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September 11, 20(2)1

KM76710

KM76710

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SillyOldBear said:
It was amazing how the country united on that day. Horrible how impossible it seems to unite now.
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I doubt it will ever happen again unless something similar happens(hopefully not) and then quickly divide again. People are just too different in the US to ever agree with each other on things. Too varied opinions on most everything under the sun. I have been told my prediction for the country, and Earth in general is just bleak, but that's life.
 
Atreides

Atreides

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I was a freshman in high school. I was in my algebra 2 class. The principal got on the intercom to say what had happened. We turned on the news. The second plane struck while I walked to my literature class. We were supposed to have our test on Animal Farm that day. One other person and I took the test that day while everyone else watched the news. After school I went to this World War II veteran's house to interview him for my school project. He had fought in Iwo Jima. It was interesting to be talking about war on that very day.
 
Sunspots

Sunspots

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I was at home with my youngest who was still a toddler. I put on the TV as she wanted to watch Dora the Explorer but instead the news was on instead. The first plane had hit and as I stood there watching the second one hit. Izzy was having a strop as I hadn't put Dora on so I put on a video for her and I went upstairs to watch in my bedroom. I'd never known such a feeling of horror before and I hope I never do again. The sheer brutality of it. It felt totally unreal, like I was watching a disaster movie. I had to leave an hour later to collect Alex from school and there was barely a sound in the playground as all the parents waited, just dozens of shocked faces not knowing what to say.

The lives of so many people devastated on that day, not just the dead but the knock on effect to those who lost loved ones, those who will have lifelong PTSD from the events and those still living with the fear of lung damage caused by the ash and fumes. Our hearts go out to all of them.
 
Baywasp

Baywasp

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JDot said:
The principal got on the intercom to say what had happened. We turned on the news.
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That's interesting. To be fair I was only in elementary school myself (age 8) so it's a different situation, but our teachers apparently weren't supposed to tell us what was going on despite the fact it was obvious something was happening due to the fact that the teachers were acting weird and so many parents were coming to pick their kids up early. My teacher did end up telling us that a plane had crashed into a building, but I still didn't really understand what was going on. When the school finally decided to send us home early, my sister (age 11) and I talked on the school bus and her teacher hadn't said a word about what was going on so I had to try to tell her even though I'd barely known the story myself.
 
dandelions

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hey @LonelyHiker i didn’t see this last night. i could have posted https://www.suicideforum.com/commun...d-the-moon-the-memorial-beam-of-light.170881/
here instead of my own thread! on sept 11 back then, i emerged from the subway on my way to work moments after the first plane hit. there was a perfect view from where i started walking to where i arrived a half hour later (work), i believe i watched the second without actually understanding what i was seeing even though in my mind i did figure it out.

once at work, we all listened to the radio and through a huge window in our building (in queens across the river) we watched the worst of it. i don’t really have word… just feelings of how much worse it might be like maybe everyone needed to run for cover.

my wife was 6+ months pregnant with our second son. we spoke on the phone. what a world. so vivid the memories… but i don’t remember the rest of the day. only days of clouds of smoke drifting by our living room window.
 
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LonelyHiker

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KM76710 said:
I have been told my prediction for the country, and Earth in general is just bleak, but that's life.
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I'm of the same mind...Yet in spite of my so-called "cynicism/pessimism" (I would simply call it having a realistic outlook), I do my best on a local level to care for our planet and treat people right.

The problem (and the reason we as a species are doomed anyway) is that psychopaths/sociopaths/criminals run the world and control the narrative.
 
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