Eighth anneversary of 9/11

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I was in the middle of a Geology course in college when word of this came through. We finished class on schedule, "If we cancel class, we let these people win," reasoning (inclined to agree). The stupidity of some people, religious zealots or greedy politicians in particular, still eludes me . . . glad AS keeps me from understanding some of this bulls#$t.

It was the same how I experienced (I was in 7th grade). We had just finished our exercises in gym class when the planes hit. Some of the other students around me, along with some of my friends, were mysteriously talking about planes. At first I thought it was something else, but it was strange why more than one person was talking about it. The school did keep quiet about the whole thing, probably to prevent a panic. After school was over, my mother was mysteriously hitting the gas hard to pick me up, so I thought she was in a hurry. Then she, "I'm so sorry I'm making you hurry. Get inside quick. I had to get your sister home and keep my students from going outside all day." I asked her what was wrong. Turning to me, she panicked, "There were planes that crashed into buildings! They hit the World Trade Center, they hit the pentagon, they were trying to hit the White House, for God's sake!" Driving back home the roads were filled with emergency vehicles parked one by one along the road. We got home and my dad had returned early from work to stay with us, and we all watched the TV (all the channels were interrupted to show the attacks), and I could not believe what I was seeing. It was horrifying.

I checked your link and I've heard all the conspiracy theories before. What the conspiracy theorists are missing is that there is video footage of molten metal dripping out of tower 2 for at least 15 minutes before it fell, giving credibility to the official story that the metal was weakened and collapsed from stress.

I was watching goodmorning american while I think it was Matt Laure was standing outside trying to find out why a plane had hit the first tower. When the second plane hit. Then it came across that the penagon was hit and a 4 plane was far off course. I woke my husband who was on night shift and told him to quickly go get our son from pre-k before they locked us on the base and we couldn't get him. They got back just before we were locked down for the next few day.

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I'm glad to have gotten so many replies. During 9/11, I was coming back home from University when my mom told me what happened and I heard on the radio. It only really dawned on me when I saw it on tv at home and they were showing the footage on CNN.

I was standing out side a department store in London. On the television in the window was one tower on fire, then other tower was hit. Not long after they showed the colapse.

Living in Australia they attacks occurred late at night our time so must of us didn’t hear about it until breakfast on the 12th. Was very sad watching the footage on the tv especially those people who were jumping out of the windows of the towers before they fall.

I remember Bush was a coward that day, hiding and sending taped messages, fearing that the omnipotent forces responsible would take him out... naturally we were then told he was a fearless hero... as the towers burned, Rumsfeld and friends first spoke of ways to use this to invade Iraq. Netanyahu also said that it was "very good" what had happened, and naturally he has gotten away with it and he and his miserable state have been lavishly rewarded. Rumsfeld told Pentagon employees the day before that they were the enemy - so someone was listening to him. Rumsfeld explained that they were enemies because outsourcing everything and using mercenaries was what he had planned.

Is exposing one's self unnecessarily to mortal danger defending and preserving the Constitution? That is what a President takes an oath to do. And if guarding his life is necessary to keep that oath, then so be it.

ruveyn

Bush's activities served to cause more fear. After all, with all the planes grounded, what could have killed him? A super death ray? Flying saucers? His pretending there was a nuclear attack served to increase the fear out there and I think that's what exactly he wanted... in doing that he proved that he is a terrorist then and there.

You're really digging there.

Stuck in Tunisia waiting to catch a 757 back to the UK.

Interestingly, bearing in mind the various "false flag" and "new reich-stag" theories that have sprung up since, I was unsettled and intrigued to note that the denizens of a moderate and western-friendly were very happt to see such an attack on the U.S. They fell short of the level of celebration that appeared in some places, and they were adamant that they were happy to see Americans die, but saddened to see any British die, but if a nation friendly to the west can be so ardently anti-american, it makes one wonder what the benefits of a "false-flag" operation like this might be, and exactly how poor the foreign policy was that made ALLIES celebrate such destruction...

How about a sniper. I was was for our leaders not to be in the open.

ruveyn

A sniper? He was hopping from air base to air base making his location secret, one of them was a nuclear-proof bunker or something, and he sent out video-taped statements. That defends against what? Against nuclear bombs, against someone knowing where the president is and flying a plane into it or using a mega death ray or flying saucer or something. That suggests to people that there's more horror to come out there... be afraid, be very afraid. If they had such wonderful intelligence a sniper could have taken Bush out as he was reading "My Pet Goat", or perhaps one of the Secret Service people could have been a double-agent working for all-powerful Al-Qa'eda who caused them to do the whole nuclear attack drill.

As Bush went into hiding, Giuliani made himself a sort of hero for doing the opposite, but in truth this was because Giuliani was a bungler. He was stupid enough to put the emergency command centre, aka Giuliani's Bunker, up in 7 World Trade Center. It was quickly abandoned. So instead of having Giuliani there commanding things and helping coordinate the response, that response became uncoordinated and there was spectacular footage of Giuliani bungling in the dust which made him a Hero.

Reading? I think he was just looking at the pictures . Seriously though, he sat there in the classroom for over 7 minutes with a dumbfounded look on his face and did nothing. Over 7 minutes!! ! Can you imagine being the President of the US and hearing "Sir, the country is under attack" and you don't even stand up. Teachers will leave the classroom for a personal call, but apparently an attack on the country is no reason to cut storytime with the kiddies short. Great display of leadership.