9-11 -2018

[brewmann04]

Just wanted to put it out there to everyone who had someone that lost their life on that terrible day. Thoughts and Prayers to all

[RobDeer 45]

I looked at my home screen this morning and it was 9:11 am on 9/11. Hit me pretty hard. What a tragic day.

[TURBO]

Horrible, horrible day...

 

Still hurts, and I didn't lose any loved ones that day...

[NeedMoreFans]

I remember it vividly. I had a friend who lost his aunt in the Pentagon. I still get emotional when I watch the footage and there is a level of unbelievability with me still.

 

Side note, a vast majority of my students were not born when it happened. It's been interesting to see the transition over the past several years from the students who remember it to students that don't.

[TURBO]

I remember it vividly. I had a friend who lost his aunt in the Pentagon. I still get emotional when I watch the footage and there is a level of unbelievability with me still.

 

Side note, a vast majority of my students were not born when it happened. It's been interesting to see the transition over the past several years from the students who remember it to students that don't.

 

and what I have found over the years (I teach high school) is that the kids who were not born yet, or have no memory, just don't understand, and most just don't really care.

 

To them, they have always had to go through the nonsense that we now have to go through at stadiums, airports, etc. The don't understand how different the world was pre-9/11 compared to today.

 

It has slowly gotten less important to each year of students, to the point that now, even some of the Seniors were not born yet.

 

The level of patriotism that evolved from that day has gone down the toilet in our world, based on political beliefs and hate. Patriotism has become somewhat of a dirty word, and on that day, it was what we were all about.

 

It's sad really when you think about how that day brought our nation together, even if for a small amount of time. There was no race and no politics, just Americans, grieving together.

[pacopete4]

I remember it vividly. I had a friend who lost his aunt in the Pentagon. I still get emotional when I watch the footage and there is a level of unbelievability with me still.

 

Side note, a vast majority of my students were not born when it happened. It's been interesting to see the transition over the past several years from the students who remember it to students that don't.

 

and what I have found over the years (I teach high school) is that the kids who were not born yet, or have no memory, just don't understand, and most just don't really care.

 

To them, they have always had to go through the nonsense that we now have to go through at stadiums, airports, etc. The don't understand how different the world was pre-9/11 compared to today.

 

It has slowly gotten less important to each year of students, to the point that now, even some of the Seniors were not born yet.

 

The level of patriotism that evolved from that day has gone down the toilet in our world, based on political beliefs and hate. Patriotism has become somewhat of a dirty word, and on that day, it was what we were all about.

 

It's sad really when you think about how that day brought our nation together, even if for a small amount of time. There was no race and no politics, just Americans, grieving together.

 

It's our generations Pearl Harbor. The farther and farther you get away from the event, few will truly care. I've had similar experiences in the classroom.

[trwi7]

I was 14 and had no idea what happened or at least the scale of it until 3 pm.

[Bikeage77]

God Bless America started getting played during the 7th inning stretch on Opening Day, holidays, Sundays, and during every playoff game. Sorry, that's probably the worst song of all time.

[owbc]

The sad part is it really did bring out the best in us...for about a week. After that it has mostly been a convenient tool to exploit for various political purposes. I don't even like to think about it anymore. I wish something good would have come from it in the long term but I don't think anything did. People born after 9/11 can enlist to go fight the war that never ended.

[pacopete4]

The sad part is it really did bring out the best in us...for about a week. After that it has mostly been a convenient tool to exploit for various political purposes. I don't even like to think about it anymore. I wish something good would have come from it in the long term but I don't think anything did. People born after 9/11 can enlist to go fight the war that never ended.

 

My feelings as well. I get about as angry as I get when I think about all the lives that were lost, changed, ruined by that day. Not just on that day but every day moving forward since then. It is absolutely disturbing and disgusting to me.

[hawing]

I remember it vividly. I had a friend who lost his aunt in the Pentagon. I still get emotional when I watch the footage and there is a level of unbelievability with me still.

I managed to miss most of the TV coverage on 9/11/2001. Any useful news site on the internet was overwhelmed quickly as the story unfolded; there aren't TVs in the library, and I had a dental appointment over the lunch hour. I caught a lot of radio coverage, but it lacked the impact (apologies for the word choice) of the visual coverage. By evening there was still tons of coverage, but not the live reactions of news people to folks jumping out of windows and the like.

 

My mom usually had her VCR ready to record various programs over the course of a weekday, and of course they were all pre-empted that day. So she recorded hours of live TV coverage - possibly multiple networks' worth.

I have the tapes (and still have a working VCR), but I've yet to bring myself to watch them. I was haunted enough by the attacks without the visuals, and I don't know what's a good time to invite that degree of anxiety and sadness into my life again.

[nate82]

Not to go to political but the war in Afghanistan is almost old enough where kids of the parents who fought in the war are now being deployed there.