Lplix
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Post by Lplix on Sept 11, 2021 7:58:28 GMT
hello, even if it may seem trivial, without political or religious judgments, I want to remember from the bottom of my heart all the victims of 9/11/2001 and their families, as well as the military and civilians who have paid the consequences in the last 20 years. as long as we remember them they will be present in our hearts. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEogeIIOJzU |
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Golden Salmon
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Post by Golden Salmon on Sept 11, 2021 8:27:22 GMT
Beware: I found this video hard to watch as it depicts the whole incident in crude detail. It still feels unreal and unbelievable, I relived the shock from back then as I skimmed through it.
Pretty sure we will still talk about COVID-19 in 20 years the same way we talk about 9/11 today. Different events, but surely it's the only one that closely resembles it in terms of scale.
By the way, I was in bed just now and I heard my daughter heading for the living room. She turned on the TV and I heard that they were talking about the attack. I got up immediately to change channels, and she was like "Daddy, look at the smoke!". Gotta wonder how they'll teach this at school.
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Steve
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Post by Steve on Sept 11, 2021 8:53:19 GMT
What horrendous memories. RIP to everyone who was taken during this disgusting act.
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BrƎИsꓘi
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Sept 11, 2021 10:47:52 GMT
Beware: I found this video hard to watch as it depicts the whole incident in crude detail. It still feels unreal and unbelievable, I relived the shock from back then as I skimmed through it. Pretty sure we will still talk about COVID-19 in 20 years the same way we talk about 9/11 today. Different events, but surely it's the only one that closely resembles it in terms of scale. By the way, I was in bed just now and I heard my daughter heading for the living room. She turned on the TV and I heard that they were talking about the attack. I got up immediately to change channels, and she was like "Daddy, look at the smoke!". Gotta wonder how they'll teach this at school. It was the single event with the deepest peacetime ongoing impact on daily lives. Everything changed. Forever. I remember sitting at my desk having just returned to the office from lunch on that terrible Tuesday. It was just before 2pm (UK time) and the music on the radio stopped to the strangest newsflash I can ever recall. I called others from across the corridor to listen. Within moments there were dozens gathered around, the radio was turned up and we stood in silence, utterly bewildered. several months later, my US Football team (Patriots) reached their 3rd Super Bowl, and (completely caught up in the moment, the events of 9/11 were briefly forgotten until the Halftime show. The poignancy of those names scrolling over the videowall behind U2 brought the point home for me - this was months later, but it will NEVER go away. and it shouldn't. where my family come from there's a saying "logh ach ná déan dearmad" (forgive, but never forget). I know that after 20 years, forgiveness may still be a hell of a reach. But while mankind continues to be such a shit to everything/one else drawing breath on this planet we have to learn to live with the status quo, and forgiveness is a huge part of that. equally important is not forgetting, because, as George Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Without trying to sound trite or twee, today is a day that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US should stop and remember those events, pay our respects to those who are 20 years gone and importantly; think about our nearest and dearest still with us, and count our f**king blessings. Next time you want to bitch about the lack of Archive Anthology, or QAL, or Miracle Boxset delay, or whatever QPL has caused to "end your world this week", just remember it's nothing, not even a dot on our Radar of Life. For most of us, things really could be so very much worse. |
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Lord Fickle
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Post by Lord Fickle on Sept 11, 2021 12:18:35 GMT
Without trying to sound trite or twee, today is a day that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US should stop and remember those events, pay our respects to those who are 20 years gone and importantly; think about our nearest and dearest still with us, and count our f**king blessings. Next time you want to bitch about the lack of Archive Anthology, or QAL, or Miracle Boxset delay, or whatever QPL has caused to "end your world this week", just remember it's nothing, not even a dot on our Radar of Life. For most of us, things really could be so very much worse. Very true, and well said. I was also at work, and heard the attacks unfold on the radio. It was during Steve Wright in the Afternoon that the news started to break, and the gradually escalating awareness of the magnitude of the developing situation was palpable. I remember going home after work, being glued to the news broadcasts for hours, and feeling sickened by the footage of the Palestinians dancing and celebrating after the attacks. It was certainly a day that changed the world, and I don't think anyone could be blamed for thanking God it wasn't them. Of course, the UK and other countries suffered their own terrorist attacks later on. A stark reminder that stuff like this can happen anywhere. |
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Post by chadhanging on Sept 11, 2021 18:56:41 GMT
We'll never forget but we certainly still have yet to learn the right lessons.
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Post by katydyd5 on Sept 12, 2021 1:22:05 GMT
Well. I don't know what to say other than I am grateful that 9/11 was acknowledged here. Each of you was compassionate and several were eloquent so it would be impossible for me to quote all the words that touched me. I'll just say thank you for remembering. I remember hearing that the whole world was American on that day, and that comforts me. At the time I was teaching second grade (7 year olds) in an elementary school. (For those who don't know, an American elementary school works with kids ages 5-12.) I was in the middle of a difficult math lesson when a colleague came into my room and pulled me aside, told me that the towers had just been hit, we were not to tell the children or show them any emotion that would lead them to know something was wrong, and advised me to compose my face before I turned back to my class. Somehow I got through that knowing that I would be taking the kids to Art in 15 minutes and could turn on my classroom tv then. I dropped them off and ran back to my room, spending my plan period glued to the tv. The first tower came down 5 minutes before I had to go pick the kids up and bring them back. I stood there with tears running down my face saying, "All those people, all those people" Somehow I composed myself again and we got through the rest of the day without the kids knowing because it was felt it would be better for the parents to explain it in their own way. Passing colleagues in the all who all looked shell-shocked, eating lunch in the teacher's lounge with only the sound of a tv, putting the kids on the buses and racing home to the news to try and understand what had happened are all memories that will stay with me. It will always be one of the defining moments of my life. Sadly, as Lord Fickle mentioned, terrorist attacks have taught us all that this can happen anywhere. Golden Salmon, we were required to teach the children about 9/11 every year. As time passed there were more and more children who had not been born at the time so the lessons became even more difficult. I don't know how old your daughter is but Amazon has many many books written for children on this topic. One of my favorites was www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Walked-Between-Towers/dp/031236878X/ref=sr_1_20?dchild=1&keywords=9%2F11+books+for+children&qid=1631409600&sr=8-20 It tells the story of Phillipe Petit who walked a wire between the towers, and ends with a fairly simple explanation that the towers are no longer there. I always let the kids guide the discussion. Again, thanks to all of you for sharing your stories and feelings here. |
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baronlutenvank
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Post by baronlutenvank on Sept 12, 2021 4:37:50 GMT
I still remember the day. I was just a young kid, and my parents and I were visiting a friend that time. I remember my parents and our hosts huddling to the TV all of a sudden, I went over to see what's going on when I saw the 2nd tower get struck. I thought it was a movie, but as they replay the footage I thought "What is going on?" I wanted to ask my parents, but they looked too shocked. One bit of footage that stuck my mind to this day was that of people running away from Ground Zero. The next few days were news coverage of the whole thing. I didn't understand what was happening, but I knew it was something very bad.
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Post by The Fairy King on Sept 12, 2021 17:20:30 GMT
I remember that day like it was yesterday. It was somewhere between 3 and 3.15pm. I was at my internship and we were listening to the radio and while they were talking about the first plane we went upstairs. Didn't fully comprehend what was happening. We went upstairs for our 3rd break that day and someone walked in with the news "a plane hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center". While everybody was kind of murmering which towers he meant, someone turned on the TV and while we were watching, the 2nd plane hit. Basically realised this was an attack and not an accident. Absolutely surreal.
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Post by saintjiub on Sept 12, 2021 18:54:46 GMT
I had just arrived at work at 8:15 AM, and disconnected my Sony Walkman CD player from my car radio to hear that the 2nd plane hit the second tower ...
I surfed the web a lot that day at work. The only other thing I specifically remember that day is several QZers justifiably worried about the Shanksville plane doing a u-turn over Cleveland.
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