In a month..

zyxwvu

..it will be 10 years since the attacks on the World Trade Centre.

Do people here think it feels as though 9/11 was less than 10 years ago or more than 10 years ago, or that 10 years feels just about right?

It definitely feels like less than 10 years ago for me!

super_furry

Feels longer. The attacks seem a lifetime ago.

Plug

It really flew all right:pac:

TheZohanS

Depends on your age. If you're 20 now it's half your lifetime ago, if you're 30 it's a third...etc. etc.

Feels about 10 years ago to me.

danniemcq

I really wish people would stop calling it 9/11.

nothing happened the 9th of november. 11/9 though thats when the WTC attacks took place. Yes i know that it will always be refered to as 9/11 like d-day will always be d-day but when people ask where you you on 9/11 its pointless especially when you are not in the states

stovelid

I hope everybody will show respect and not hijack this thread.

CardBordWindow

It makes me feel old. It happened the day before my Junior Cert results. A long time ago now!

Saila

it was a lifetime ago...in more ways than one

J. Marston

Plug wrote: »

It really flew all right:pac:

:mad: Too soo......Actually, 10 years? You're grand.

zyxwvu

stovelid wrote: »

I hope everybody will show respect and not hijack this thread.

Now now, don't add flames to the fire.

amacca

I was on the west coast when it happened..........cant believe its that long ago...don't know where the last 10 yrs have gone.

RIP the victims.

antodeco

I was working for FM104 at the time. I was going past the Q building in Blanchardstown and heard it on the radio. Feels longer, feels sooner. Kinda weird. I use it as a mark in time though. Something that's pre/post 2001 (US TV).

AgileMyth

How long before we stop hearing about it?

Hazys

danniemcq wrote: »

I really wish people would stop calling it 9/11.

nothing happened the 9th of november. 11/9 though thats when the WTC attacks took place. Yes i know that it will always be refered to as 9/11 like d-day will always be d-day but when people ask where you you on 9/11 its pointless especially when you are not in the states

You do know in the US the month comes before the day in their standard date format and the attacks happened in New York City and Washington DC which both happen to be in the US?

Hence why its commonly known as 9/11.

Elba101

CardBordWindow wrote: »

It makes me feel old. It happened the day before my Junior Cert results. A long time ago now!

Me too. I remember someone came in with The Sun the next day and no even looked at Page 3! Have a lot of family over there so was quite worried

smk89

danniemcq wrote: »

I really wish people would stop calling it 9/11.

nothing happened the 9th of november. 11/9 though thats when the WTC attacks took place. Yes i know that it will always be refered to as 9/11 like d-day will always be d-day but when people ask where you you on 9/11 its pointless especially when you are not in the states

Never forget 9/11. That hot November day Cambodia was liberated from the British

candy-gal1

Woah, 10 years?! that really is mad, doesnt feel like that at all! :eek:
I was 14 and in school when it happened, didnt know anything about it till my dad picked me up after school.

Kojak

AgileMyth wrote: »

How long before we stop hearing about it?

Probably won't be for another 30 or 40 years I'd say, unless something even worse happens to the US. I'm not wishing it on them at all, I'm just saying that it would have to be something fairly significant to replace 9/11

Vicxas

Jesus i remember it clearly. I was in TY and we got on the bus home from school and 2fm were getting shaky reports about it, some scary stuff.

mackg

In a month it will be the 9 year 11 month anniversary of when I wished everyone would stop talking about this.

danniemcq

Hazys wrote: »

You do know in the US the month comes before the day in their standard date format and the attacks happened in New York City and Washington DC which both happen to be in the US?

Hence why its commonly known as 9/11.

Yeah i know that,

its this constant where you were on 9/11 and do you know what you were doing 9/11 its annoying. They could at least have the decency to do what they did in london 7/7... see works on an international level

Mr Benevolent

No, I barely cared then and really don't care now.

Standard Toaster

I'm sure everyone can remember where they were/what they were doing that morning.

Man 10 years...feels about right.

Goodshape

First I heard of it was on a news website, with the headline "America Attacked" and a picture of the towers in flames.

I honestly thought the website had been hacked. Was about to call my sister over to show her the funny bogus headline, but I turned on the TV first and... oh... not a hack!

Spacedog

it's been a long decade, been difficult America to descend into right wing nuts, the rise of FOX news, the ignoring of BUSH stealing the election, the wars, the economy, the heavy handed treatment of people at airports.

The only positive effect I can see for Ireland from 9-11 was the acceleration of the stalled peace process, as everyone scrambled to distance themselves from terrorism.

but whenever they make me throw away a bottle of water before getting on a plane, I always get the feeling that the terrorists have won.

Frank Black

Initially feels like way less than 10years because I remember the day quite clearly.
Then I think about all the things I’ve done since like buy a house, get married have kids etc….. and it feels like a lot’s happened since.
So to answer your questions – yes and no.

I trust this was helpful.

Saila

anyone taking bets on will there be another thread on the actual anniversary...or will this still be going till then

Aoifey!

Even though I was only 8 when it happened, I still remember finding out when I got home from school and everyone standing around the television in shock. I think it seems much less than 10 years ago.

admiralofthefleet

feels like a few months ago, i was in the kitchen in bewleys and the floor manager came in and said a plane had hit the twin towers in new york but its only an accident. i went out to the sports department in roches stores and watched the second plane hit
it was weird, i couldnt take it in

WinstonOno

i was 17 when it happened, always felt like it marked the end of my youth, the begining of life as an adult. life before 9-11 and life after 9-11. unfortunately it will be the defining image of our generation. depressing really.

knird evol

typical AH, serious topic, and you just sit around trading puns with each other

plein de force

wow, i remember the day so clearly! definitely feels shorter than 10 years ago
just thinking of how so much has changed in those 10 years

ibarelycare

CardBordWindow wrote: »

It makes me feel old. It happened the day before my Junior Cert results. A long time ago now!

Same here

I didn't hear about it until I got on the bus home from school and the driver had the news blaring and we were all like WTF? But the guys from the boys school up the road all knew about it, their principal had told them about it over the intercom.

I guess it does seem like 10 years ago. No matter how many times I watch the footage, it still gives me chills.

malarkus

Had my JC results the next day, I remember I had plans for a party in my house but everyone spent the day glued to the TV. Feel so old now!

ibarelycare

Strange reading the AH thread about it as it was happening on the day. If that happened today there'd be thousands of posts in the space of a few hours, not just 120 odd!

Namlub

I was 7, didn't really understand what was going on tbh...

Scanlas The 2nd

WinstonOno wrote: »

i was 17 when it happened, always felt like it marked the end of my youth, the begining of life as an adult. life before 9-11 and life after 9-11. unfortunately it will be the defining image of our generation. depressing really.

Which genereation would that be? Those born between 1900 and 2001?

AgileMyth

Kojak wrote: »

Probably won't be for another 30 or 40 years I'd say, unless something even worse happens to the US. I'm not wishing it on them at all, I'm just saying that it would have to be something fairly significant to replace 9/11

I'm sick of our exposure to it over here. Worse things have passed almost unnoticed before and since. America themselves have done some atrocious things but all we get is their propaganda day after day.

tl;dr: Fuck America

TPD

I wasn't long after starting secondary school in London that September. That day I got my first good mark in my journal from the computing teacher, I think I was the first to memorize the top row of the keyboard or something. Heard nothing about it 'till I got home, watched nothing else that night. Then the next day, talks of ww3 etc. abound :P

21 now, quite a change in the last 10 years.

Mongarra

Was cruising on the Shannon that day with 2 friends and knew nothing about it until that evening. Went into a pub/restaurant for the dinner and saw it on TV but could not hear it. Thought it was a film first, then the newscaster (probably Brian Dobson - can't remember) came on and we asked staff what it was about. Shocked.

10 years seems about right. Promised ourselves we would do another Shannon trip but it has never happened.

whydoibother?

10 years is about right.

First heard about it through an absolute tool running down the school corridor shouting "world ward 3 has started".

supermonkey

Feels like longer ago.

I heard about it from a guy called Lionel Evans.
They should commemorate it by killing nine elephants.

Standard Toaster

I remember people in the office at the time worried WWIII was kicking off when the Pentagon took a hit. Women in the office crying too.
Wasn't an ounce of work done that day as clients were glued to their TVs too. We had Sky News on I remember with about 100+ people glued to the one small telly.

Will the memorial in NY be open in time for the 10th anniversary?

supermonkey

Standard Toaster wrote: »

I remember people in the office at the time worried WWIII was kicking off when the Pentagon took a hit. Women in the office crying too.
Wasn't an ounce of work done that day as clients were glued to their TVs too. We had Sky News on I remember with about 100+ people glued to the one small telly.

Will the memorial in NY be open in time for the 10th anniversary?

Surely the 9+11 =20th Anniversary is the important one.

Magic Beans

I'll never forget that day, it was terrible. Two of my uncles were killed in the first tower to collapse. Uncle Muhhamed and Uncle Shamir I'll never forget you. Give those virgins one from me.

Rabidlamb

Media overblown fodder.
Where is all the 24 hour Sky News rolling coverage for the 100,000's killed in Iraq & Afganistan.
It's a sad event that will be remembered like the sinking of the Titanic but it's not in the haypenny place when it comes to organised genocide.

x_Ellie_x

It doesn't feel like ten years. I can't believe it's been that long. I was shopping in Liffey Valley at the time. Heard people talking about it but I assumed it must have been an accident til I got home and turned on the tv. My friend Mags was on holiday there and was in the towers the day before it happened.

zyxwvu

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Media overblown fodder.
Where is all the 24 hour Sky News rolling coverage for the 100,000's killed in Iraq & Afganistan.
It's a sad event that will be remembered like the sinking of the Titanic but it's not in the haypenny place when it comes to organised genocide.

I actually agree fully with you, despite the fact I started the thread. It seems kind of sinister that a greater 'value' seems to be place by the western world on the lives of the 3000 who died in the septermber 11th attacks than was placed on the hundred of thousands killed in the middle east or indeed the millions killed in natural disasters worldwide in the last decade.

recylingbin

zyxwvu wrote: »

..it will be 10 years since the attacks on the World Trade Centre.

Do people here think it feels as though 9/11 was less than 10 years ago or more than 10 years ago, or that 10 years feels just about right?

It definitely feels like less than 10 years ago for me!

9/11 is when the Berlin wall came down.
FACT!

GerM

In a few months it will be 7 years since an earthquake and resulting tsunami killed approximately 75 times the number of people that died in the 9/11 attacks. I wonder will we see a fraction of the coverage?

Caraville

God that's depressing. Ten years, doesn't feel like that long. That makes me feel so old... I don't think I've grown up much since then and yet I'm obviously older. Feel like I should have achieved a bit more than I have in the last 10 years.....

So basically I'm getting depressed about 9/11 but not for the reasons I should be.