• An archived thread from Something Awful on the morning of 9/11
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right, where was I when I heard about 9/11? I was 6, it was a wednesday or a thursday, I was on my weekly visit to my nan and watched children's tv for the whole time I was there so I didn't hear anything about it. I wanted to listen to something that was on on the radio around that time but I couldn't because my dad told me an attack had happened in america and people were all talking about it. I came home, ate my dinner and went to bed. [editline]19th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=TheHydra;40332432]they wanted to get people scared and angry. and they did.[/QUOTE] and then the neocons perpetuated it for years afterwards because they realized they could do whatever they wanted in the name of anti-terror if the people were genuinely scared such a senseless waste of human life, both 9/11 and the aftermath
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;40333734]right, where was I when I heard about 9/11? I was 6, it was a wednesday or a thursday, I was on my weekly visit to my nan and watched children's tv for the whole time I was there so I didn't hear anything about it. I wanted to listen to something that was on on the radio around that time but I couldn't because my dad told me an attack had happened in america and people were all talking about it. I came home, ate my dinner and went to bed.[/QUOTE] 9/11 was on a Tuesday, unless you mean when you actually first heard of the news.
[QUOTE=Radical Rebel;40333603]There was this one where you would bomb some third world city, and it would show some pretty gruesome scenes of missiles hitting markets and such. You could even kill the women and children. Never went on that website again.[/QUOTE] I remember "Time to Bomb Saddam" at killsometime.com
I wonder what would've happened if the planes didn't explode
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;40318658]Better not listen to this then. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzSeu6sJA[/media] (Honestly surprised this wasn't posted yet) (Also if you have never listened to this before and you aren't desensitized to this sort of stuff, this will probably give you nightmares) It's weird to go back and read everything in that thread. Freaky[/QUOTE] I saw this video a few years back. I can't see the thumbnail on my phone but I know exactly what it is. I'm avoiding watching it but it's in vain because I remember exactly how it ends
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40331159]even as a child I found those distasteful and stupid[/QUOTE] well, considering that you said that 9/11 didn't really affect you emotionally that makes sense or maybe you just possessed some critical thinking that i didn't have, idk?
[QUOTE=Gump;40327309]Wow that Howard Stern radio show thing is terrible. I mean it just shows how crazily patriotic Americans can be, "It was those fuckin' towel heads man." Then Stern says "The Arab world is America's dog and it needs to be spanked." How can people be so quick to blame a whole country, or essentially the whole western world for a terrorist attack? It just frightens me that people think that way.[/QUOTE] Well, Arabic terrorists attacked the WTC before, was a good and correct guess Howard made. The most eerie thing I find about 9/11 was that the night before there was a massive thunderstorm, then on that day, it was very calm and clear.
Goddamn I remember being barely into double digits when this happened. Playing on the PS2 with my brothers when my dad walks in looking almost completely aghast. Tells us to pause our game and come into the living room where the news program shows the plane colliding with the WTC. I remember all of us standing there staring, and I also remember wondering why someone would want to fly a plane into a building. Seeing this makes me wonder what kind of world we'd be living in if this had never happened.
[QUOTE=Radical Rebel;40327033]Flight 11 Flight 175 Flight 77 Flight 93 [/QUOTE] Watching these videos has made me fall down the hole of 9/11 conspiracy theories. And my day was going so well, too. As for me, I wasn't even 6 when 9/11 happened. I don't remember a thing from that day. Reminds me of a paper that we had to write about what we remembered a few years back; I just made stuff up. Got an A.
Reading that thread is depressing as hell. Seeing peoples reactions change as they realise just how serious what just happened is.
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[QUOTE=M2k3;40333418]There was probably only one other televised event that every American who was there to witness will never forget. Though putting it in this perspective it's really kind of sad. [img]http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4281/moonac.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I see this thread was bumped,but this picture fucking kills me.
This was a nice trip into times past.
Crazy to see how many people supported a war that so many hate now.
[QUOTE=FlandersNed;48659283]Crazy to see how many people supported a war that so many hate now.[/QUOTE] People were angry, and you know people do fucked up stuff when they're angry. Just proves the goverment went to war without thinking it over first.. Look how much shit has happend since. 9/11 is like the beginning of the terrorist age.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40315588]I dunno, getting Obama to say, "What is a Facepunch?" is a pretty big achievement in my opinion.[/QUOTE] Did this happen?
[QUOTE=booster;48659504]Did this happen?[/QUOTE] [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1197738&p=36755109&viewfull=1#post36755109[/url]
[QUOTE=Nuggi man;48659335]People were angry, and you know people do fucked up stuff when they're angry. Just proves the goverment went to war without thinking it over first.. Look how much shit has happend since. 9/11 is like the beginning of the terrorist age.[/QUOTE] Your argument is that terrorism only existed after the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. The truth is, Wahabism had been around for a long time before 9/11 (have you heard of the car bombing attempt on the towers) and continued to exist after 9/11. It's laughable to think a government could simply go to war "without thinking it over first" and your blaming the US rather than extremists fueled by a vile ideology is deplorable. If you think the modern levels of terrorist activity are bad then you wouldn't much like a world where Saddam's government imploded, Al Qaeda are not a small stump of what they used to be but are in control of an entire country - likely two - and a man like Bin Laden is able to exert control on the international community via Oil.
New York Remembers
Always a very interesting reminder. Thanks for bumping the thread!
I wonxer what the people in that thread would say about it now in hindsight
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;48660082]Always a very interesting reminder. Thanks for bumping the thread![/QUOTE] One of the few cases where necrobumps are good!
I remember this happening and being woken up really late at night by my mum to watch it on BBC. Following morning at school, we had a roll call so the head mistress could talk about it to us all. I remember being really upset cause of the amount of racism being thrown about on the playground (mainly towards the Pakistani / Indian students). I got a bit of flak as well cause of my Middle-Eastern name / background. It was a pretty tough time then cause the amount of xenophobia and racism shot up.
When I look at these time capsules of news broadcasts and forum threads it puts me back in my childhood. Arriving in class to see the news on the TV above my teachers desk, with her sitting there crying. Not knowing anything as a child I thought it was a movie, shortly after my teacher stands up and says "You see those buildings up there? There are a lot of people in those buildings, and they're dying right now." That statement filled me with the feeling of dread and panic. Every time I see these moment by moment time capsules of 9/11 I get that same feeling as I did sitting in that classroom. Even though I was on the other side of the country it scared the hell out of me.
[quote]Wouldn't it be cool if for 9/11 every year we reenacted it like we do with the civil war? Every year we can fly planes into buildings![/quote]
[QUOTE] WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR [/QUOTE]
I was in primary school at the time and I don't really remember anyone making a big fuss over it that day, especially as it was a small village school. The only thing I ever remember them doing at school was making the whole school watch the Queen mothers funeral
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;48662851][/QUOTE] it's funny bc it happened. but all the other problems happened too.
[quote]Not to belittle the signifigance of these events, but you do realize that this means a whole slew of "anti terrorist" and probably "anti violence" laws will be passed through congress. Any "anti terrorist" laws will be given almost a blank check to do what is necessary. I'd be surprised if in 6 months you'll be able to make a domestic call without it being monitored. That's the way terrorism works. It's not the attack that hurts most people. A couple of hundred people die -- every death is tragic, but the truth is the real tragedy will be the loss of freedoms for the survivors.[/quote] Uncanny, they really called everything that happened afterwards spot on didn't they.
man fuck that 911 call video from a few pages back I can get through most of it, but I can't handle the end. I like to think I'm desensitized to shit like this, but that made me cry and want to curl up in a ball.
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