About 9-11 today....

[DaSkinnyGuy]

Todays class took me by surprise. Im going to Nascar tech institute and we have kids from all across the country in my class. Someone mentioned today was 9-11. No one really said anything, school didnt have a moment of silence. So from what I see is that being that we live in NJ and we are closer to NYC it affects us more than it does lets say the student from the state of washington. We either know someone that lost a loved one or someone from your family was lost during 9-11. Im sure every school in NJ&NY had a moment of silence for example maybe in rutgers. It felt so weird because i remember that next day I was down the road at a neighbors house in the driveway gathered by almost the whole neighborhood because a mother had died while working in one of the twin towers. Everyone had candles and sat quite for 20 mins. Maybe you had a different experience today from 9-11. Thats all I have to say.

[BigAls87Z28]

I noticed the same thing my freshman year of College, which was a year after it happend. People of NE didnt really understand the power of the event. I remember the main office was filled with kids crying hearing about thier parents, etc etc....
I brought it up in my English Lit class, and had a big discussion with a few students and the professor about it.

[Knipps]

I remember getting an email about the moment of silence in my school (in Boston)
but i've yet to be in class during it though, and this year they were doing it at 12:30pm when no one was in class but they were going to pause the "activities fair" for it.

Life will go on, and the events that transpired that day affected some lives more than others :-?

[NastyEllEssWon]

yeah when i lived in california no one mentioned it on the anniversaries.


its just like pearl harbor. give it a few more years and the area will lose the tradition. it will be just an individual tradition instead of a state wide thing

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

We had a memorial mass thing around lunchtime and the classes then were cancelled, but I go to a Catholic university like 10 miles from teh city.

[CHRIS67]

The company I work for had TVs in our cafeteria showing the memorial coverage today and allowed anyone of the 300 people who wanted or needed time to see it a chance to watch. Glad to see that I work for a company who cares.

[Frosty]

yeah when i lived in california no one mentioned it on the anniversaries.


That's probably why..a bunch of liberal douches out there ;)

[EchoMirage]

morgan freeman was quoted saying '9/11 was more of a new york thing, not a united states thing' a week or so after it first happened. ive known this for years. you get past PA, or DC for that matter, and it becomes something that happened in a different country instead of ours.

[79CamaroDiva]

that may be, because when i think of 9-11 i think of the twin towers first, not the pentagon. even though the pentagon was involved. it definitely affected all of us up here more so than other parts of the country. we got to see it live, and we got to see the smoke for weeks, and we know people who lost people. of course its going to hit us harder.

[Ian]

where I work one of our buildings is an old fire house with the siren still hooked up. every year we hit the siren when the planes hit the two towers, the pentagon and the field (4 times throughout the morning). I personally stop working and stand in silence whenever that happens.

[Lt1_8U]

i just think people that were not affected really don't care that much(not everyone). I was not affected by it but it still brings up emotion when i think about the thousands of people who lost their lives that day. I think a lot of it has to do with the politics. people think that geaorge bush took out the twin towers so people look towards that aspect of it and loose the whole event that took place. I had the privelege to work with a man who was a firefighter that was at the twin towers and he actually gave me a pair of his gloves that he used, one said "bring them home"and the other said "thank You"in black sharpie. i keep them on my wall and it reminds me of what happened and it makes me appreciate what they did a lot more.

[Frosty]

I was watching a few specials on 9/11 conspiracies on A&E(I think). It made me sick, some of these people need to get lives.

Yes, it was George Dubya and his cronies...ughh

[ar0ck]

At my High School where I'm a Teachers Aid we had a moment of silence, and at the college they had a decent sized memorial in the main hall.

[WildBillyT]

morgan freeman was quoted saying '9/11 was more of a new york thing, not a united states thing' a week or so after it first happened. ive known this for years. you get past PA, or DC for that matter, and it becomes something that happened in a different country instead of ours.

He should stick to talking about penguins.

[DaSkinnyGuy]

now that i think about it, its like hurrican katrina( i think was the name) that took out new orleans completely, it doesnt affect us so we forget about it.

[DevilDougWS6]

i was playing COD4 today and someone from another country (not sure where) said "hey Americans! happy 911!" so i responded with "you think thats funny?" and him and a bunch of other people (from the same country) started making fun of me and saying "stupid Americans!" I absolutely hate how other countries like that (european) think this way towards us and think they are better than us.

THAT pissed me off more than anything, I don't wish anything bad upon other people, but I hope karma gets the better of them and Russia invades their country.

[Knipps]

THAT pissed me off more than anything, I don't wish anything bad upon other people, but I hope karma gets the better of them and Russia invades their country.

eh. We'd stand up for them, they'd be ungrateful, say they never asked for our help, and then rant about how we feel the need to police the world.