September 11

lilly31 · Guru

September 11

gordon_adl · Senior Member

It was a cowardly act! I lost friends and co-workers that day. I'm only alive today because I had a meeting on the other side of town that day.

RosieW · Guru

I remember hearing it, and thinking it was a sick, sick joke. And watching the constant coverage with friends in my loungeroom. We were gobsmacked, horrified and in shock.

Cruising Granny · Guru

Let's remember the victims - all those innocent people who were forced into such a horrendous situation in each plane and building.
Then sing the praises of the emergency services - those who died doing their job, and those who worked so hard to rescue survivors and restore the city to some sort of normality.
Let's pray for the families of the victims and for peace, and I hope we never see anything like that ever again.
It looked like a movie, not real life, real time television news, thanks to the wonders of technology and modern communication.
Years ago we would have read it in the paper 2 days later. Now we can watch it happening and still can't control it or stop it.

Sheba · Guru

I remember watching as it was happening, and not really believing that it was actually happening right that minute.

I still find it hard to accept that some people can be brainwashed into believing that it's an honourable thing to kill others, just because they have different beliefs.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Dave83 · Senior Member

I tend to keep my own ideaology to myself (nothing irks me more than people who push beliefs onto others) but an old quote sticks with me:

"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies planes into buildings".

I remember waking up that day (I woke up quite late, I still had a "teen" in my age at that time) and seeing it on TV and thinking it was a scene from some crazy movie. It took a long time for the reality of it, and what it meant, to sink in.

I still get chills when I remember a good friend of mine, who had two teenage children, and what she did. It was the early hours of the morning, and when she saw the news, she woke her kids up - because she knew that she'd just witnessed the moment that the world would change and she felt that they had to see it for themselves. If only she knew how horribly right she was.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

We were up the top of the WTC 4 weeks before that happened, we consider ourselves very lucky.

Have to feel for the thousands of people who were on the scene at the time, saw that program on tv last night about the kids and families of people who lost their lives, they are the ones that have to live with it, feel real sorry for them all.

Esmeralda · Guru

_wombat_ wrote:
We were up the top of the WTC 4 weeks before that happened, we consider ourselves very lucky.
Have to feel for the thousands of people who were on the scene at the time, saw that program on tv last night about the kids and families of people who lost their lives, they are the ones that have to live with it, feel real sorry for them all.

I was there a couple of months before - I went up twice because the view the first time was partially obscured by grey clouds and it was raining. Second time it was great.