[Eugine]

OK. I added a corney description.

Anyways, when I heard about the bombing I wasn't really interested (since I was in school), teachers came running all over saying America was under attack. I never took it serious until I went home and saw the grave destruction.

[Sea of Time]

We weren't really affected in Canada. I was in Grade 5 then and not much of it made sense. I did realize the catastrophe of it, though and took it for granted in later years.

[Papercut]

It was 4 years ago, jeez... let it go.

[Elliott]

Papercut, it affected a LOT of Americans very deeply, so it's natural for them to mourn/remember this day. I personally thought it was a terrible day, but I was over it within a month or so.

[Luna]

Actually, I'm with Papercut on this one. I know it affected a lot of people like Agatio said but, still. You wont win anything if you keep on doing the same thing year after year.

[Someone Else]

Many, many, people died that day. It should be taken seriously, those related to the ones who died have a right to mourn over them, but we should still remain strong and move on with it.

Plus the World Trade Center was a forking awesome spot.

[Luna]

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Many, many, people died that day. It should be taken seriously, those related to the ones who died have a right to mourn over them, but we should still remain strong and move on with it.

That's what I meant.

[Gardna]

Wind Dude, on Sep 12 2005, 02:57 AM, said:

Many, many, people died that day. It should be taken seriously, those related to the ones who died have a right to mourn over them, but we should still remain strong and move on with it.

Nicely said. It was catastrophe, but if you think about it, there are many people dying every day in Iraq because of terrorists that are having revenge on Americans. And their count is much bigger than count of people that died in WTC. And nobody mourns over them (except relatives, of course). Is it fair?

[Elliott]

Gardna, on Sep 12 2005, 10:30 PM, said:

Nicely said. It was catastrophe, but if you think about it, there are many people dying every day in Iraq because of terrorists that are having revenge on Americans. And their count is much bigger than count of people that died in WTC. And nobody mourns over them (except relatives, of course). Is it fair?

The troops dying is not as publicised, and is happening over a period of time. Whereas the 9/11 disaster was a one blow attack on innocent civilians, killing thousands at the one time. Also, it was all over the news for days on end. So it's obviously going to attract more mourning.

[Gardna]

Agatio, on Sep 12 2005, 11:37 AM, said:

The troops dying is not as publicised, and is happening over a period of time.

Honestly, i don't really care about dead troops (though, it is sad). It was their own choice to go to Iraq. But what about innocent civilians? They don't want to die and nobody seems to do something about it.

[Someone Else]

The thing is, The World Trade Center just appeared to be attacked out of the blue. Civilians dying in Iraq is to be, well, expected.

[Gardna]

Well, but expected doesn't mean legitimate.

[Sea of Time]

Wind Dude, on Sep 11 2005, 08:57 PM, said:

Many, many, people died that day. It should be taken seriously, those related to the ones who died have a right to mourn over them, but we should still remain strong and move on with it.

I agree, very nicely said. Many people lost their lives on that day and I hope that we catch Osama Bin Laden in the near future.

[Neo]

yesterday, on discovery channel (here in the Netherlands), "The flight who fougth back" was on. It was about the fourth plane, which was aimed at the Pentagon. The people of that plane managed to take the plane back from the terrorists. However, they were too late to save themselves.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Yeah I heard that to. I don't really watch Discovery that much so I missed it. Still good of those people to save the people in teh Pentagon. Those people are heroes I think.

[Golden Djinn13]

That day was horrible. I was in school and my principle came in the class and said that the Twin Towers were hit, I really didn't understand what he meant, until most of the kids started going home early.

When my dad came, he said that terrorists took planes and hit the Twin Towers. I was younger back then ( and with my imagination) I thought that there were still hijacked planes that were gonna crash at other places.

[TheEnglishman]

I remember that nobody in school knew. It wasn't until I got home and my sister was watching the news that I found out. It was pretty shocking.
I feel it's sad that I hadn't actually heard of the twin towers before then.

100th post. Yay.

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[Sea of Time]

I always thought that the Flight 57 that went down was headed for the White House. Ah, you learn something everyday. Those people were most definitely heroes, to anyone who would doubt that.

[Mysterious Adept]

i do think that the 4th plane was headed for the white house,(i watch a movie today on how they think thats where they were going)But you're right they are Heroes

[Gardna]

Me111, on Sep 12 2005, 07:00 PM, said:

I feel it's sad that I hadn't actually heard of the twin towers before then.

Almost same here. I heard something about them before the attack, but i had no idea how they looked nor how big they were ;)

[Sea of Time]

I hadn't seen them either. I had heard about them and the attempted bombings in '93 but I had never seen them until I turned on the news that morning. ;)

[Golden Djinn13]

I heard that there was this one guy that was supposed to be on one of the flights that hit the towers, but missed the flight. That is some really lucky for him.

[Sea of Time]

I don't know if that was coincidence or something else intervened. I'm convinced that he wasn't "lucky" though, maybe something told him not to get on that flight.

[Echo_djinn]

I didn't notice what day it was until it was announced on my school's PA system. Most people will tend to forget about this day or put it's significance aside as time passes, as did I. Don't get me wrong, 9/11 shouldn't be forgotten but like most historic days for the next generation, and the later part of this one, it will just be another day.

[Someone Else]

In about 5 to 10-ish years people will get over it, or at least when the Army finally pulls out of Iraq. I think the whole ordeal in Iraq should be over sometime soon. Not this month, maybe not until a year or so. I haven't actually heard any updates on the "war" on Iraq, but then, I haven't really been looking either.

[Crimson Barrel Knight]

It's sad that my school didn't honor 9/11 the day after, since the day before was also Labor Day. Some people just don't have any respect.

[Golden Djinn13]

Its sad that people dont have respect for those that died, and those that gave their lives to save others.

[Sea of Time]

In Canada, though we shouldn't, we really dislike the U.S., not only did we not mourn 9/11, there were reports of mumbling about Katrina donations. Very little donations were made from here.

[Echo_djinn]

Sea_of_Time, on Sep 15 2005, 12:13 PM, said:

In Canada, though we shouldn't, we really dislike the U.S., not only did we not mourn 9/11, there were reports of mumbling about Katrina donations. Very little donations were made from here.

Who says canadians hate the U.S? That is not a proven fact. I have many american friends and in general I think most americans are alright. 9/11 didn't have much of an effect on Canada so it's as much of a big deal to us than America.

[Someone Else]

Let me just remind you. Don't hate us People in the US, not all of us are morons! :);

Just, most of our leaders are... *cough cough* You didn't here me say that.

[Golden Djinn13]

Some of our leaders are. (Not naming anyone :) )

[Lightning Star]

none of our leaders are *naming someone* like Bush! n.n

but yeah, I remember I was sick that day, so I stayed home. I watched the T.V. and I had never heard of the twin towers until that day. I remember seeing something on fire that looked like a big water tank, so I thought it was no big deal. then my brother in California called and wanted to talk to my parents. they told me to go to the news and my mom started crying. I had no idea what was going on, but then my parents told me and It took a while for the fact to sink in. Its amazing...my aunt was almost on that plane, but she decided to drive.

For fellow Americans: don't you agree though, on that day, it didn't matter what your political views were? All it mattered was, our country suffered a great loss and it became our duty to help sympathise with the ones who lost somebody in the plane crashes. something so tragic brought a lot of unity to our country. Or at least in my view, it did.

[Sea of Time]

Echo_djinn, on Sep 15 2005, 05:12 PM, said:

Who says canadians hate the U.S? That is not a proven fact. I have many american friends and in general I think most americans are alright. 9/11 didn't have much of an effect on Canada so it's as much of a big deal to us than America.

There are a few groups of people in Canada that hate the US, that's all I'm saying. I didn't mean to make a generalization about Canadians hating Americans.

[Papercut]

We've (America) killed a lot more people all over the world who didn't deserve it than the other way around. Hiroshima comes to mind. Those were men, women, and children burning to death and dieing of slow radiation poisoning.

Yeah, they hi-jacked our planes and destroyed our buildings and killed our citizens. Then we bombed the mother-loving shit out of them, and continue to do so.

Don't get me wrong, it was a very important event in our lives, but we can't keep this up. We have to move on; we can still remember those who died, but enough is enough.

[Someone Else]

It's true, which is precisely what I'm saying.

But, it's still a good topic to discuss and it's educational. Remember, we should remember events such as these. Why do we study history? So we don't make the same mistakes again. :)

[Lightning Star]

With Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they were terrorizing the chinese, we had to stop them; no one else would. They wouldn't admit defeat untill something devistating happend. and guess what? We had this new nifty thing called the atomic bomb.

But you see, on 911, we weren't terrorizing. say like, someone special to you died and someone else came up and said "oh they were a great person, but whatever; get over it."

[Elliott]

Exactly.
With Hiroshima, America was stepping in to end a conflic. Granted, they may have gone a little too far, but 9/11 was a totally unprovoked attack.

[Izar]

On the topic of September 11, My cousins were there in New York, or well, 2nd cousins or something. They left a week before though, If I'm not mistaken.

I mean, the dumbest thing you can do is sen d a friggin plane to a building, i mean come on! They are TERRORISTS, they need to think of something more constructive. (Notice the Terrorist bashings).

[Elliott]

Their aim was to instill terror into the hearts of American citizens, I think they did that pretty well. Terrorists are in no way constructive, their whole point to being terrorists is to terrrorize, and last time I checked that wasn't very constructive.

[Someone Else]

Hell yes, flying a plane through a building is unheard of by most people, they'll cower in fear at the sight of a plane going straight towards a building.

And it also:

1) Destroys things very well, and makes a messy job of doing it. Literally.

2) Makes people wonder who to blame. People naturally want someone to blame for tragic events. It's natural, insecure human nature.

[Sea of Time]

As far as Hiroshima was concerned I am not quite sure that they were fully aware of the destruction they would cause with the atomic bomb. Granted, they were aware it would destroy quite a bit so they weren't totally in the dark.

[Izar]

Agatio, on Sep 16 2005, 11:08 PM, said:

Their aim was to instill terror into the hearts of American citizens, I think they did that pretty well. Terrorists are in no way constructive, their whole point to being terrorists is to terrrorize, and last time I checked that wasn't very constructive.

I know what they wanted to do, i'm jsut saying there are ALOT more ways to instill terror.

And i went to Canada, They didn't hate us Americans, just a couple did.

[King]

9/11 you can all say one thing about this day, we all fear it and many still weap over the words September 11th

[Isaac13]

How come when we get attacked by some air strike or somethign by a different country, we always counter-act with a bombing? It's a stupid question, I know, but why, really?

[Sea of Time]

No insult to the Americans meant, but it's just the "American" way. Most of the time, war is how they settle disputes.

[TobiasMar]

Uhh...9/11 did fill me with sorrow and confusion the day it happened. But at least I actually got into the North Tower during a vacation 10 days before the attack. Fortunately, none of my relatives I know of were killed in this incident.

[Laharl]

NOTE:I AM NOT IN ANY WAY APPROVING THE ATTACKS OF 9/11.

Unprovoked attacks you say? These people have been ignored by the West for decades, except to be invaded. You'd think they'd be angry, although anger doesn't justify mass murder.

Is it just a coincidence that the only countries (bar north Korea) that the west doesn't get along with happen to be the world's leading Oil producers. They want nuclear weapons because their scared of the mass amount of nuclear weapons under the control of the world's greatest ****wit Mr Bush, i'd be scared too with him as you're enemy and it just so happens nuclear energy is one of the most effective sources of energy, denying nuclear energy to the entire area because of the attacks isn't going to make the local population pro-american is it?

That does not gives Muslims the right to blow themselves up and kill innocent people to try and protest against this tyranny. The Muslims actions are abominable but the west isn't completely inocent either.

[Izar]

Why is everyone Bush-bashing about the war after september 11th?

HELLO: Congress, and ONLY Congress has the power to MAKE WAR AND END WAR, The president has the power to COMMAND THE ARMY.

The Septemver 11th attacks were incredibly lame. It reminds me a bit of the Oklahoma City Bombing. A stupid guy(or set of guys) goes in and bombs innocents...

[Izar]

Suicide bombing are pathetic. It is pretty lame, seeing that they give their life to what seems right to them, but only because they are brainwashed into thinking "Jihad" 24/7 Well, Suicide bombings aren't all muslims, but the majority are.