Zzzptm]

1. Ilhan Omar is a person, not a piece of dog shit. If you're neither a racist or a misogynist, I'd ask you to rephrase your disappointment with her in a different way, if you please.

2. If you want to know how she got elected, look it up.

2a. Her Republican opponent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdimalik_Askar . Abdimalik Askar is a *Republican* person of Somali descent, also a Muslim. He withdrew from the election due to the death of his father and wanting to finish his doctoral degree.

2b. That means that, had Mr. Askar won the election, there would still be a Somali-American Muslim representing that congressional district in Minnesota.

2c. Please leave the Islamophobia at the door. Judge people one by one, not pre-judge them on the basis of their race, color, or creed.

3. What also tied the attackers together was a membership in a terrorist organization. A third factor was their connection with Saudi nationals in aiding and abetting their attacks.

3a. So many good people of the Muslim faith have been tarred by an unfair and untrue equivocation with their faith and terrorism.

3b. The overwhelming majority of Muslims do not want terrorists to succeed. Again, it is unfair and untrue to equate them all or even a majority of them or even a significant minority of them with terrorism.

Gents, we've got plenty of great stuff on other threads, but I'm getting to a point where the Stormfront-lite comments are bringing me to where I don't want to come back. I'd much rather be putting my energies of research and commentary towards things we have in common, not areas where we clearly have differences.

I was hoping that the 9/11 thread here would just be a quiet remembrance, not a springboard for additional attacks.