9/11: 5 years onward
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- Teeuwen
wow, didn't know there's so much attention for this here in the netherlands, this almost beats media-attention around may 4/5th, the days we remember WWII.
there's about 10 films/documentaries on tv here, insane amount of attention in all the major newspapers, specials in news shows, book releases etc. etc.
what's happening over there, where you live?
and what do you feel now, 5 years later?
let's have this thread for respectful discussion, no bashing please.
- Ramanisky20
this thread will be deleted in 5 ...4 .... 3 .... 2
- khilled0
i'm smelling consipiracy scandle in the next five...gotta watch some of those docs out there, it's fishy
- Geith0
then there's my nifty WTC memorial competition entry.
- Teeuwen0
i don't see the need for deletion.
this is about paying respect to a tragedy. there is far more tragedy in the world, not in the least as a follow-up of 9/11. But we have discussed this forever.
Let's just focus on the event itself and share emotions and thoughts etc.
- Teeuwen0
WOW! that is amazing Geith!
well worked out as well!
- skelly0
maybe it's because i don't have television, but sounds like it's getting more attention in the NL...
i was going to ride down to the WTC, i haven't been there for a couple years. the pics look the same as last time i was there though...
- Teeuwen0
odd..
- StuBru0
Five years, heh? Wow. Time flies, like they say.
I still can remember precisely where I was and how I felt at the moment. At work. CNN.com overloaded. Luckily there were a flood of newsflashes on the radio. Already at home, where I saw the Twins go down. Shivers. Two years before I visited NYC and hey, the WTC was a mandatory attraction for a Belgian tourist, no? The view was spectacular up there. Still can't believe they're gone.
I feel for you, NYC.
- Teeuwen0
i was making a brochure for airport information/communication screens at the time. on the front there was an airliner and right next ot it a control tower. i had doubts about it as it looked like the plane would fly into the tower.. then, i think, a friend called and said nothing but that i had to rush over to the tv and put it on cnn. after the second plane hit i had a brief conversation with the client who seemed really not worried about the current events and said we should keep the image of the plane and the tower as i had put it there,.. he also urged me to hurry with it..
and all i could say was....
eh?
- Teeuwen0
and thx to qbn for keeping an eye on the thread. i hope it can be monitored and not deleted.
- QBN0
Teeuwen: This thread will remain live while being highly monitored. Zero tolerance will be provided to those eluding and/or attempting to offset the topics intentions.
- Teeuwen0
i also remembered the evening.. it was only noon in the us i think..the streets were completely silent, it was eerie..
everyone, really EVERYONE was watching the telly..the same friend called if i wanted to come over, it was the first time (and only time) that i experienced him acting so emotional and really scared. he was pondering about a third world war and what would happen..so weird as most of the time he can be pretty stoic about events like these. even though he was home with his girl he wanted me to stay for a while..as if i could comfort him or something.
anyway, we came closer together as friends, which at least was a good experience..
- Teeuwen0
cheers, QBN.
- CarlClay0
That day was awfully sad and it’s great to hear the good that has been able to come of it.
- Teeuwen0
i think newstoday wasn't born yet, or at least i did not know about it yet..but once i got on here i read the stories from people who were really close to it, and that was more emotive then most tv reports coming from overseas.
also made me relate more to the american citizen, as most europeans did.. in this respect it was good. people in the us where not simply about consumption, power and capitalism. they became as real and vulnerable as we remembered our parents and grandparents experiencing WWII.
it was only politics that made a gap between us. the event itself really opened our eyes to the suffering of many americans, esp. new yorkers.
- Mal0
Like many New Yorkers I watched the events unfold from the street and watched in disbeleif as the 2nd plane came in and struck.
I don't think I will ever digest what happened.
Be well and safe people.
- JKristofer0
I was 6 blocks from those towers the day they dropped. I watched both come down and actually stood in the middle of the street next to a car that had all 4 doors open and the radio blasting. There were about 20 people surrounding the car (including myself) to get what information we could get. After hearing that the Pentagon had been hit, I thought I should begin to find my way off the island. I turned to find my way out of the crowd and literally bumped into the chest of Willem Dafoe. Talk about fucking surreal.
I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to get home. That walk took me 4 hours and I found my wife and mother crying watching the TV when I arrived. I had no way of communicating to them letting them know I was safe the entire 4-5 hours.
My sister was MIA for the same amount of time, then came through the door completely dust covered. Horrible day.
Folkert was driving cross-country that week for the first time. He noticed in one day an enormous amount of American flags on lawns and on cars, then found the news later that day. Had he not been driving cross-country he would have been with me and shared that day like I did.
- Teeuwen0
unbelievable, jason.
i'd feel extremely cloustrophobic as a tiny organism in that city of hollow mountains.
ps. where is that quicktime that was recorded before 9/11 but released afterwards? with the enstrangening shots of the twin towers standing there firmly and untouchable..
- PonyBoy0
I was on my way to work... I flipped on Howard Stern to them raving about some planes flying into the WTC... so I flipped over to a local news radio station to hear that all flights were being grounded...
... I picked up the phone and called my brother... he gave me the news and said he and his wife were huddled under the covers and watched the second tower fall live on TV...
... after hanging up... i looked around at the people sitting in traffic and you could see everyone had an odd 'attention' about them... they were all glued to their radios... everyone was being polite and letting people pass etc... very odd..
... got into work and everyone was just glued to the tube... stunned... scared...
... it sobered me up for a few weeks after that...
.. being over here in the states... you're so used to seeing violence on tv from another country and dismissing it as normal, but when the towers fell and the Pentagon got hit... reality set in.
I never really got 'passionate' about social issues or politics until after watching those towers fall... it was truly a wake-up to me (25 yr old male, single... no kids... no family in-state)... it really got to me and smacked some 'love' for what I have and who I know into me.
- Mal0
That's a hell of a story Jason glad your people wre all ok.