10 Years - 11 SEP 2011

[kenandkids]

 

[BrainBlow]

Why exactly are people so obsessed with where they were when the planes struck?
I find this to be silly.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Why exactly are people so obsessed with where they were when the planes struck?
I find this to be silly.

Next year, people in your country will be able to recount exactly in their lives where they were when the bombing and shootings happened -
it's actually a natural effect for a mind to retain a memory at the sound of historic/life-changing/traumatic news.

 

[Welshidiot]

Why exactly are people so obsessed with where they were when the planes struck?
I find this to be silly.

Next year, people in your country will be able to recount exactly in their lives where they were when the bombing and shootings happened -
it's actually a natural effect for a mind to retain a memory at the sound of historic/life-changing/traumatic news.

Funny thing though,....I can't remember for the life of me where I was when Reagan was shot...

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Next year, people in your country will be able to recount exactly in their lives where they were when the bombing and shootings happened -
it's actually a natural effect for a mind to retain a memory at the sound of historic/life-changing/traumatic news.

Funny thing though,....I can't remember for the life of me where I was when Reagan was shot...

There's a significant difference - I mean, come on: Reagan was a single man and he survived the affair.
Now my Great Grandfather could still recall where he was when he had heard that Pearl Harbor had just been bombed out.

 

[Welshidiot]

There's a significant difference - I mean, come on: Reagan was a single man and he survived the affair.
Now my Great Grandfather could still recall where he was when he had heard that Pearl Harbor had just been bombed out.

The main significant difference is that I was just repeating a popular joke from the 80s.

Nvm, now finish your cookies and milk, cos it's nearly nap time.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

There's a significant difference - I mean, come on: Reagan was a single man and he survived the affair.
Now my Great Grandfather could still recall where he was when he had heard that Pearl Harbor had just been bombed out.

The main significant difference is that I was just repeating a popular joke from the 80s.

Nvm, now finish your cookies and milk, cos it's nearly nap time.

Funny enough, this is my 28th hour awake after awakening from slumber at midnight yesterday, staying up all day, and then taking on a 12 hour behind-the-desk watch.
Fuck your cookies and milk. As soon as I cross the carpet in my room I'm hitting the couch and not waking up until I need to.

 

[BrainBlow]

Why exactly are people so obsessed with where they were when the planes struck?
I find this to be silly.

Next year, people in your country will be able to recount exactly in their lives where they were when the bombing and shootings happened -
it's actually a natural effect for a mind to retain a memory at the sound of historic/life-changing/traumatic news.

I'm not talking about the people who were there. Sure enough, I understand that THEY would think like that.

But people who lived on the other side of the country with no friends or family in New York, what exactly are they supposed to think like this for?
It is silly. Sure, I'll remember where I was during the utà¸ya massacre, I was there, being shot at.
But what some person pretty much completely unrelated to it, other than it being in his country, why?

 

[Lallapalalable]

You seem to have a rare perspective on this, as you were personally involved in such an attack. Those of us with no connection aside from living in the same country, however, still see it as a traumatic event. The nature of these attacks are that they can happen to anyone, at any time, as the perpetrators dont care who they kill, so long as people die.

Remembering where we were when the planes hit is like saying "Right then and there is when a lot of people died, unsuspecting and innocent to the situation. It could as easily been myself. What would I have been doing at that moment?" I can also vaguely remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard about the Indian Ocean tsunami, Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, and a number of other world events that lead to mass casualties. I think it has more to do with hearing about people dying en masse that leaves a heavy memory etched into your mind.

As far as 9/11 goes, if you were old enough to be aware when it happened, chances are that you remember even the insignificant details, no matter where you lived or how connected to the events you were. It was an unprecedented event and kicked off a decade of paranoia and distrust, along with two wars.