the only thing i ask is that we do not turn this into a political debate, lets keep this thread in rememberance please
Simply stated and god bless though brave men and women we lost today who came to help out and those lives lost on the planes and inside the towers and on the ground. nor should we forget the brave men and women overseas fighting for whats right.
Thanks Chris for initiating this post.
I’ll never forget.
Watching that looped news coverage is still pretty damn intense.
Wow, that was pretty powerful.
Even to a jaded ■■■■■■■ like me.
Powerful stuff.
Never forget.
I still tear up and cry.
I will never forget that day. Its still hard to believe sometimes.
God bless the men and women who gave their lives that day, those who helped others survive, and the family members of those lost that day.
I remember the day it happened I woke up, made a bowl of cheerios, turned on the news before going to work and saw one of the towers already smoking. Me being a dumbfuck then like I am now simply made a joke thinking it was just a damn drunkard swine causing an accident and thought of the Empire State Building being hit by a plane decades earlier. What was it, 40’s? I can never remember.
But then watched live the next plane flying into the second tower. Honestly what ever emotion I felt at the time I can’t really recall. I’ve always been more of a sociopath honestly, people doing dumb stuff and dying because of it (lighting a zippo to look and see how empty a gas tank is, for example) I always thought of as poetic justice, rather than thinking of empathy and such. Hell some times it’s even great entertainment.
I try and pinpoint a specific thought or emotion of almost a decade ago, but I usually don’t have the time to dwell on it, and I never wrote down at the time anything about it for me to check in the future. I can remember some thoughts I had days after the event, but the day of is a cloudy memory.
I visit NYC from time to time, was there I think about a month and a half ago, if you want some great sushi hit up Sushi Zen on W. 44th St best in the city. Earlier this year when I visited there was still nothing there. I mean at least the debris was cleaned up but there was just a big crater. After 9 years I just barely now am starting to see some metal beams poking up, can’t see much because of there’s a fence surrounding it. But on the… damn I forget the exact location, I think the west side I’ll have to check with my blackberry have it on google maps saved. But 1 spot on the street view there’s actually a decent look more in and past the fence. And there wasn’t even a real foundation in there. 9 years later. 9 years and all we have is a crater and a few beams in this state.
I don’t give a ■■■■ how the Towers came down. What really gets me is all the ****ers posturing and power-grabbing and backdoor dealing and roadblocking all the progress. I don’t remember exactly now what I thought of when I watched that plane fly into the building. But looking at a 9 year old crater I can’t help but feel a complete sense of rage and embarrassment and disenfranchisement over the total lack of everything since then.
Save some of that rage for when construction on the islamic center begins..
Unlike *some *people in this country I don’t play favoritism with Rights. I take it you think their Constitutionally protected Right to build a holy center should be taken away from them?
I still remember it vividly. 6am Australian time, clock radio wakes me up, Andrew Denton (known for his politicial comedy) is relaying the news of the fallen towers in a very somber tone on the radio. I switched on the news and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, and as I think about it now it’s still hard to comprehend.
Since then I’ve done two tours in the middle east for this war that Australia has pledged to fight in alongside the USA, and I have to say that I have no ill feelings towards Muslims. But I do have ill feelings towards fundamentalists of any religion, including Christian and Muslim.
That was literally the worst day of my life. I can playback every second of that day-- it’s burned into my mind.
It was also the day me and my future wife was in a severe car accident. That’s all I really care to say about that.
Muslim Victims of 9/11:
Shabbir Ahmed - 47 years old - Windows on the World Restaurant
Tariq Amanullah - 40 years old - Fiduciary Trust Co.
Michael Baksh - 36 years old - Marsh & McLennan
Touri Hamzavi Bolourchi - 69 years old - retired nurse on United #175
Abul K. Chowdhury - 30 years old - Cantor Fitzgerald
Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury - 38 years old - Windows on the World
Jemal Legesse De Santis - 28 years old - World Trade Center
Simon Suleman Ali Kassamali Dhanani - 63 years old - Aon Corp.
Syed Abdul Fatha - 54 years old - Pitney Bowes
Mon Gjonbalaj - 65 years old - Janitor, World Trade Center
Nezam A. Hafiz - 32 years old - Marsh & McLennan
Mohammed Salman Hamdani - 23 years old - NYPD Cadet
Zuhtu Ibis - 25 years old - Cantor Fitzgerald
Muhammadou Jawara - 30 years old - MAS Security
Sarah Khan - 32 years old - Forte Food Service
Taimour Firaz Khan - 29 years old - Carr Futures
Abdoulaye Kone - 37 years old - Windows on the World
Abdu Ali Malahi - 37 years old - WTC Marriott
Nurul Hoque Miah - 35 years old - Marsh & McLennan
Boyie Mohammed - 50 years old - Carr Futures
Ehtesham U. Raja - 28 years old - TCG Software
Ameenia Rasool - 33 years old - Marsh & McLennan
Mohammad Ali Sadeque - 62 years old - newspaper vendor at WTC, reported missing
Rahma Salie & child - 28 years old (7 months pregnant) - American #11
Khalid M. Shahid - 25 years old - Cantor Fitzgerald
Mohammed Shajahan - 41 years old - Marsh & McLennan
Gary Shamay - 23 years old - Cantor Fitzgerald
Nasima Hameed Simjee - 38 years old - Fiduciary Trust Co.
Michael Theodoridis - 32 years old - American #11
Abdoul Karim Traore - 41 years old - Windows on the World
Karamo Trerra - 40 years old - ASAP NetSource
Shakila Yasmin - 26 years old - Marsh & McLennan
Man, I was just starting to like you…
AMERKIN!
One of the first responders? Comedian Rob Riggle from the Daily Show. I knew he was a Marine reservist, but I only recently found out he was in New York and his group was activated was soon as the towers fell. He talked about it a bit on The Kevin Pollak Talk Show (it’s on iTunes) a few weeks back. Plus he shipped to Afghanistan. And he’s still laughing. Rock solid example of an awesome guy, one of many. Certain posters here excepted, obviously.
'MERICA.
move on. thats the best way to never forget.
Having the right to do it doesn’t make it a good idea. And whether the victory mosque is constitutional or not, CPU64 doesn’t have to like it. Plus I don’t think he mentioned anything about taking rights away.
