A simple 9/11 memory

no, the difference is only in its being used as an excuse for robbing of us how peaceful, secure, and gratifying the world that surrounds us would, could and should otherwise be. it has simply, and may well have been provoked for the sake of it having happened to do so, replaced the so called "red mennace" of mccarthyism.

btw, i remember an OTHER 9-11, though i didn't see that one live, only heard about it much latter, the one democracy now was doing a feature on the morning this 9-11 happened. the one where salvatore alliende supposedly shot himself in the back with a sub machine gun.

i also remember the first mccarthyism, and how even kennidy, who's greatest heroism, beyond civil rights, was helping us get over it, had to go through the motions of playing along with it, which was how we ended up doing, really backing and promoting exactly the wrong things, in vietnam.

i was in highschool when kennidy got shot. my grade school was during eisinhour and mccarthyism, but also, offsetting that somewhat was the international geophysical year(s), and that if you lived out in the boonies you could still build wierd creative houses and not have to worry about the government knocking them down because of building codes.

 

I am not naïve enough to take everything I read on the internet at face value.
I’m sure that plenty of embellishment and fictionalizing goes on wherever people
do not post under their own full names, so I’m skeptical of “facts” that I
cannot verify from a second source.

That being said, I think it is undeniable that 9-11 marked a major turning point
in American attitudes. Before that day, most of us thought of world politics as
something we could engage or retreat from, whenever we chose to do so. That
fallacy was completely destroyed on 9-11. Much of the ensuing emotional pain
was related to a loss of innocence. Too bad that end result could not have been
achieved in a nonviolent way.

 

I can distinctly remember standing in the world trade center square when I was 11 years old (1970) with my mother on our way via the subway from lower Manhatten through Hoboken to visit family in New Jersey and marveling at the beauty of it all.

It was truly a wonderful place filled with artistic sculptures surrounding the seven buildings including the two tallest towers and I can still vividly recall crying at work the day they were destroyed.

How very sad that the NYFD and NYPD lost so many unsung heroes along with the many American citizens they were trying to save that tragic day.

 

the tv moment i recall best was when katie curic sincerely posed the question of forgiving the attack . i was not shocked by the incident nor consider it nationally tragic . i was out hitchin through this great land of my birth this good land of me that i own and i happened into a bar that evening and saw the tv news . some cowboy bought me a beer if i'd play for the people some peace music on my flute . peace .

 

you also missed my point.

 

It was the first day of the second grade, we had just moved to Halifax, and I slumped down on the couch, exhausted. We didn't have cable yet because we had just moved, so when I switched on the TV, all of the channels were covering the World Trade Centre disaster.

It was in a different country and everything, so it didn't really concern me (I ws too young to understand how big of a deal it was, I guess).

 

What, were you 7 when it happened? Your life must suck, you can't put anything into a larger context.


Anyways, I was sitting in 8th grade English class making origami things(we were reading Japanese poetry) when our history teacher came running in from across the hall, whispered something to the English teacher, she told someone to turn the TV on, TV goes in, buildings up in flames. At one point we also migrated to the library(we were supposed to go there to begin with) and me and 2 other people go to be the first to watch it fall. Most people were either on computers or sitting around tables. We were standing below the TV watching the live news when "..........It collapsed!"

 

You should probably question the intelligence of anyone who has nothing of substance to contribute, and joins a thread for no other purpose than to be a jerk.

 

Yup. She's like a sleek Marlin that's found her way into in a Carp-infested backwater...

Quick Cali', head for open water!



EDIT;
Ok here's my 911 memory,

The sun had not yet risen in my part of the world and I was sitting on my couch doing the "wake 'n bake" in preparation for my commute to work...

I've got the TV on the morning news with the sound off / music on the stereo, and just happened to casually looked up from the bong to see the first plane hit and I says to myself,
"What the fuck new movie promo is this? The special fx are awesome!"...
then I turned up the sound on the TV and began to realize what was really going on...

I had to split before the second plane hit, as I was already late for work...

So there was this jarhead at work who, days previous had been giving me shit for turning the radio station to NPR for the BBC news. I told him it's the only place to hear world news on the FM dial...
He said he didn't give a fuck about "world news"...

Well, when I get to the job that morning( 9/11) guess who's asking" where's that station with world news?"...


ZW

 

We here in NJ and NY (I was just on the other side of the Hudson at the time)- pretty much knew or knew of - someone involved in the terror attack or the rescue efforts- - to this day I cant watch a replay of that day.
Blessings and much peace to all , who felt this senseless act more personally ( even though we all felt it!!) than others

JJack

 

Taking a nap-I worked graveyard so kept strange hours-a friend called and I heard her on my answering machine-"The worlds ending!"-I decided to make a pot of coffee before turning on the tv because if the world was ending I wasn't going without my coffee=only day i'd napped in years and see what happened? Havent done it since...

 

I was still in high school getting ready for class. I didn't really think much of it cause everything i see on the news is murder, rape, and other depressing shit.

Now its taught me how corrupt government really is.

 

all i chose to remember is thinking holy shit i hope my freinds really dont work at the twin towers