Favorite 9/11 moments

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16 and had a shitty cashier job at Kmart. About a week after 9/11, a big display of patriotic teddy bears was placed in front of the registers. When you pushed a button on them, it played "God bless the USA." People walked by and pressed the buttons on all the bears, constantly.

Years later I can still hear the nightmarish chorus of dozens of bears, all off-sync with each other, going "AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE. AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED AND GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME." My shifts ranged for 6+ hours directly behind them.

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Was in New York when it happened.
Saw the towers fall from the roof of a building in Queens. The day was unusually nice weather wise.
It was weird where I was, no screaming, no cars honking like mad just..silence.
It was like walking around in a zombie or post apocalypse movie.
You could have heard a pin-drop where I was considering all the chaos that was less than 10 miles away.
 
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MrTroll said:
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But it was the North Tower (the one with the spire) that was hit first.

A big, fat -9/11 for historical inaccuracy. Try again.
 
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I remember my mom waking me up, telling me to turn on the news because we had just been attacked and the world would never be the same. I had thought at first that she meant someone bombed us with a nuke until I turned on the TV. I spent the rest of the day watching the news and trying to find out if there was some place I could volunteer to help with search and rescue efforts because I had just gotten my EMT license.

The funny thing about the whole thing that I remember is my aunt freaking out at my dad and me because we had a moose hunting trip planned for that October. She thought we were horrible people for wanting to "go kill an innocent animal after so many people had died" a month after it happened as if one had anything to do with the other. She hated hunting in general, despite growing up in a family of hunters, but she was extra upset that we were going after the attack.
 
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K-7 said:
Because of the time difference, I was in front of my after school cartoons when the programs switched to a flash news, being the little gullible fuck I was, I thought they decided to put an action movie because cartoons can be boring at times. I could see my mother gasping at the images, meanwhile I was cheering when the second tower collapsed.

Years later, I was keen to research what happened, since it's pretty much one of my most vivid memory I had as a child, so I looked up infos and of course ended up on conspiracy theories. Now I'm a paranoid fuck who can't trust any government because of it. Fuck you talibans.

On a more "serious" note, I always felt like this segment of BOTW would be a good fit like the previously posted video, Rich Evans laugh always get me


EDIT: you know I had to fucking do it

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And here is their immidiate reaction from the day it happened
 
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