Anyone else on edge for tomorrow's reminder of 9/11?

I feel the sick feeling as I watched the Towers come down, but I think it would be a touch harder to repeat that. God that was so so bad. I watched everything live. You lived it, I can’t imagine that.

As fucked as it probably is to say, its just another day to me. I was in middle school when it happened, I knew no one affected by it so it never really “hit home” for me or anything like that. I mean its sad what happened and all but I really don’t look at it any differently than any other historical date.

I can always remember coming home from school, and my mum shouted me over to the tv and told me the world trade center in America had been hit by a plane. No one realised it was a terrorist attack at that point.
Then I watched the second plane hit live on tv.
I was in total shock and couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
I always spare a moment to think about all those people who needlessly lost thier lives that day.
But I feel sorry for the people whom it affected having to put up with the media parade every year.

@uberbatman I walked down to the local stock brokerage, and my golf partner that year walked in because we knew they had TV coverage. He saw the second strike, he worked on those floors. He was crushed.

DMB’s new album is out tomorrow. So excited.

Why must we wallow?

@Adirondackwannabe That’s insane.I don’t know how I’d begin to cope with something like happening. I’m sure he got a new appreciation for life after that day though.

It was bad.

Not on edge at all. I am flying from San Francisco to New York tomorrow, should get in just in time for dinner.

Although I work for a stock exchange, and had staff affected by the towers collapsing, it’s business as usual.

I’ve been thinking about it for a while.
I was in middle school as well, and it did hit home for me. My family lost a friend that day. It was the only day I have ever seen my dad cry.

Not on edge but certainly mindful of the terror, devastation and change that took over the world that day. God bless America and all of the world and keep us all safe.

@Crumpet Why were you coming home from school at 9 in the morning?

@Trillian, I think the time would have been around 2 p.m. in the UK.

September 11th is just a date. The terrorist attack that strikes fear into so many people was a horrific event that only happened on one particular 9/11. Tomorrow is 9/11/2012, which is a different day entirely.

As you might guess, no, I am not on edge. I do not suffer PTSD from something that happened far away and years ago. The closest I suffer is a fear of how some people have tried to use that attack to justify all sorts of crap like bombing Mosques and passing repressive legislation. I fear that those attacks served their true purpose by putting people on edge, eager to give up their freedoms for the illusion of security.

I don’t fear tomorrow. I fear the world that we made for ourselves as a result of what happened years ago.

9/11 is a day of remembrance and solemnity, but not fear. Trite as the expression is, it still rings true. Fear is the weapon of a terrorist, and if you fear, the terrorists win.
I will go to work, and do my job. My thoughts will be of the victims of that day, and the wars that followed. I will not give a moments thought about the terrorists or their agenda.

The new tower 1 is lovely, as it continues to get taller, the Memorial is thoughtful.
My old snapshots of smoking rubble still cause verklempt states.

These days I am concerned that folks consider the job done when we stop terrorists who are armed with explosives, and build mighty buildings. I’m concerned that global reigns on resources will be much bigger threat to civilization than overt terrorism.

I live in California so I was a little more removed than those of you on the East Coast.
I remember thinking that I will refuse to allow it to work. I refuse to be terrorized. I don’t remember exactly, but I think we booked a trip soon after.
We really did react exactly the way Bin Laden wanted. He wanted a jihad and we gave him one. It’s pretty sad. A war on terror can never be won, just like a war on drugs can’t be won. I hate battle metaphors.

I wouldn’t say I was on edge, exactly, but I can instantly recall the feeling in the pit of my stomach. My then-husband had worked at the Pentagon not long before the attacks, and when I heard it was hit I had a weird moment of panic thinking he was in the building. It was surreal to have to tell myself he no longer worked there. Aside from him, my mother and several friends also worked in government buildings in DC, and we lived close enough to that location that it had a big impact on our town. Cell phone service was spotty and it was terrifying not to be able to reach my mother (found out later she’d been evacuated.) Pulling my young children out of school early (hoping to avoid the huge traffic jams that ensued), it broke my heart to tell them what was going on. Fighter jets flying overhead became common, and that was scary, too.

I was working on a patient and saw in her chart notes that ‘her daughter was missing in New York’ – I will never forget seeing that, knowing that her daughter worked at the tower.

Well, you have reminded me.
I don’t carry a torch for 9–11, no pun intended .
It was a tragic event, but, it is in the past now. A brief memorial is best, opposed to reliving the trauma.
I don’t think it is healthy to keep traumatic experiences alive, in the media or otherwise.
Best to make your peace and let go IMO.

Not at all.

On edge? Uh, nope.

The 11th year anniversary is symbolic in Islam. It is the Steel anniversary. And the WTC had a steel frame. You could be onto something.

But my bet is on everything being fine since Obama is a secret Muslim and they know a attack would mean a Romney landslide.

I don’t think anyone needs reminding, although the media do tend to shove it down our throats.

@Trillian not everybody lives in America

@johnpowell : You’re jokin right. Who is this “they” you speak of? Do you think all black people in the US are crypto-Muslims, or is it just Obama?

@bookish1 He’s totally kidding. He’s farther left than I am! :p

@Coloma I wish I could let it go and perhaps I do have some PTSD from that morning. Mind you I was on a United long distant flight and before we even left the gate something strange happened that caught my eye. Two stewardess’s rushed down the isle shepherding people into their seats shouting “please get in your seats we HAVE to leave the gate NOW”!! Time 8:10 am CST. I thought to myself…gee I have never seen THAT before and zip off we go. Now looking back I wonder what they may have already known and why we even took off at all. Anyway, barely 10 minutes into the flight the Captain comes on the intercom and announces…
“Due to terrorists activities the entire East Coast traffic control system has been disabled and we have been ordered by the FAA and parent company to land immediately. Please prepare for landing”.

So I say to myself,...hmmm, we just left Chicago are in Indiana which means we were under east coast air traffic control…..HS that means we are flying without radar!!!! Talk about pucker factor 10! Why the Captain said what he said I will never understand as there was a collective OMG near panic in the airplane. 6 very long minutes we approached INDY airport an literally fell out of the sky….I mean down and stopped. I looked out my window and there was a line of planes in the sky near nose to tail streaming down out of the sky like leaves on a fall day and they were all landing wing tip to wing tip out on the taxi way. The second we stopped out came the cell phone and scream of shock after scream spoke to the true horrors unfolding at that very second. When I heard that terrorists had flown two airplanes into the twin towers and other planes were hijacked as well…..I think HS!!! I am in an airplane!!! GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!! Panic for me sets in, but I have to keep my cool and try to explain to my two young boys what all the fuss was about. I kept the truth from their ears but can only imagine what their young minds were processing at that moment. What seemed like hours we sat and listened to the people on the plane discussing this horror we were trying to comprehend and finally got to a gate to disembark. The door pops open and I here shouting and screaming….it’s the Indian National Guard screaming at us to run and “GET THE HELL OUT OF THE TERMINAL!!” So if you were not yet terrified you were now as people were literally running full gallop down the terminal seemingly for their lives. I mean I expected a plane to come crashing through the wall any second. So as best we could, my wife, son and another son in his car seat ran into the center of the now deserted airport. Like confused flocks of sheep, each plane load of people moved towards luggage or the exit. Finally as we were now walking I saw for the first time the image of the first plane plowing into the twin tower and the gravity of that day sunk in. Though the odds of what had happened are very small, but I was in a plane, a United long distant flight and now the odds of what happened became instantly smaller, either way I experienced probably one of the more terrifying moments of my life.

@Cruiser Wow, yes, you were really in the thick of things. What WAS that captain thinking? No predicitng how people will react during insane situations. I can’t believe how unprofessional some of what you experienced was, causing a panic by telling people to run from the terminal!
I’m sorry you are still struggling with your trauma from that day. :-(

No, nothing will happen.

@Coloma Exactly! Why he didn’t just say that we have a little red light blinking here I think is simply malfunctioning that we can’t reset that we are going to land and have checked out. Crazy day for sure. Looking back I know our flight was getting extra special attention as we were one of the first to land and the last one to be released 7 hours later. All passengers were screened and interviewed by the TSA and FBI and I did not see any other flight receive this level of attention. In my rush to exit the plane I left my video camera on the plane and when the FBI called me in to recover it they reminded lectured me of how much trouble that little bag caused them! They were one step away from blowing it up! Ooops!

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I am not necessarily on edge, but I will always remember. I lost friends. It is hard to forgive and impossible to forget.

I’m a registered Socialist. My answer above was a joke. But the Steel part was true.

With the knowledge of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, disregard my above post.

Seriously, wtf?

It was yesterday wasn’t it? ;¬}

Yesterday, today, tomorrow. It’s in the vicinity. lol

Oh yeah!

My username approves.