9/11 15th Anniversary....your memories, feelings, thoughts about that day 15 years on

AudreyHepburn · 11-09-2016 09:48AM #1

It's hard to believe it's 15 years since that awful day - the images from the day are as horrific now as they were when we watched them live.

What are your thoughts, feelings, memories of that day? Do you think the world is a different place today because of it?

My memories? Well I was in school at the time - Junior Cert Maths Class if I remember correctly. I remember a commotion in the hallway and a girl bursting into the classroom shouting about a plane crash in the USA. Of course nobody really understood the full extent of the situation at that point.

When I got home from school that evening my Mum had Sky News on and all you could see was thick black smoke billowing up from Manhattan - the towers had fallen by that stage. I remember asking her if it was a film she was watching - remember at school we were only getting patchy bits of information.

She explained to me what was happening and then Sky News showed the clip of the first plane hitting the tower. I remember thinking it looked like a toy plane, it just didn't seem real.

I was unable to concentrate on anything for the rest of the day, it all felt very surreal.

It's hard to believe 15 years have passed.

enzo roco · 11-09-2016 09:57AM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Do you think the world is a different place today because of it?

It's hard to believe 15 years have passed.

Ffs.
Nope, exact same.

Ficheall · 11-09-2016 10:01AM

enzo roco wrote: »

Ffs.
Nope, exact same.

Airport security is worse.

CucaFace · 11-09-2016 10:02AM

enzo roco wrote: »

Ffs.
Nope, exact same.

Tell that to the innocent people of IRAQ....

enzo roco · 11-09-2016 10:06AM

CucaFace wrote: »

Tell that to the innocent people of IRAQ....

Sarcasm detector????

Wanderer78 · 11-09-2016 10:08AM

CucaFace wrote:

Tell that to the innocent people of IRAQ....

And Afghanistan, Libya, Syria........

BoJack Horseman · 11-09-2016 10:10AM

I remember thinking: 'jet fuel can't melt steel beams?'........ and that's when I learned the truth.

I've been on the run ever since.

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-09-2016 10:17AM

Fading

LordSutch · 11-09-2016 10:27AM

Was on my lunch break when the news broke on my car radio... 'A small plane/light aircraft is suspected of crashing into one of the twin towers' and I thought to myself chances are the pilot is dead! end of..

Then I got back to the office & took the lift up the 3rd floor 'my office' only to find the place empty! so I took the lift back down to reception where I found the whole building congreated in the main atrium watching a giant screen, as the Twin-Tower horror unfolded before our very eyes.

...cut to that evening and myself & the girlfriend were trying to take our minds off the days events, so we decided to go to the cinema to watch something less horific, only to find that the cinema was closed as a mark of respect to those who died in New York.

What a day.
Like a bad dream.

11-09-2016 10:28AM

Whatever your thoughts and feelings are on the day, they'll change when you hear this. I only heard it for the first time a couple of years ago. It's a live call of one of the emergency calls from the South Tower. It's played alongside footage right up until the collapse, as the call is ongoing. It really shows the desperate situation people were in.

*THIS IS DISTURBING TO LISTEN TO, ESPECIALLY THE LAST FEW SECONDS*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAeMWFCqC8

getzls · 11-09-2016 10:39AM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

CucaFace wrote:

Tell that to the innocent people of IRAQ....

And Afghanistan, Libya, Syria........

Who of course are being murdered every day by the Religion of Peace

AudreyHepburn · 11-09-2016 11:18AM

Omackeral wrote: »

Whatever your thoughts and feelings are on the day, they'll change when you hear this. I only heard it for the first time a couple of years ago. It's a live call of one of the emergency calls from the South Tower. It's played alongside footage right up until the collapse, as the call is ongoing. It really shows the desperate situation people were in.

*THIS IS DISTURBING TO LISTEN TO, ESPECIALLY THE LAST FEW SECONDS*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppAeMWFCqC8

Heartbreaking. It must have been hell on earth

eviltwin · 11-09-2016 11:20AM

It was one of the worst events in living memory but I feel it's time for those of us not personally affected to move on. The endless tv shows and other coverage every year is a bit much 15 years on.

Wanderer78 · 11-09-2016 11:35AM

getzls wrote: »

Who of course are being murdered every day by the Religion of Peace

this is a lot more complicated than religion, american elites and co. need to be put into a box, before we all perish!

Tzardine · 11-09-2016 11:56AM

I am not one for conspiracy theories, but there has always been one thing that did not sit right with me.

Look at the footage from any plane crash / bombing / hijacking etc , there is always wreckage visible. Most often large pieces of fuselage or tail section.

Yet in the Pentagon incident there was not a single piece of wreckage at the site. A wide body plane does not vaporise upon impact.

Same situation with the plane that "crashed" in Pennsylvania.

It simply does not add up.

EndaHonesty · 11-09-2016 12:01PM

To me it will always be the 11th of the 9th...

mickdw · 11-09-2016 12:04PM

Tzardine wrote: »

I am not one for conspiracy theories, but there has always been one thing that did not sit right with me.

Look at the footage from any plane crash / bombing / hijacking etc , there is always wreckage visible. Most often large pieces of fuselage or tail section.

Yet in the Pentagon incident there was not a single piece of wreckage at the site. A wide body plane does not vaporise upon impact.

Same situation with the plane that "crashed" in Pennsylvania.

It simply does not add up.

And not a single video of the large passenger jet on approach to the most secure building in the world.

Burial. · 11-09-2016 12:12PM

Inside job. But not the first American stitch up job.

11-09-2016 12:14PM

Burial. wrote: »

Inside job. But not the first American stitch up job.

Do you think they made it happen or let it happen?

Burial. · 11-09-2016 12:16PM

Omackeral wrote: »

Do you think they made it happen or let it happen?

Both

11-09-2016 12:19PM

Can you imagine being on the 105th floor. One minute you're casually making a cup of coffee and then a minute later you're on the edge of a flaming window ledge deciding if you're gonna die by jumping or burning to death. Horrible.

Larbre34 · 11-09-2016 12:33PM

Maintaining conspiracy theories since totally disproven are an insult to the dead and the bereaved.

In the wider scheme of things, worse events have happened before and since the Sept 2001 attacks, but it was a historical watershed moment. Re-running the same hackneyed docos on the telly EVERY year is flogging it more than needs be at this stage. Discreet remembrance by the bereaved and those involved in the recovery is all that should be happening at this stage. The world has more to be worried about.

Harry Palmr · 11-09-2016 12:36PM

Boredom

cena · 11-09-2016 12:37PM

My cousin worked in the towers. That day she got a call to come to her son's school.

Tzardine · 11-09-2016 12:38PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

Maintaining conspiracy theories since totally disproven are an insult to the dead and the bereaved.

I agree with your point.

But the Pentagon conspiracy theory has not actually been dis-proven.

No black boxes.
No wreckage
No CCTV released ( Consider the building in question)

And dont get me started on how the jets crashing into the towers caused enough heat to melt the building enough to the point it collapsed ..... yet they found the passport of the hijacker on the ground a few blocks away.

Seriously ?????

Capt'n Midnight · 11-09-2016 12:49PM

There is no question that the CIA was involved in 911. The one in Chile that doesn't get much attention because the US the instigators rather than the victims.

911 was a large statistical blip on the 20,308 Homicides and 30,622 Suicides and 101,537 deaths from all accidents. Life expectancy in the US actually went up in 2011. Not so much for the countries blamed. If you include increased mortality rates in all those countries there are claims for up to four million dead.

Am tired of the US playing the victim after what they did to a democracy back in 1973. And that after economic war before that.

Also tired of the US playing the victim after the outlash against the middle east which killed and destroyed so many lives. It's pretty much been 911 every week there if you take into account the smaller population.

Also tired of all the propaganda since they haven't done anything about Saudi where most of the hijackers came from. They didn't even ask the Bin-Laden family to stay around in case they could help with investigations.

Also tired of pointing out that six million people died in the Second Congo war and associated conflicts. But yeah let's go with 911 being the worst atrocity ever.

nullzero · 11-09-2016 12:55PM

I watched the plane crash into the second tower live on TV, watched the towers fall, just felt powerless really. A very strange day and indeed week afterwards. Only had it put into perspective by visiting ground zero a few years ago, impossible to imagine being there and caught up in the situation.

Samaris · 11-09-2016 01:17PM

http://www.cracked.com/blog/never-forget-all-good-things-that-happened-after-911_p1/?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module

I thought this was an interesting take on it. There are things that should be remembered and taken from that day fifteen years ago. Mostly they've been left behind.

oh, and for the truthers;
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2278-i-was-professional-911-truther-and-i-gave-it-up.html

Liam McPoyle · 11-09-2016 01:22PM

eviltwin wrote: »

It was one of the worst events in living memory but I feel it's time for those of us not personally affected to move on. The endless tv shows and other coverage every year is a bit much 15 years on.

It was the single biggest terrorist attack in the history of the world.

It has had direct responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths of innocent people and the displacement of millions, the ramifications are still being felt today.

Its IMO the single most biggest event in the world since the end of WW2.

Dyr · 11-09-2016 01:23PM

I remember on sky when all this was happening live that they pretty much stated that the Pennsylvania plane had been shot down

HensVassal · 11-09-2016 01:48PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

It's hard to believe it's 15 years since that awful day - the images from the day are as horrific now as they were when we watched them live.

What are your thoughts, feelings, memories of that day? Do you think the world is a different place today because of it?

My memories? Well I was in school at the time - Junior Cert Maths Class if I remember correctly. I remember a commotion in the hallway and a girl bursting into the classroom shouting about a plane crash in the USA. Of course nobody really understood the full extent of the situation at that point.

When I got home from school that evening my Mum had Sky News on and all you could see was thick black smoke billowing up from Manhattan - the towers had fallen by that stage. I remember asking her if it was a film she was watching - remember at school we were only getting patchy bits of information.

She explained to me what was happening and then Sky News showed the clip of the first plane hitting the tower. I remember thinking it looked like a toy plane, it just didn't seem real.

I was unable to concentrate on anything for the rest of the day, it all felt very surreal.

It's hard to believe 15 years have passed.

What do you think?
The psychopaths who run the US have used it to implement a militarized super-surveillance police-state in America and the prospect of eternal war abroad for profit.
The US Patriot Act actually written before 9/11 has now turned the country into an Orwellian dystopia where even 6 year olds in school can now be arrested and imprisoned for things as dastardly and sinister as farting in school or sending a love note to a classroom crush.
Place is fcuked up and getting worse.

9/11 15th Anniversary....your memories, feelings, thoughts about that day 15 years on

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