Remembering 9-11

[jordan179]

Ten years ago today, it was the morning after an all-nighter. I was taking out the garbage outside my apartment in Little Egg Harbor, NJ. The skies were clear. Thunder rolled out of a cloudless sky. I looked around, but could see neither a stormcloud nor a supersonic airplane. And the sound was strangely protracted. I shrugged, went back

Comments

[cutelildrow]

I haven't forgotten. I will never forget.

[whitetail]

Right on. The enemy must not only be defeated, they must be annihilated. That is the only way to truly win a war.

[polaris93]

In this case, certainly, YES!!!!

[gothelittle]

I was on my way to work, listening to the news on my car radio. When I heard that "an airplane had crashed into the Twin Towers", I thought it was this little four-seater deal and some pilot had gotten lost... very lost. When the second hit, my first thought was, "This is an attack

[marycatelli]

I heard the first online, thought it was a little one, too, but logged off to go have breakfast anyway. (Unemployed -- laid of the Friday before.)

Then my sister called me from work and told me to turn the TV on.

What I remember best was all the rumors. I remember that the plane that went down in Pennsylvania was just one of them for several hours, until I read online a posting from Jerry Pournelle who knew -- either the father or father-in-law of one man on the plane. He was posting about the man's last conversation with his wife, so that was the point where that rumor became real.

[hastka]

Why do you feel America has been trying to convince itself of the threat being unreal? I feel the opposite is the case -- it seems like there's always new justification for why someone's luggage should be searched, phone tapped, etc. Until you can legislate thought, I'm sure enough laws, committees, rules, and money can approximate the experience

[gothelittle]

The problem isn't so much that the threat is unreal as that it is mislabeled, misunderstood, and people are using it to try to gain power for themselves. Note that the Patriot Act, for instance, was a temporary power with a time limit, and Obama chose to extend it under a Democrat Congress

[polaris93]

The answer is, we've been sold out. The question is, by whom? Who among our own people, our neighbors, in our government and elsewhere, have done the selling-out? Ah, for the good old days of the necktie party . . .

[hastka]

The other funny thing with all of this, all of America's intelligence somehow managed to not only miss the Trade Center stuff, which I kind of understand given the communications problems, etc, of the time... but as mentioned earlier on CNN today they also managed to for the mostpart miss many events leading to the dissolution of the USSR, the so-called "Arab Spring" situation, and a few other fairly major political events... which -- if I'm to believe things at face value -- the U.S. played essentially no direct role in, yet in many cases it resolved in a direction favoring democracy.

It does kinda make ya wonder, sometimes.

[mosinging1986]

Thanks for this.