The night of the Attack (it was about 2AM in Aust when it happened) I was watching a Video. I got an excited call from a mate asking if I was watching
TV, I responded with a lazy "yeah" he was like "yeah, what the hell you mean yeah? what you watching?" I told him a video and he screamed at me to
turn it off. First thing I saw was the first tower burning and was totally dumbstruck, about 30 sec later the 2nd plane hit, I literally thought world
war 3 was about to start.
Sept 12 2001 was the day I started a new job doing cold calling for a telephone company in Aust.
My shift started about 12 hrs after the planes hit, needless to say no one was really interested in changing or upgrading their phone plan that
day.
Sept 11 2002 probably saw the most memorable 9-11 event for me (apart from the actual event) I was in Sydney in a pub with a few friends and the
memorial service was on TV, it was the part where they were reading out the names of all the victims. At the risk of sounding cold and heartless I
wasnt really affected by the whole thing, Americans kill thousands of people around the world every year and at that stage I still thought someone had
finally had enough and got some back. It was tragic but no more so than when a boat sinks, or an earthquake happens etc etc
Anyway the pub was pretty full with people drinking, playing pool, darts etc etc. A group of American tourists were sitting in front of the TV
watching and understandably looking solemn, The group of guys playing pool started getting a bit loud and one screamed something when he missed a
shot, next thing you know one of the Americans has jumped up and screamed "SHUT THE $#@^ UP, SHOW SOME RESPECT"
The only thing that stopped him from getting his face smashed in was the bouncers who lukily for him were standing very close.
Being honest it made me mad that someone could be so arrogant and ethnocentric as to think the rest of the world should even give a toss let alone be
quiet in a pub for something that happened a year ago and 13 000 miles away. It was a defining moment of our times and was a tragic event and to
anyone who lost someone my heart goes out to you.
I only hope the truth of what happened comes out and the real perpetrators are brought to justice, preferably mob/vigilante justice were they are
dragged through the streets and torn to pieces by the people whos lives were ruined.
Heres hoping
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I remember where I was and what I was doing...
It started out as any normal school day had started for me in the past. I didn't realize that this day was going to end up ending like it did. I was in my second block English class during my sophomore year in high school when 9/11 happened. We had just started on our assignement for the day when it started. Our class had not been going on for ten minutes when one of the other teachers had emailed our teacher. She emailed us asking to turn our tv on in the classroom to CNN, Fox, or whoever. We were not thinking about it at first when our teacher had read her email out loud to us in the room. At first, I thought it was something going on in Washington, like a bill coming up for passage or similar. We had turned the television onto CNN and that is when we saw the North Tower burning. That is when some of us, myself included, realized that something just was not right with this. Little did we know that another jet was in dead aim for the South Tower as the camera from the Empire State Building kept focused on the North Tower.
As we are sitting there watching all of the madness of the day beginning to unfold. At first, everyone was saying that some pilot screwed up and didn't turn far enough out to miss the building. How could someone miss something as big as the Trade Centers were on a crystal clear Tuesday morning? It should have told us something right then and there that this was by no means an accident. That was until we saw the other jet hit the South Tower live on the television. It just seemed to unreal to us that anyone would have the audacity to have done something like this. It was and still is one of those moments that words cannot truely describe just how shocked we were to have witnessed what had just happened in Manhattan. It was one of those things where you just could not form the words needed to describe what was happening.
About an hour into the attacks on the World Trade Center, we first started to hear about the Pentagon being attacked. That was when some of us had started to wonder who was attacking us and why they were. I remember someone even saying that Saddam Hussein was attacking us. By then I had realized that the attack could have been far from over. A lot of us were worried that the DuPont Plant about two or three miles from our school was going to be hit next. We were also wondering where was the next plane coming from and what was it going to hit. That day, there was a lot of uncertainty around us here that someone was going to wind up flying an aircraft into one of the chemical plants. Even after being around these chemicals plants and seeing a lot of them go by the wayside. You just couldn't get the thought out of your mind of one of the current chemical plants being attacked.
As the events began to unfold at the Pentagon and at the World Trade Center. None of us had the slightest idea in the back of our mind that both of the World Trade Center towers were going to collapse. We didn't know at the time that they were going to come down. No one knew that they were going to come down. Not even the firefighters and the cops in the towers knew that the buildings were going to fall to Earth. As we sat and watched the South Tower comes down. The whole room just fell into a dead silence like someone had just punched us in the chest as hard as they could have. All you heard coming from the television was the sound of the sirens wailing as they were heading on into the scene. As we continued to watch what was going on and how it was unfolding. Little did we know that the North Tower would eventually come down a few minutes later. As I'm sitting there with the rest of my class, I was thinking that if this other tower does not come down. Then something had just went terribly wrong with the South Tower and that the North Tower would still be standing afterwards.
We were sitting their with our eyes fixed on the television when CNN had cut away from the fire happening at the Pentagon to show the North Tower in the process of collapsing. At first, we thought that just the upper floors had collapsed on top of the lower floors and that the lower floors were still standing. I mean, how were we to know that the entire building had came down as to what the South Tower had done a half an hour earlier into the attack. Here we were sitting there in the classroom again in dead silence. I mean it was like someone had just delivered a knockout blow to us it was quiet. It was so quiet as the North Tower was falling that you could hear several pindrops in the entire school building. I don't think it was until that moment we realized that something big was going down and it was going down fast.
To be continued in the next post below this...
I remember where I was and what I was doing...
It started out as any normal school day had started for me in the past. I didn't realize that this day was going to end up ending like it did. I was in my second block English class during my sophomore year in high school when 9/11 happened. We had just started on our assignement for the day when it started. Our class had not been going on for ten minutes when one of the other teachers had emailed our teacher. She emailed us asking to turn our tv on in the classroom to CNN, Fox, or whoever. We were not thinking about it at first when our teacher had read her email out loud to us in the room. At first, I thought it was something going on in Washington, like a bill coming up for passage or similar. We had turned the television onto CNN and that is when we saw the North Tower burning. That is when some of us, myself included, realized that something just was not right with this. Little did we know that another jet was in dead aim for the South Tower as the camera from the Empire State Building kept focused on the North Tower.
As we are sitting there watching all of the madness of the day beginning to unfold. At first, everyone was saying that some pilot screwed up and didn't turn far enough out to miss the building. How could someone miss something as big as the Trade Centers were on a crystal clear Tuesday morning? It should have told us something right then and there that this was by no means an accident. That was until we saw the other jet hit the South Tower live on the television. It just seemed to unreal to us that anyone would have the audacity to have done something like this. It was and still is one of those moments that words cannot truely describe just how shocked we were to have witnessed what had just happened in Manhattan. It was one of those things where you just could not form the words needed to describe what was happening.
About an hour into the attacks on the World Trade Center, we first started to hear about the Pentagon being attacked. That was when some of us had started to wonder who was attacking us and why they were. I remember someone even saying that Saddam Hussein was attacking us. By then I had realized that the attack could have been far from over. A lot of us were worried that the DuPont Plant about two or three miles from our school was going to be hit next. We were also wondering where was the next plane coming from and what was it going to hit. That day, there was a lot of uncertainty around us here that someone was going to wind up flying an aircraft into one of the chemical plants. Even after being around these chemicals plants and seeing a lot of them go by the wayside. You just couldn't get the thought out of your mind of one of the current chemical plants being attacked.
As the events began to unfold at the Pentagon and at the World Trade Center. None of us had the slightest idea in the back of our mind that both of the World Trade Center towers were going to collapse. We didn't know at the time that they were going to come down. No one knew that they were going to come down. Not even the firefighters and the cops in the towers knew that the buildings were going to fall to Earth. As we sat and watched the South Tower comes down. The whole room just fell into a dead silence like someone had just punched us in the chest as hard as they could have. All you heard coming from the television was the sound of the sirens wailing as they were heading on into the scene. As we continued to watch what was going on and how it was unfolding. Little did we know that the North Tower would eventually come down a few minutes later. As I'm sitting there with the rest of my class, I was thinking that if this other tower does not come down. Then something had just went terribly wrong with the South Tower and that the North Tower would still be standing afterwards.
We were sitting their with our eyes fixed on the television when CNN had cut away from the fire happening at the Pentagon to show the North Tower in the process of collapsing. At first, we thought that just the upper floors had collapsed on top of the lower floors and that the lower floors were still standing. I mean, how were we to know that the entire building had came down as to what the South Tower had done a half an hour earlier into the attack. Here we were sitting there in the classroom again in dead silence. I mean it was like someone had just delivered a knockout blow to us it was quiet. It was so quiet as the North Tower was falling that you could hear several pindrops in the entire school building. I don't think it was until that moment we realized that something big was going down and it was going down fast.
To be continued in the next post below this...
reply posted on 8-9-2011 @ 04:02 AM by BlackPoison94
That day was a day which many of us can't forget in our lifetimes. I remember being 7. I was being picked up from my primary school and my mum
clutched my arm and my brother's...it felt like claws digging in. Our flat was a 2 minute walk and by the time I returned home, I was just in time to
see the 2nd tower falling. We were all in shock to say the least and then probably 20 minutes after, my parents started cursing the Muslims...they
immediately thought it was them. To be honest, that's all I can remember.
But after that, I remember because of my skin colour (which is brown) people thought I was a Muslim (I'm a Hindu.) They then started treating me and my family quite badly. We heard stories continuously from our relatives and friends of horrifying things being done to them. But even if they were Muslim, it's not them who carried this out, it's EXTREMISTS. I made a thread on this, which I shall copy and paste from issues from here: this thread
Let's start with what occured to the Sikhs:
What this bigotry idiot is talking about is a Sikh. Sikhs, because of their resemblance to the stereotypical image of Muslims, became victims of harassments, assaults and murder. They were often mistakenly thought to be a follower of Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban. Some Sikh men wear a turban.. after the terrorist attacks occurred, there were disgusting hate crimes even MURDERS...all for wearing a piece of cloth that has cultural significance to them. People on planes even asked to swap seats if a Sikh is sitting next to him/her. Wow.
A study was done by the Discrimination and National Security Initiative (DNSI), an affiliate of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. 83 per cent Sikhs respondents say they or someone they knew personally had experienced a hate crime or incident.
‘According to figures released in June, there has been a 300% rise in stop and searches of Asian members of the community since the introduction of anti-terrorism legislation.’ That was in 2006 I believe.
If you search on the Internet, there's so many stories you'll find.
And not just Sikhs:
Hindus
Even the Semitics..
Muslims:
I know women who had to stop wearing their hijab as they were either cursed at or had it torn for them. They had to go against part of their religion/culture for their safety.
www.jannah.org... There are some links on there outlining just some of the hate-crimes that occured, including an Egyptian being shot who was Christian (mistaken for being a Muslim), petrol bombs being nearly hurled at a mosque in Copenhagen to "help" the American and Jordain was shot at and rammed at by a pick up truck!
It's startling to see the hate within our society...we judge a book by its cover, not by what's inside.
But after that, I remember because of my skin colour (which is brown) people thought I was a Muslim (I'm a Hindu.) They then started treating me and my family quite badly. We heard stories continuously from our relatives and friends of horrifying things being done to them. But even if they were Muslim, it's not them who carried this out, it's EXTREMISTS. I made a thread on this, which I shall copy and paste from issues from here: this thread
Let's start with what occured to the Sikhs:
If I see someone (who) comes in that¹s got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over - Congressman John Cooksey, Republican from Louisiana, who serves on the International Relations Subcommittee for the Middle East and South Asia, remarked shortly after the attacks on the Twin Towers on Sept 11, 2001.
What this bigotry idiot is talking about is a Sikh. Sikhs, because of their resemblance to the stereotypical image of Muslims, became victims of harassments, assaults and murder. They were often mistakenly thought to be a follower of Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban. Some Sikh men wear a turban.. after the terrorist attacks occurred, there were disgusting hate crimes even MURDERS...all for wearing a piece of cloth that has cultural significance to them. People on planes even asked to swap seats if a Sikh is sitting next to him/her. Wow.
A study was done by the Discrimination and National Security Initiative (DNSI), an affiliate of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. 83 per cent Sikhs respondents say they or someone they knew personally had experienced a hate crime or incident.
‘According to figures released in June, there has been a 300% rise in stop and searches of Asian members of the community since the introduction of anti-terrorism legislation.’ That was in 2006 I believe.
If you search on the Internet, there's so many stories you'll find.
And not just Sikhs:
Hindus
Hindus also remain the target of vandalism and harassment. This is not so much because of their religious affiliation, which enforces ideals of equality, but simply because of racism. Hindus are often mistaken for Arabs, which, in the minds of many Americans, are equated with extremist Muslim terrorists. This is not solely due to a lack of information, but to an abundance of misinformation and paranoia propagated by the media. Indeed, when a picture of an Arab individual flashes on the evening news, more times than not the corresponding story is that of a "suspected" terrorist plot.
Even the Semitics..
Year after year, American Jews are far more likely to be the victims of religious hate crime than members of any other group. That was true even in 2001, by far the worst year for anti-Muslim incidents, when 481 were reported — less than half of the 1,042 anti-Jewish crimes tabulated by the FBI the same year.
Muslims:
I know women who had to stop wearing their hijab as they were either cursed at or had it torn for them. They had to go against part of their religion/culture for their safety.
Some other incidences of backlash violence include: a man driving his pick-up truck into the door of the Islamic Center Mosque in Tallahassee, Florida, threatening phone calls to the president of the Arab American Institute, and other local business owners and families of Middle Eastern and Asian descent, conspiracy to damage and destroy, by means of explosives, the King Fahd mosque in California, assaults committed against two people of Indian descent who managed a hotel in Tennessee, and two jars filled with cotton and gasoline were set on fire in front of a local restaurant owned by a Pakistani-American in Utah.4 These are only some of the numerous hate crimes committed around the country after September 11.
www.jannah.org... There are some links on there outlining just some of the hate-crimes that occured, including an Egyptian being shot who was Christian (mistaken for being a Muslim), petrol bombs being nearly hurled at a mosque in Copenhagen to "help" the American and Jordain was shot at and rammed at by a pick up truck!
It's startling to see the hate within our society...we judge a book by its cover, not by what's inside.
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