Eight years

[Ander]

*salute*

[Vad]

*salute*

Will never forget that day.

[John Doe]

*salute*

[Orion]

I can still remember waking up the morning of the event, turning on to watch cartoons but the news was on instead. I saw the second plane hit. It was unbelievable.

[Jack]

My mother was glued to the tv when me and my brother were on the way to school. I remember seeing a tower and some smoke, I didn't pay too much attention or know what it was. Then we get to school and my teacher announces that a plane had hit the White House. We were scared shitless. Eventually we realized they hit the Pentagon, not the White House, and we were all like "teacher fail".

I remember being so stoked that they would let us all go home for the day. NOPE. In retrospect, shit wouldn't have been on tv anyway. This was everywhere. They could have at least let the kids have their fucking cartoons. =/

[Kazuya]

Yeah...I was walking in late to school when this happened...haha tardy me. This is also the day I lost my virginity. Weee.

[Ashe]

This actually had a slight (in a morbid sense of a way) relieving effect on my day at the time. I was going through a nasty breakup, and had just walked into my English class that I shared with that ex-gf at the time (and when I say breakup, it was more of we'd dated a very short time after having been fantastic friends, and while a relationship of dating wasn't really an issue, it was a very emotional loss of a good friend that was). As much as I understand and was glued to the tv in class watching as the plane hit the second tower (we turned it on something like five minutes after the first hit), at that point in time I guiltily was relieved that we all had something to focus our entire beings on, leaving me in enough shock that I didn't have time to even interact or think that day with anyone else.

I don't know if that makes me a bad person or even "Young and naive" because I can't say I wouldn't feel the same now. If you are going through something emotionally horrible, sometimes ANYTHING is acceptable if it takes your mind entirely off of it, and I preferred greatly to watch what was happening because it helped me out a bit that day by really trivializing my own situation in comparison to a lot of other people's. Common causes tend to unite enemies a lot as well.

[Tyr]

nvm

[Alexander Trafford]

9.11 was uniting, yes, but relieving it can never be, i don't care about your personal circumstance.

Rest in peace to all.

S.P.R, Mozzelo, Freund, Lane, Apostol of Engine 55, we will never forget you.

[Cain]

It's a tradgedy thousands died that day, and as much a tradgedy that it was used as an excuse to lead thousands more to their death.

And it wasn't the teacher's fault Jaxx. That was something they said in a lot of schools (mine included) and a lot of places. It's worth mention that saying that the White House had been hit was assuredly planned (gogo super-propaganda-machine!).

They create a problem with fear and then offer solutions by taking your freedoms. Upsetting, isn't it?

This is all my opinion and in no way is it meant to detract from this memorial thread for the nine-eleven victims.

[Tempo]

When i went into work on friday there was a large display of DVD's of the World Trade Center movie and it just made me upset. It felt as though they were trying to cash in on such a terrible tragedy. I hope and pray that people don't forget what happened, but im afraid that 5 years down the line 9/11 will be a huge day for Patriot's Day sales at your local Sears or Macys and its just wrong. One of my moms best friends from school was a firefighter who died rescuing people from the towers and my uncle was working a few blocks away in a construction site, so this hits a little close to home. Sorry about the rant, but i wanted to vent a little.

Rest in peace to everyone who lost their lives that horrible day.

[Josh]

The teachers are dumb, there is no way The White House would be hit with a civilian airliner, since they have anti-aircraft missile batteries.

I'm surprised the Pentagon didn't though.