We will never forget! Remembering 9/11

[John Connor]

I just wanted to post a reminder that a prolific AT Hot Deals poster, HawkeyeNJ , who apparently worked in NYC, never posted again after the 9/11 attacks. Speculation was that he was among the casualties, but nothing was ever proven concretely. RIP Buddy!

RIP if true. :'(

 

[Spacehead]

I was at work & we heard on the radio about a fire in one of the towers possibly due to a plane. The owner of our shop turned on the TV to see what was going on. Several people went in to watch & they came out saying according to reports a small plane had hit the first tower.
After a bit i went in to see & shortly the second plane hit. I went out into the shop & told the guys & said that was no small plane, that was a large one.

We just kept working not knowing exactly what the hell was going on. Later, after hearing about "something" happening in DC & getting all kinds of (what turned out to be) mis-information, realizing nothing was getting done the owner just told us to go home.

I talked to my mother before leaving work & she said my grandmother was a little upset because my Aunt was living in DC & couldn't get ahold of her on the phone. So i went to my grandmothers to be with her till things settled a bit. Once gandma got to talk to my Aunt she was better so i just went home then & watched the news.

 

[Oceanas]

I woke up to go to work, and I was sort of half awake before I got out of bed and could hear the TV in the other room talking about the first tower and the reports that a plane hit it. In my half awake state I remember thinking some strange movie must be playing, but then I got up and saw the second plane hit. I checked with work and they said to come in, but we all just huddled around the TV all day. Came home and watched the news for the rest of the night.

At the time where I lived was on the edge of the approach routes to the airport. It was never loud but if you stood outside you could hear a plane coming in every few minutes in the distance. I remember how quiet it was for a while and then the sound of the passenger jets was replaced with the sound and sights of military jets patrolling the city.

not in this way, no. At some point I think people need to accept it and move on (of course we have the ever-persistent War on Terror to continually remind us)

As bad as September 11 was, in the 14 years since we've lost approximately:

~8,500,000 people to heart disease (~611k/year)
~8,200,000 people to cancer (585k/year)
~2,100,000 people to chronic respiratory disease (150k/yr)
~1,800,000 people to accidents of any kind (130k/yr)

and so on...(http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm)

From the leading causes of death alone, we've lost over 7000x as many people over the past 14 years. That's 7000 9/11's worth of people, or basically 1 9/11 happening every day (in people terms).

Call it an attack on America or our way of life, but the fact is that we gave up far too much, and turned our backs on many of the things that make us America, in order to "defend" and protect ourselves (I put defend in quotes since we went well past that).

I'm not really sure what you are trying to say. People die all the time, that's certainly true. Rarely, at least in the US, is such a large group of people murdered at the same time in such a horrible fashion. That's what the day is about, remembering all of the people who were blown up/crashed into a building, had their throats slit, burned up, crushed, or had to make the choice between staying in the building and burning/suffocating, or jumping 90 stories to their deaths, as well as all the first responders killed trying to get to all of the trapped people.

What "America" (the government or the citizens) decided to do after that doesn't enter into the equation at all. The people that were murdered had no say in that, so actions taken after that don't excuse what occurred.

 

[destrekor]

I just wanted to post a reminder that a prolific AT Hot Deals poster, HawkeyeNJ , who apparently worked in NYC, never posted again after the 9/11 attacks. Speculation was that he was among the casualties, but nothing was ever proven concretely. RIP Buddy!

RIP if true. :'(

:'( We used to have a :rose: emote back in the FuseTalk days. Wish we still had it.

I just searched his posts. He was VERY active, then nothing ever again.

 

[Ketchup]

I was looking at the original thread and was struck by how Insane3D correctly guesses who the main culprit was at 9:15 AM that same day. It still amazes me that Bin Laden didn't die until almost ten years after that horrific day. I am not here to play point fingers for guilt or discommendation, but I have always wondered why this was such a long process.

I doubt any of us here will ever totally forget that day, or forget the relief when he was nailed!

 

[BUTCH1]

I was in a Dr's office for a 9 AM appt, we got there 15 min. early and NBC had just switched to the live feed from the chopper, at first I thought some drunk fool crashed his
Cessna into it but then they went to zoom and showed the size of the hole, shit!, no way a small privte plane does that, WTF happened. Then within 5 min. of watching the 2nd plane hit and we all knew.

 

[DrPizza]

Keep P&N out of this thread. This is a remembrance thread, not a place to bicker and argue like idiots. -Admin DrPizza

 

[allisolm]

I just wanted to post a reminder that a prolific AT Hot Deals poster, HawkeyeNJ , who apparently worked in NYC, never posted again after the 9/11 attacks. Speculation was that he was among the casualties, but nothing was ever proven concretely. RIP Buddy!

He did not die in the 9/11 attacks. He went to another forum.

 

[Ketchup]

He did not die in the 9/11 attacks. He went to another forum.

Very odd timing, but good to hear that a former member is OK.

 

[FerrelGeek]

My BIL was working at the Pentagon. Fortunately, he was off-site at a meeting when the plane hit there. However, a friend of his died; his uniform was on display at the Smithsonian's 9/11 exhibit. We visited him a couple months after and went by the Pentagon to see the damage. Very sobering. My BIL told my wife and I that the plane came in too low and too fast; he said that the damage could have been much worse.

 

[Geekbabe]

He did not die in the 9/11 attacks. He went to another forum.

That is a relief to know! Thank you

 

[CraKaJaX]

Wow... this is awesome:

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...ve-of-September-11-Ben-Sturner-326532051.html