9/11 was 19 years ago

[mummabear1967]

Can’t believe it. Remember it like it was yesterday.

I remember it coming on the ITV or BBC News, I thought it was a scene from a new movie until I quickly realised it was indeed reality.

Doesn’t it just sadden you that all those lives are over for nothing? It’s just heartbreaking.

[RufustheSniggeringReindeer]

We were on holiday and didn’t know anything about it until we got home a few days later

Queues in the airport were massive and slow because security checks were tougher

We had no idea why til we got in the taxi and the driver told us

Obviously when we were home it was all over the news

Just a horrific thing to happen

[sashh]

I was on medication that made me sleepy, I'd just woken up from a nap and put the TV on.

I remember looking out the window at the sky, it was bright blue, just like the sky on the TV, the exact same colour.

I don't actually know what I remember from that day, I think I, and a lot of others, have false memories, eg the footage of the first plane wasn't around for a few days it was caught almost by accident but I 'remember' it because it was shown afterwards in sequence.

Jules and Thomas Naudet were making a film and caught the footage by accident.

Their film (imaginatively called 9/11) is excellent by the way. The documentary they were making was following a probationary fire fighter through training and their first few months dealing with calls.

The 'probie' they are following is never on duty when there is a fire and it's getting to be a bit of a joke that nothing happens on his shift, then the shift is called out to a 'smell of glass' and that's when one captures the footage.

The rest of the film one brother is in the fire station and the other has gone to the towers, they keep filming but not knowing what the other is doing.

The film becomes personal stories intertwined with the events.

It just scares me so much how much hatred some individuals have. Why did these people hate the US so much that they thought it was ok to murder nearly 3000 innocent people

Read some history, the Taliban emerged from the mujahideen, who were funded by the US. No one knows how many people were killed, some estimates are about 2 million.

Then you have incidents like the USS Vinceses which shot down a passenger plane on its way to Mecca. The US gave the sailors medals.

If your family were wiped out by the US you might also hate the US.

[MrsBobBlackadder]

@Rhine

I even remember what I ate for my tea that night as I sat and watched it on the news. Chicken curry and rice! Funny the little things you remember.

Yes me too - I remember exactly what I had for lunch that day (just before the world changed forever) and even what song I was listening to when I first heard the news. Absolutely extraordinary times.

[MissConductUS]

Read some history, the Taliban emerged from the mujahideen, who were funded by the US. No one knows how many people were killed, some estimates are about 2 million.

Then you have incidents like the USS Vinceses which shot down a passenger plane on its way to Mecca. The US gave the sailors medals.

The Taliban came to power to fight the Soviet invasion and received US support, but it wasn't the Taliban who planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks, it was al-Qaeda. If you want to blame someone for the war in Afghanistan, blame the Russians.

The USS Vincennes incident was indeed terrible, but the civilian aircraft overflew an active surface gun action between the Iranian and US Navies and was clearly accidental.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Vincennes_(CG-49)#Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

More credible explanations for why al-Qaeda attacked the US include US support for Isreal, involvement in the Persian Gulf War and our continued military presence in the middle east.

[notimagain]

The USS Vincennes incident was indeed terrible, but the civilian aircraft overflew an active surface gun action between the Iranian and US Navies and was clearly accidental.

"Accident" or "mistake"?

There are a few people who were on that ship that day who contributed to the shoot down..

One analysis here, plenty more available..

ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-422-human-supervisory-control-of-automated-systems-spring-2004/projects/vincennes.pdf

[Mookie81]

@Bunnymumy

Sorry if that was a bit tactless, but it puts a different perspective on things.

Extremely tactless .

[mummabear1967]

I never understood why people say it was an inside job. Can some explain this to me?

9/11 was carried out by an Islamic terrorist group and the hijackers were part of this group.

[maddiemookins16mum]

I was on holiday abroad. My firm knew where I was staying (I worked in the Travel Industry). I flew back to the UK 36 hours later and spent the next week working as part of our ‘Crisis Team’ as we had thousands of customers ‘stranded’ in the US who were supposed to be on tours around the country. It was awful. I remember speaking to a customer who had booked breakfast at ‘windows on the world’ restaurant for 9am on 9/11 which was their last day in America. He never went as his pregnant wife was feeling unwell. He cried (sobbed) on the phone to me as I gave him his revised flight details (6 days later than planned) He just wanted to get home.
I still remember his name and where he lived in the UK.

[ageingdisgracefully]

For those interested in the fate of Flight 93, which was brought down by its passengers in a field en route to Washington, there's a documentary on right now (started at 9pm in the UK) on Sky.

[SimonJT]

@ageingdisgracefully

For those interested in the fate of Flight 93, which was brought down by its passengers in a field en route to Washington, there's a documentary on right now (started at 9pm in the UK) on Sky.

Our rugby team plays in the Bingham cup which was set up in the honour of Mark.

[CocoBryceDidAcidWithMe]

Terrorists are people too, guys

[Peridot1]

@CocoBryceDidAcidWithMe

Terrorists are people too, guys

How inappropriate

[italialime]

I was pregnant with DD2. i can remember watchin it on the telly, it were so sad. I remember it didn seem real to me.

[mummabear1967]

@CocoBryceDidAcidWithMe

Terrorists are people too, guys

They are biologically but to me they’ll always be evil monsters!

[tenlittlecygnets]

Of course it's sad, but no sadder than all the terrorist acts that have taken place before or since and killed people.

[mummabear1967]

@tenlittlecygnets

Of course it's sad, but no sadder than all the terrorist acts that have taken place before or since and killed people.

Nobody has ever said it was any sadder than any other terrorist attack

[MissConductUS]

@CocoBryceDidAcidWithMe

Terrorists are people too, guys

So was Hitler, who reportedly was very kind to his dog.

[Mimishimi]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Might have something to do with this.