Favorite 9/11 moments

[ToroidalBoat]

I just assumed he was talking about some nut case in a crop duster.

That's what I thought too. Not an airliner. Not multiple airliners.

Seems like 9/11 started the transformation of the world into the crazy world of current year.

 

[Creep3r]

That's what I thought too. Not an airliner. Not multiple airliners.

Seems like 9/11 started the transformation of the world into the crazy world of current year.

Definitely. Almost all the fucktarded shit we see now seems to have stemmed from that one moment. After 9/11, everything started becoming a pathetic broken parody of what things used to be. The Current Year began with 9/11 and its the ride that never ends.

 

[Thomas Paine]

Thank you Google.

Remind me again why the West tolerates rapefugees?

 

[Terrorist]

well this is awkward...better show myself out

 

[Muttnik]

I was in third grade at the time. School skidded to a sudden stop and the principal came on the PA system to tell us kids what had happened. One of the teachers went apeshit and started muttering how we were all gonna die and pretty much caused a whole room of wailing children as a result. Mom swung by to pick me up early and we stayed hulled inside all day with the door locked until Dad came home.

Mom tells me that she remembers my younger sibling playing with their toys in the living room while she watched the news and she'd started to cry because they were just a toddler and had no idea what was going on or how terrifying it was.

Other than that, no school for like three days. That was pretty kickass and worth the trauma.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Thanks for the great holiday Bush!

I'm frankly just impressed with that GBC Metal Slug port myself.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I remember because I took some days off shortly before to catch a break from work. I read some short post on usenet mentioning some small airplane colliding with one of the towers. (Why whoever wrote that said small I'll never know, also yeah, I'm old) I switched my small CRT TV on and it was already on the news. (I'm from Europe)

The theory that was enetrtained on the news station was that the Plane might have had a technical defect with the autopilot. They even got some airplane specialist or other talking about how that could've been possible. Nobody at that point even thought about a terrorist attack because yes, the world was just that different. It must have been an accident, even if it was kinda hard to figure out what exactly went wrong.

Then the guy coming up with theories got interrupted in his theorizing by the second plane hitting the other tower, which I saw live and it was frankly horrifying (these were the pre-desensitized days) to realize that I just watched a lot of people die. News dripped in about other planes which traffic controllers lost contact with and it dawned on everyone that this was a deliberate and coordinated attack. Everything changed then. Then one tower collapsed, shortly afterwards the other one. I remember how the news anchors who were reporting on every little asinine detail over and over again (as they didn't have any new information themselves) just went completely silent when the second tower collapsed. Even they didn't know what to say anymore, at least for a little while. It was just dead air and the video-feed of the collapsed towers.

Also some of you are too young to realize that the US used to be quite popular in the rest of the western world. Sympathy with American endeavors was on an all time high for a short while afterwards. I remember the pictures of warships of my country passing american ones, with having banners put up which advertised their support and brotherhood. Then the US started to go crazy and most sympathy was lost and never recovered to this day.

 

[Le Pew]

I just remember feeling bad for my little kids, who had no clue how much their world had just changed that day. Thinking back on stuff like Howard Stern saying "nuke the middle east" the next day is pretty funny in hindsight; everybody was calling for blood and any public figure trying to walk it back years later is full of shit. America was pissed and we wanted bombs dropped NOW.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

The most annoying thing to come out of 9/11 are truthers. A bunch of liberal arts majors and flunkies who think they know more about material engineering and structural physics than PhDs.

 

[TiggerNits]

The most annoying thing to come out of 9/11 are truthers. A bunch of liberal arts majors and flunkies who think they know more about material engineering and structural physics than PhDs.

No, the most annoying thing were 9 month deployments that turned in to 17 months. IEDs are up there too, I guess

Truther's are still in the top 5 though

 

[UE 558]

I originally wanted to shitpost a video of Film Robbie's interpretation of 9/11 (where they showed footage of it instead of Mario 3 in Thr Wizard), but the cyber police removed it

 

[Triple S Rank]

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.

The terrorists truly did win...

Thank you for your service brother.

 

[thx1138]

I remember being at work, one of the programmers had her mom put on the news at her house, then she put her phone on speaker; those Meridian phones can get loud enough you can hear 'em all over a cubicle farm. With Drudge and CNN.com, Fox News, CBS etc.'s websites crashing it was our lifeline into the data center.

It was quiet. It was very quiet. Bank processing came to a standstill (although it would spike through the roof after about 3pm). I remember looking out my window and seeing a Cessna flying over the river at around 9 that morning, and suddenly it banked hard right and started dropping altitude like God himself had put his finger on it and was pushing it towards the little civil airport near our suburban office block.

I wandered home about lunchtime. Didn't come back that day, nobody said anything. Waited for my wife to get home. Every day after was increasingly surreal. I remember gas prices spiking, I remember seeing a guy in a car with this massive, unreadable improvised cardboard sign stuck upright in the (open) trunk, something about Japan and 1941 and it was just a rambling mess. Imagine a piece of cardboard the size of the side of a washing machine box, covered top to bottom and side to side in text in 1" high hand-written letters. Whatever his point was it was lost on anyone trying to read it even right behind him.

 

[The Great Chandler]

 

[Overcast]

I was eight going on nine when it happened.

I think I was asleep at the time and my mom told me she was at the gym when she saw it on one of the TV’s there.

I seem to recall being told I didn’t have to go to school that day, and who was I to argue with that?

Didn’t actually find out about what 9/11 was until a few years later. I had a bit of a sheltered upbringing and I guess nobody around me really wanted to talk about it.

 

[Linako 2.0]

I frankly canot remember 9/11, even though I was like 4 or 5 at the time. I was told that my mom picked me up early from daycare and that was it.
:powerlevel:I didn't even know about 9/11 until I was like 9 or 10 years old and was living in Mexico at the time.
I think this ignorance of 9/11 and the constant parading of it is what made me desensitized about it. only reason 9/11 made me mad is because when I returned to the US for a while in 2007, post 9/11 world was going strong, any thinking outsude the norm or playing normal games liek cops and robbers meant you were a potential terrorist.
I guess the reason 9/11 left such an impact on older generations is because they're from a more care-free peacful time when they though they were at the top of the world; indestructible. but then the towers made them realize that danger still lurs about, and they had no idea with how to cope with it.:powerlevel:

 

[Yeeb-Renzo]

 

[wateryketchup]

 

[OG 666]

 

[UnKillFill]

Naw you guys, see... This is how it *actually* happened...