oh yeah....my mom was on a flight back from out of states...coming to LA X.
I was like holy shit man....becuase LA X was like a possible target.
I was gluded to the damn TV or radio for days.

I was on my way home on the train from staying with some friends near Dundee in Scotland who I'd just met travelling. About 10 days before we had flown home from NYC after 3 months in the US. I remember it being really surreal as I'd just spent a week in NY before coming home and in that time I'd been up one of the trade towers.

I'd also met someone who was working literally just a few hundred yards away across the road from it who I had spent some time travelling with and it was all a bit bizarre really. By the time I got home the first tower had been down but I think I saw the second one go on TV and I kinda remember just sitting there thinking Holy Shit.

I got a mass-email from my friend the next day to say he was fine and he said a bit about what it was like there, in fact now it's making me wonder if I still have it. Gonna go look now it would be quite interesting to see what it said.

ya i remeber i was sleeping and my radio alarm went off, and they were talking about it and saying a plane flew into a building, and i was still pretty much asleep so i didn't make much sense out of it, i just assumed it was just some plane that crashed. Then i had gotten up and my mom had turned on the tv and i stood and watched some of it. I can't really remeber what exactly i thought or felt, just fear, saddness and even a little excitment, like wow whats going on? Actually 9/11 is my half birthday, so it was kinda weird

I was in 5th grade. Um, my mom was upset, she was on the phone with my uncle. I figured they where just talking about my grandmother who had died on september 11th maybe 30 years ago. That was my reaction, but then she told me that "something terrible has happened" (I believe those where her words). I was really detatched about it. Happenings on the other side of the country didn't mean anything to me when I was in 5th grade, I felt bad for the people there but I didn't feel any connection to them.
Now, after seven years have passed, I feel even worse for those people who died that day. Especially the folks on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. They became the excuse that started this war that was doomed from the begining.
I suppose a way to explain my feelings on the war would be to reference the film V for Vendetta. In the film Natalie Portman says that while men can be killed, ideas do not die. Terrorism is an idea. Therefor, a war on terror is doomed to fail. It may appear to succeed (not that this is the case at the moment) but in the end it will only lead to more terror. By invading a country and killing it's citizens are we not, in affect, terrorists ourselves? I don't know. Are we?


More likely I'm just an ignorant liberal punk who isn't even old enough to vote and I have no idea what I'm talking about. Which is fine. And likely true.

Actually, Che Guevara originally said that before he was executed.

This post was last modified: 09-13-2008 06:34 AM by Unacceptance.

lol, nah your not ignorant, and it's okay cause Liberals f*ing rock!

but i agree there was not point to the Iraq invasion. If we were going to find terrorists i think we should have focused more on Afganastan and Pakastan. And I mean you can't just go and overthrough someone's government. It just brings chaos, and starts things like civil wars. So we're really hurting the civilains more than saddam Hussain was.

I was in middle school standing in line to get lunch when i heard about it with the drug addict and pyromaniac I thought were my friends back then. We had gotten out of class early to go eat lunch because we were going home early but no one would tell us why, the reason was eventually found out that someone's dad worked at the pentagon and they didn't want them to find out about it like that I guess. Everyone was talking in line about what they heard and a couple people said we were under attack and others said the pentagon was bombed. I remember walking through the door into the living room and my mom was home and had the tv on and as soon as I walked in and started watching, the second tower fell I remember there were some "O God's" and gasps.

Then, later I remember watching Bush addressing the nation and feeling really angry and thinking the war was justified at the time....

No, we should have started with America.

I want to say I overslept that Tuesday morning and missed my 8:00am class. Someone soon later PMed me on my computer. Classes were quickly cancelled. I recorded tv broadcasts all day long.

I recall President Bush being flown to a military base in north Louisiana and anxiously awaiting his response that night. And while I did not leave the apartment that day, there was fear that Baton rouge might be a target because of the oil refineries near the Mississippi river.

Oh please, discuss in detail.

well i feel really bad for the people living in Iraq right now, i mean it's gotta be hard living somewhere where you don't have a stable government. I'm not saying hussain was a good leader, but if it really was all that bad people would have revolted or started a rebellion. I don't know for sure if it was a good or bad thing to invade Iraq at the time, i was only like 11 when they went in, but like five years later it's starting to seem like it wasn't that good of an idea. It just feels like vietnam all over again.