What do you think about 9/11?

[tuesday101]

How many people forgot about 9/11?
Does anyone remember what was like when it happened that day? All those people who were killed, all those mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, sons and daughters, husbands and wives. I bet you their loved ones do. Some risked their lives, and they never came back. And some tried to stop it, but weren't able to.

If they were to replay the tapes of that day, would you just change the channel or stare at it and remember what it was like that day?

I asked a similar question, but it seemed all people cared about was bringing back the troops from this 'illegal' war. Illegal or not, we need to get rid of the master mind behind those attacks. Unless, of course, you want another 9/11 to happen. Cause then you'll be mad because we didn't stop it. But then, would you be one of those who wanted the troops back?

And don't tell me a 9/11 happens everyday in africa. It's not the same, and you know it. That's genocide, disease, and poverty.

 

[Chrispy]

How could anyone who lived through that day and the ones following ever forget? I know I can't.

There's a term dating back to the post American Civil War period called "waving the bloody shirt." This referred to a tactic used by politicians in both the North and the South of reminding people of these regions of the lives lost during the conflict, and how the "Yankees" or the "Rebels" can't be allowed to gain the upper hand.

There are those who feel that bringing up 9/11 is "waving the bloody shirt," and if that's so, then I plead guilty to doing that very thing.

We can never forget, because we would do so at our own peril. I'd put "Remember 9/11" right beside "Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Pearl Harbor."

It was the day that many of us lost our feeling of security, perhaps forever.

 

[h_mtz007]

My mother's birthday is 9/11, so I was visiting her that morning. I remeber I was sitting in front of the tv waiting for her to get ready to go to her customary birthday breakfast when I saw the news something about a plane hitting a tall building in New York. Then, as I was watching the live footage a second plane hit the second tower. Things went down hill from there for most of America. The world has not been the same since. I didn't lose any formal friends or family that day, but I keep those that did in my prayers. God bless the USA and those that defend it.

 

[Alaska]

I have never forgotten about 9/11. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I live in England and I remember coming downstairs to eat breakfast and my Mum was in tears watching the TV and I just stood and watched the infamous videos of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers. I was 11, and I remember getting on the schoolbus and everyone was quiet and at school we had assemblies to think and reflect about all those poor people who had died that day.

Everytime It is shown on TV, I watch it to remind myself of it. I don't want the troops back. America needs to show it's power over those countries.

9/11 had lasting effect on me because it made me afraid to sleep for a long time, incase it happened in England (which, of course, it did in July 2005 where a smaller but effective attack was carried out on the London Underground).