roodboi said:

sorry to laugh but for real

roodboi said:

Honestly it was a nod to the openness of everyone moreso than my "idea" for the thread, which would have eventually been posted by somebody anyways


If y'all want to see true genius, read my Borders dude thread--that shit is tight.

I'd been on an early shift that day and i'd had an afternoon nap. I'd heard of the attacks at about 3pm (UK time) as i picked my son up from school. I was astounded by the general publics response, they just went about everything as normal. I knew straight away that Bin Laden would be responsible after he'd issued a warning 3 weeks earlier. I was half xpecting Afghanistan to get nuked.

Anybody think something like that is gonna happen again?? Not necessarily of that magnitude but an attack here again...will we be as united this time??

I was getting ready for work when my brother called me over to see the WTC on fire, suddenly the second plane hit, I have never felt a shock like that ever in my life. Then I woke up my parents and told them that a plane hit the WTC. Before my pops even turned on the TV, he said it was a terrorist act.

Evil has no bounds.

roodboi said:

1 - Yes.

2 - No.

roodboi said:

Yes, I think about it all the time.


The illusion of personal safety we're made to beleive exists is really paper thin.

It doesn't take much for a young student to walk into a University and kill 30 people, it really wouldn't take much for alot to happen.

I often even think that society as we know it could easily crumble due to natural disasters, etc. My biggest fear is having to kill somebody trying to rob me of food , etc. I'm dead serious.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

sadly, I agree...

Imago said:

If nothing else, these events prove just how primal we really are...

roodboi said:

I want to .. WANT to.. believe that we'll pull together like the Brits did when being carpet bombed by the Germans.

One of my worst thoughts would be of a dirty bomb going off in London... southerners would soon find the north of England quite attractive...

roodboi said:

Yes, I think that it could definitely happen again, unfortunately. I really can't see how an attack can really be prevented. If someone has so much hate in them and they want to kill, they'll find a way to do it. I think that if it was an attack like the one on September 11th, I could see people uniting, but it would fade.

Imago said:

i don't see that happening, especially if it's on a larger scale.

I got out of bed..turned on the TV while I was getting the kids breakfast ....and couldn't believe my eyes....honestly at first I thought it was some movie

Ocean said:

I'm fascinated by reactions to the event that occured outside of the United States.

Did you guys feel the same sense of helplessness? Or was it happening to the "other" shore?

Americans, when hearing news abroad, tend to keep it abroad in our minds. The only exceptions I saw was when the Tsunami hit Asia. Truly awful.

Ocean said:

you know, for just a little bit after the second plane hit. I sat there convinced it had to be an accident.....

roodboi said:

As many Katrina victims found out.....

Flowerz said:

oh

my

god

Imago said:

I know what u mean..with smaller things we proberly detach ourself a little from it too.....but not with this ..this was to big, to devastating and a real slap in the face of what could happen to any of us
I felt sick with helplessness

Flowerz said:

Oh my God

Imago said:

thank you ..

jess555ja said:

thank you ..

Flowerz said:

wow...

Well, me and my wife were living in Alaska on Sept 11th 2001. We had been married in

February of the same year. So life was good. life was normal. The day before on the 10th

we had a normal day. We were up late on the 10th and we had made love. Well i was laying

in bed about 3 am I used to leave on the radio to soft rock at night. Just for a cool vibe.

My wife did not care. She was sleeping. nice and satisfied. And I was was hearing the music

and enjoying the night. I fell asleep and woke up at around 5 am. The station listened too

played mostly music. At 5 am they had a news and music type show. Well as i was laying

there in bed. quite satisfied. The female radio announcer said. the had had a accident at the

the world trade center. They read that a plane had somehow lost course and accidentally

crashed at the world trade center. I was like oh too bad. Then they went back into music. soft

rock. So I went back to being comfortable and very satisfied. So one song goes bye and a

second song. Then towards the middle of the second song. All sudden she come back on

and says Another plane has crashed into the other tower of the world trade center. the male

co host then says. Oh, another That does not sound like much of an accident. She then

says we will keep check on the story and will update at the next news break. So they start

another song. Not even half way in to the song. She comes back on and says A plane has

crashed into the Pentagon/. He says this most likely is an attack of some kind. She says

Yes. Must be. He then gets all We are staying on. No more music. We are staying on news.

So no more music. We are going to stay on news to bring you all the news as e get it.


So I gently nudge my wife. /and tell her some planes have hit both world trade centers. and

also the Pentagon in Washington On purpose. she mumbles and does not wake up.


so late around 9 or 10. she wakes up and is real shocked. She grew up in Brooklyn and had

even worked in tower 1 for a time she is frantic. She is crying. The phone is ringing a lot.

Some of my family calls and says's the airports are being closed. I told them yeah. They had

said on the radio The all air traffic in and out of Alaska had been stopped. So we watch

the news for 3 days. I went to the local market about then. And the mood was so heavy. I

being multiracial. I felt the stare. That had not been before. A look of sadness and miss

trust. a look of pain. Us as Americans had just had our open freedom used against us.

Our innocence was gone. Bold murder had happen before our eyes. Trust was gone. A

nation betrayed. A nation hurt to it's core.

roodboi said:

thank you

It was the beginning of my last year in high school. As I've always wanted to study in the States, I went to a special information center here in Warsaw, organized by the Fulbright Commission and the American Embassy.

I was really excited to hear about all the possibilities of studying abroad.
With all the free booklets and brochures under my arm, I was heading slowly home and fantasizing about how I was going to be next Felicity Porter: ugly ducky, ready to become a beautiful swan at the University of New York. I was sooooo excited.

I finally got home, opened the door with a key (as I always do) and saw my mum sitting on the floor, motionless, staring into our TV set. I slowly took off my jacket, started talking about the meeting concerning my education in the US, come closer, looked into the screen and for a second I though that, what she was looking at, was some sort of a movie. Only that was the news channel.

I froze in place. Within seconds the second tower got hit. Even now when I think about that moment chills run down my spine. I was extremely scared and so were many of my friends, with whom I was on the phone for the next couple of hours.
I didn't sleep that night. I couldn't stop watching the news. Occasionally I would look out the window to see how in all the windows, one by one, candles were being lit up to commemorate the victims of 9/11. My candle was too short to be visible outside the window, so I placed it on the pile of booklets about studying in the US.

Flowerz said:

Jesus. So glad you're okay.