I almost forgot all about the terrorist attacks 9-11, but then I got stuck driving behind a rusty pick-up truck with a bumper sticker on the back that told me to never forget what happened on September 11, 2001. So I wont.
Of course I am being facetious. You would have to be a complete retard to ever forget about the attacks on 9-11. Like most Americans living on the east coast, I remember that day only too well. I was working second shift back then. I’d get home from work around 1:00 a.m. and would normally sleep in till 9:00 a.m. I remember waking up that morning and checking my email to find three frantic messages from my mother back in California. She wrote about trying to call me and not getting through and how she just saw on the news that Washington D.C. was being attacked too.
Huh?
I immediately woke up Sheri. She too was working second shift. I didn’t know yet what exactly was going on, but I wanted both of us to find out together.
If you had told me then that we would quickly ascertain who was responsible for the attacks and instead of capturing or killing the individual responsible, we would focus all of our resources on invading a country that had nothing to do with the attacks, I would have told you that you were smoking crack.
It’s been seven years and Osama bin Laden is still at large. Who would have thought that?
Jesse Jace
/ September 11, 2008I’ll tell you a fascinating story about 9/11. The morning of, I was in a hurry to leave for work. I turned on the TV to catch the weather, but instead I found a live feed of the Twin Towers on fire. I didn’t have time to watch, but the driver of the bus I took to work was listening to the news on the radio, so I heard the collapse of the first tower over the radio. I didn’t know what else to say, so as I got off the bus, I told the driver to “watch out for falling planes.”
He responded, “Yeah, I guess I will.”
One more goofy detail I remember is that, after work I went to a used video game dealer in town and bought the PS2 game Twisted Metal: Black. In that game, there is a stage made up of a series of downtown skyscraper rooftops. One of the rooftops has a crashed plane on it.
Bentcorner
/ September 12, 2008Looking back, I think the one thing people years from now wont understand was the uncertainty going on that day. Every channel on the TV was nothing but the attacks. The problem was that nobody knew anything. It wasn’t as though we even knew that terrorists had only hijacked four airplanes. I honestly thought there were going to be a lot more planes crashing into stuff that day.