DocAndersen
Today’s post is a link to my tech blog. It is a personal memory of 9/11.
https://docandersen.wordpress.com/2018/09/11/i-will-never-forget-9-11-2001/
To those who lost loved ones on this day in 2001 my deepest sympathies.
To those who climbed those towers to save others my deepest gratitude.
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Question of
Do you remember where you were the morning of 9/11/2001?
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Yes
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No
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Do people outside the US also remember that day?
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Yes
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No
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I still remember the day, I was in school, , Jr High….think I was in 7th grade or so at the time. Still does not seem that it was all those years ago though.
I know that my twins were far too young to be impacted on the day. They are now, that they realize the huge impact of the day. My daughter was a little older and struggles with the day a lot more.
I do remember the moment, I was at work. My son called me, as school let out early. Tragedy forever on that nightmare of a day.
It was a day I can’t forget. I’ve met many people since that lost someone directly on that day. Friends, family that are now gone forever. So much tragedy. It impacted all of us.
Indeed it did leave a forever impact on all of us Doc.
I can tell you the impact it made on my life. It took me an extra hour every time I flew after 9/11. I flew more than 1200 times int he 10 years after the event. That is many hours that I will never have back. That is simply the annoyance factor. The personal and more tragic loses that day, are ones that haunt me.
My sincerest symphaty to the family of the 911 victims.
IT was a truly bad day all the way around.
What’s this conspiracy theory that people from your country made that happened? I don’t know, that’s why it is a conspiracy theory.
My father always taught me to look at both sides. But he also told me to make sure the other side has actual validated facts. So, the various conspiracy theories floating around about 9/11, and the many other human atrocities throughout the world, are ones I read and then forget.
I know this is a very sensitive matter to all of you. Yes we have to look at both sides of the story as well. but I am not saying that I believe in the conspiracy.
Again, my sincerest sympathy.
Anything that happens has a conspiracy theory attached to it. There are those that argue that the First World War was started because of a need to remove the Austrian-Hungian empire. Personally I just ignore most of the conspiracy theories. You can find one that explains everything….
Exactly and the more theories the more we going far from the truth, because we don’t know anymore which are facts and which are just theories.
I disagree with the “we don’t know what is real. I think there is a need in the pre-information age we are in to fully understand what is a fact and what is not a fact.
A person, pronouncing things as false, doesn’t make them false. What makes things false is facts. We may not like the facts, but they are something we have to accept.
The internet has created a firestorm of false information.
Ok, if that’s what you believe.
I remember that very day very well. It was terrible.I am very familiar with that feeling … unfortunately.In 1991, my country, Yugoslavia, collapsed. 1999 .. NATO bombed Serbia. We had over 4000 dead civilians. For three months, bombs fell across Serbia. That’s something I would not want anyone to feel.
Yes I remember the fall of the many countries in the Eastern Bloc. A tough time that went on for many years.
I was coming downstairs from sleeping. i was working a third-shift job. The news of course devastated me. Great post!
I remember standing in the MTC, just staring. I couldn’t stop watching the TV.
I was 11 years old at the time in Toronto, Canada, and I still remember staring at the tv screen in horror as the towers collapsed. The school had very foolishly let the kids walk home alone on that morning…I was home alone and watched the tv for hours until my parents got home.
Wow, I know my kids were younger, my wife was staring at the TV all day. My daughter was in school and my twins were home with my wife. But they were playing all day, they remember it but I suspect it didn’t impact them until later.