Remembering 9/11

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Washburn27

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our stupid class at the University (pharmacy school) went on as usual. lots of announcements about club meetings, bake sales, and other crap, but NOT A SINGLE MENTION BY STUDENTS OR TEACHERS ABOUT 9/11.
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This is how fast people forget. I thought of 9/11 the whole damn week, and I'm not even from here originally.
wonder if my work place is more "aware"...i guess I'll see as I work tonight.
 
Washburn27 said:
our stupid class at the University (pharmacy school) went on as usual. lots of announcements about club meetings, bake sales, and other crap, but NOT A SINGLE MENTION BY STUDENTS OR TEACHERS ABOUT 9/11.
:mad:

This is how fast people forget. I thought of 9/11 the whole damn week, and I'm not even from here originally.
wonder if my work place is more "aware"...i guess I'll see as I work tonight.
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Back in 2001, I worked at a company whose offices were located a couple of blocks away from the WTC site. Every day during lunch, I'd walk outside and just stare at the towers. They were truly a marvel of modern architecture and engineering, so much larger than life that they were almost surreal. On the late afternoon of 9/10/01, I had to drop off some paperwork at an architectural firm that was located on the 88th floor of the South Tower. In order to get into the building, I had to go to the security desk and present my ID, after which a plastic visitor's pass, similar in appearance to a credit card, was printed and given to me. I still have it to this day. I had absolutely no inkling of what was going to happen the following morning.

I had classes the morning of 9/11/01 and wasn't scheduled to come in to work until that afternoon. At around 9:50, everyone's cell phones (including mine) went off in unison. A friend of mine was at home, watching CNN. He called to tell me that one of the twin towers was hit by a plane. Somehow, I immediately knew that this was no accident. I decided not to go to the rest of my classes and go over to my friend's house. When I reached my car, which was parked a couple of blocks away from the campus, it had a large mound of grey ash on the roof, as did every other car as far as the eye could see. The same ashes were swirling in the air, so thick that it reminded me of a nuclear fallout scene you'd see in a movie. Ambulances and other emergency vehicles were everywhere, as were completely confused people. That's one day in my life that I will never forget...
 
Thanx for sharing Vorpal

I was working a graveyard shift from 7 pm to 7 am and i was getting ready to leave work when i started getting calls from coworkers that work the day shift & asking me if i was watching TV & i had it on but i was not watching it was some infomercial channel. Then I kept watching TV and when i got off i drove home so fast so i can find out what the heck was going on. I get there turn TV on and the 1st tower was just about to collapse. I was not even a GC holder yet at the time but i had tears in my eyes from the images and i was full with anger and i could not sleep the rest of the day and i went to work again to work the 12 hours graveyard shift again. The whole day i kept getting calls from almost every one i know. Either to talk about the disaster or to make sure i am ok. All my family is back home in the middle east & some of them did not even know where i live or how far is California from NYC but they called to make sure.
I still remember when i went back to work and the comments i got from some of my coworkers. one of them told me "look what your people did" and he does not even know that i am from a different country but just because I'm from that area then I'm considered a terrorist :(. I was worried that period that someone might attack me or kill me or something just because I'm from "over there" but thankfully the news gave out the info for the terrorist's identities & what not.
I don't think i will ever forget that day and i remember i felt that i wanted to avenge those innocent people so bad & i almost joined the marine corp but i could not because i was not even a resident yet.
 
Ramsis said:
I still remember when i went back to work and the comments i got from some of my coworkers. one of them told me "look what your people did" and he does not even know that i am from a different country but just because I'm from that area then I'm considered a terrorist .
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Goes to show you the ignorance of people and their willingness to accuse innocent people without having all the facts. I remember news stories a few days after the attacks of local Sikhs who were harassed because Americans identified their turban with those worn by Bin-Ladin.
 
Bobsmyth said:
Goes to show you the ignorance of people and their willingness to accuse innocent people without having all the facts. I remember news stories a few days after the attacks of local Sikhs who were harassed because Americans identified their turban with those worn by Bin-Ladin.
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Agreed. I remember the same. This happened in Texas. A few months later, similar incidents happened near where I live in supposedly enlightened NYC (Woodside, Queens). Actually, the day the attacks happened, I was gripped by a great fear of this, even before there was any evidence that the perpetrators were Saudi/Al Qaida/Muslim etc. Many of my family members are Muslim, and I instinctively knew there would be a backlash, even though at the time there was no evidence one way or the other, and the most recent terrorist attack on US soil had been by a "good ol boy," Timothy McVeigh. The realization that Americans (alone among all the people of the earth) are capable of confusing Sikhs and Muslims only made this fear worse. And here we are, seven years later, and Guantanamo is still not shut down.
 
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