How have the 9/11 attacks [b]personally[/b] affected you?

[Ns1]

Hrm?

 

[spanky]

i can't take the path to the wtc anymore. and my nyc skyline is naked now.

 

[gopunk]

i can't honestly say they've affected me all that much. i live on the west coast, and any relatives i had over there are not hurt.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

<< i can't honestly say they've affected me all that much. i live on the west coast, and any relatives i had over there are not hurt. >>

 

[crab]

Not too personally, but a friend of mine in a few ways who is an airline captain:

1. Flies for American (used)
2. Flies the B757/767 (both used)
3. Based in NYC (EWR, LGA, JFK)
4. Knew a couple flight attendants
5. Security is hard (took his pocket knife, keeps dissasembling his mini Mag-Light) (understandable)
6. Family members trying to convince him to retire

 

[Jfur]

other than economic impacts, one of my students lost his father in the WTC It was hard to know what to say and be supportive -- but he was very strong and managed to do very well.

 

[IGBT]

Paranoid about being in a major metropolitan area. Now viewed as a high profile target in the post 9-11 era...

 

[VirusDub]

<< i can't honestly say they've affected me all that much. i live on the west coast, and any relatives i had over there are not hurt. >>

Same here. It was the first time in a while that I cried, though. I'm still not exactly sure why I did, it just happened.

 

[Ns1]

^^

 

[Geekbabe]

Prior to 9/11 the thought that we'd ever be attacked like that was unthinkable.I lost the idea that we are invulnerable

 

[bcterps]

Baffled, I'm not too sure if that's a bad thing. It's very important to recognize our vunerability as a nation and as a human. If 9/11 had never happened, something worse could have happened to the USA, perhaps years down the road. Sometimes it take a tragedy for us to be truly aware of our surroundings.


In answer to the question though, my office has been moved from downtown Manhattan to Jersey City. In fact, I am at Exchange Place, directly across from where the WTC used to be. In the weeks following 9/11, my job was crazy since we had to clean up a lot of problems that arose from 9/11. Things have settled down now though. One of the biggest brokers that I deal with was basically wiped out (Cantor Fitzgerald). Fortunately, the person that I am in contact with the most at CF was on vacation that week.

--Ben

 

[Texmaster]

My sister was in New York a block away from the attack. She got out but we didn't know for hours.

When the towers collapsed, I didn't know if I was watching her die.

Believe me, it was an impact.

 

[Kev]

helped me realize how stupid religion is

 

[Electric Amish]

You mean that terrorism thing that happened in NYC??

amish

 

[b0mbrman]

Made me feel better about making the whole Army decision...

Made me want to learn more about the Middle East

Politically, shifted me from moderate-left to moderate-right...

 

[hans007]

im from the west coast. realisticially the only thing it did was kill the stock market, and get my mom fired. Oh an we had a lot to talk about and endless video of afghanistan to watch on tv.


my mom worked at EDS, she was in finance and they did airline accounts. she lost her job, which really sucked, since well she still doesnt have one in this oh so great job market. good thing my dad has a good job or we'd be screwed. My stocks went down, but they are basically back to where they were, that was a good oppurtunity if there ever was one, but alas i was broke at the time.

 

[Fausto]

The most immediate impact has been the beefed up security around the CDC since the attacks. Concrete barriers all around, high barbed-wire fencing, more security guards (now armed as well) and metal detectors at all entrances. It's a daily reminder of what happened and is kinda sobering to be perfectly honest.

Fausto

 

[308nato]

I have 3 young ones that look to dad for answers. It was one of the first times I ever had to really struggle to find one. I have to admit as well that my kids saw me cry for the first time. Consequently, I believe I have lost the dad is a h@rdass aura to them. My wife says that is a good thing but I don't know.

 

[Texmaster]

<< I have 3 young ones that look to dad for answers. It was one of the first times I ever had to really struggle to find one. I have to admit as well that my kids saw me cry for the first time. Consequently, I believe I have lost the dad is a h@rdass aura to them. My wife says that is a good thing but I don't know. >>



Its the ones that didn't cry I worry about.

 

[Geekbabe]

<< Baffled, I'm not too sure if that's a bad thing. It's very important to recognize our vunerability as a nation and as a human. If 9/11 had never happened, something worse could have happened to the USA, perhaps years down the road. Sometimes it take a tragedy for us to be truly aware of our surroundings.


-Ben >>



You are probably right, however just the sheer nerve and audacity of the attack.It used to be that such insanity happened in only "over there" in strange small middle eastern countries that were as far removed from our reality as life on Mars might be. I sat there ,my brain grappling to comprehend just what the hell was I watching, trying to explain to my kid why this happened, the image of those planes slamming into the towers will be burned into my mind forever

 

[murphy55d]

Not really.

 

[vi edit]

My homeowners insurance has doubled since then.

 

[killface]

Not too much except for being hastled because of the "increase" m*&her f*#$@ing airport security these days, which doesn't even seem to be doing any good anyway.

 

I have zero respect for religious idealist idiots and would have no problem seeing them all die for all I care.

 

[pyonir]

hasn't affected me much either. i knew no one in or around NYC nor the Pentagon. It did affect me at the time of course, like everyone...but now the only thing it has changed in me is the motivation to work in Law Enforcement has increased (like it had to or could have much anyway).