9/11 - Seven years on - Page 10

Von Smallhausen · 12-09-2008, 18:38

I was on a CID attachment as a probationer and working on a murder investigation when I was in the car while my colleague went to sort something out at a house. He came back in the car and said that planes had crashed into the towers. When we got back to the station, everyone was in the canteen watching the footage and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

A year to the day later I was New York for the first anniversary and stood at Ground Zero with thousands of other cops from all over the world at the exact time. George W Bush visited that day as did the likes of Rober DeNiro. I will never forget it.

Pickers · 12-09-2008, 18:51

I was semi hungover in physics after a night out to celebrate my 18th. Teacher said he wasnt sure how he could think about teaching given what was happening - but did anyway without telling us what was happening. It was only when I got home and flopped on the sofa that I saw. Fell asleep and dozed at the news reports flooded in.. It was all very surreal.

Glaucus · 13-09-2008, 04:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by cheets

Well what about Pakistan, they harbour more terrorists than a any other country, not only are they a nuclear power but very corrupt, Bush signed a supposedly secret agreement for US special forces to take out ground targets in Pakistan,

perhaps because they are nuclear, what you want us to do. Go to war with a nuclear state. It simply is not possible.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AboveTheSalt

snip:

Important bit you missed was on the 2nd anniversary. If you poll know 99% would believe Iraq was due to 9/11. Due to "fredom fighters
2 rushing to Iraq to join in the witch hunt.

Mark · 13-09-2008, 12:09

It was about WMD though and I'll wager that most put two and two together and assumed (incorrectly) that those WMD were, or could be, targetted at them. I'll grant there is probably no direct causal relationship between WTC and Iraq, but there is at least an indirect one. I doubt Iraq would have been invaded pre-WTC had the circumstances otherwise been similar.

Anyway, I was working from home, as I have done mostly since. Some important meeting was cancelled and I asked my (American) manager what was wrong. I felt so stupid and insensitive to the situation when I got the reply and immediately turned the TV on. I spent the rest of the day reading and watching several different news sites (both US and UK) to get as many different perspectives on the story as possible. I've since been to Ground Zero and indeed one of the photos used when a certain well-known forum was closed on the anniversaries was taken by me.

All life is important and I don't deny that far worse (in terms of scale) atrocities have occurred, and still do, but none have had the personal immediacy of this.

AboveTheSalt · 13-09-2008, 12:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by AcidHell2

Important bit you missed was on the 2nd anniversary. If you poll know 99% would believe Iraq was due to 9/11. Due to "fredom fighters 2 rushing to Iraq to join in the witch hunt.

On the contrary, I was well aware that it was on the 2nd anniversary - I just couldn't be bothered to Google for a poll on people's views around the time of the invasion of Iraq which would have shown that when Iraq was invaded, many Americans believed that the invasion was justified on the basis of Saddam Hussein's involvement in the September 11th attacks on the WTC.

I agree entirely that many Americans now accept that they were misled by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. and that this was an abuse of the memories of those who died as a result of the September 11th attacks on the WTC.

Nutcase · 13-09-2008, 12:23

It's a horrible thought, but whilst the WTC towers collapsing killed around 2700 people directly, it is extremely likely that the lives of tens of thousands more people who were in the area will have shortened life-spans due to the asbestos dust created

Piggymon · 13-09-2008, 13:14

I was playing CounterStrike ... the map ? Vertigo

Haly · 13-09-2008, 13:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Piggymon

I was playing CounterStrike ... the map ? Vertigo

*feels guilty for laughing*

That's impressive timing!

Fayshun · 13-09-2008, 14:02

I'd come off a night shift and was asleep on the sofa, I woke up just as the second plane hit. I thought, blimey the effects in this movie are good for daytime trash. Turned over and the same thing was on BBC2, ITV, CH4 and 5.

Not a film then.

The next night at work we were put on high alert (although why Al-Queida would attack Harvey Nicks is beyond me) and London seemed different.

12-09-2008, 18:38	#91
Von Smallhausen I'm Free Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Tyneside Posts: 3,061	I was on a CID attachment as a probationer and working on a murder investigation when I was in the car while my colleague went to sort something out at a house. He came back in the car and said that planes had crashed into the towers. When we got back to the station, everyone was in the canteen watching the footage and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. A year to the day later I was New York for the first anniversary and stood at Ground Zero with thousands of other cops from all over the world at the exact time. George W Bush visited that day as did the likes of Rober DeNiro. I will never forget it. __________________ " Well, old bean, life is really so bloody awful that I feel it’s my absolute duty to be chirpy and try and make everybody else happy too." David Niven, 1910-1983.

12-09-2008, 18:51	#92
Pickers Absinthe Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cornwall Posts: 2,692	I was semi hungover in physics after a night out to celebrate my 18th. Teacher said he wasnt sure how he could think about teaching given what was happening - but did anyway without telling us what was happening. It was only when I got home and flopped on the sofa that I saw. Fell asleep and dozed at the news reports flooded in.. It was all very surreal. __________________ Pictures

13-09-2008, 13:14	#97
Piggymon Lara Croft Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: PigmoPad - Braintree Essex Posts: 8,604	I was playing CounterStrike ... the map ? Vertigo __________________ BF% 28/08/08 - 21%

13-09-2008, 14:02	#99
Fayshun Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Adrift in the Orca Posts: 6,845	I'd come off a night shift and was asleep on the sofa, I woke up just as the second plane hit. I thought, blimey the effects in this movie are good for daytime trash. Turned over and the same thing was on BBC2, ITV, CH4 and 5. Not a film then. The next night at work we were put on high alert (although why Al-Queida would attack Harvey Nicks is beyond me) and London seemed different. __________________ We must move forward not backward, upwards not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling...

13-09-2008, 12:09	#94
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	It was about WMD though and I'll wager that most put two and two together and assumed (incorrectly) that those WMD were, or could be, targetted at them. I'll grant there is probably no direct causal relationship between WTC and Iraq, but there is at least an indirect one. I doubt Iraq would have been invaded pre-WTC had the circumstances otherwise been similar. Anyway, I was working from home, as I have done mostly since. Some important meeting was cancelled and I asked my (American) manager what was wrong. I felt so stupid and insensitive to the situation when I got the reply and immediately turned the TV on. I spent the rest of the day reading and watching several different news sites (both US and UK) to get as many different perspectives on the story as possible. I've since been to Ground Zero and indeed one of the photos used when a certain well-known forum was closed on the anniversaries was taken by me. All life is important and I don't deny that far worse (in terms of scale) atrocities have occurred, and still do, but none have had the personal immediacy of this.

13-09-2008, 12:23	#96
Nutcase Moonshine Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chelmsford, innit! Posts: 3,979	It's a horrible thought, but whilst the WTC towers collapsing killed around 2700 people directly, it is extremely likely that the lives of tens of thousands more people who were in the area will have shortened life-spans due to the asbestos dust created