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You all experienced the 'surrealness' of it all?
Surreal is the best word to describe that day.
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You all experienced the 'surrealness' of it all?
My mother and I had stayed up all night watching a documentary about a town where a factory had been it's big employer. The documentary followed I believe three or four families for over ten years.
Also we had been having small earthquakes all summer, and my mom had woke me up a few times to ask if I had felt them. I never felt one.
Anyways, my mom came down and woke me up at 8, and I remember saying I didn't care if there had been another earthquake. When she told me what happened I got right up.
I watched the news for awhile, then tried to reach my best friend from childhood who I knew worked near the towers, to make sure she was alright. I was actually able to get hold of her, even though phones in New York even though phones were not working well due to heavy traffic or something.
She told me that she had been class in Brooklyn when it happened, and that I should call her mom to tell her she was alright.
Later on, I went to work, and I remember everyone was pretty quiet. I think everyone was just in shock.
Yes. I profoundly changed that day.You all experienced the 'surrealness' of it all?
Surreal is the best word to describe that day.
What this event really shows us, I think, were two things
1. The amazing lack of creativity of our military to imagine how dedicated fanatics can conduct a non conventional war, and
2. How terribly difficult it is to prepare for non-conventional attacks even if you DO have that kind of imagination.
There's just too many targets and too many ways to attack them to prepare for them all.
If you care to, please share your thoughts and feelings about that day.
What were you doing? Who were you with? What did you feel? What did you think?
I remember feeling completely stupid that day. I was only a week or two into my freshmen year of high school, but I had no idea of afghanistna, iraq, al qaeda, muslim terrorist groups, our FP related to the middle east, etc. I had no idea why someone would attack us, why those people even cared about us, or who they even were. I feel completely useless.
Starting that day I started reading and learning as much as I could about those things and I still do.
If you care to, please share your thoughts and feelings about that day.
What were you doing? Who were you with? What did you feel? What did you think?
"How could this nation's air defences be so lame that our precious bloated military not only failed to have defended our greatest city, but the Pentagon itself?"
If there was one thing I thought we could depend on, it was our military defending our airspace over places like NYC and Washington.
My Uncle was at the Pentagon. My abiding memory was when my Mom called to say 'he's fine'. I cried.