September 11th 2001 is a day all of us will never forgot. I got a phone call just before 9am telling me to put the TV on and spent the rest of the day watching the horror unfold inbetween a whole load of other phonecalls and texts.Watching that 2nd plane go into the WTC thanks to live TV pictures was unreal and watching both towers collape was....well there isn't a word for it. Its unimaginable what it must of been like to be on any of the four highjacked planes,to be trapped up in those towers with a choice of being burnt to death or jump or to be a fire-fighter entering one of the towers knowing they were probably going to their death. Or a helpless Policeman,medic,civilian on the ground or parent,friend,relative of someone in those towers or on one of the planes. The panic,the sheer terror,the horror.
Whatever the wrongs of America (I'm not going to go there today) none of those innocent people deserved that. So today my heart goes out to all the relatives and friends that lost loved ones on this day eight years ago.
One great thing came out of 9/11 though in my opinion and that was human spirit. The people of New York were magnificent in the face of adversity. Thats how it came across to me anyway.
12 comments:
well said
yup..
viacom
This is terrible. I can't understand terrorism. Why they attack innocent people? I mean, it seems they don't gain too much because the response is always a counter-attack. Why don't just discuss the problem? Whatever it is, we are humans (are we?) we can find a fair civilized solution for the problem!
Wise words in theory englishfog. It just happen though. I know I haven't got the answers so I'm just as qualified to get a job as a world than the dopey sods already in the job.
my country has a lot to answer for in the world. However, to kill innocent folks. Hard working folks that were just going about their lives, was wrong. A very sad day indeed. It saddens me that things like this still happen in our society. RIP.
ken
Well said Ken.
I was working in Building 5 under the shadow of the North Tower that day, and it is an understatement of considerable size to say I won't ever forget my experience.
What I imagined my life was going to be was utterly changed and I'm still dealing with some issues regarding it to this day.
But at least I still have a life...
The WTC owner said on TV in a slip of tongue concerning building 7 that they had decided to "pull it" a term used controlled demolition.
brekinapez - thanks for your comment. It would be easy to say "I can imagine what its like" but the truth is I can't. I feel for you and wish you good luck.
it was murder think of the poor people in those planes i'll never forget that day watching it all happen on tv it was truely a sad day.
On the 11th of September as well, but in 1973, the CIA toppled a democratically elected president, Salvador Allende in Chile, and put in power a fascist dictator called Pinochet that murdered and disappeared thousands of people, tortured many thousand more and left that country to leave in a state of terror for the next 17 years. I wish I could find in the English speaking media as well words of sympathy fopr those people. Unfortunately, we live in a world where there are first class and second class victims. Even a punk website does not escape that logic. Sad.
To be honest lorenzo what you say is news to me. Didn't know it was the same day.
However the post isn't about America's wrongs or first and second class citizens. I don't want anyone to suffer in this world so don't have a go at me. I'm not the Government.
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