9/11 memorial thread

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General Emílio Médici said:
Every 9/11 I like to mention how Something Awful had a thread on it the literal minute it happened. It includes highlights such as:

- Shitty webcam pictures of the 1st crash site from OPs window POV

- The very first 9/11 meme (before people realized it was a attack, with pilots flying drunk into the building)

- Goons correctly guessing who did it / was gonna be blamed for it within 3 pages

- Goons also correctly guessing Saddam was gonna get removed and killed because of it

A real historic moment for the internets everywhere.
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Thanks. That has huge historical value.
 
It's that time of the year again

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I remember in middle school being evacuated and all of our parents picking us up. My mom couldnt really explain what was happening but we got home and were glued to the TV.

My dad was on a flight out of Dulles that day to California and she was freaked out because she thought he was on one of the planes.

I laugh at the memes now, but I dont think anyone that was born after will get how harrowing that day was.

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CHARizard said:
I remember in middle school being evacuated and all of our parents picking us up. My mom couldnt really explain what was happening but we got home and were glued to the TV.

My dad was on a flight out of Dulles that day to California and she was freaked out because she thought he was on one of the planes.

I laugh at the memes now, but I dont think anyone that was born after will get how harrowing that day was.

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My older sister worked in a building a few blocks away when it happened. Everyone was going crazy all day trying to call her to find out if she was okay.

You can't really describe what that day was like or how it was immediately after, you had to have been there. That's the last time we were united as a nation.
 
White Devil said:
My older sister worked in a building a few blocks away when it happened. Everyone was going crazy all day trying to call her to find out if she was okay.

You can't really describe what that day was like or how it was immediately after, you had to have been there. That's the last time we were united as a nation.
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I know some people who worked there in WTC. According to them everyone who wasn't dead, took out major insurance policies a few months prior. There were rumors of people going around giving certain offices a "Don't Come to School Tomorrow" style message. The impression I got was the people who lived either got that memo one way or another or missed work that day from some other various reason.
 
Party Hat Wurmple said:
I know some people who worked there in WTC. According to them everyone who wasn't dead, took out major insurance policies a few months prior. There were rumors of people going around giving certain offices a "Don't Come to School Tomorrow" style message. The impression I got was the people who lived either got that memo one way or another or missed work that day from some other various reason.
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Nope. never heard anyone who worked there say that happened, The first plane hit well before 9 AM before most people came in so the death toll was not as high as expected.

Don't forget there had been a prior attempt in February 1993 so everyone working there was well aware it was a target and knew the hajis vowed to hit it again. The Ramzi Yousef, (once of the plotters of the first WTC attempt) trial took place down the street at the federal courthouse in Foley Square as did the trials of those accused of the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa; those alleged to have been responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Omar Abdel Rahman (The Blind Sheikh), members of Abdel-Rahman's legal team (lawyer Lynne Stewart, translator Mohamed Yousry and postal clerk Ahmed Abdel Sattar and various others connected to the 1993 WTC bombing); the conspirators who planned and executed the assassination of Meir Kahane, the attempted assassination of Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Schneerson and deaths of his followers. It was in the media everywhere. There was no way anyone in the Tri-State was unaware of it and these individuals.

Everyone living here then and now knows NYC is a target so taking out life insurance is evidence of nothing other than a certain fatalism.
 
Oh, we're being sincere for a minute?

I was working overnights into the morning at a radio station, local show took a bit to get what was going on and was joking around like a Cessna had bounced off the first tower.

After I got off I went to the mall and played DDR including Drop The Bomb as was my usual trip home. I think at least one tower had collapsed by then

Later that evening was weeb meet, one of the gang worked at the local airport Starbucks.
iirc he described the scene as something like horror for a bit, then unending boredom because nobody was allowed to leave or get in.
Also a British couple stuck there were like "yeah, that's some shit. We get stuff blowing up basically all the time because of The Troubles so I feel for you but, yeah."
 
CHARizard said:
I remember in middle school being evacuated and all of our parents picking us up. My mom couldnt really explain what was happening but we got home and were glued to the TV.
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Lucky, we weren't even supposed to be allowed to watch the news in class but sped teachers didn't get that email so I got to watch the news in math, which was rad b/c fuck math.
 
Geez it was so long ago but I took the day off work, and my roommate came into my room waking me up frantically telling me to come downstairs to see what was going on. I watched it in real time from shortly after the first plane hit, We were both just glued to the TV, then we proceeded to get smashing drunk.

It was like life started going in slow motion. Shock, mostly. Then anger. Suddenly Metallica's "Don't Tread on Me" became popular again, in heavy rotation on the turntable as well as in the local bars. That was the myspace days and that's when I was introduced to the conspiracy orgs, like Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth. It was the first iteration of "The Before Times" (until Covid took the 2.0 spot for the Zoomers and younger Millenials that didn't live through or remember 9/11).

Makes sense they waited over 20 years to throw a new shock wrench onto the public - give the people time to recover and forget before pulling another stunt to take away even more freedoms.
 
The psychological and emotional trauma 9/11 inflicted on us as kids is so hard to convey, but everyone in the same age-group knows that feeling without fail.
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Like that's a real good point: why the fuck didn't the adults keep things under wraps for the sake of the kids outside of NYC? I live on the other side of the country and woke up to my parents watching the news and Mom crying and not knowing what was happening as we were shuffled off to school, and then everyone was talking about it but had no idea how to process it. My teacher then decided to turn on a separate TV in the room for us to gather around and watch for a few minutes, and seeing the footage of the plane hitting the second tower was harrowing, everyone was upset. One girl was sobbing hysterically because it was her birthday and she had to see all that.

I was lucky my mom chose to only talk about it to us kids if we approached her with questions, which wasn't a whole lot. For the most part, my brothers and I continued to be kids despite all that (to the point where I got stitches a few nights later simply for being a retard, I only remembered the date was after 9/11 because there was footage of Bin Laden on the TV in the lounge).

I already mentioned in this thread about my childhood friend, so no need to repeat myself.
 
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