world trade center?

Question

is any one of you a victim of 9/11 and would tell me something about it? there are so many anti americans in my class bitching about the victims and i wanna show them how nasty they are. what can i do? it really hurts hearing them talk about it like that cause i love the US and i´m really sorry for the victims of the WTC.

Answer 1

I wasn't there, thankfully, but I know a lot of people who were, and one who died. After it happened, I then ended up working down there for a summer, and on my subway ride downtown, I'd notice some people with severe burns on them, which implied to me that they might have been victims of 9/11 that day. My uncle was one of the fire marshalls ordered into the building, but as he got there he noticed it collapsing and he ordered his men to turn around, because he knew it would be suicide. They just got away in time. They had to run over not bodies, but limbs of people, everywhere, from all the people that were jumping out of the windows. A close friend of mine was working a temp job in one of the buildings facing one of the towers, and saw people jumping out of the buildings and their limbs going everywhere on the pavement.

Another friend was there when the plane it and as he and others were running away from debris, a woman next to him had her head cut off by some flaming debris that hit the ground. He was just sitting in the plaza enjoying his morning coffee before class started, and this is what happened.

Anyway, I wasn't even there, but I feel very affected by the whole tragedy. It flips the world as you know it upsidown, it makes you feel like there is no true sense of permanence, it makes you really feel unsafe and insecure. I cannot even IMAGINE how those who lost their loved ones must feel. I've lost people in car accidents and I felt like I could barely move on, but can you imagine if you lost someone so close to you in this horrible attack??? These people were not soldiers, they were every-day business people, and it could have been me, or you, or any of those students that you know, or their loved ones.

Answer 2

I was not a victim nor do I directly know any, but let's make one things clear. It was the WORLD Trade center.

As such Islamic nationals were killed in that collapse. There were all sorts of Arabs from all countires, Germans, French. It was like blowing up the UN. All of these people were often foreign workers representing their home countries at business offices.

Yeah, a lot were Americans, but if you go down the list of those dead you'll find all sorts of people from all sorts of nationalities.

The World Trade Center houses business offices from around the world doing import and export work.

One day your friends at school might get a job with a company, who offers to pay them 25% more, plus housing to come to America and work at an office of the company here. Now, imagine they get blown up at that office!

Finally, if they are SOOO anti-American I assume they own or use nothing American, eh? No IPods? No Playstation? No one planning on buying PS3? No on wearing 501 Jeans? No one eats at McDonald's, drinks Pepsi or Coke, smokes Marlboroughs, has American music, watching American Movies.

Every time they spend a $ on an American product that are supporting us! Thank you for your support!

I don't really understand American Bashing, most Americans don't have feelings one way or another for a country and many of us want to go to some of these countries for vactions to experience the culture!

American culture is only 200 years old, while Greece and Italy date back centuries.

Some Americans have prejudice against a type, be it skin color, eye shape or what they wear on their heads, yet suprisingly America is so open that all these people come here, worship as they want, live good lives, shop in clean, air conditioned places and don't face tyranny as some did in their homeland.

The other suprising thing is that even when their homeland has tyrany they love their homeland!

People are strange!

Answer 3

Not personally, but I know some who are. I live an hour from NYC and was indirectly affected.

However, the public victims who are making a stink about EVERYTHING (rebuilding, the memorial, etc.) are annoying, and those are the ones everyone who is not a New Yorker sees. They've become IN MY OPINION ONLY - professional victims. Those people that I personally know who are victims (my friend who's NYPD lost his best friend and brother in law, my friend's husband who's FDNY lost everyone he worked with who was on that day, someone I'm acquainted with thru work lost her husband who was FDNY) they don't talk about it. They answer any questions you have as short and sweet as possible, but change the subject right away. Everyone deals with it in their own way, but to hear the constant whining of those "professional victims" is enough to make a sane person go bonkers.