9/11 seems so long ago...

[AiliailiA]

9/11 will, in fact, be our era's equivalent to a "Pearl Harbor" moment. All one needs to do is to look at the effect it had in our involvement in the middle east, which doesn't seem to have an end in sight still to this very day. Heck, we're still fighting a war in the very same countries that al Qaeda stemmed from (Afghanistan and Pakistan) to this very day, spanning three presidencies, and the United States is contemplating a troop SURGE on par to that of Iraq.

God I hope we get that troop surge. We badly need more troops

"We"?

Are you currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan?

[Thermodolia]

God I hope we get that troop surge. We badly need more troops

"We"?

Are you currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan?

We as in we Americans. And no I'm not currently in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[Dylar]

I was just 1 year old, so I clearly can't remember it. I did watch a documentary last night about the 2 brave men who went up to 88th and 89th floors of the North Tower trying to save as many people possible, and like every 9/11 documentary, they showed clips taken from people's cameras from the plane collisions, and even watching it on video from 16 years ago sends shivers down my spine.

[The New California Republic]

I was just 1 year old.

That makes me feel even worse about my age! But on the flip side, you missed experiencing a lot of things first hand. And I don't just mean 9/11. For example the time before the internet (was there such a time, a lot of Millennials will ask), widespread cellphone use, or even widespread computer use. I have a typewriter in my office that I still use sometimes. I remember all these things, wise old sage that I am!

I'm not really that old, relatively speaking, but still old enough to be in the band of people that can vividly remember pre-internet/cellphone/computer times.

[Bluelight-R006]

I wasn't born when 9/11 happened. But I still feel a feeling of pain and sorrow for the families of those who died and those who died themselves.

How many people died on 9/11 though... some people say 2000+ and some say 3000+.

[Thermodolia]

I was just 1 year old.

That makes me feel even worse about my age! But on the flip side, you missed experiencing a lot of things first hand. And I don't just mean 9/11. For example the time before the internet (was there such a time, a lot of Millennials will ask), widespread cellphone use, or even widespread computer use. I have a typewriter in my office that I still use sometimes. I remember all these things, wise old sage that I am!

I'm not really that old, relatively speaking, but still old enough to be in the band of people that can vividly remember pre-internet/cellphone/computer times.

I remember the pre-internet era, well the tail end of it before widespread use. Dail-up was fun. They also missed the '93 bombing of the WTC and the '95 bombing in Oklahoma City; I was a little tyke for that one.

[Thermodolia]

I wasn't born when 9/11 happened. But I still feel a feeling of pain and sorrow for the families of those who died and those who died themselves.

How many people died on 9/11 though... some people say 2000+ and some say 3000+.

Almost 3,000. Nobody says that 2,000 people died it was a lot more

[Bluelight-R006]

I wasn't born when 9/11 happened. But I still feel a feeling of pain and sorrow for the families of those who died and those who died themselves.

How many people died on 9/11 though... some people say 2000+ and some say 3000+.

Almost 3,000. Nobody says that 2,000 people died it was a lot more

Some say 2996.

[The New California Republic]

I wasn't born when 9/11 happened.

it just keeps getting better.

How many people died on 9/11 though... some people say 2000+ and some say 3000+.

2,978 victims is what Wikipedia says. 2,997 if you count the 19 murderous hijackers, which you shouldn't. I can remember at the time that some news stations, and even some experts, were giving far higher estimates. 10,000+ was a number that was getting thrown around, because of the fact that it involved planes full of people, crashing into densely packed buildings, in a city that has a very high population density. People were actually surprised that the death toll wasn't far higher, I can remember people thought a mistake must have been made with the count. Any number of deaths is still extremely tragic, but that overestimation of the death count is just what people thought was likely at the time.

[Bluelight-R006]

I wasn't born when 9/11 happened.

it just keeps getting better.

How many people died on 9/11 though... some people say 2000+ and some say 3000+.

2,978 victims is what Wikipedia says. 2,997 if you count the 19 murderous hijackers, which you shouldn't. I can remember at the time that some news stations, and even some experts, were giving far higher estimates. 10,000+ was a number that was getting thrown around, because of the fact that it involved planes full of people, crashing into densely packed buildings, in a city that has a very high population density. People were actually surprised that the death toll wasn't far higher, I can remember people thought a mistake must have been made with the count. Any number of deaths is still extremely tragic, but that overestimation of the death count is just what people thought was likely at the time.

Ahhh I understand.

[Thermodolia]

I wasn't born when 9/11 happened.

it just keeps getting better.

Want an even better scare? NS is older than some of its players

[The New California Republic]

it just keeps getting better.

Want an even better scare? NS is older than some of its players

*Shudders at the thought*

[Bluelight-R006]

Want an even better scare? NS is older than some of its players

*Shudders at the thought*

Wow never thought of that

[Tahar Joblis]

I remember spending all day waiting for the other shoe to drop. What was next? I thought the plane attacks would be a prelude to something larger. While horrifying, dropping a couple of expensive buildings in Manhattan and killing a few thousand people wouldn't really put much of a dent in America's ability to do, well, anything.

What I didn't really grasp on that day, but learned later, was that the second punch of the one-two punch was ours to throw. The attack was intended to provoke us into harming ourselves, and President Bush II eagerly obliged, embracing even the most wasteful and ineffectual security measure and not only engaging in the expected response of invading Afghanistan, but using it to build a rationale for invading Iraq.

And yet I still remember the unique horror of it even now. The planes crashing into buildings like a superhero film where all the superheroes were on strike, the damage and the deaths. Do you think fifty or more years later the US President will still visit the site of the twin towers? I think it was our generation's Pearl Harbour moment. RIP to all those who died on that terrible day.

To put it into context, most high school students hadn't been born when it happened ... and most college freshmen of this year were too young to remember it at all, with most undergraduate college students having been too young to understand what was going on.

They are dealing with the consequences, though. It's been almost sixteen years since the invasion of Afghanistan, and the US is still knee-deep in trying to fix Afghanistan. It's been almost fourteen and a half years since the invasion of Iraq, and the US is still knee-deep in trying to build a stable nation-state, or collection of nation-states, in that area.

[Socio Polor]

I was just 1 year old.

That makes me feel even worse about my age! But on the flip side, you missed experiencing a lot of things first hand. And I don't just mean 9/11. For example the time before the internet (was there such a time, a lot of Millennials will ask), widespread cellphone use, or even widespread computer use. I have a typewriter in my office that I still use sometimes. I remember all these things, wise old sage that I am!

I'm not really that old, relatively speaking, but still old enough to be in the band of people that can vividly remember pre-internet/cellphone/computer times.

You'll really feel old when I tell you I had just turned 4 months old when 9/11 occured, now I'm 16 years old about to get a permit soon

[Kadur]

One of the most terrible events in America, which has completely changed the course of history.

It'd be nice if something like that did not happen again...

[El-Amin Caliphate]

I hadn't even turned 1 yet when it happened (born in 2000) but I still feel nerves go around me when I read personal accounts of 9/11. Personal accounts of anything like this are the worst, because you get to hear the real danger and magnitude of what happened. I had to do a school assignment on how my parents felt when seeing the towers falling and I remember what on of them said: I think it was sadness, then anger (or the other way around), then strength because of the bouncing back of resilience after the attacks. The only thing I wish never happened was the invasion and destabalization of 2 countries or more because 19 psychopaths destryed 2 buildings is not an act of revenge, or even righteousness. That's just cold-heartedness on both sides. Fortunately, I haven't been bullied, harassed, etc. for my religion on or around 9/11 AlHamdulillah.

Nor will I forget that for three weeks, some of my students stayed home in fear -- they'd been beaten on the way home that day just for 'looking Muslim'. Some were Sikhs. Some were just 'Arab looking'. None had a damned thing to do with what was happening across the river.

The end of the school year ended with me in tears because one of the students, a beautiful young lady who was always very stunningly attired with the most beautifully patterned and folded hijabs, gave me a lovely scarf. Why? Because according to her I was the only teacher she came in contact with who didn't treat Muslim students any differently from other students that year.

All I could think of was how horrible it had to be for those kids being blamed for something they had no part in.

I've read the attacks on Muslims, Arabs, Arab-looking people and Muslim-looking people before and it's just as heart-breaking as what happened on 9/11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobic_incidents
Stuff like the bold and underlined is especially reviting. No one should have to go through.

[Vassenor]

I was 4 when it happened. But for me, that is what Islam does, using terrorism if they don't get what they want. Look at terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, ISIS and many others. And before anyone going calling me a Islamophobe: Islam has more terrorist organizations than Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
Christianity has only KKK, Gunpowder Plot, Pogroms and llaga. And Islam has so many that are unable to count. But, the WTC towers where a symbol of New York as i understood

Then the terrorists have already won.

[Greater Cesnica]

9/11 this year is gonna be fucking hilarious

I see what you tried to do there, but it's highly distasteful.

[El-Amin Caliphate]

I was 4 when it happened. But for me, that is what Islam does, using terrorism if they don't get what they want. Look at terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, ISIS and many others. And before anyone going calling me a Islamophobe: Islam has more terrorist organizations than Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
Christianity has only KKK, Gunpowder Plot, Pogroms and llaga. And Islam has so many that are unable to count. But, the WTC towers where a symbol of New York as i understood

Then the terrorists have already won.

Also, Islam doesn't have terrorists. No non-sentient anything has anything.

[Greater Cesnica]

I was 4 when it happened. But for me, that is what Islam does, using terrorism if they don't get what they want. Look at terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, ISIS and many others. And before anyone going calling me a Islamophobe: Islam has more terrorist organizations than Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
Christianity has only KKK, Gunpowder Plot, Pogroms and llaga. And Islam has so many that are unable to count. But, the WTC towers where a symbol of New York as i understood

I was 2. I saw my mother for the last time that day. She died on the 43rd floor of the South Tower. Coming from a Muslim, I feel like Stockholm Syndrome permeates everything about my life currently.

[Vassenor]

Also on Christian Terrorism: Apparently the IRA stopped existing while I wasn't looking.

[Greater Cesnica]

Then the terrorists have already won.

Also, Islam doesn't have terrorists. No non-sentient anything has anything.

Salafism can be considered as a sect of Islam. Salafism currently is supported by Saudi Arabia. Islam isn't the cancer of the world, Saudi Arabia is in my view. It ruined a good religion.

[Greater Cesnica]

Also on Christian Terrorism: Apparently the IRA stopped existing while I wasn't looking.

Duh.

[Luminesa]

Then the terrorists have already won.

Also, Islam doesn't have terrorists. No non-sentient anything has anything.

...What?...Every religious organization has its terrorists. That's a rather silly suggestion, to say religious terrorists don't exist.