9/11 - 7 years later

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by ferretchucker

That sucks. Is that a reason you don't speak to them anymore or something else happened, you just remember this?

I just remember it. i have plenty of other reasons to not speak to them. :)

Originally Posted by Ferox13

It make you sound American too.

Go forbid! Jeez, you make it sound like we're "dirty". I mean, in a bad way.


i can understand it though/ Aside from the fact that most everybody has at least some loyalty to their home country and a little patriotism, of all the countries in the world to NOT get mixed up with, i would say America is the topper. in a crowd of thousands, of multiple nationalities, who is the one who most likely has a big bullseye painted on him?

its not the canadian, thats for damn sure. Hell, the only person from there that could close to offending someone is MD and she is a girl. Even terrorists dont pick on girls.

[Papillon Noir]

I thought these were interesting. It's amazing how one event can change so much.

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[The Mothman]

Originally Posted by novakru

They are building Freedom Tower over thousands of dead people.
I find that barbaric and disrepectful on a monumental scale.
And I do not CARE what kind of fucking memorial you put in the new building.

I didnt even know they were building something there, i guess im pretty oblivious. i think its a good idea though, it's symbolic of how America can bounce back from tragedies, and i know if i had died there, i would have been perfectly happy about a skyscraper being built in my memorial. do you know if its going to be as high/higher than the twin towers?

[ferretchucker]

Originally Posted by The Mothman

I didnt even know they were building something there, i guess im pretty oblivious. i think its a good idea though, it's symbolic of how America can bounce back from tragedies, and i know if i had died there, i would have been perfectly happy about a skyscraper being built in my memorial. do you know if its going to be as high/higher than the twin towers?

1,776 feet. Because of 1776 when the declaration of independence was signed.


And Vod, you're right. In the last few years America seems to be hated simply because of Bush. Yeh, the stereotypes were around long before him but really, he has pretty much stuck a sign to his back saying hate me. Best thing for the representative of the US to do. And it's rubbed off on England. There was a competition called the Eurovision song contest. England, Germany, Spain and France paid the most into it. But the trouble is, it is all politics. Greece votes for cyprus. Every ex soviet country vote for russia and others.

England last year came dead last with only one vote and that was from Ireland. Shows how well liked we are. If our governments would just stop to think about the effects of their intervention in other countries maybe we wouldn't be hated!

[Festered]

I was in the middle of remodeling a house, that morning, when a helper came in to tell me a plane crashed into the building. I thought he was joking, until I heard the reports on the radio. I lived about 5 minutes from the job, and took the morning off to rush home and see what was going on. I thought we were being invaded by another country. I got home in time to see the second plane hit the other tower, live. Needless to say, my jaw had dropped down, somewhere around my feet. I spent the rest of the day, just shaking my head in amazement.

Ironically, my birthday is Sept. 12. If this had happened one day later, everyone would remember my birthday....for a change.:rolleyes:

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

time to move on and stop having 9.11 anniversaries :rolleyes:

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

oh and we ARE just that complacent

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by Papillon Noir

I thought these were interesting. It's amazing how one event can change so much.

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I love irony - Thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by X¤MurderDoll¤X

time to move on and stop having 9.11 anniversaries :rolleyes:

I ALSO love MD. I feel the same way.

[Phalanx]

I remember being woken up and shown the footage as it played for the first time over here (AUS), and I actually thought (and asked which) I was being shown a movie...Yeah, I found it shocking and fucked up...but always had in mind that the people that did it weren't representative of a large number of the nationality, or even the religion...and yeah, I figured things would turn out a lot worse in that respect, I am honestly surprised they didn't.
7 years on, yeah I still remember it - I still think it was fucked up, but it doesn't play on my mind all that often. Had any of my family been effected remotely, might've been different. I don't watch the movies that will no doubt be played year in, year out, in fact I don't even try to think about it - it's just depressing.

[MisterSadistro]

Stumbled upon this today by accident. Makes sense.
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