9/11 Recording

[The Doctor]

I think she was talking to me, Aash. I was being the prick, not you.

[Jae Onasi]

My comment wasn't really directed at any one person, but at a trend I was beginning to see in the posts. So, what's the solution? How do we prevent something like this from happening again, so that people will never again have to go through that and die?

What drives fanatics of any type (religious, non-religious, ideological, etc.) and how do we short-circuit their activities to prevent them from executing their destructive plans?

[The Doctor]

*raises hand* I know the answer, miss!

 

We (and by we, I mean myself) stop being stupid!

[Dagobahn Eagle]

Ho-lee ****, what a recording. Putting the film clip on top of it was ****ing un-necessary, though, we've kinda seen it a thousand times already:mad:.

 

I was living in Houston when it happened. I was sitting there in the corner at my Mac computer, and we were ready to start our class, and this girl right next to me asks the teacher to turn the TV on, because two planes hit the WTC. I remember her saying "two planes, one after another, crashed into the World Trade Center. They think it was a terrorist act". Then the footage showing that the Pentagon was hit, then the towers falling one after one... I remember going "is this really happening" out loud.

 

I was amazed that school still went on, but that's tough America for you. I remember how the school emptied as the day went on. In my fourth and last period, which ended at 3:15, the big classroom had like six people in it. There was no teaching that day, we all spent our classes across school watching the towers collapse over and over...

 

This friend of mine lost her best buddy in that attack, too. I was in study lab with her one year later, and there was a moment of silence just at the time the first plane hit. My buddy, this girl, was covering her face, and when I asked her afterwards if she was OK, she was like "I'm just so mad right now... My best friend was on that plane". Horrible.