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  • #32
    plein de force
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭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


  • #33
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    malarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭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!


  • #35
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #36
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


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


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  • #37
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭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?


  • #38
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭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


  • #39
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    Mongarra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    whydoibother?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 758 ✭✭✭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".


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  • #42
    supermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭supermonkey


    Feels like longer ago.

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


  • #43
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #44
    supermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭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.


  • #45
    Magic Beans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭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.


  • #46
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    zyxwvu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭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.


  • #49
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭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!


  • #50
    GerM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭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?


  • #51
    Caraville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    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.

    You were a real ray of sunshine in your teens, weren't you?


  • #53
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    GerM wrote: »
    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?
    They were poor people, you fool. It was just nature's way of preventing rioting in the future.(in those countries)


  • #54
    Misty Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Misty Chaos


    I was in school doing Irish when the first plane hit. I didn't hear about it personally until I was on my way home and heard about it on the radio in a local shop, cue me dashing into the electrical store next door to see what the hell was going on.

    Spent the rest of the day glued to a TV.

    I was in shock at what happened. I still remember the day one of the tabloids had the headline ' Hell on Earth ' - Its entire run in all the shops in my home town ran out! It was surreal watching it.

    Its being 10 years since, I've finished secondary school and gone through college and now here I am at a crossroads myself. I'm not sure if I approve of the way the world has gone since.


  • #55
    Caraville
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    GerM wrote: »
    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?

    I totally agree that it's unfair- but I suppose the difference is that the tsunami was a natural disaster and so following it, whilst people were shocked & saddened about what happened, the rest of the world could go on about their business. Things didn't change for people outside the affected areas.

    With 9/11, it changed the whole world (especially overseas travel and general security) forever.

    Not saying it's right that the people who died due to the tsunami be forgotten, I'm just explaining one reason why it is the case.


  • #56
    GerM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,592 ✭✭✭GerM


    Caraville wrote: »
    I totally agree that it's unfair- but I suppose the difference is that the tsunami was a natural disaster and so following it, whilst people were shocked & saddened about what happened, the rest of the world could go on about their business. Things didn't change for people outside the affected areas.

    With 9/11, it changed the whole world (especially overseas travel and general security) forever.

    Not saying it's right that the people who died due to the tsunami be forgotten, I'm just explaining one reason why it is the case.

    Good point. Aside from the knock on affects, whilst the tsunami obviously received massive coverage, 9/11 was given even far more. 3 weeks after the tsunami, it was off the 9 o'clock news. Callous to say but, as far as disasters go, 9/11 was marketable and the media took advantage of that. Movies, books, documentaries etc and they're still coming. If you asked the average person in the street they would struggle to tell you the year that the tsunami took place.


  • #57
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,423 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    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
    Well you have to admit it was a very significant event and changed the path of history. It Brought terrioism to a whole new level. I know what your saying about America and all that but the thing with 9/11 is that allot of people were killed and they were all innocent everyday people going to work etc. Thats why it is remembered so much, people can relate to it, because going out to work or just about your daily business it something we all do and to be murdered for that in a major attack shocks and frightens people. Yes you can blame the US goverment for X Y and Z but the people killed in 9/11 had no controll over that. Thay were innocent and should be rembered.


  • #58
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    911 also showed the amount of air pollution caused by airplanes.


  • #59
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,100 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Mental Note: Hove something to do in a month so i don't have to watch tv/listen to the radio...


  • #60
    Redonblonde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Redonblonde


    Always wondered if that date was chosen as a sick joke, "call 911!", on 9/11


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  • #61
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    Was sitting in a cafe in Dublin that morning, watching it all unfold on TV.


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