September 11th, 2001 is our generation’s D-Day or Pearl Harbor, to name a few, a catastrophic event which is remembered by asking people where they were when it happened.
Today marks the 6th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States. There’ll be demonstrations and there’ll be remembrance events. Will there be another terrorist attack? Probably not. Too obvious. Today is most likely the safest day to fly in America. Then there’s all the conspiracy theories of the events of 9/11. Do you believe in any of them? Was 9/11 an inside job? If you know any “credible” theories of 9/11 on the net, add the link with a small description below in the comments section!
Six years ago today I was a senior in high school in Hungary, on a bus with the other seniors, heading to Bovec, Slovenia for fall trips. Around the half point of our 12-hour bus ride, our school director paused the movie we were watching and announced that there’s been an incident in New York. It was around the time that people knew that it wasn’t an accident. Naturally, blame was immediately attributed to several powers, such as Muslims, Palestinians, and Americans. Someone even suggested the Japanese… Obviously, none of us had any clue as to what had really happened. We were on a bus with barely any means of communication to the outside world, with the exception of the school director calling the school a few times to get updates and one student’s Nokia Communicator from which was somewhat broken as only about one word out of four were legible from the screen. What he managed to decipher from one piece of news was that in the region of 50,000-100,000 had died. What was left out was that that number was the number of people working in the Twin Towers on a normal day. You can imagine the panic that some people went through. There were some 35ish of us on the bus from many different nationalities, mainly Americans. Upon reaching our destination, most of us retreated into our hotel rooms to watch the news on TV. Spending the trip in a room with two Americans, what was surprising was that I was the one who stayed up until 2am to watch President Bush’s speech to the nation and the rest of the world… The next evening, we got drunk on Slovenian wine.
So, where were you on September 11th, 2001? What did you do that day? Where were you when you first heard about the attacks? Please reply in the comments section below!
I was pregnant and at home with my son, who was 4 at the time. We were living in Texas and I had on Good Morning America as I was getting ready for work. When the first plane hit, I called my husband and said “Hey, you’re not gonna believe this, but some idiot just flew into the side of the World Trade Center in New York.” He was on his cell phone at work, so I let him go. Moments later I called him with news of the second hit and said “We are under attack.” I did not do anything the rest of the day. I did not want to take my son to daycare. I did not want to go to the office. I cancelled my afternoon doctor appointment. All I wanted to do was watch Peter Jennings and see him say that everything was going to be fine. But I think that we all knew life would never be the same again.
I was in school I was in english class learning and all of a sudden the speaker comes on and its the principal saying that everyone should turn on the tv in the class rooms and that it was a tragic event. At first i remember thinking i couldnt believe what i was seeing. i was so young that i never even understood war and to see someone attacking us for no reason i couldnt understand terrorism but from the next couple days,weeks, and months i’ve become fully aware and its something that i dont think ill ever forget…