Comments | teaberryblue: Six Years

teaberryblue

Six Years

Sep 11, 2007 10:44

I don't think I've ever posted a remembrance, and because six years isn't a day one remembers-- I only see one other post in my LJ-- thanks, strangealchemy-- I feel like it's the right time.

ETA: It is also, and I was thinking about this a few days ago, the first Tuesday, 9/11, since the Tuesday, 9/11 ( Read more... )

events: 9/11, memories

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ninepointfivemm September 11 2007, 16:50:37 UTC

I remember the giving blood thing. I'm deathly afraid of needles. Deathly. I avoid them if at all possible. But yet, here I was, at 17, thisclose to giving blood. They lowered the weight limit to 110, but I was still only 108, so I couldn't give blood. And it's just funny to think that I was so willing to give blood, when I can't stand needles, to help people I don't even know.

Incidentally, one of my friends had a grandpa that worked in the Towers. He died. And it's crazy, because a small city in Georgia was affected by it, too, even though we weren't impacted directly like you guys were.

teaberryblue September 11 2007, 17:10:21 UTC

The sad thing is that so much of that blood went to no one. But it was such a kind thing, such an outpouring of generosity from so many people. <3

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teaberryblue September 11 2007, 20:38:23 UTC

Actually, that is what they did when I went the next day. They told me not to give blood then, but because I'm O-neg, to please sign up for an on-call list for rarer and more useful blood types so they could use mine in the future if necessary.

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kikithepirate September 11 2007, 20:14:48 UTC

The interesting thing to me is that it seems like more people are writing about it this year than in any other year past. I started LJ-ing in 2003, and I can't remember much being said on the anniversary during years past. I wonder if it's the current political climate, if it's the ages of people involved, or if it's only just starting to be long ago that it seems like something to be "remembered." It is crazy to me that there are now kids in school who have absolutely no recollection of that day.

teaberryblue September 11 2007, 20:36:56 UTC

I don't want to sound as if I think the whole world revolves around me, but it looks like a lot of the people I know who are posting about it are doing it in response to my post. Which is kind of nice. I don't remember people doing it quite like this in the past, either.

I've only posted on 9/11 a couple times. The first anniversary, I couldn't handle it. The second one, I was angry that there weren't a lot of people openly remembering.

I think I haven't posted on 9/11 since. This year, when I realized it was a Tuesday again, I started to feel like maybe I should. It's like, the day has come round again. This time it's raining.

kiwi_magic September 12 2007, 00:03:27 UTC

I wasn't going to write at all because so many sad and serious things have been going on lately that I just needed a separation. But then reading everyone's posts today made me realize it's important to record my memories and emotions. So...that's why I wrote. Sort of like what you said, Tea. It was combination of reading your post and Megan's and Lynette's and Nikki's and...yeah.

deutscheami September 11 2007, 23:10:29 UTC

I was in Germany. It was about four or five in the afternoon, for me, and my host mom came and got me because there was something on TV that I needed to see.

I trooped up to my host sister's room and the first thing I saw was the Pentagon on fire. Oh, okay, that's not so bad, I thought, and then the camera cut to the burning Trade Centers.

I don't remember a lot of the rest of that day. I remember being very cold, and talking to my mom on the phone, and eventually crying myself to sleep.

teaberryblue September 11 2007, 23:23:23 UTC

Wow. I think being halfway around the world that day would have been utterly surreal. Thanks.

abhor September 12 2007, 04:04:30 UTC

I still have mixed feelings about how 9/11 affected the world as a whole in the long run, but I do remember seeing the first tower collapsing on TV and feeling really upset. I saw a show on the construction of the towers a few months earlier and that made it worse somehow. There was a ton of coverage showing people jumping out of the windows of buildings and feeling just so sad over the whole thing.

I also remember my boss at the time not caring and turning off the radio in our office. That stupid radio was on constantly... if I turned it off, he turned it on, so I was especially put off that turned it off that day.

I remember it very well my_arrows_aim September 12 2007, 04:24:59 UTC

I was in my local library, checking my emails and surfing, and I saw a headline on Yahoo!News - "Terrorists attack World Trade Centre". Now, at this point I figure it's a car bomb or at absolute worst, some guys with a lot of guns have run into one of the towers and run amok.

Then I got a call from my friend Jenny telling me I had to come to her flat ASAP. I got there just in time to see the footage of the second plane hit, she told me that was the second plane that had hit the towers. We just sort of sank onto her sofa and held each other for a while, we really could not believe what we were seeing.

t was so totally, utterly surreal, I don't mean this in a flippant way, but it was like watching a movie, because I just could not get my head around the fact that people had flown jet planes into a building. That's what I remember most, the air of unreality, that and wondering if the next footage we saw would be a plane hitting Big Ben, or the Telecom tower ( ... )