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I'll be at the same football game that George W. Bush is at and it will blow balls because security will be so excessively tight.

Cell biology seminar - I'll be sitting through lectures, presenting a poster, and then hopefully getting outside to look at the NC mountains.

Starting my senior year.

Hmm, I'd rather deal with the security/traffic/whatever.

Texas vs Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR on September 11th. That's where Bush will be. That's where I will be. You know, if he was there 9-11-01, I don't think he would have ever moved if he was there during the attacks. Maybe make some calls during TOs or halftime, but whatever. Texas v Arkansas is the second best game in the Texas schedule (right behind the Red River shootout vs OU). Fortunately, Arkansas is in the SEC, so I get to watch a ton of excellent games.

Starting my senior year.
Wow. That's pretty late to start school. I started today.

sat at home crying

by "sat," do you mean "sit"?

yeah sorry, i meant sitting

Since it's a saturday and not a school day, I will spend it enjoying the day, not because I disrespect the victims, but because I don't believe staying in a grieving is healthy, and would make the terrorist have a sense of gain in hurting us... unless anyone has family ties with one of the victims.

Saying a little prayer for the Faulkenbergs, friends of mine who flew into the Pentagon, then hopping on NationStates to drown out my agony in the forums.

Maybe I'll even join an RP?

Sleeping in because it's Saturday.

Celebrating my birthday down the pub with my mates!

(sorry to sound disrespectful and all, but it is my 18th...)

Celebrating my birthday down the pub with my mates!

(sorry to sound disrespectful and all, but it is my 18th...)

Happy 18th.

Thanks!

Celebrating my birthday down the pub with my mates!

(sorry to sound disrespectful and all, but it is my 18th...)
You're not at all disrepectful.

I spose. It's just that getting sloshed when most people will be grieving (or at least claiming to be...) feels a little out of order. Oh well.

I spose. It's just that getting sloshed when most people will be grieving (or at least claiming to be...) feels a little out of order. Oh well.

Don't worry... I think the people who died would have rather you go on living your life rather than sulk about what happened. So I say, go have fun and enjoy your 18th, you only get one.

Kay, I'll try and have some fun. (Malibu and Cokes, here I come!)

Kay, I'll try and have some fun. (Malibu and Cokes, here I come!)

*Chuckles* Just be good and stay safe. ^_^

I'll probably be starting a '9/11 "Memorial" Thread' where posters can come and pay respects for those who died, and the brave men and women who responded to the attack and helped save lives. (the thread will be free of flaming or anything political-related for the 24-hrs of 9/11).


Then at night I will be watching the next episode of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, trying to conemplate if humanity can get anywhere without the need for violence.

Don't worry, I will mummy!

(the thread will be free of flaming or anything political-related for the 24-hrs of 9/11).
Are you new to these forums?

Are you new to these forums?

No - however I will strongly enforce what I have just said; I lived near NYC for half my life, my dad works in a building that was linked to the WTC by a bridge, and barely after the attacks some asshole called me 'the one who pulled 9/11' . . . so I refuse for any disrespect to come to the Thread

I'll be getting on with my life.. you know getting over it.
Something y'all should consider.

I'll be getting on with my life.. you know getting over it.
Something y'all should consider.
maybe some people need to grieve! when someone you love dies it's not that easy to get over it and move on!

I'll be getting on with my life.. you know getting over it.
Something y'all should consider.

By the look of this thread, most people will be getting on with their lives. (me included)

Don't worry, I will mummy!

I'll be on your arse like white on rice making sure you stay safe. ;) :p

Not wanting to be disrespectful, but you all might want to spare a thought for all those that died on the other September 11th - 1973, when that other atrocity against democracy ocurred - the CIA backed military coup in Chile which also lead to thousands of deaths.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A716591

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm

Nothing out of the ordinary for a Saturday at the beginning of a school year.

Recovering from another week of college classes with a well-deserved nap.

Recovering from another week of college classes with a well-deserved nap.
...sounds like a plan...but I'm going to the TX-AR game.

Not wanting to be disrespectful, but you all might want to spare a thought for all those that died on the other September 11th - 1973, when that other atrocity against democracy ocurred - the CIA backed military coup in Chile which also lead to thousands of deaths.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A716591

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm

I will.

maybe some people need to grieve! when someone you love dies it's not that easy to get over it and move on!
I apologize to anyone who lost a loved one in the tragedy. THis post was not directed towards them. (although finding a way to move past the grieving stage is usually a good idea... I wish you the best of luck in that)

I didn't mean to be insensitive, it simply angers me that many Americans look at 9/11 as one of the worst tragedies in world history, when the amount of civillians killed in 9/11 have been killed in other countries by the United States many times over.

I apologize to anyone who lost a loved one in the tragedy. THis post was not directed towards them. (although finding a way to move past the grieving stage is usually a good idea... I wish you the best of luck in that)

I didn't mean to be insensitive, it simply angers me that many Americans look at 9/11 as one of the worst tragedies in world history, when the amount of civillians killed in 9/11 have been killed in other countries by the United States many times over.
sorry, i didn't mean to get angry, i didn't lose anyone in the tragedy, my dad died a year later so that's why i'll be grieving which you may think that after two years i should be past the grieving stage but it's not all that easy!

Same thing I do every Saturday


sleep in
wake up
figure out it's the 3rd anniversary of 9/11
curse Osama and Al-Qaeda for a few moments
and go back to sleep, trying to see how far I can go before my parents drag me out of the bed

I'll probably be on the computer whittling away more hours of my mediocre existence. :p

I'll be honoring the dead and the heros by not dragging them out of their graves, by letting them rest in piece, by showing my support by doing what they would've wanted-for me to go on with my life, and by soundly smacking anyone who uses it for political reasons with a rolled up newspaper.

Same thing I do every day. 9/11 holds no personal significance for me.

Same thing I do every day.
What a shitty/boring life.

Having a rest after my first week of university

Same thing most people do when innocent people around the world get killed. Live my life like any other day. Because as tragic as 9/11 was, way more innocent people have been killed since that day for a variety of different reasons. It was a horrible act, however, other countries and people suffer far worse. Like lets look at what is happening in the Sudan. Nothing will ever bring those almost 3,000 people back. If you really care about innocent people being killed that much, why not send a donation to an agency that is trying to help the people of the Sudan. That would be doing some thing.

What a shitty/boring life.
Maybe he gets hammered everyday and gets it on with fifty hot chicks every day. Ass.

I'll probably say a prayer for those who are still hurt by the loss of their loved ones, and that God will be with them in their time of sadness. Other than that, I will not act in anger, fear or sadness for the people of the world. I'll hurt for them yes, but you can't let powerful emotion take action in your body, or you'll tend to do something you regret.

I'll probably also go to something at my church.

-R. S. of UC

Lounging around the house nude.

Same thing i did sept 11th 2003, going to my favorite little middle eastern cafe and getting a gyros, and falafal too because its 9/11.

probably at home messing around doing my usual fun stuff and school work, I will also go to my job, and uh maybe squeez in some news viewing on tv etc. might attend an event or church service for it as I have in 2002 and 2003

When it happened I was out in public at my church/school/organization it was a busy school'work free day, but not a good one.

Marching with the band at the USC - colorado state football game.

I don't plan that far in advance.

I'll probably be starting a '9/11 "Memorial" Thread' where posters can come and pay respects for those who died, and the brave men and women who responded to the attack and helped save lives. (the thread will be free of flaming or anything political-related for the 24-hrs of 9/11).

I hope it WILL be flame free, but knowing this place, I have some very sincere doubts about that.

I'll light a candle, and go fly a kite (assuming the weather is good).

I'll be moving into my new house in New Cross, London! :D Then in the following couple of weeks, studying some loooong overdue Spanish! I'm lucky, I don't have to re-enrol in university until the end of September. Oh yeah!

Wow. That's pretty late to start school. I started today.

I started today too. Damn, senior year is friggin easy!

Nothing special, climbing with clients I guess. Something to celebrate? Perhaps we'll go out and have a drink or so, but it is really a day like any other.

Here on the Continent we have no cellebrations about that date, is 11-9 still something special in the US after the war against the non All Quaida's? Still big commemorations?

Weet niet hoe ge dat spelt maar hier zijn alleszins geen herdenkingen.

I will be defending America against terror in America's Army for the PC.

4 possibilities :
- Preparing for saturday night.
- sleeping all day long.
- earning my paycheck while seating in a badly climatized office,shining my boots in one of this world's shitholes.
- watch TV like a fat slob.

celebrating the last two days of summer vacation

I think I'm gonna build two towers on my livingroom table out of budlight cans.

I'll be in class.

Hmm, I'd rather deal with the security/traffic/whatever.

Texas vs Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR on September 11th. That's where Bush will be. That's where I will be. You know, if he was there 9-11-01, I don't think he would have ever moved if he was there during the attacks. Maybe make some calls during TOs or halftime, but whatever. Texas v Arkansas is the second best game in the Texas schedule (right behind the Red River shootout vs OU). Fortunately, Arkansas is in the SEC, so I get to watch a ton of excellent games.Make sure you go to the Alabama game this year--some guys I know are performing in the halftime show. Little band known as Big Smith. Don't know if you know them, but they'll do a hell of a show.

And on a side note, a very good friend of mine was Matt Jones' English teacher while I was there.

My friend's 16th birthday, so I'll probably be at her party.

I think I'm gonna build two towers on my livingroom table out of budlight cans.

Nice one, but I think that they will be nicier for the kids and more realistic in ice icecream at this temparature.

celebrating

celebratingAnything in particular or just celebrating? (I approve either way. :D)

Anything in particular or just celebrating? (I approve either way. :D)
yep, one year left in the military.
THat and that is when we finally woke up and started kicking Al Qaeda's ass.

I'll likely be eating a large meat-lovers pizza, drinking a six pack of Samuel Adams beer, and watching one or two of about 50 college football games on television. Football season! Woo!

yep, one year left in the military.
THat and that is when we finally woke up and started kicking Al Qaeda's ass.
Congrats on the military. Hope you're actually able to get out--assuming you want to--and you're not hung by a stop-loss order.

As to the second, well, when we get back to kicking al Qaeda's ass, maybe we can talk about it.

What a shitty/boring life.

Depends on what I do all day, now doesn't it? I don't think my life is boring. Maybe I do what I do every day because it's a non-stop thrill ride ... ever think of that?

Same thing I do every Saturday


sleep in
wake up
figure out it's the 3rd anniversary of 9/11
curse Osama and Al-Qaeda for a few moments
and go back to sleep, trying to see how far I can go before my parents drag me out of the bed

I'm thinkin' I'll do all but the third...lol..too tired to curse/care

to church and pray.











cuz it's a sunday.

I barely know what I'm doing this saturday, let alone saturday in 3 weeks.

You do of course mean the 13th don't you?

to church and pray.











cuz it's a sunday.

That's interesting. On my calendar it's a Saturday. Either way I plan on doing what I do every other day of the year. It was a sad day in our history but I think everyone needs to move on.

I'll be at work.

Selling tasteless clothes to middle aged women.

And probably getting stoned in the evening with my only friend who isn't going to London that day.

Damn stubborn boss.

I will be scuba diving in Key Largo.

Ah, I can see my day now:

12PM- Get up.
1PM- Really get up this time.
2PM- Eat. Practice guitar. Maybe shower if have time. Nah, deodorant will do.
3PM- Guitar lesson.
5PM- Get home and immediately play Microshaft Flight Simulator with building crash mod installed.
7PM- Hee, that was fun. Turn on TV.
7:05PM- Get sick of all the unusual American flag waving on TV but laugh because they're saying the date backwards. Americans. Hee.
7:10PM- Shoot TV with nailgun
7:30PM- Invite round friends and get drunk
8:30PM- Attempt to order Lebanese take-away and fail to make any sense to the person on the other end of the phone. Give up.
9:00PM- Eat something slightly resembling food found in bottom of cupboard (useby date 11/9/01) and start playing poker
10:00PM- Get bored of poker, build card towers.
10:30PM- Get more drunk
11:30PM- Laugh at how George Bush looks like a monkey.
11:31PM- Boring. Get high on whatever is in the medicine cabinet.
12:30AM- Turn on TV. Try to figure out why TV isn't working.
1:30AM- Still haven't figured out TV. Listen to music instead.
2:00AM- Listen to Soulfly. Confused as to why there is a 2 minutes of silence halfway through the album when the back clearly says there is a song called 9/11/01. What's special about the 9th of November?
2:30AM- Leave 9/11/01 song on repeat in the hopes that the music will eventually come on. Friends have no idea whats wrong with it either.
3:30AM- Realise nothing is going to happen. Friends asleep.
4AM- Go on NS and wonder why people are making fuss over the date.
5AM- Lose interest and fall asleep on keyboard.
2PM- Wake up.

bugger all :), and i hope the days tv is not devoted to it coz there comes a time to let things go....and remember in peace..

I'll be at the same football game that George W. Bush is at and it will blow balls because security will be so excessively tight.

Waiting for people to stop using up all the rockets they bought for Guy Fawkes day 4 days ago.

Hmm, I'd rather deal with the security/traffic/whatever.

Texas vs Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR on September 11th. That's where Bush will be. That's where I will be. You know, if he was there 9-11-01, I don't think he would have ever moved if he was there during the attacks. Maybe make some calls during TOs or halftime, but whatever. Texas v Arkansas is the second best game in the Texas schedule (right behind the Red River shootout vs OU). Fortunately, Arkansas is in the SEC, so I get to watch a ton of excellent games.

Hey, I'm gonna be there too. I'm a freshman at UA (from North Little Rock).

September 11th, eh?
I'll probably wake up, realize it's that date, give it a couple seconds for some deep, thoughtful thought, then get dressed and go to work, forgetting the date for the rest of the day.

I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but it was 3 years ago.

September 11th, eh?
I'll probably wake up, realize it's that date, give it a couple seconds for some deep, thoughtful thought, then get dressed and go to work, forgetting the date for the rest of the day.

I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but it was 3 years ago.

Yeah, I feel the same way about Christmas....afterall, it was over 2000 years ago.

Yes I was born on September 11 and man do I hate the hype. I do NOT turn on the TV or Radio any more!

Yeah, I feel the same way about Christmas....afterall, it was over 2000 years ago.

Hey, I never thought of it that way. I'm not buying presents for anyone anymore.

Chances are that I will do nothing special, 9-11 means absolutely nothing, deaths of other civilians... Like there is all around the world everyday, and I don't mourn everyday... heck I almost don't mourn whatsoever :).

yep, one year left in the military.
THat and that is when we finally woke up and started kicking Al Qaeda's ass.

They must think the same thing(Al-Qaeda) "Celebrating the day we finally woke up and started kicking USA'a ass" (Not to be mean or anything, I understand it's a big loss for some peoples... )

Probly some soccer in the afternoon.

Saturday, isn't it? Hmm. Let me think. How about nothing? Yeah, I'll probably do nothing. No offense, but it didn't really bother me when it happened. Shocked me, sure, but I was no more bothered than when people die in other events. And so if it didn't bother me then, it really doesn't bother me three years on. I had accepted that humans were bloodthirsty, sadistic monsters a long time before the World Trade Centres came crashing down, and I don't let it bother me.

Avoiding all news outlets, because if I have to endure two seconds of that hydroencephalic chimpanzee half my country calls president making political fodder out of the day, I shall lose my fecking mind and commit acts of violence.

I'm not sure what else, but I have hopes of it involving music and Guinness.

Disclaimer first: I have NO opinion about anyone else's reactions to this date; you're all doing what is right for you. Y'all were in different places when it happened, and truth be told, y'all probably had natural disasters happen where you live that you remember the anniversaries of, and I don't, but because I wasn't there myself.

I'd love to be able to treat 9/11 like just another day -- in fact, hell, I agree with those of you who've said "people die all over the world and we should move on." The one thing keeping me from that is that I live IN New York, and I did then as well. I'm moving on, I just got a few extra impressions of the day that have stuck with me, so it's a little trickier than it is for someone in, say, Chicago to move on with the day.

Someone last year told me about something they were starting to do, that I've decided to adopt myself -- for a couple more anniversaries, or for however long I feel like I need to do this. If it's just this year, fine, if it's for another six, whatever. What she had heard was: you buy up a bunch of copies of a book you love, inscribe them with the date and a message that this is a book that meant something to you and that you want to share it with the world at large, and then leave them around for people to find in coffee shops, on the subways, in parks, or whereever for people to find. Or, give them away. I've been quietly collecting copies of THE SUNFLOWER by Simon Wiesenthal for that purpose, and on the day of I'll be quietly leaving them around the city (save for the copy that I"m giving to the girl who told me about this last year).

I tend to try to avoid the news coverage of either the memorials or the recaps of the event itself, because in the latter case, I lived it and don't need to see that again, thanks, and in the former case, because it wraps everything that happened up in a neat little package and puts it on a shelf and I'm not really ready to do that yet in some ways (the wrapping it up in a neat package, that is -- I do NOT want to live in a world in which that event makes sense).

Lower Aquatica... Wow! I'm moved. (and I'm being honest!)

That is a very good way of dealing with something traumatising, or tragic.

Anyway, when I have something that's bothing me, what I like to do it get out my pen and paper and write free style poetry. I just let my hand go and I don't stop myself.

Lower Aquatica: That's a great idea, not just to commemorate a particular day but generally. Letting books loose in the world is a fine thing...someone's bound to pick it up on the subway out of boredom, and before the end of the ride you'll have opened doors in another mind. Bravo.

Lower Aquatica... Wow! I'm moved. (and I'm being honest!)

That is a very good way of dealing with something traumatising, or tragic.

Thanks. I have no idea who deserves the credit for thinking it up, but props to them.

That particular book was one I read a LOT in late 2001...well, that and LORD OF THE RINGS, and everyone probably has at least two copies of LOTR already anyway, so there you have it. :)

Why would I do anything special on that day? How many deaths occur every day, which can be avoided by richer countries (USA, UK etc) doing more to avert genocide and starvation in other countries? People (Americans?) need to get a grip and stop thinking that 11/09/2001 was anything significant in the great scheme of things. Condolences to those who had loved ones who died in the 4 plane crashes, but everybody else needs to get some perspective.

9/11 this year falls on a weekend. The adjacent town has a fair at an old historic site. (I think it used to be a town fair but now they are calling it a county fair.) I sing in a chorus that belongs to a chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Sociery (aka S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.) and we will be singing that day and manning a booth the weekend. (Normally we sing on the Sunday, but some of the other quartets had gigs on Sunday and we wanted to link up to 9/11. The Teddy Rosevelt impersonator used to do something before our chorus' time slot.)

i believe ill be on holidays in spain getting drunk

I'll probably be at school. Our principal will be on the PA system saying something like "Since today is 9/11, I think we should spend 30 seconds of deep thought." A few kids will try to convince the teachers that we shouldn't have to go to school , mostly since they don't want to be there, not because they really care. There you go. My 9/11 for the past two years, and probably this upcoming one.

im from ireland and we've lost alot of people over the years to fighting and i dont see irish people treating everyday as different

People (Americans?) need to get a grip and stop thinking that 11/09/2001 was anything significant in the great scheme of things. Condolences to those who had loved ones who died in the 4 plane crashes, but everybody else needs to get some perspective.

Actually, the event GAVE me some perspective, of a different kind...

The thing that pissed me off at the time, and still today, about all the news coverage -- and, frankly, even the reactions of the rest of the country -- is something that at first I could only articulate as "you don't GET it." They didn't get what it was actually like to BE in the city where this was happening. People in other states were affected -- but, they could turn off their TV now and then and get away from it. I couldn't. I live a mile from "Ground Zero," and I was seeing things the news wasn't covering -- and I turned off the tv but it was all still there. And, there is no pre-recorded medium that transmits the sense of smell -- so there's no way for anyone other than residents of NYC or DC to understand what it was like to spend a week with the scent of smoke ALWAYS in the air.

I didn't get what was bothering me until a couple years later, when another board I review started a thread about "most shocking TV moments" and a lot of people were listing watching the 9/11 coverage. I posted an indignant post about "Okay, to YOU it may have been TV, but for me, it was real, so don't call it a TV moment, okay?" But then it hit me that for them, it WAS a TV moment, because that was their only exposure. They only had the TV to work with, so they didn't KNOW they were missing things that people who lived there saw.

Then I realized -- this also means that people in Beijing saw things at Tienamen Square that I didn't.
People at the Berlin Wall saw things I didn't.
People in Cape Canaveral saw things when the Challenger exploded that I didn't.
People in Belfast see things that I don't.
People in Rwanda see things I don't.
People in Baghdad see things I don't.
People in Chechnya see things I don't.
People in Florida, in the path of the last hurricane, saw things that I didn't.

All the things that I see on the news happen to real people, and THEY see things that don't make it into the media either. And THEY'RE also all probably thinking, and rightly so, that the rest of us "just don't get it" either.

I do know, I do get it a little better than I did now. Not completely, but a little bit.

very very well said

Thanks.

Feh, I try not to talk about it too much -- I think there's a little bit of irreverence in me too, and irreverence still feels a little wrong. Maybe next year.