September 11, no politics...just thoughts.

[muthmaniac]

On this day last year, I thought that the world was coming to an end. I was 1000 miles away from the place that I call home, and was with people that I didn't know too well. After spending countless hours watching a television set showing me horrors that I thought that I would never have to live through (albeit it, no where near any of the actual sites of destruction), I spent another eight hours driving back to my apartment listening to the news on all the different radio stations in my car.

Stopping at rest areas, every place seemed like the MUTE button had been pushed. I don't even remember any birds making noise. I can honestly understand how my parents must have felt on the day that someone came into their classroom and said that the President of the United States had been shot and killed. I don't think that I'll ever forget that day, where I was and the sound of the DJ making a joke that some idiot had flown a plane into the World Trade Center...only to come on mere minutes later and no longer sound as chipper, when he announced that another plane had hit the other tower, and another colliding into the Pentagon.

That day, Americans learned what Terrorism was. There have been movies, books, television shows and documentaries about Terrorism in other nations, but until then we had no idea what any of that actually felt like.

Today, one year later. The birds aren't singing, and every time I hear a plane overheard, a shiver runs down my spine. For the most part, life is back to normal, at least for the majority of people that didn't lose anyone to that tragic day....Even though we all lost our innocense.

I was going to be content to just lay in bed today, and let this day pass. I didn't feel a need to sit and ponder what happened, and I didn't want to break down, but there have been a lot of things that I've read today, and some things that I've seen, that makes me glad that I'm alive. Makes me glad that I did get out of bed, and makes me glad that I still have hope that one day humans will be able to coexist together....I hope for that day.

This is something that someone posted on another message board, I thought that it should be shared (Might take a while to load, I'm sure it's getting lots of traffic): http://www.exhibit13.com/home.html

Sincerely,
John Muth

[Morganza]

I saw the whole thing unfold live on tv, i saw the second plane hit the tower, from that moment on i went into a mild shock. This was the most unbelievable devistation i have ever witnessed. To this day i have nightmares of being on the rooftop of one tower as it collapses to the ground. This is something i will never forget.

Now im upset cause they havent found binlauden yet, and were focusing on Iraq again, lets finish one job before we spread ourselves too thin.

[dfbovey]

I was pretty close to the pentagon when it happened. I'm only 10 minutes drive away. After I saw it unfold on TV in my bosses office we began to hear sirens and police/ firefighters bolting past our office. Shortly after that they announced that another plane hit the pentagon and at that point I felt real panic. All I wanted to do was get in my car, go pick up my fiance and go straight to my parents house.

I felt really bad for my fiance because all her family lives in Des Moines Iowa. All circuits were busy, so it took a long time for her to be able to contact her family.

That's nothing compared to what a lot of other people went through, but being so close to where it all happened is definately scary!

[penciljack]

So can everyone agree that sometimes it sucks to be living through history as it is made?

I'll never forget that day, either. I don't know if I'll ever get over seeing those poor souls who jumped from the buildings because they were being burning so badly they couldn't stand it.

The weather here was perfect today. I almost feel guilty because of that. Seemed like it should be overcast or cloudy or something.

[Chris Piers]

I had just got into work and since my bosses were all on the road, had a pretty empty day of reading reports ahead of me. I was chatting with xadrian and foolkiller as it happened. After sharing some info on what was going on, the enormity started to sink in and we all went about checking in with family and friends.

Most Boston highrises were evacuated. I was one of the last out of my building because I just figured the chances were slim that Boston was a target and I knew one of my bosses had just flown out of Boston to Albany an hour ago or less, so I wanted to make sure I could help him arrange for a rental car to get back home. Then I walked through city streets filled with hundreds of people as we all struggled to fit on public transportation out of the city. Everyone was pretty quiet and in their own worlds.

[Morganza]

Originally posted by penciljack

The weather here was perfect today. I almost feel guilty because of that. Seemed like it should be overcast or cloudy or something.

Thats odd you should mention that because when i remember the events i dont see blue skies, all i see is smoke and fire, it's grey and dark in my nightmares.

Also that is the one element that made this horror all too vivid.

[danimation2001]

I didn't go into shock and I dont even feel anything.

Sure, I wish that it wouldn't have happened, but this was something unfortunately that was needed. People are still living their lives as if 300 years has not past.

I feel that america and the rest of the world must not look to each other as seperate continents looking to take care of themselves individual before helping other countries, but to see the world as one whole continent.

Face it, america will never be 100% nothing ever really is. But while we're at 50-70% ok, other countries are at 10% ok.

some of these countries don't even have air-conditioning, TV, or healthcare (though ours still need work). These people don't have anything else but religion.

It's when people have nothing else to lose, that shit like this happens.

If one's living conditions are shitty then they will be shitty to others.

[penciljack]

I couldn't disagree with you more, Danimation. But as the thread title says - "no politics .... just thoughts."

[muthmaniac]

Originally posted by penciljack
The weather here was perfect today. I almost feel guilty because of that. Seemed like it should be overcast or cloudy or something.

It actually was overcast, and pretty chilly here today...Which I think was what made me kind of grumpy and then remember the dread of what I felt that day...and it's not really something that I felt that affected me that much. I do remember a few weeks after the whole thing I wrote my own little story and stuff about what happened, and afterwards, I did have that heart pounding in my chest that knew that, while I didn't agree with what our leaders have turned this into. IT still bothered me to have someone do this to me...again, even though I was very far away from any of it.

Although, it was kind of funny when I got home that day, and there were like a dozen messages from people in my family asking if I was alright, because of the plain that went down 80 miles out of Pittsburgh!

Danimation: Like I said in the title, I don't want to turn this into a political discussion. You've seen what happened in the other thread that started today. But, I disagree that all the continents should look after each other. Like you said, our country needs work. I think that we should look after our own, and let others take care of themselves....Then once we have our own messes cleaned up, then if others want our help, we give it. That's my opinion anyway.

Morganza: I don't think that I've had any dreams about being involved with it in any way. I think that my subconscious doesn't want to go near it because the imagination can't come close to what we actually saw that day. But, I hope you get over the nightmares.

-John

[BenitoCereno]

It's so weird to me to think about that day. Normally, I wouldn't have woken up until about 9:30. I went to the music store at midnight the night before to get the new They Might Be Giants album just as it was put on the shelf. But I had to get up to see someone earlier that morning. I returned to my room just as it was happening on TV. On any other day, I wouldn't have seen it. But I did. That's just really striking to me.

Also, I decided to pick up the 9/11 Vol 1 book that I bought last year and read it again. I've only read up to page 43, but I have been reminded of how powerful many of these stories are.

One that stands out in my mind is one by Paul Chadwick (Concrete), who did a story on the passengers of Flight 93.

The whole book is very well done and worth checking out if you can find a copy. Also a must if you're a Kirkman/Moore completist like I am. It was published by a combination of Image, Dark Horse and Chaos. Vol 2 was published by DC.