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I posted this thread Veeky Forums not knowing about the 25 year minimum rule, so I'll post it here.

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Where were you?
Watching the footage, listening to the phone calls; does it still affect you?

Personally, I was 11 years old and it felt as if I grew up a little bit that day. In the same way when you find out that there's no Santa Claus, you mature. You harden a little more. I'm an Australian and have never been to New York and have no connection to the city or people in it, but I felt an emotional solidarity that still resides within me today.

I know this is a topic that breeds conflict but I'd be really interested to hear your stories and reflections about this day. Any links to articles or essays, books about the event would be appreciated as well.

Here's a short essay by Ian McEwan written shortly after.
>theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/15/september11.politicsphilosophyandsociety2

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Fucking gay

Who cares? 9/11 happens in the dindu countries every other day. Kinda racist to be all affected by muh calamity on national soil

9/11 is a piss in the ocean of people dying every day

You must've been really sheltered to have it alter your worldview.

>när adhdkillen på fritids lekte det med kapplastavar dan efter

I was watching the news with my dad after the first plane hit, and we both saw the second plane hit live. We were confused for a bit, then I went to wake my brother up but he told me to go away because he wanted to sleep a little longer. Then I went to school. It didn't affect me much on an emotional level, but it's what made me realize there were people around the world who hated America, though it wasn't until years later that I learned why.

>när mytomankillen i första klass ber stenhårt till gud under tysta minuten eftersom hans farmor bor i world trade center

kek

>Who cares? 9/11 happens in the dindu countries every other day
a wise Japanese man once stated - "If I wake up in the morning and find poop in the toilet, I think nothing of it. If I find poop on the kitchen table then I am concerned."

I was 10 at the time and saw the dust/debris cloud in the horizon. I knew it was supposed to be a big deal, but I don't remember caring that much as a 10 year-old.

That's just fucking racist

gotta love the american mentality

i remember reading something like "if you see a shit in your toilet you are like "hmm" and flush it away. if you see a shit in your kitchen you freak out" after the paris attacks got more attention that a similar attack on the same day in a middle-eastern country.
of course, its a horrible way to say it, but 9/11 was much more important than if the same number of people had died in an attack in afganistan. 1. it was the biggest attack on america since pearl harbor (i think), 2. it (partially) lead to a war the repurcusions of which are being felt now, 3. it changed american culture permanently. the post-9/11 world is focused on arabia as the epicentre of anatagonism, rather than russia, and gave the government a blank card to do whatever they wanted in the name of safety.

t. brit

>i remember reading something like "if you see a shit in your toilet you are like "hmm" and flush it away. if you see a shit in your kitchen you freak out" after the paris attacks got more attention that a similar attack on the same day in a middle-eastern country.

when i wrote this i had not read where he literally uses the same joke. i was referring to when i heard it a couple months ago.

>gotta love the american mentality
it was a fucking Nip who said it

(not him).

his is a prevalent attitude, probably motivated not by racism but rather tedium.
the truth is that it is not merely american close-mindedness which makes them see terrorist attacks in america as more important than those in war-torn middle east, because you can find the same attitude in those who actually live in the war-torn middle east. its a sad reality that we are living in a time when we (including the victims and refugees themselves) expect atrocities there by default. if we cried for every life lost we would quickly run dry.

not to mention the unimaginary knock-on effects of 9/11 compared to attacks of similar magnitude (directly) elsewhere.

>unabashedly racist

>probably motivated not by racism
nah, I'm pretty racist
at least against blacks

Implying 9/11 wasn't significant. You could literally feel the shift in culture before and after that day

Only because you're an overreacting hamburger caught up in the mass hysteria along with the other idiots.

I've no doubt I've lived a sheltered life, but you're "You think THAT event was bad, well that's nothin' kid" schtick isn't fooling anyone. And you'd be a fool not to accept that this event irrevocably and demonstrably changed the global political and social landscape.

Oceans of irrelevant people who have no influence and/or would live miserable lives in 3rd world countries. Many people who died in the WTC actually contributed something to the world.

>Who cares? 9/11 happens in the dindu countries every other day
My genuine reaction as a child. I must've already understood that mass African deaths were worthless and so on, but I guess I had assumed the same went for the US

Sorry for the 2,000 who died and sorrier for the 200,000 who died by official (american) count in an unjustified war

9/11 was just a conveniant casus belli.

when the 2004 tsunami hit thailand it made me realize how fucking dramatic americans acted about 9/11. but it was a big deal and in the end you sure did make those ay-rabs suffer for crimes they had nothing to do with.

Yes, we get it, you're an edgy yuropean who is probably too young to even properly remember them.

>depose dictator
>people hate us
>don't do enough in Syria
>people hate us

>fund wahabiism thru saudi arabia and justify it in the minds of a generation of young arabs by invading and interfering and killing their family and neighbors

Yeah sounds like the US is at fault desu

How the hell is this relevant to Veeky Forums?

Because Veeky Forums has no moderation, so off-topic threads will not be deleted.

>the mass hysteria
precisely!
it doesnt matter whether the cultural shift was warranted or not, it occurred.
it was partially the strategic (and totally the ideological) justification for the bush-iraq war and safety>privacy.
it was no longer scientists in america and scientists in russia trying to scare each other. and the suicidal nature of the attack was quite different - you could not merely threaten your enemies with death when they actively searched for it.
if america never entered ww2 we would not care about pearl harbor.

I got all hyped with people talking about WW3, thinking it was the Russians or the Chinese launching an invasion. And then turned out it was just random achmeds from their mudhuts, followed by a big waste of time for everybody and the culture of inane paranoia.

>Humorless faggotry
Back to tumblr w/ ye

9/11 is already largely irrelevant and will be lucky to get a one line footnote in the history books ~50 years from now.

kys

Veeky Forums has awful moderation, a thread with a significant mass of replies will invariably be deleted after a couple of days of discussion if some of the posts were misogynistic or racist.

>gave the government a blank card to do whatever they wanted in the name of safety.
>justification for the bush-iraq war and safety>privacy.

This is really the only historical significance I think about now. OP people don't really need to remember where they were or what they were doing, we had those discussions for years after it happened. I doubt many of the underage lurking this site even remember it. It's about what it signifies, now.

>Kids in high school today view 9/11 in the same historical sense you view the taking down of the Berlin wall

I was 10.
I thought New York was in England.
I thought the Twin Towers were medieval style towers.

Then we watched the footage and I saw that it was in America and the towers were actually skyscrapers and I was that asshole that thought it was cool.
Then I noticed my teacher was crying and students freaking out so I imitated them until I actually understood the gravity of it.

I was glad I got to go home from school early. Anyone acting like this affected them in some meme perks of being a wallflower type way is just victim signifying. God I hate the internet. Also this is coming from an American who was 11 at the time

It's significance was mostly in the "lol a plane isn't going to do shit" immediate reaction which was followed by the towers both collapsing. Planes had flown into other skyscrapers. The twin towers had also been bombed (quite a lot) before.

>when you find out that there's no Santa Claus, you mature
This is the worst meme i know that people still spout everyfuckingwhere and at every fucking opportunity. This literally doesn't happen unless you are a braindead retard child.

The Berlin wall falling wasn't a bad thing, and the Twin Towers being destroyed wasn't overly commercialised.

To add insult to injury, shortly before the twin towers footnote there'll be over 100 pages on the death of Princess Diana.

>the Twin Towers being destroyed wasn't overly commercialised.
Yeah, nobody made money out of the twin towers falling.

>The Berlin wall falling wasn't a bad thing

I mostly meant in a temporal way. Like the OP was not born or was just recently born when the wall was taken down. It wasn't a major event that happened in his conscious life.

Never forget

>10 years old, 6-7 AM PST, California
>cool! i've never seen a building on fire!
>8 AM PST at school
>villanova girl at 1:19 (youtube.com/watch?v=FC5FbmsH4fw) jumpstops into the classroom and excitedly says "Didja hear the news?!"
>Dunno why I've never forgotten that. Probably cuz the way she said it was so silly.
>Teachers tell us not to speculate who did it.
>Kids at recess speculate who did it.
>I try to remember what my dad said in the morning so I could be part of the conversation.

Damn, even in a tragedy I still find a way to be a loser.

I was in a school reading to a bunch of kids. When the first plane hit my security advisor came over to me and told me that America was under attack, but I didn't want to disappoint the children, so I carried on reading them the story whilst internally fist pumping at the success of my plan.

(OP)
My strongest memory that day is of Ellie Frymire (Villanova girl at 1:19 youtube.com/watch?v=FC5FbmsH4fw) jumpstopping into the classroom and excitedly asking "Didja hear the news?!" Maybe it's cuz the way she did it was so silly.

Anyway, full boring memory here:

>10 years old, 6-7 AM PST, California
>see burning buildings on tv before school: cool!
>8 AM PST at school
>Villanova girl hops in.
>Teachers have TV on in classroom: wow, that's unusual.
>Other kids speculate who did it. Teacher tells us not to.
>Kids at recess speculate who did it.
>I try to remember what my dad said in the morning, so I could be part of the conversation.

I didn't give a shit about it, and I wouldn't have remembered it if the adults had just chilled the fuck out and not done unusual things like have the TV on in the classroom.

Dad's in the CIA so he told me about it a few days in advance.

that's a bummer. you didn't even get to spontaneously cheer when the second plane hit.

I was off work that day and watched it happen live on TV. I was just there a few years before standing there looking up at them so it was even more surreal. When they both collapsed straight down with mo resistance and all the concrete was just pulveruzed to dust and ejected outwards it was obvious that the media was not telling the full story.

You absolute madman!

I'm from Sweden. I was eight years old when it happened, I remember I came home from school and mom and dad were staring at the television. My reaction was: "But doesn't that happen every day?"

Yesterday I saw leftist people tweeting and retweeting about how they felt sorry fof the millions of innocent Iraqis who died for a meaningless war.

That made me feel sick in my stomach, to see them use 9/11 as an excuse to gain political points, but yet I HAVE in some sort of way thought the same thing. That makes me feel uncomfortble. Bush was a complete retard, and the war was a crime against humanity, and yet I find these leftist repulsive. I think it's because they seem to hate the US as much as jihadists.

As someone not from the United States, or even North or South America, it affected us rather differently than probably many people.

I was 10 years old. The planes had hit the Twin Towers overnight, and it was in all the morning newspapers and all over television. I didn't hear anything about it until I got to school -- although it wasn't the school building, it was this local theatre. We were in the week leading up to our school play, which the whole school took part in.

This makes more sense if you know that I went to a tiny little school for gifted kids that had about 60 kids maximum, all the classes combined.

So my siblings and I get to the theatre that morning and all the kids who'd got there before us come rushing over to tell us the news. It required some explaining, because until they collapsed, I hadn't even known the Twin Towers existed.

It was on television a lot after that, but I was a kid and it was a different country, and all I was really interested in was Pokemon.

We have slightly more rigorous security measures at our airports now.

Nothing else.

>all these anons who were 10
>average age of this thread is 25-26
>we're on Veeky Forums

where did it all go wrong bros

Yeah I could tell because I have a bs in mechanical engineering and I've seen several airliners crash in to skyscrapers in my time

>Only 22
Still time for me to make it, right.

i live in NY so the event definitely left a psychic imprint on myself and the people i grew up with. i was a 4th grader at the time. the seemingly endless flow of police cars, firetrucks, and ambulances going on through my classroom window signaled that something major was going on, but the teacher did her best to keep things appear business as usual. one by one my fellow classmates were called for early dismissal, and once it was my turn my mother finally told me what happened.

i remember sitting in my next door neighbor's backyard and discussing the event with my friend and his siblings, speculating on who did it and why. the eldest one mentioned the name bin laden, which had been the first time i'd heard it. i thought he'd said 'aladdin.'

had some relatives stuck in manhattan while this was all happening, but none of them were close enough to ground zero to face any danger, and they all made it home safely.

always liked HST's prescient response to the attack:
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They're pretty much the same.

It's an apt metaphor though.

I was around 15 at the time. I remember coming home from school and dad sat in front of the tv. He said there was chaos in the us. I watched the screen for a minute or two, then I went to my room and started my computer and played diablo 2 until dinner. I know we made a few jokes about it the day after in school, so we werent that affected by it at the time.