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 Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:00 am
Now usually I make a topic about where you were on 9/11
But not this year. Instead I want to know how that event
changed your life or the way you think about certain things.
(if it didn't, has it changed anyone's life or thoughts around you?)
For some, they don't like to fly.
For some, sadly, their opinions on a certain
race have changed in a negative way.
And for others, it made them wonder about
the future for maybe the first time.
As for me, well, I started watching the news more.
I became more interested in that was going on both
inside and out of my own country.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:33 am
I notice the New York skyline more in movies now then I did (older movies make me sad). I pay more attention to the news (more so online now though). I have an even deeper love and respect for firefighters and my Dad's work (he is a fireman). And airplanes scare me even more now. orz
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:50 am
I don't think it's affected me much, but I do know that some of my friends were seen a bit more bias then before because of it.
We were just in middle school though at the time and no one in the school had any immediate relations to anyone in NY at the time, although my friend's father was there when it happened. I don't think anyone really understood though at the time, 'cept the adults, but now that I'm older, I know the reality of the fact and accept it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:35 am
i was in grade six at the time, and while i felt sad for what happened, the gravity of it and what it represented didn't really get to me until i was in high school. honestly, i'm still learning things about it i didn't before.
i remember flying to Florida the January after. it was my first time flying. between the nervousness of flying and the paranoia the same thing might happen, i was jittery. strangely, once we were in the air, i relaxed at least enough to be able to fall asleep at some point.
otherwise...i guess indirectly, it's one of the things that's made me reflect upon humanity. i can't really go into specifics, but sometimes i just sit and think about it. we're capable of such great and noble deeds (as shown by the many people who helped out during that time), and yet we're also susceptible to horrid actions...
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:10 am
Honestly, it didn't change me all that much because I was in 4th grade and I didn't really understand what was happening. It did, however, make me realize that things like that could happen anywhere and anytime.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:12 pm
I get twitchy when I'm at home in New York and I hear a plane flying on a flight path that isn't often used, or if I see one come in particularly low.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:04 pm
I pay my 9 minute 11 second moment of silence right before school starts/when school starts. I've been doing it since 7th grade? (Im not sure)
It's simple but I think it means something.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:07 pm
It changed for me...that...I no longer wanted to be a pilot. but I have been in planes since.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:17 pm
I was just starting 10th grade at the time, and was walking to my science classroom when I saw people walking by, crying. I was confused, and when I got to class the T.V. was on and I saw the second
tower get hit and burst into flames. I remember crying.
I had never felt that kind of greif before, and it was horrible. I remember seeing my teacher, who is a strong mannered man, shedding tears of his own. I saw that even the strongest of people let tears roll down their cheeks.
As a person, I don't know how much it changed me, but I know that it did somewhat. I think I'm a more affectionate person, and that I tend to hug tightly onto those who are hurting more then I did before.
The world is in chaos, and sadly we will be seeing more and more of this as we get older. Our generations of now and the future will be affected like nothing before. The trade center was just the begining of a long run of pain, war, and blood shed.
Sorry, I didn't mean to get all dark there, but it's the truth. Damn, now I'm crying again.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:55 pm
saturnwonder The world is in chaos, and sadly we will be seeing more and more of this as we get older. Our generations of now and the future will be affected like nothing before. The trade center was just the beginning of a long run of pain, war, and blood shed.
Well, to me, the world has always been in chaos.
You can't live anywhere and think you are completely safe
and always will be. It's just now, with how information is
spread like the internet, you see more of it than ever before.
Also added a line to my first post since some people don't
think they've changed but their thoughts about things have.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:03 pm
I remember talking about it with my Nana the first year following. In talking with her, I came to realize that this is something that will be in my kids, and grandkids history books, like WWII was for me when she lived through it. It's a strange, surreal feeling.
In honor of the day though, I gave a pint of blood at a local fire station.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:20 pm
I was in the fifth grade. I remember having to deliver the paper with a large coloured photo on the front of it. It's one of the few times i distinctly remember delivering papers. I also remember the next morning where they played one particular song with radio clippings of the disaster mixed into it. I felt very sick and wanted to cry.
We were heading to Florida to visit family at that point, and i remember how empty the airports were. we went to disney world (also very empty) and for a while i forgot about it. But then we saw a light parade on the water, and all of the lights suddenly changed into the US flags, and i remember everyone cheering and chanting "USA! USA!" and i realized at that moment how proud they were for their country.
It is what piqued my interest in politics around the world, on war, on international affairs and many other things. Because i want to know the all around truth, not the one-sided truth from an extreme political group. I want to be able to understand, study and know that what I am saying is true based on my own research and not just out of the mouths of someone else. i do not believe any of the conspiracies, nor do i believe the overly one-sided liberal viewpoints of 'Farenheit 9-11' as liberal as I am.
I think this just became ramblings, but what i said is what i believe.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:47 pm
Something else I remember from that year. We were doing a marhcing song that talked about how proud someone was for the U.S.A., and at the end of it I remember the colorguard (I was a flaget in high school) did something different at the end.
We changed the last 5 minuets of the song from marching to rolling out a giant American Flag that, during the State champianship, got the marching band 2nd place and the colorguard 1st. People saw that flag, and went nuts because of being proud Americans smile
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:29 pm
It didn't cause any fear in me...but it did make me step back and realize that you need to be truly appreciative of the people you have around you. Thousands of people were instantly gone in that moment. But it also showed how we can unite as a country and band together and help each other.
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