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[LewEngBridewell]

As for the conspiracy theorists posting on the thread, they don't even warrant a response.

An event of this size is always going to generate a good number of conspiracy theories.

Irritating, but true.

[McLaren]

To be honest I'm sick of hearing about it.Don't get me wrong I feel sorry for all involved that lost family members.It doesn't need to take over half the terrestrial tv stations for a week a year.

[acosmichippo]

^^^this.

[myownalias]

I was at home working a on a web design project with the television on in the backround when I hear a newsflash about a commercial airliner hitting one of the towers. I stopped what I was doing to pay full attention to the television, that's when I saw the second airliner hit the second tower with the news of a third hitting the pentagon breaking and another heading towards the White House. The overwhelming image that sticks in my mind is the people jumping out of a 70th(ish) story of the tower, it must have been bad for people to think jumping was a better option!

[elfinitty]

I was back from school,we were about to go to our vacation house for weekend and i saw TV open.I can still remember the scene.My parents were talking about how sad it was and people had to jump off the tower to survive.

[What's Burning?]

There's a fiction book called Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the narrator is a 9 year old boy named Oskar Schell and the book is about him, a couple of years later wrestling with closure on his father's death, which happened during the 9/11 attack on the WTC.

It's a tough read but one of the best books I've ever picked up.

[The_Stig_Money]

I was in highschool, in first period everybody was watching the towers burn on tv. They locked down our school and kept us for acouple hours. My mother was flying to the N.E. that morning but they grounded her flight.

[SennaVille]

I was at home (just outside DC). I was working as a nanny at the time, and didn't have to pick up the little boy I looked after from his school until later in the day. I woke up at about nine, walked into the living room and turned on the telly to The Today Show. I stood for about five minutes, not quite processing what I was seeing. For some reason, my first instinct was to phone my parents in England. My ex-husband was a police officer, he had court that day so I knew there was no way of contacting him. Watching the towers burn and fall was awful, but when the Pentagon correspondent announced on air that the Pentagon had also been hit, I started to get the shakes.

I pulled myself together, and got into my car to pick up the little guy. Jets were flying overhead, whenever I pulled up to a stoplight, I'd glance over at the people in the car next to me. They were all in various stages of distress, mostly crying (like me). I picked up little guy and he was totally freaking out (he's autistic). I was trying to calm him down, telling him that everything was happening far away, he was safe, I wouldn't let anything bad happen to him, etc. He ran inside the house, hid under the bed screaming over and over "They're coming to get me!!". Awful.

I watched all the coverage for days, started to have awful nightmares so just turned off the telly. We found out later that two children from little guy's school were on the plane that hit the Pentagon

[What's Burning?]

With the "dearth" of 9/11 10th anniversary articles... this is a good place to check out what it's cost from a dollars standpoint.

9/11 Era by the Numbers

[FRAFPDD]

Some great stories here guys, when i saw it then i ddint quite grasp it but even watching it now it seems so surreal, planes hitting these skyscrapers you see every day of your life, even if you dont live there its like.........

[Big Azza]

I didn't have a TV, and I was a really... um... disadvantaged child socially (growing up eating mostly just Vegemite sandwiches, sleeping in school clothes, no fridge, shizophrenic/bipolar mother who'd belt the crap out of me and abused drugs) and when they showed it on TV over and over again as a documentary I remember being the spastic 11 year old as I was then, I thought the world was going to blow up.

9/11 gives me a good opportunity to reflect on how much my life has improved since then, working hard and living on my own - with not a sign of mental illness or anything affecting me from childhood. But that's kind of selfish of me when I think my life has improved, yet 3,000 people lost theirs on that fateful day.

Although, I think it's fair to say - although frank - to say that 9/11 is nothing compared to the 250,000 people who died from the Boxing Day Tsunami and the 400,000 people who died in Haiti. I think 9/11 however was a reminder to us all that no one is safe from evil, even in the "Greatest City on Earth."

[darwin dali]

I didn't have a TV, and I was a really... um... disadvantaged child socially (growing up eating mostly just Vegemite sandwiches, sleeping in school clothes, no fridge, shizophrenic/bipolar mother who'd belt the crap out of me and abused drugs) and when they showed it on TV over and over again as a documentary I remember being the spastic 11 year old as I was then, I thought the world was going to blow up.

9/11 gives me a good opportunity to reflect on how much my life has improved since then, working hard and living on my own - with not a sign of mental illness or anything affecting me from childhood. But that's kind of selfish of me when I think my life has improved, yet 3,000 people lost theirs on that fateful day.

Although, I think it's fair to say - although frank - to say that 9/11 is nothing compared to the 250,000 people who died from the Boxing Day Tsunami and the 400,000 people who died in Haiti. I think 9/11 however was a reminder to us all that no one is safe from evil, even in the "Greatest City on Earth."

Should have eaten Marmite sandwiches...

[Big Azza]

I didn't have a TV, and I was a really... um... disadvantaged child socially (growing up eating mostly just Vegemite sandwiches, sleeping in school clothes, no fridge, shizophrenic/bipolar mother who'd belt the crap out of me and abused drugs) and when they showed it on TV over and over again as a documentary I remember being the spastic 11 year old as I was then, I thought the world was going to blow up.

9/11 gives me a good opportunity to reflect on how much my life has improved since then, working hard and living on my own - with not a sign of mental illness or anything affecting me from childhood. But that's kind of selfish of me when I think my life has improved, yet 3,000 people lost theirs on that fateful day.

Although, I think it's fair to say - although frank - to say that 9/11 is nothing compared to the 250,000 people who died from the Boxing Day Tsunami and the 400,000 people who died in Haiti. I think 9/11 however was a reminder to us all that no one is safe from evil, even in the "Greatest City on Earth."

Should have eaten Marmite sandwiches...

Is Marmite Cheaper?

[FRAFPDD]

I suffer from OCD, and Aspergers, all mild symptoms that dont massively effect my life but the effect it does and has had it noticable nonetheless, dont quite approve of DD making a joke out of the post given how hard ive found living with problems like mental illness but if you dont take offence then fine.


Either way onto 9/11 i was kinda the same, thought things were happening that were putting our lives in jeopardy, even more so cause i was only a couple of states away at the time, infact it was only a month since i flew over, never even clocked onto that since just then, spooky thouhts.

[andrew]

Is Marmite Cheaper?

No idea but it is disgusting!