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Old 09-11-2013, 09:06 AM   #1 (permalink)
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September 11th

First, happy birthday to Lauren!

As time as gone on it certainly becomes easier to forget what I saw that day. However, there hasn't been a September 11th since that I haven't cried. This has nothing to do with patriotism or nationalism. It has to do with people that I knew that died that day. It has to do with what I saw: the plane, the fireball, the people watching, the people running, the people escaping, the towers falling, the dust cloud that enveloped you. Not on TV, but with my own eyes.

It has to do with me.

Here is my tribute song to 9/11.



American Tune

Many’s the time I’ve been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and I’ve often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh, but I’m all right, I’m all right
I’m just weary to my bones
Still, you don’t expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far away from home, so far away from home

I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
Oh, but it’s all right, it’s all right
For lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
We’re traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what’s gone wrong

And I dreamed I was dying
And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying

Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age’s most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune
Oh, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s all right, it’s all right
You can’t be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow’s going to be another working day
And I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all I’m trying to get some rest

© 1973 Words and Music by Paul Simon
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Old 09-11-2013, 09:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Not sure why the Youtube video isn't posting:

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I remember my girlfriend's mom calling us the morning of September 11, 2011. She told us to turn on the news. We stood there frozen. Watching those planes go into the towers...we couldn't believe it.

We were terrified. I don't think I've ever been more certain, (as a then Christian) that the apocalypse was going down and this was the end.

It's amazing how that tragedy has shaped America.

Nice post, Brian. Every year we get a bit farther away from remembering...
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I was in the office, I was listening to my radio at my desk when everything stopped. At the time there was no facebook, no twitter. I was calling people, my mom, my man. My radio was the only minute by minute update we had so I was the one transmitting the info to the rest of us. At first the first plane was weird , fluky, then when that second plane hit....holy shit. The realization was like a brick in the belly. I live 8 hours from New York, in a different country and I felt under attack. I can only imagine what New Yorkers , Americans were feeling. It was profoundly frightening and left this unease that lasted for months if not years.
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i was in the hallway at school, junior year. jessica franklin said something, not directly at me, along the lines of a bomb went off at the World Trade Center. spent some time watching the tv in health class, then everyone was directed to their homerooms for the rest of the day. by and large were the worried boys wondering if they would face a draft.
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9-11 was the tipping point for my faith completely evaporating. The world didn't end. It was silly to think it would. I realized everyone gets attacked; not just America. I also realized that Muslims were just a foreign version of my own faith.

Religion is the #1 motivating factor in terrorism. Followed by control of power. Then capitalist interests abroad, maybe?
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I get emotional every 9/11 now that I'm older and can actually understand the extent of this tragedy. Sometimes it feels kinda silly since I was so young and so removed. I was only in the 6th grade and completely oblivious until I got picked up from school. In the car line my sister- who was only a kindergartner- told me a plane tried to hit the White House. I told her she was lying.

I always think of all the people who were
able to call their loved ones and say goodbye- and the people who disintegrated or whose body parts are still being found 12 years later. There was a short on NPR today that said there are still 8000 unidentified bits and pieces of remains and more are still being found.

The pictures from that day are so surreal to me. I try to avoid watching news footage bc I get a little weepy. Even when I'm watching Friends reruns seeing the towers makes my stomach sink and my heart hurt a little.
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I was on duty that day (it was night here). I finished my shift at around 11pm (Australian Central Time), drove home and tried to settle quickly because I was on an early again the next morning. I was almost alseep when a buddy of mine rang. I initially ignored the phone but it kept ringing and I was so pissed off. So I answered it ready to yell and all he said was "Turn on your TV!"

I did and, at first, I thought it was that movie Armageddon, I was so tired. But it quickly dawned on me that what I was watching was the real deal. I watched the second plane go into the tower and I knew that this was going to change the world. I didn't go to sleep until about 4 in the morning. The following day, it was the only thing anybody was talking about.

I found out later that friends of mine, who were on their honeymoon in the States, were booked on the second plane but they missed their flight. For around two days no one knew if they were alive or dead until they managed to get a call out to loved ones in Australia that they were alright.

I knew that this was one of those moments in our history that would change everything. And, I distinctly remember thinking that no good would come of it. That there would be war out of this.
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Yesterday, my friend asked me what those weird lights in the sky were. Pretty big facepalm.

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My 9/11 story is a relatively happy one.

I was getting ready to fly from LA to Canada, had my bag pretty much packed & I flicked on the bedroom TV to see what bullshit was on CNN. The 1st tower had already dropped, and as I watched, the 2nd plane went in...

If OBL had done his unauthorised demolitions on 10/11, I would have been stuck in Canada for a week. IKR?? Horrific!!

My job at the time involved a lot of air travel. A fucking lot. United Airlines 1K level.

I was on one of the 1st flights back in the air when the FAA gave the green light, and it was a surreal experience.

Gone were the loud selfish cuntwhores blocking the isle with their fat arses while they tried to stuff their 300lb carry-on bag into the overhead bin. The flight boarded in 15 mins, instead of the usual 45 mins. Funnily enough, as the guy ahead of me put his bag into the overhead, a large screwdriver fell out (much to his embarrassment). I felt very safe in the hands of the TSA's rigorous screeners - at their high 1st day of flights after 9/11 level of alertness.

Air travel for the next few months was actually pleasant. People were polite and things ran smoothly. Naturally, things devolved back to their appropriate level of cuntyness over time; but it was good for a while.

All it took for people to be nice was a few thousand deaths and untold pain and heartache.
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